Mayoral candidate Brad Lander was cuffed and detained by ICE agents after asking to see a warrant for people who were detained after an immigration hearing. Video from the city comptroller’s press secretary Chloe Chik (Bristow). She says he’s still being held in 26 Federal Plaza.

I posted this comment on Threads 5 weeks ago. So many MAGA losees responded saying I was lying: My friend who runs a tanning salon in D.C. said RFK came in to tan yesterday with Secret Service. She asked for his ID and the Secret Service said something like, "do you know who he

“There is something almost malicious in not hating anything.” — Robert Walser (from “Brief für alle,” Berliner Tageblatt, July 8, 1926)

Slave ships had guns facing inward b/c white ppl were “afraid” of Africans rebelling Plantation houses had barred windows b/c white ppl were “afraid” of slave rebellion White settlers would circle wagons b/c they were “afraid” of the Indigenous ppl whose land they were stealing

We've known this for a very long time. Establishment scientists and corporate media have been keeping quiet. Corporate profits were well protected. We could have been preparing ourselves. Now we'll all suffer.

Looks like Louisiana is on track to be first and worst for the MAGA Recession. #lalege

Donald Trump bankrupted four casinos. America is next

This makes me sick to my stomach

Two Louisiana repubs cheering and dancing about the extreme harm they’re doing to their own constituents #lalege

Black lives > white feelings

Trolling with a straight face for the win. Part of me thinks I should now start playing poker, but I would be confined to playing against rubes like this.

Louisiana is the only state where justices of the peace can pad their own salaries with eviction fees—a rule that critics warn incentivizes them to rule in favor of landlords and grant evictions. boltsmag.org/louisiana-just…

I'm querying my novel again and newly reminded of how much unshakeable confidence and nerve are required to get published, and how funny/sad it is that these are not necessarily the same qualities that produce great writing