just passed a building flying a USA flag, Michigan State flag, and then above both? Detroit Lions flag

Let’s talk about AI art.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

#TeamTetherball

@kinsale42 @TechBean

How #GenX are you? Part 128

Playground Games Edition

Select all that apply.

#HowGenXAreYou #1970s #1980s #1990s
#Poll #Polls

One major power NOT delegated to the federal government is the general power to keep the peace. That is reserved to the states. Also embedded in U.S. is the principle that the military shall neither occupy the states nor be used for domestic law enforcement. See the 3rd Amendment, prohibiting the mandatory quartering of troops, https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/third_amendment, and the Posse Comitas Act, which largely prohibits the use of the federal military for domestic law enforcement. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385 7/

I finally have finished reading the 69 page complaint and multiple exhibits filed by the state of Illinois and City of Chicago against Trump, Noem, Hegseth etc., seeking to prohibit them deploying federalized National Guard troops in #Chicago. #Chicagoland #LawFedi https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487574.1.0_4.pdf 1/

I need people not from Portland to understand that a majority of the escalations happening here are the direct result of the far right grifting machine. They are another arm of the fascist regime and have been manufacturing content and spreading lies to manufacture consent. It’s as simple as that.

@batkaren have you tried turning it on & off again?

Still on hold with Universe Tech Support about the All-Pervasive Badness.

I mean I can't stress to you enough how alarmed you should be that ICE *checks notes* invaded an entire apartment building in Chicago, smashed in doors and rounded people up, including citizens, and sorted them out after.

There is absolutely no way a judge issued, or even COULD issue a warrant to cover that.

The Gestapo is going door to door now, and your media almost couldn't care less.

You're in danger honey...

Don't underestimate the power of socioemotional damage against fascists—especially low-level ones.

Show your contempt for their choices/actions/affiliations early, loudly, and often.

Meme their mistakes.

Make fun of their symbols, uniforms, and tactics.

Make them look like the fucking bigot-clowns they are.

These guys (and a few gals) thrive on their cowboy Gravy Seal paramilitary cosplay identities. They want people to think they're tough and scary, but they're just fucking irrelevant cowards who peaked in highschool (if that) trying to exert control over others with their limp-dick energy because their mom didn't hug them enough and their dad was too busy drunk-texting Tucker Carlson's Only Fans line to play catch with them.

#FuckICE #FuckTrump and #FuckFascism

@intransitivelie 42

Tell you what: reply to this toot with a number and I'll give you a sentence from that page of the book I haven't actually written.

Dear New York Times,

Henceforth, forbid the tired formulation "both sides." Likewise the cliché "war of words."

These should be red flags. They encourage laziness.

Report what they say. And report what's true.

Here, for instance, your reporters can establish that there are no protesters in Portland engaging in insurrection.

They also see federal forces attacking protesters without provocation.

Don't be lazy. Tell your readers what you know.

Welcome #BlueSky folk! Don’t be shy, the water is great! 🐘

'your' graphic design skills, huh

Down to the last two stickers! 😱https://fogwave.bigcartel.com/product/this-machine-outruns-fascists-electric-bike

AHOY, and I can not express this enough, ME HEARTIES

Dear New Comers and anyone immigrating to Mastodon from oppressive platforms.

You’ll not be deported from Mastodon because of your ethnicity, religion, color of your skin, views or because you read books.

Welcome.

#mastodon #newcomers #socialmedia #bluesky