ThebigOh

Currently a teacher. Also a songwriter, Reader (#ripBillHicks), & cinephile. Long time Devil's advocate but not an *sshole. Empathy 1st, laughter 2nd.

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Apparently some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The GOP wants you to think of Elon Musk as some sort of victim who just wants to give us flying cars, but the truth tells a very different story. He fired the people who were investigating him and his companies through DOGE and now it’s reported by the WSJ that he gave the order to degrade the speed on Ukraine’s Starlink. That deserves investigation and Democrats should absolutely promise that and deliver.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Elon Musk is exactly why laws about citizenship were written.
He must be put on trial, punished, and denaturalized.

No one elected Elon Musk. He is a full-fledged traitor to the United States. Anyone who does business with him is out of excuses.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “We’ve all been focused on the wrong 1%. You heard a lot about trans people in this race, they’re 1% of the population. You’ve heard about Muslims in this race from Republicans, they’re 1% of the population. Even undocumented immigrants are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1% because the only minority destroying America is the billionaire class and it’s time that we tax them, make them pay their fair share so we can invest in education and healthcare”

[CJ G @cjgproduxions]

Under the Biden/Harris Administration Black farmers were finally getting a path to land ownership. Trump came in office and shut that down.

Many Black businesses received assistance from the MBDA. Trump shuttered that.

Many Black students have obtained resources to attend college via Gear Up/TRIO, Trump cut that funding

Black unemployment is up to 7.0%

That’s what’s on that ballot

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Virginia after police showed up at a mother’s home at 2 A.M. and TOWED HER CAR over a SH00TING she had NOTHING to do with...

...because a FLOCK CAM pointed them to the WRONG CAR!!!

Now her car is a TOTAL LOSS and she MIGHT LOSE HER JOB!!!!

Yes, you read that right, a Flock camera got it wrong, the cops took her car ANYWAY, and she’s the one paying for it.

Her name is Rosalyn Crump, she’s a mom raising 3 boys in Richmond VA

On July 29th, just before 2 in the morning, Richmond police officers showed up outside her home on Sussex Street.

She was ASLEEP, but someone woke her up and told her police were outside and her car was being towed.

Police say the Flock system had linked her 2012 Hyundai Elantra to a sh00ting near Gilpin Court and body camera footage shows the officers shining flashlights through her windows.

At one point, one of them seemed to doubt they even had the right car.

They noticed her KIDS’ CAR SEATS were buckled in the back, but they towed it anyway.

Rosalyn came outside and told them flat out: “Y’all got the wrong car.”

She told them she’d been at her mom’s house all day, came home at 4, and waited for her kids to get off the bus at 5.

Nobody had driven her car.

An officer decided her story didn’t match the Flock data and said on camera that she was, “definitely not telling the truth.”

Minutes later, Seibert’s Towing hauled her car away.

If you think that was insane... well, IT GETS WORSE.

About FOUR DAYS later, she finally got a phone call.

Her car had been released FOUR HOURS after they took it... because police had already found the person they were actually looking for.

NOBODY FROM THE POLICE TOLD HER!!!!!

When she went to get her car back, she found it DAMAGED from the tow.

The towing company’s VP admitted fault in writing.

Then the claim went to insurance, and the company said it could no longer settle with her directly.

Her mechanic’s verdict:

TOTAL LOSS.

Richmond police now admit Flock cameras led them to the wrong vehicle.

Meanwhile, Rosalyn has lost wages, can’t get to work on time, and is paying for a RENTAL CAR out of her own pocket just to get her boys where they need to go.

She literally did nothing wrong and was home with her kids.

THIS IS INSANE!!!!!!!!

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

A new report found Elon Musk’s DOGE canceled $470 MILLION in grants and spending for Indian Country. The federal government’s obligation to tribes goes back to treaties, and many advocates are saying the cuts amount to treaty violations.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Nobel laureate @avalaina has documented Russian war crimes in Ukraine since its full-scale invasion. Her reaction to Trump saying Russia has been “fine”’ there?: “We document intentional murders of civilians every day…I'm sorry to say, but this presidential administration completely lost their ability to distinguish between good and evil.”

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

These are so good. Debunking MAGA excuses in real time.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

A ton of Springfield, OH businesses are going to go under, taking with them the tax base and the jobs of American citizens, thanks to the Trump admin's obsessive hatred of Haitians.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Really instructive to see, day after day, the public deserting Trump, and elites—tech, corporate, legal, media, think-tank— hanging in there, rationalizing, excusing, and enabling away.

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

Hey y'all, tomorrow @texasmonthly is publishing a story I've been working on for a while—a deep dive into the conservative takeover at UT. It's the Nov. cover story. If you've been seeing the headlines, but confused abt what's happening @ the 40 Acres, check back here in the AM!

[gino. @that414Ginoguy]

This many cops for allegedly shoplifting diapers? SHOOTING INTO A MOVING VEHICLE FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOPLIFTING DIAPERS?? Reader's note: SHE DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING STEAL ANYTHING

[Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 @joehas]

“Piketty, the man who documented American decline not only through macroeconomic figures but also through actual cuts to education — begun under Nixon, intensified under Reagan, becoming systematic and irreversible — explains in Le Monde that under Macron, education spending has fallen by 20%. Easy to say.”

“This amounts to the end of public education, its effective collapse in France, the United States or Lima. Which leads to the destruction of the social mobility ladder. And which, in turn, makes inheritance the principal mechanism for gaining access not only to wealth, but also to ownership of things that until recently were within reach, such as a crappy apartment, or even a longer life expectancy.”

https://t.co/AILArBXzKm

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now. https://t.co/HP8iTvF6hE

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

First they refused *Gulf of America*. Then they refused *Lake of America*. And now, MapQuest has a new feature on mobile that shows us Flock camera locations!

Did not expect MapQuest to become my new fav underdog hero of the year.😂

Time Magazine: if you're listening....

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Reports from Burlington’s ICE facility are deeply troubling.

A pregnant woman banged on her cell door for help after days in pain. Another woman was denied medication.

The facility was meant to hold them for hours, not days or weeks.

We need an independent investigation.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump has been so fixated on his health and his cognition lately, that it's hard to believe he didn't recently get bad news or a warning.
When my late father's dementia advanced to Stage 3, he went from being occasionally ornery to a more severe out-of-control seething sort of anger.
When Trump menacingly hissed "Quiet!" to Andrew Feinberg yesterday, I got flashbacks.