Why DHS is trash
Post 9/11 was when my life totally changed. DHS was established so that we could have security theater at all the airports and make it tougher for people with Muslim names. I was “randomly screened”...
If I won the lottery
I used to joke that if I'd won the lottery while I was working at my old job, I would:
Do you think you're going to hell?
This was a top notch takedown of a phony MAGA Christian, ICE Director Tood Lyons: Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you...
Moms in Minneapolis helping each other
ICE is taking mothers away from their babies. These moms are donating breastmilk. This was a really heartwarming story about a mom helping provide breast milk to a baby whose mother had been...
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism: Popularists argue that candidates who want to win elections need to focus relentlessly on what polls well and abandon what doesn’t. The claim is not that...
Horses praying to Makkah
From a Twitter post: the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's...
The art of losing
The Sacramento Kings Are Dedicated To Dignified Losing: There's something indefinably wonderful happening here in a delightfully unpleasant way, which is how bulk losing should be.
The line
A lady I knew at my old job who worked in a HR adjacent job said she appreciated my ability to get right up to the line but never cross it.
These are delinquents
All of the people who ever worked for ICE need to be in jail. Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge: “When I see them in the hallways, they avert their gaze,” she said of the federal agents in her...
The window is in a million pieces
Matthew Trueblood wrote a great piece about TwinsFest going on while ICE murdered Alex Pretti just blocks away: Inside and Outside No longer will the pretense of normalcy hold. The windows have been...
MLB salary cap
From Bluesky: I say this every NBA trade deadline, but if I ever have to learn what a trade exception is or how to calculate it for my job, I swear to God I am going to hunt down everyone who rooted...
Fascism is demoralizing
I liked how abnormal reedus on Blue Sky described the misery in choosing facism. sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options...
Cut out the cancer
How Much Longer Can The Politics Of Grievance Sustain Itself?: Racism and right-wing politics weren't anything new for Trump, but like many personalities who make for good television, people were...
Allow greatness
Heard this on The Read: It's very important that you allow people to hate you into greatness.
Silence over spiritual oppression
The pro-ICE church is worse than you think: Parnell claims to “welcome respectful dialogue about present issues” — but the MAGA-wide freakout over a peaceful demonstration shows that isn’t true. On...