Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

“No matter how cruel or restrictive Mr. Biden’s [#immigration] policies are, they will never be enough to appease his critics. They also aren’t working. He can continue to do everything Mr. Trump did and more and still be the “open‐​borders president.” So why try? Instead he should stake his legacy on something different: legalizing immigration. Let more immigrants come humanely and legally.”
@DavidJBier

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/opinion/immigration-border-biden.html

All of these people are asking restaurants what's gluten free as if there's not piles of cardboard sitting right out back.

I doubt there will ever be a political cartoon as accurate or timeless as this

Barbarity, Civilisation
René Georges Hermann-Paul (1899)

POLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.

@DemocracyMattersALot I'd put good money on the bet that there is significant overlap between the people who want Musk's brain chip and the people who refuse to get the COVID vaccine because they believe it has a mind control chip.

A 16 year old Black minor, David Sparks, served 15 years in prison because he called 911 when he saw a Philadelphia shooting in 2006.

Pennsylvania Judge Scott DiClaudio reversed his and FIVE OTHER murder convictions in a three-day period. “That’s gotta be a world record.”

Why?

#Philadelphia PD and DA withheld EXTENSIVE evidence and/or the detective was corrupt. The current DA has compared their behavior to “war crimes.”

SUE THEIR PANTS OFF.

#FalseArrest

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/david-sparks-philadelphia-exoneration-gary-hall-murder-20231106.html

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
― Bertolt Brecht

#quotes

Trump is already talking about using the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, if he is reelected, to put down any civil protests. I can’t stress this enough. No matter what you think of Biden, his age, his policies, he is no dictator. He believes in democracy. We cannot let Trump anywhere near the White House again.

A Dangerous Conflation: Open letter from Jewish writers, artists, and activists:

"WE ARE JEWISH WRITERS, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetorical tactic to shield Israel from accountability, dignify the US’s multibillion-dollar investment in Israel’s military, obscure the deadly reality of occupation, and deny Palestinian sovereignty. Now, this insidious gagging of free speech is being used to justify Israel’s ongoing military bombardment of Gaza and to silence criticism from the international community.

We condemn the recent attacks on Israeli and Palestinian civilians and mourn such harrowing loss of life. In our grief, we are horrified to see the fight against antisemitism weaponized as a pretext for war crimes with stated genocidal intent."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/?fbclid=IwAR0Y6x1mYdUJTwGtp5OwibVkEuB1u226q3SG3rnwWyhc6F_QB505fSloYYs

#FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #StopGenocide #Gaza #antisemitism #WarCrimes #HumanRights #PalestineSolidarity #FreeSpeech #racism #Israel

Texas retiree takes her First Amendment fight to the Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4289995-texas-retiree-takes-her-first-amendment-fight-to-the-supreme-court/

The case will hinge on a simple principle: Freedom to criticize the government is at the core of the First Amendment...

Prosecutors recognized the arrest was bogus and dismissed the case. But Gonzalez still got handcuffed, frisked, and sent to jail, where she spent hours on a cold metal bench, wearing an orange jail shirt and avoiding the restroom, which had no doors...

#speech #1stamendment

Almost a year since one of the most casually cruel layoffs in tech happened at Twitter and those laid off have yet to receive their severance.

If you stole this much from a corporation you would be in jail. But steal this much from workers and you get the comfortably sit at home while tweeting white supremacist memes without a care in the world.

BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"

No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.

Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.

Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.

The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system

The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain

In his new book #MarkMeadows repeated the #Trump #lies about the 2020 election. Then he testified under oath that the election was not stolen. Now the publisher (#AllSeasonsPress) is suing him for millions in lost profits and damage to its reputation.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-publisher-sues-for-millions-over-election-lies-in-book

PS: This is a story about #publishing #ethics. The pub knew or should have known that Meadows lied in the book, and it planned to profit from those lies. Now it's saying it only wanted to publish sincere lies.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to rebrand with a sans serif logo