Her husband voted for ®. There is no evidence that she voted.

Her husband is on record saying that despite his wife being taken away by ICE, he still supports the ® agenda.

She lost her green card as a youth for stealing something under $200. She then kept going to immigration court and was told “you’re fine” by the authorities for 25 years.

The US immigration system has been a tragedy for many decades. It doesn’t work well, efficiently,not clearly. It’s basically designed to allow in people who fit certain profiles, but any weirdness in your situation puts you in indefinite limbo and at the whims of various officials. It makes an underclass of grey zone residents. This was generally fine, but openly set up conditions for a racist regime to start snatching people out of their homes. People who played by the rules for decades.

The US immigration system today: When Kafka meets Hitler.

One of the various conservative thoughts is to make large swathes of US territory governed by corporations and billionaires. Basically, non-state zones subject to rules set by non-state systems.

Surprise! They’re trying to make feudal / monarchy systems. Welcome to bring peasants again, fellow peasants.

The underlying foundation of conservative thoughts was, and is, to uphold a hierarchy that supports a monarchy. It has been from day 1. The American Revolution was a war against conservatism.

My state doesn’t have party registrations. It’d just be cheaper to wall us all off and leave us alone in our miserable place, just to be sure.

Of course, you can’t wall the side to Canada, but we’ll promise to not go there while we are isolated from the rest of the US.

I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

I don’t think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it’s not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

I’m already on the road ahead of you.

Spent 30 years campaigning, calling, sign waving, writing letters, donating to candidates, causes, and groups. Even ran for office a couple of times. Every year it gets worse and I’ve got kids. They don’t need to live in a dystopian place so we’re on the road. Headed to a developed nation. Greener pastures,.but it’s worth a try.

TACO style fascism rules the day.

Chicago’s flag is a masterwork.

My city did a redesign about five years ago. Our flag was in a D to F tier flag ranking. After the redesign it’s much better, but still feels like a logo more then a flag. At least they got rid of the written slogan, though!

Props to Chicago. Put that flag on everything.

I’m hoping Milwaukee adopts of the People’s flag of Milwaukee soon. That’s a serious banger too.

Yeah, the US has reached an incredibly low standard of literacy for what is supposed to be a developed nation. The numbers on reading level are scary. Also look at how much people read as adults. We just don’t learn how and then we don’t practice during our lives. It’s a nation of partial literacy being kept together my hyper nationalism and smart phones to distract us with 6 second videos.

Using a capitalist/economic solution to solve a resource scarcity problem?!? We can’t have that (says the hard-line capitalists).

Congestion pricing works and should be the rule in every notable city. We need fewer card and car trips as part of the transformation of humanity’s civilization to adapt to a limited world. The line cannot go up forever.

And he needs money! He just can’t handle it so he needs more.

– Abbreviated George Carlin

Fascist dictators don’t have loyalty, soldier. That’s a key element to them.

We also train young adults to gather evidence, use a skeptical process when presented with ideas, and have enough resources to speak up about problems in communities.

It’s a trifecta of things conservatives hate.

Ah yes, yet another way to control and hurt women. The whole idea of medical care during birth is based on situations where you happen to need it. If things go well, they go well. Being at the hospital or having a midwife is about when things go off the rails. The vast majority of people want you and your child to survive childbirth, which is a dangerous and difficult process for many out there. Anyone who says “just don’t have help you might need, it’ll be fine” is either a liar or actively trying to harm you.

This is just another branch of “under the hood” religious nutjobiness like Tradwives which all boils down to active alt-right control over women.

You passed the one that matters: you’re interested in having a democracy.

Ah, so the bribe money finally cleared.

“Say” - so… It means nothing to authoritarians. Do something about it or resign yourself.

I don’t know much about Poundland, but I know they’re no liars about their advertising. Everything, including the business itself, went for a pound.

I salute them for their consistency!

It’s not a conservative’s problem until it effects them personally. By then it’s usually too late, but at least they feel bad about that one issue for a while.