“But first, Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35”

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

There will be a brief moment of satisfaction when these types all lose their jobs to drones before things get even more dystopian

Nah, Schumer sucks and needs to be removed from his job as quickly as possible, but so long as he’s still the Minority Leader in the Senate it would be weird and turn into a news story if he didn’t say something like this

Seems notable that we don’t have a headline with Joe Biden or whoever urging moderates to vote Democratic

No, but taking pictures of your own kids when they were naked at home for your private family album was more socially acceptable then

You’re describing “NORMAL” behavior from a generation ago. You are right that people up thru the 90s would act that way, but Michael Jackson news and Catholic Church scandals made this a lot less socially acceptable over the last 3 decades or so.

After a divorce caused her immigration status to lapse, Basele was issued a final order of removal in 2011.

She lost her status because she got divorced? The fuckin fuck even is that shit

“Alleges,” please, there’s video of ICE agents throwing her into the pavement and X-rays and medical evidence of the injuries she suffered as a result. The only thing open to argument here is whether or not there’s going to be accountability, pretending like there’s any mystery over what happened here is bullshit.

invade

Real subtle /s

As of Friday evening, more than 48,000 of the migrants had voluntarily returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said.

Seems like a pretty important detail to leave out of the headline

Using my advanced powers of media literacy I am hearing you say the article doesn’t say what you just claimed it did and now you’re mad about being caught in a lie

I don’t think wasting time arguing over a question’s wording instead of just diving into the actual substance of the issue like Larkin did would have looked good, and looking at the rest of that exchange it seems like the Fox people sure didn’t like how it went for them,

Gallagher asked Larkin if he supports open borders.

“I don’t think there’s anything to fear with people seeking a better life in the United States of America,” Larkin answered before he noted his wife is the “proud daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant.”

Larkin cited legislation by Jared Moskowitz, his opponent in the Congressional race, who was part of the effort that passed the Laken Riley Act, which requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain immigrants who have been accused of a crime. Riley was a 22-year-old student who was attacked and killed by José Antonio Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant.

The pair sparred verbally on the topic of immigration. “We need to keep our communities safe and we need to hold people accountable when they have harmed others, when they have broken the law but let’s be clear. Immigration is a civil violation, not a criminal violation,” Larkin said.

“So we need to stop treating the equivalent of a parking ticket like people are breaking the law and need a militarized police force breaking down their door,” he continued. “So the comparison here is not one of criminality. It is whether we are respecting international law, the right to asylum, the right of respecting refugees’ rights.”

Gallagher repeatedly attempted to engage Larkin on the topic of an acceptable number of “children who can be raped and it’s fine in relation to the immigration community.”

“If we’re going to talk about children being raped, then we need to hold this pedophile president Donald Trump accountable and all those that can implicate in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice is still not leaking and they’ve sent AIPAC after Thomas Massie—” Larkin began before Gallagher interjected, “Got it, thanks.”

“—for having the temerity to hold accountable the pedophiles that are in control of our government,” Larkin concluded.

“Thank you. We appreciate your time very much,” Gallagher said before the segment’s end.

If that was true why not quote the relevant section?

[Spain’s prime minister] attributed the mass crossing to “human trafficking mafias” that had taken advantage of a decision by Spain’s supreme court, which recently ruled that those intercepted at sea while trying to enter Ceuta, or Spain’s other north African enclave of Melilla, could not be summarily returned under special rules.

Also,

The Moroccan government is asking its citizens who have crossed the border to return home. Morocco’s ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich, said at an embassy event Thursday that the situation in Ceuta was “not wanted by the Kingdom of Morocco,” adding that it would “prefer legal, orderly, and safe immigration for everyone.”

https://time.com/article/2026/07/31/ceuta-spain-morocco-africa-explainer/ (arc)

I couldn’t make that argument to a trans person

" im not boomer humor! im not boomer humor!!" the barber insist as he slowly shrink and transform into a minion

“I just want to maintain the status quo and I will burn this whole place down to do it” vs “I want to fundamentally revolutionize our society, would you please sign my petition” seems to be a running theme of our times

More of a “selling out is hella lame” Gen X thing, but I’ll take that compliment anyway

The NYT is a transphobic, war crime excusing, bootlicking shit rag that just happens to have so many resources at their disposal that sometimes they can’t help but accidentally do reporting so good that I have to upvote it in spite of those facts