This is the thing. Your papers, your citizenship, your birthplace mean nothing if the people in power decide you’re a threat.

JTjacobtlevy.bsky.socialOct 12, 2024 1:52am

The Alien Enemies Act was part of the package of the Alien and Sedition Acts that risked choking off American liberty before the constitutional order had fully taken hold. It was last used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

They want Trump to win

MMmmfa.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 4:10pm

New: Major newspapers are giving Trump’s federal criminal indictment a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016 www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country,” Milley said. “A fascist to the core.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’

General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023

Oh, look. Another food recall. Yes, I'm going to keep banging this drum: Trump slashed funding to the FDA and USDA, laid off or fired literally thousands of inspectors, and boasted that the industry would regulate themselves. Since then, food recalls have increased by over an order of magnitude.

EFcriminalerin.bsky.socialOct 11, 2024 12:51pm

"The recall includes ~9,986,245 lbs of ready-to-eat meat & poultry products produced from June 9 to October 8, 2024. The products were shipped to both establishments and distributors nationwide and then distributed to restaurants and institutions from there." www.foodandwine.com/brucepac-mea...

Check Your Fridge: FDA Recalls Nearly 10 Million Pounds of Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Nationwide

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent out a recall notice for nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry products produced by BrucePac, a meat packing company out of Oklahoma, whi...

I don’t often say “Macron is right,” but Macron is right

EOdiplomatofnight.comOct 11, 2024 6:38pm

President Emmanuel Macron of France doubles down on his call for an arms embargo against Israel, says that Israeli forces deliberately shot at UN peacekeepers, and said “We all know it. It’s the unique lever that would end it,” at a summit of European and Mediterranean leaders in Cyprus.

Macron says ending arms exports to Israel, only way to stop Gaza, Lebanon fighting

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The really sad thing is I grew up in an area that has swung hardcore Trump (the district Walz represented when he was a congressman), & while these ads are so grating to me, I also know that they hit exactly the right buttons for certain people. It' so frustrating, b/c no amount of logic helps.

All I can say is don't force it. If you're not enjoying it, don't feel like you have to stick to it. <3

I would like to lodge a complaint. 38 feels entirely too young to be getting hot flashes. Also, despite being fully aware of them as a thing, it took me too long to figure out what was going on. I don't think many descriptions I've encountered do it justice.

In a quick break from the normal sweary rants, this:

I feel like if you're cleaning up stuff like 'immigrants have bad blood infecting our vital fluids' into 'lifelong interest in genetics' you're doing so knowing what you're doing and knowing that its not at all illuminating as to what was actually said