ICE having a budget to rival a nation's military is a stark reminder that no right-wing objections to government services are ever about the cost. Money is no object, they are simply deciding what their goals are and your success and survival are never on their agenda.
💯 💙 You cannot trust 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 the Richt-wing #cancervatives say. They are liars & hypocrites. Anyone who hasn't figured that you yet, that's on you. Do 𝙉𝙤𝙩 trust anything #Repugs say
Re-posting since this isn't available on mastodon. (I'm not the organizer, I just go to these). Lets break last Saturday's number of ~550, same spot (in front of the St. Cloud library at 11am)
13-year-old son swam four hours, over 4km (2.5 miles), to save mother and younger siblings. The family were swept out in rough seas while playing on paddle board
Wisconsin is electing all of its sheriffs this year, and several swing counties, such as Kenosha and Sauk, are currently run by sheriffs who have signed on to a key program to collaborate with ICE.
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
Do I know anyone who knows anyone who works in the upper eschelons of Google or YouTube?
I’m trying to recover some old videos I made decades ago with a friend who passed away. They are trapped on a legacy YouTube account, whose password I’ve forgotten and cannot recover.
Now that Republicans control the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC said is investigating Nike for allegedly discriminating against white people through its diversity policies. Nike refused to comply with a subpoena seeking workforce data and employee program rosters.
The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking fo…
Ooof, tired pup and really no good reason, easy 6 hour day, 62 stops, temperature was a touch above 0°C, prolly felt like 0 or a hair under, and yet I'm tiiiiired, like dead tired, going to have a heat and eat cheese calzone, and then likely find my way to bed, and call it a night.
Saw 4Tran in a post, and it got me thinking that it'd be fun to do a LGBTQ+ instance called 4Tran.org… According to PorkBun.com that isn't available, but 4tran.lol or 4tran.club are available and fairly cheap
A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. They all show the same scene – the lobby of a weight-loss store – but a few months pass between ea…
#BlackHistoryMonth #OnThisDay in 1901, Benjamin Davis Sr. took his officer exam to be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, putting him on a path to become the first Black Brigadier General. READ: open.substack.com/pub/sonsofli…
#BlackHistoryMonth is upon us and as we have done in the past, each day this month we will be honoring the lives and recognizing the achievements of Black Americans.
Hey fedi, I need a label printer do you have recommendations?
Must be the type that can print more complicated sticky labels, like with a logo and/or multiple different text sizes as opposed to a simple label maker
the labels need to be somewhere between 10 mm and 30 mm by 30 mm to 70 mm. fixed sizes and having to swap cartridges is fine
ideally it would be usable without extra software directly from cups via lan
Brother's QL series can do this, usually single color thermal labels, not laminated
PT series does laminated but those are way smaller generally
I think they have CUPS drivers for those (there was one for my QL-570) but I use brother-ql-next which is my fork of brother-ql which makes it easier to get pixel-perfect prints.
Brother also has a free label design software (windows only and only works with their printers tho)
the QL series printers typically take both fixed size and continuous cardriges, most have auto-cutting, some can do dual-color (depends on cardrige), most can do up to 62mm width (there are a few models that can do larger)
+1 for QL printers. We use them at work on lots of products for producing labels, production test result tags, etc… easy to interface with Python. The media can be a bit expensive but I’m sure 3rd party ones are available!
A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum "The most surprising aspect of the case, however, is that this isn’t the first time someone has shown up at a hospital with an explosive projectile lodged in their rectum." english.elpais.com/internation…
This cartoon is drawn by new guest artist Jamie Sale, who did a terrific job. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each of the panels shows a businessman in a suit grinning as he spe…
Now that David #Copperfield is in the news again for being an #Epstein creep and buddy, let me tell you how I know the girls who accused copperfield of drugging them are not lying. The year...sometime in the early 80s, me fresh back from detention in a convent ( ok, school, whatever), working at the yacht club for summer so I could afford to sail my little boat, and one of the members gave me and another girl tickets to see the show and backstage passes. The show was amazing, he was a great illusionist, and we went backstage and ... my dudes... the variety and copiousness of available intoxicants was amazing, even by Florida standards. What he and his enablers failed to take into account is that I am the Pearly Sweetcake of my generation. Ha. I ended up calling my stepdad and uncle to come get us, and we took half a dozen other almost passed out teenage girls with us. This was clearly a modus operandi. The Guardian - Epstein and magician David Copperfield appeared to have ‘very close relationship’, newly released files say
A 2007 FBI memo said further investigation was needed to determine if they ‘engaged in referring possible victims to each other’. Copperfield has never been charged with illegal conduct and has denied any wrongdoing
#WordWeavers 2026.02.02 — Do you enjoy writing "good", "bad" or morally grey characters more? Why? CW: Morality vs Ethical behavior.
