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Abolish ICE. So fucking gay. Free Palestine. Trans rights now. No this is not contradictory. Interests include landscape architecture, urbanism, quilting, transit, queer supremacy, bicycle infrastructure, fermentation đź“Ť Oakland, CA
One way to think about Bill Maher is to ask what he would have done if the Bush administration threat had scared him into rolling over and how that would be different from what he has done
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
I'm curious if it was the same for telly savalas/Kojak
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
What? Historically speaking I don't think you'll find any greater instances of criminal madness than those cooked up by fascist movements. Volkisch medicine and science is perfectly in line with fascism.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Nothing matters any more, but it is enduringly funny that Trump thinks of himself as a negotiator, and his followers have bought into that completely, and there's just no human on the goddamn planet easier to flatter, fool, & snooker. He's a helpless baby, transparent & trivially easy to manipulate.
“F you, make me” should always be the response to fascist demands
Started with this scoldacious meme, but went into the larger questions.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "In Oregon, we are expecting a crackdown. Thank you for what you're doing with your agents on ICE. I hope you will come to Portland, Oregon and crackdown."
“There is no persuasive empirical evidence that shows a clear link between helicopter patrols and crime reduction.”
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated continuously—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.
It's time to ground them.
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.
