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Pre-dawn ICE raids against farmworkers driving to the fields have outraged communities across the Central Valley of California. There's a swing-seat House race there; what's Republican David Valadao's response to the raids? "It is what it is."
prospect.org/2026/10/14/p...
North Table Mountain
14 October 2024
(64th in mini-series)
Explaining the depth of Trump’s identification with Putin may require looking at a possibility that conservatives have been dismissing out of hand for a decade: manipulation and corruption. 14-day gift read […]
So 8:30 am sunrises for Winnipeg, I'd guess.
She's toxic vapidity.
How does it compare to the bordering states?
Whenever I see a video purporting to convey some shock insight or news these days, all I can think is: 'Wow, we’re taking longer and longer to say stupider and stupider things.' Is it just age? Also, not unrelated, our CBC 'world news' (the idiotically named 'YOUR world tonight' radio program) […]
What's disgusting about all this is that there is no way on earth the state intelligence assets of the most powerful nation on earth have not known for ages the depth of the current US president's grooming and recruitment by Russian intelligence. But he gets a pass. Why? Because 'protecting […]
1. Russian authoritarian invades Ukraine. 2. Russia unable to vanquish Ukraine after more time than required to defeat Nazis of WWII. 3. American authoritarian attacks Iran, bungles ill-advised venture, triggers soaring fuel prices at home. 4. American authoritarian blames Ukraine for own […]
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Question for Hivemind: I asked ChatGPT if there is something that I could do with my old laptop so that someone could still find it useful. ChatGPT said, "Sure! If your old laptop won't run Windows 11, then install a new operating system. Install Linux Mint or ChromeOS. It should work for years […]
*The most craven, weak-willed, unprincipled person you’ve ever met* We’re going to restore the Western tradition of honor and virtue
#GazaGenocide - “After men, children make up the largest subgroup killed by the Israelis in all four calendar years of the ongoing genocide. Of all the fatalities in 2023, children made up 35 percent. That number was 26 percent in 2024 and 27 percent in 2025. It stands at 19 percent in 2026 so […]
Fascism (any flavour, anywhere) adopts this same approach to the defenceless or unwilling: eat the poison or be eaten by it: 'The OpenAI spokesperson noted that “many at OpenAI believe that the senior members of the community have a responsibility to rapidly evolve the field to adapt to the new […]
This technology is at present effectively unregulated and ungoverned, other than by its ultrawealthadox owners. “We don’t believe the future of mathematics is set. We’re working with the math community to navigate the future collaboratively” 14-day gift read […]
OMG ICE just shot someone in Marble Hill! There was a five year old kid in the back of the car. Marble Hill is in the Bronx, although technically it's part of Manhattan. It's a quiet almost suburban like neighborhood. I have family who lives there. (They are OK.) I think they said the man who […]
From a major Canadian bank.
We are well and truly fucked.
Microsoft is busy embedding this shit in the o/s.
Your own bank is probably slurping it up like a kid with a drippy ice cream on a hot Sunday.
We're putting chimps in charge of humanity, folks, and […]
Rapists stick together.
With their adjudicated rapist president.
This is who we're up against.
But, hey, rapists - don't think for a minute your friends wouldn't rape you, too.
It's a matter of time & nothing else.