In that "morality" is subjective—based on a set of rules that a powerful person or organization, generally religious, has set as good and just—my characters are to a large degree amoral. For example, women who act independently upon their desires and ambitions, especially without the "guidance" of their father, brothers, or husband are amoral by definition and therefore branded as bad by one or another religious standard. Such things are not considered negotiable. Except by the hypocrisy of bribes or raw power.
If we substitute "ethically grey," the goodest of good characters I depict display ethical flaws. I don't write fairy tales, and my princesses are not of the Disney persuasion. I enjoy making my characters wrestle with their ethics and principles, or to act with limited or misdirected ethics and principles, to contrast the good, the bad, and the ugly in people and society. I enjoy highlighting how morally bad women can be seen as ethically good women defying oppressive authority. If I could not write about the oppression of women and about the abuse everyone, regardless of gender, suffers thanks to the social and moral gender roles indoctrinated into us, I would not be writing at all.
"This is hilarious ! A RW Brazilian MAGA influencer in NJ who spends his time🚨defending Trump’s IMM crackdown to his h100s of 1000s of followers, saying it only targets “crooks” - has been 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐂𝐄 !
And let that be a warning for all the immigrant-background Reform enablers who loudly slam the door on others - that🚨they will, one day, come for you too..." -A Tayor
Two French-Israeli women living in Israel are facing legal proceedings initiated by French investigating judges following complaints from advocacy groups.
As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are contributing edits to Wikipedia about “LGBTQ+ history, with an emphasis on queer and trans people of color”. They’ve added 300,000+ edits and 3,000+ citations. them.us/story/berkeley-college…
“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”
#Scotland cannot hide behind limited powers over #Trump abduction
The #Scottish Government should not use its limited powers as an “excuse” to avoid standing up to Donald Trump after the “abduction” of the captain of a seized #oil #tanker, a Scottish Greens MSP has said.
Earlier this week, it emerged that the #US Government ignored a Scottish court order and removed the captain and first officer of a #Russian-flagged, #Venezuelan-linked oil tanker the #Marinera, also known as #Bella 1, from #UK waters.
*Creating* generational wealth is not hard for Black people. It's happened many times in US history. There have been thriving communities.
*Keeping* generational wealth has proved to be nearly impossible. Between racist pogroms, and eminent domain used to create parks, freeways, reservoirs, and shopping malls, Black folk in the US have consistently had their wealth stolen by white folks.
I still run into New Yorkers that go to Central Park every week, but have never heard of Seneca Village.
We are truly in a golden age of TV shows, because now I don't sound like I'm making stuff up when I talk about Greenwood (thanks Watchmen!). But Black towns were destroyed with fire and water.
Imagine in the 70s stealing all wealth from white Dallas residents(oil), and in the 80s from all Manhattan residents (finance), and 2000s all Atherton, SF, and Medina residents(tech)
and then asking why white folk can't seem to build wealth, from your yacht on "Lake Menlo Park."
Why do white Americans learn about the dozens of wealthy Black towns that were destroyed by racism, from: * Fictional TV shows made by HBO * Black women comedians (Amber Ruffin) * Random Black dudes that post on the internet 🙋🏿♂️
Instead of from their history text books?
Again folks will ask "Why was I not taught this in school?" And again, I will say, "You know why." Look at what DeSantis is doing. Look at what the Texas Board of Education has always done.
