There was a traffic stop a month or so ago where the city police were called by BP for assistance and they actually assisted them in kidnapping people. The mayor is pissed and says that can’t happen due to our sanctuary city status (since 1986) and now the federal government is suing us. We have a HUGE population of immigrants from all over the world here as refugees and to attend our two universities and this is going to get ugly.

The head of C&BP is coming to my city this week because of all this. Something tells me ICE is going to be crawling all over this city the whole week and longer. BP already crawls all over the city because we’re on the northern border.

I live in a HUD building. I see ICE searches without warning in my near future because of how many immigrants are here. My cane might be useful for more than just balancing me while walking.

As someone with multiple mental illness labels and struggling to do basic levels of self-care often, I’m terrified of this. But I also unrealistically think it works make my life easier. Besides the torture.

“We have to go through this long process to resurrect them, to get them back as alive, which can take about three to four days,” Glasgow added.

And that’s not including how long it will take to reverse the real damage done when bank accounts are frozen, health insurance is dropped, SNAP benefits are dropped, etc, etc.

This is beyond evil. Like I think even evil people are nice to kids with cancer

Musk. HEAR ME OUT……

looks at pay statement

looks at $117,000 needed to “afford” a house

looks back at pay statement and realizes the income works out to very close to 10 times LESS

😐

I knew I was poor, but damn dude.

I thought of that too, but to me DC means disconnected. Which in a way these people are disconnected

So what happens when they can’t find a jury? Had there ever been a case of that in U.S. history?

His time at DOGE may “drop significantly,” but in the same call he made it clear he intends to continue his political work until (at least) 2029. “I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term, just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back, which will do if it has the chance,” he said, adding he still plans to spend “a day or two a week” at the quasi agency.

He’s just not going to be in the spotlight, but he will absolutely still control Trump and DOGE on a daily basis

DTDC’d — Disappeared To Death Camp

Don’t these two countries have nukes? 2025 is a shitshow

8 currently in my 40’s. When I’m 70 I can’t even imagine

Which makes the debt ceiling fight that’s coming up even more interesting. (article from March 24th)

The U.S. is most likely to default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn’t act, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicted Monday.

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Debt limit forecasters are expected to release a narrower X-date prediction after most tax receipts have landed at the IRS in April. While it’s “quite unlikely,” there is still a possibility that the U.S. could run out of borrowing power in early June if that gush of tax revenue comes in far below projections, the Bipartisan Policy Center cautioned.

The cost-cutting efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency effort headed by Elon Musk could also affect cash flow enough to change the X-date prediction, along with the strength of the economy, tariffs and any new spending or cuts Congress approves, the center said.

Given how DOGE is inflating it’s cost cutting savings by over $140 Billion, the tariff trade war, and congress’ habit of pushing things to the brink when their luck is going to run out sooner or later – this could get ugly quick.

Correct, from the Asahi Linux website:

Is this a Linux distribution?

Asahi Linux is an overall project to develop support for these Macs. The majority of the work resides in hardware support, drivers, and tools, and it will be upstreamed to the relevant projects. Our flagship distro is Fedora Asahi Remix, which is a collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project, and serves as both a polished end-user distribution and a reference for other distributions who wish to incorporate our work.

Other distributions are already working on implementing support for these platforms, and we expect to have more options officially available in the future. Check out our Alternative Distros page for a list of ongoing distro integration projects.

I only know this because I’ve been seriously looking into running Linux on my M2 MacBook Air and trying to peel myself out of the Apple ecosystem but found there isn’t many options right now where everything works – especially TouchID. I’m not new to Linux, I just needed dependability and stability that I always seemed to mess up in my Linux days in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and got sick of Windows.

I’m on the northern east coast. I have friends in California that try to get me to move there but I have no interest in experiencing an earthquake first hand – blizzards and ice storms are traumatic enough.

If this is done on the east coast and we start experiencing California-level earthquakes…

U.S. Gen Xer here about to give up on doctors again. In my 20’s it was pill pushers, 20 years later I had physical and mental health issues that are complicated and that I had ignored because I didn’t want to just have another pill shoved on me and decided to put trust in doctors.

At first, it was pretty good because I was seeing a NP who took time to listen to me and it felt like I was in on the decision of MY health. A couple of years later the hospital system decided in their interest of not making enough money to stop using NP’s in that location.

I tried…I really did. I’ve given it a couple of years and we’re not to the point of pill pushing (although with all the docs I have I’m on 8 different meds now 🤦🏻) but I’ve lost the ability to advocate for myself because either he’s too quick and I don’t think that fast or I do think that fast and he dismisses me. Testing that might be helpful in figuring out what none of the other doctors or him can figure out is denied by him, most likely because he doesn’t have the time to fight with insurance (in my case Medicaid/Medicare) rather than doesn’t see any value in a test. But instead of being honest with me he just says it’s not helpful, at least that’s what my cynical ass sees.

I’m getting my physical soon, they made a mistake with the bloodwork dates and I had to send them a message to get that corrected. I decided to advocate for a test that I thought could be useful that was just drawing more blood and he flat out denied it as helpful. Once I get my physical I’m going to try changing doctors, with the expectation that either none of them are taking new patients or have a year or longer waiting list. Oh and the message back was also just short of blaming me for their mistake.

Doctors (at least in the U.S.) are overworked, understaffed, and if you don’t fit neatly in a box they can check they throw their hands up and say who knows rather than working with you to figure out what’s going on. Better yet, they blame symptoms on mental health to deflect – only to have therapists (unless they are trained in addiction and trauma-informed) disagree and refer you back to the doctor. And the cycle repeats over and over again until you are worn down enough to stop caring.

Agreed.

says the adult who enjoys Looney Toons, LEGO, and finger paints due to hand pain

I am terrified this is going to happen to me being on SSDI and in HUD housing. Glad to know my fears are justified now 🤨

EDIT: Uhhhhhhh…11 million out of 73 million purged? 🫣

Anything demeaning another human in an effort to make them less than everyone else is pure hatred and is hate speech.

Wait….so we’re just going to ignore the separation of church and state, never mind spouting off sexist bullshit?