“targets” … well that’s convenient, it could mean essentially anything the Regime wants it to. Are you an American who can’t get their favorite Iranian food now? You’ve been targeted. Bombs away!

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .

The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.

Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived “recidivism”. According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.

Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.

June 17, 2025 2:01pm PDT

I live near a big refueling base in the US and the tankers are usually trackable. Ditto for military cargo planes, Orions, and military passenger planes.

What happens when they’re on their way to active deployments … that I don’t know.

And every UU congregation I’ve ever seen has pretty explicitly NOT been Xian. Not even in a watered-down way. I’ve watched their services online, and there’s been no Christ-talk, and no sky-daddy talk at all. I think that each UU congregation has wide leeway to do its own thing, and for most, that thing does not include identifying as Xian.

“Our beliefs are diverse and inclusive. We have no shared creed. Our shared covenant is expressed through the inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values of interdependence, pluralism, justice, transformation, generosity, and equity – all centered around love. Although Unitarianism and Universalism both have origins as liberal Christian traditions, today we embrace diverse teachings from many different global religions and philosophies.” – https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe

“One thing that I just don’t vibe with in modern American society – there’s an entire thing about safety. And I’ve lived my life in a way that safety was the last thing that I would care about,” she said. “This is a thing I think about a lot lately. We need to be less safe, be ready to offend ourselves and other people. Otherwise, Maga people are just going to keep winning, because they’re not afraid.”

Bypass the Intercept’s “This is not a paywall” paywall: https://archive.is/IFQzG .

I was there and saw this guy showing people the wound just like you see here. It’s for real.

Back in 2003 the city of Spokane Valley was formed, just to the east of Spokane city. If you want to find a near-pure vein of MAGA, look there. It’s in between Spokane and Idaho but is floating toward the latter. The SV Trumpets/QAnons/Fundies would be happy to be part of Idaho but the quandary is, while they’d get lower gas prices for their shitty coal-rolling trucks, they wouldn’t be able to buy their precious weed w/o coming back to civilization now and then.

This (the suit) is a glorious bit of trolling, meant to keep UHC’s evildoing high up there in people’s newsfeeds. It provides clickbait headlines and tasty bits of content (much more to come I hope) like “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” that will keep the sharing machine running and the victim complaints in full view.

This is brilliant, I wish I’d thought of the tactic. The class members have to own at least a share of stock while still being able to sleep at night. Where do you find such martyrs?

I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes, alleged to be from A. Carnegie:

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

I detested the Microsoft Bill (I’m in tech) but the post-M$ Bill seems to have reformed quite a bit. I have to admire someone who gives away all their $ (whatever the route - directly or through a foundation) to try to solve some of humanity’s problems. Of course MAGA/Qanon portraying him as a villain doesn’t hurt his image either, it pretty much guarantees that there must be something good about him.

Tesla should pay you to take the inventory and dispose of it - straight to the car crusher and the junkyard. And they’d better pay you a lot - I bet there are lots of complications and expenses that go with disposing of all those batteries, though maybe they can be re-sold for use in non-NAZI vehicles/devices?

“blow up”? Not “smash” or “demolish” or “set fire to” or “ravage” or … any other playground-speak clickbait headline-phrases?

A plague on all headlines telling me “what to know”. I’ll decide for myself what to know, and once that’s done, I may, or may not, read your article to see if it contains information about any of those things. A pox on you, nitwit clickbait headline-writers.

How about “smashed”, “hit with” and “under fire”?

I remember a recent commenter elsewhere refer to this as “playground speech”. I guess if you have the mental capacity of a gradeschooler then you can’t help but click on playground speech links. Clicks that inevitably seem to lead to a tiny narrow block of content down the middle of your wide screen, surrounded by miles of whitespace, lots of pictures, not much to read.

earmarking $45 billion to detain 100,000 migrants

$450K per migrant. I wonder which MAGA-sponsoring corporations are going to see that payday, and I wonder what % of it they’ll be kicking-back to Orange and Elmo? We’ve got a lot of citizens here. Kidnapping them at government expense will be extremely profitable, even at today’s rates.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched a different lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education that would pull funding primarily from poorer students and students with disabilities. “That’s a separate complaint they filed a few weeks ago, it’s only a one-page complaint that cites no authority, no case, no law,” Mills said. “We’ll see them in court on that one as well.”

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Yup, the orange weakling caved again. I’m looking forward to much more such caving. It will just take a lot more entities to, like Maine did, stand up to the little diaper tyrant and this thugs. It will be entertaining to watch him cave to China and to all the other nations and economies he’s been trying to harass.

Oh I doubt he did that. He’d lose prestige down at the Yacht Club! I’m sure he just laid off some of his poverty-wage crew.

When I wrote the previous comment I was thinking that “electronic lock” was referring to a fob-activated lock that you used in place of a key-activated lock. The things that are constantly blasting their honks and beeps throughout the neighborhood when we used to have just quiet. Bad enough, but it sounds from your comment that it’s much, much worse than that.

It sounds like you’re describing a lock that the vehicle is in control of! No, my cars have no such things. I didn’t realize they existed. I’ve rented a few cars, incl. one “good” (meaning, one that people might envy me for owning, thus increasing my feelings of prestige) European car within the past 10 yrs and didn’t notice the car deciding to lock the doors w/o my consent. If this was happening it must have been a silent anti-feature, or at least very quiet.

I can’t imagine needing or wanting the car to decide when to lock/unlock the doors. I only lock them when I’m parked, and sometimes not even then (not really paranoid about break-ins … I’ve left the Miata top-down on my street overnight before, and the horrific end result was … a dead leaf or two on the seats, maybe an insect visitor as well, a little extra dust). Locking and unlocking the doors is a simple as putting a mechanical key into a slot or pushing/pulling a lever on the inside. Nothing could be easier, and it’s not a decision I’m about to cede to the car (and its manufacturer) for no good reason.