For my friends with MBAs, here are some case studies / interview prep questions.
1) Try and guess the 5 wealthiest white zip codes in the US. Now imagine all of the wealth in those neighborhoods is just stolen and given to Black people. What does that do to the race wealth gap? Hint: Medina Washington alone has about the same net worth as all Black Americans combined.🤡
2) How much does Manhattan real estate *in central park* sell for per square foot? Estimate the value of just Seneca Village.
We all admire Amsterdam for having the vision to replace car infrastructure with bike infrastructure. We see the positive uplift in small business activity, and livability. 🙂👍🏿
Now imagine doing that in reverse. Replace relatively safely walkable and bikeable infrastructure with car infrastructure. In fact, put in freeways. Demolish entire thriving wealthy neighborhoods with freeways that don't serve the neighborhood.🙃
That's what we did to Black folk. That's how we destroyed Black wealth.
We would never even consider bulldozing the nicest homes and businesses in Beverly Hills to make it easier for Black folk who want to work in Long Beach live in the suburbs of Ventura.
We would never consider knocking down skyscrapers in Manhattan to make it easier for Black folk from Brooklyn to work on Wall Street.
But we do this to Black folk in the US *constantly*
Then when we see people living under the freeways we yell "Bootstraps! Why can't you have a nice neighborhood? Asians did it!"
It should become clear why Black folk can't seem to build generational wealth in the United States.
This failure is not something intrinsic in the makeup or behavior of Black people.
This failure is baked into how Black people in the US are treated. In other words, racism.
Black folk cannot just "bootstraps" or "education is the key" or "LLC Twitter" or "Hustle, grind, put in work," their way out of this reality. We need to address the racism head on. And we can't do it alone.
Oh, I realize I was too subtle about one aspect of white folk intentionally stealing the wealth.
Most of the time when US newspapers have talked about "Race riots," what they really meant was that there was a Black town next to a white town, and the Black town grew more prosperous than the white one. This made the white folks mad, so one day the white folk just... took a bunch of guns and walked over to the Black town and killed as many people as they could, and stole the Black folks' stuff.
Some US history books will talk about the "Great migration" when about 6 million Black folk fled the South and headed to the North and West of the US.
It's often framed as "Black folk headed North and West looking for jobs." But if you talk to Black folk with relatives that left the South during this time, they'll tell you that their families were fleeing economic persecution in the South: having their money and stuff stolen through lynching, false imprisonment, straight up theft, etc.
Owning a valuable piece of land should ensure generational wealth. But for many Black families, it spelled doom, as a white family would want that land, and they would get it, with the help of corrupt bankers and land assessors.
I’m sad to say, when I watched HBO’s Watchmen, and the Tulsa Massacre, I thought was this real? Sadly, tragically it was. While I’d like to say any group of humans is susceptible to abhorrent behavior, it was white Europeans (in our case) who found the opportunity and used it to the fullest extent in the USA to disenfranchise all “others” who stood in the way of their dreams and desires. 1/2
Years ago, I heard a black professor speak about the black experience in the US. He said it was like playing a game of Monopoly were the first 20 trips around the board you’re not allowed to buy any property. And I’ll add, after that there was an organized systemic movement to keep “the others”, non-whites down. In an alt-reality could it have been the other way around? Possibly, but that’s not our (US) history. 2/3
Where scholarship, critical thinking, and traditions of boom bap are welcomed.
Jared A. Ball, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.
@unclepj @Lyle @KLB @ketmorco @mekkaokereke *For the record, all television is white_entertainment_television, leave #BET alone. The GOP is really putting it all on the table for us to see.*
The same can be done with HBCUs. People who resent them disregard why these institutions were established in the first place. Brandeis U was est. as an answer to Harvard's discriminatory quotas on Jewish applicants. That Harvard, et. al. changed practices, doesn't mean Brandeis should close. Same w HBCUs.
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You cannot trust 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 the Richt-wing #cancervatives say. They are liars & hypocrites. Anyone who hasn't figured that you yet, that's on you. Do 𝙉𝙤𝙩 trust anything #Repugs say
#FuckICE #ICENazis #Resist