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• On the post: Arizona Sheriff Gets Shitty Because People Protested An ICE-Led Drug Raid

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 12:22pm

  When ICE stops acting like the gazpacho

  …fucking what

• On the post: CBS Execs Have Second Thoughts About Paying Trump Bribe Money After California Threatens Bribery Inquiry

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 11:32am

  To be fair, the current SCOTUS didn’t give us that decision. But I’m guessing at least four of its current members would refer to Dred Scott as “a good decision in context”.

• On the post: Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of Law

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 11:25am

  We all know Stephen Miller’s a Nazi. Koby’s rhetoric and ideas aligning with Miller’s doesn’t really give our resident Nazi much of a way to claim he’s not one himself.

• On the post: Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of Law

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 10:35am

  Constitutional protections ought to be reserved for American citizens, who are in the United States.

  “And that means if an American citizen murders an illegal, that isn’t actually murder because that illegal wasn’t a citizen and the law doesn’t apply to acts of pest control.” — Koby and Stephen Miller, probably

• On the post: CBS Execs Have Second Thoughts About Paying Trump Bribe Money After California Threatens Bribery Inquiry

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 08:53am

  the principal target of the complaint should be the instigator

  The instigator has legal immunity for basically everything he does while sitting in the Oval Office. Even if someone wanted to investigate his role in this, they wouldn’t be able to prosecute him for it. Blame the death cult that is the GOP and the conservative-heavy, Trump-friendly, precedent-ignoring Supreme Court for that state of affairs. They’re not willing to rob Trump of the power of the presidency as it stands today. Hell, if I were a Republican, I also wouldn’t want Trump to lose that kind of power.

• On the post: Judge Shreds DOJ’s Manufactured Case Against Abrego Garcia: Evidence ‘Defies Common Sense’

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 06:08am

  • shot J.R.
  • shot Mr. Burns
  • shot Marvin in the face
  • shot the sheriff and the deputy

• On the post: ICE Is Now Trying To Convince Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2025 @ 06:06am

  Is that what they’re calling beaten detainees these days?

• On the post: Arizona Sheriff Gets Shitty Because People Protested An ICE-Led Drug Raid

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2025 @ 04:27pm

  They do not have a reasonable expectation to believe that the purpose of the raid was to detain illegal aliens.

  Mike Masnick doesn’t have a reasonable expectation to believe you’ll be anything but a Nazi bitch, but he lets your posts through anyway.

• On the post: ICE Is Now Trying To Convince Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2025 @ 02:52pm

  Bad enough that DHS knew any longer than three days would’ve been an even bigger tip-off that some foul shit is going down in those detention centers.

• On the post: ICE Is Now Trying To Convince Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2025 @ 12:55pm

  Feel free to ignore Koby. Dude’s a Nazi prick.

• On the post: Judge Shreds DOJ’s Manufactured Case Against Abrego Garcia: Evidence ‘Defies Common Sense’

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2025 @ 10:29am

  Some MAGA asshole, probably: That judge is in the pocket of Big Immigration! Fire her, Daddy Donald!

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  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2025 @ 08:15pm

  A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

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  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2025 @ 03:58pm

  The question is what you do with a cult when it’s this size and this powerful.

  You let it eat itself from the inside out while saving anyone the cult could harm in the process⁠—including people who want out of the cult. I can’t imagine that any kind of social deprogramming would work on people so far gone into the GOP death cult that they both voted for Donald Trump for his “no more wars” promise and cheered on his bombing of Iran. The people running the U.S. these days are losing power. They know their platform, their policies, and their ideology are more unpopular than ever with a broader populace. It’s why they stacked the Supreme Court with Trump appointees when they had the chance: What better way to keep their influence alive⁠—especially after they’re dead or out of office⁠—than by making sure the next 20 years or so of SCOTUS decisions favor an authoritarian ideology and give greater deference to privileged white people?

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2025 @ 06:16am

  From what I hear, Vance has become Bluesky’s most blocked user, and the number of people who’ve blocked him far outweighs the number of people following him. Seems like he was expecting to drop into Bluesky and stir up a shitload of trouble so he could earn his conservative troll bona fides, but people have generally been saying “lol no” and blocking him instead of interacting with him, and it’s made Vance basically irrelevant on Bluesky. (It’s also an extension of the whole “Vance is a socially clumsy jackass” thing, where he seemingly thought he could be Bluesky’s Trump.) A lot of people are tired of dealing with shitheads like him and his supporters, and they’re especially tired of hearing the bullshit they spew over and over. Bluesky’s client-side moderation features⁠—including its comprehensive blocking and its letting people detach their posts from quote-posts⁠—have made it easier for the average person to make that bullshit irrelevant to their social media experience. That will always be a good thing.

• On the post: ICE Tells Agents They Can Start Making Unjustified Arrests Again

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2025 @ 04:24am

  ICE probably started doing this “no uniforms, no ID, no faces” shit in “blue states” because they knew that starting it in Texas or Florida would get them shot sooner rather than later.

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2025 @ 04:21am

  People should be more open to different views and willing to engage with others who disagree but on the whole they are not.

  What views?

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2025 @ 07:35pm

  You’ll have to convince Bluesky management to do that, and while I’d prefer it happen as well, I don’t think they’re eager to start banning people based on politics (or political purity tests).

• On the post: Feds Arrest Yet Another Democrat For The Crime Of Helping Others Under Attack From ICE

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2025 @ 06:27pm

  Republicans who whine about “the rise of antisemitism” in the U.S. don’t actually care about antisemitism, which is apparent when you consider the following:

  1. Republicans have a long, recorded history of associating with actual antisemites such as neo-Nazis and white supremacists⁠—a history, might I add, that continues to this day.
  2. The GOP whines all the live-long day about antisemitism and needing to stop it, but doesn’t say shit about racism, sexism/misogyny, queerphobia, and other forms of hatred, which exposes their concern about antisemitism as hollow.
  3. A significant number of politically powerful Republicans support Israel and denounce antisemitism only because they’re the kinds of Christians who sincerely believe⁠—and I wish I were joking about any of this⁠—concentrating all Jewish persons in Israel, then incinerating it once that happens, will bring Jesus Christ back to Earth via magic so he can fight a war with the forces of Hell that will destroy all life on Earth.

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2025 @ 01:13pm

  No, they want free reach. Totally different (and explicitly bullshit) concept.

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2025 @ 12:13pm

  So what. Also, fuck off, you fucking Nazi prick.

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