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@PortlandDSA Communists are all exactly the same and need to be treated the same.

“I’m an ‘economic historian’ who has trouble understanding that Karl Marx has been broadly influential on the left and that different tendencies have interpreted/used his ideas in different ways.” These folks might accidentally learn something with a few more clicks.

People be troonin

@david_shane Mine is probably a decade old and I don't have a wind or rain sensor. I've been looking to upgrade.

@WestMichP2 Discontinued model, but this is probably closest equivalent. ambientweather.com/ws-7078-smart-…

East Lansing sizzlin'. All time record for our balcony sensor is 99.3 F.

Spain’s government offered an amnesty to illegal aliens, they said 500k would apply 3 million ended up claiming amnesty. When Maria Salazar says her amnesty will go to 10 million people, it’ll be closer to 30 million.

@snowblinder76 It is insane what that will do to downstream streams and rivers.

@WestMichP2 10-20" of rain is crazy. That's probably close to what we average in season

Campers need to get out.

I see we are doing the “zoomers are anti social weirdos” discourse again. Well, I was recently talking to some zoomer students who were laughing at a 60s hippy lib prof who was scolding them for not “working a season or two as a Warren Miller ski bum” like he did in the 70s. The connections he made there launched a career for him in western tourism and business. The reason they were laughing was because in their eyes, that door was closed for them, despite having the interest and the ability to go and work those jobs for a similar career path. I wanted to look into who exactly was responsible for the decision to replace American kids at Vail and Park City with J-1 labor from Argentina. Obvious answers like Vail Mountain are to blame of course, but something surprising to me was that American companies cannot sponsor J-1s on their own, they need to do this through a pass through NGO approved by the State Department as a type of “cultural exchange” for students (not our students, foreigner students). There are two main NGOs that do this for Rocky Mountain skiing and both of their CEOs make well over a million a year keeping your kid from these seasonal jobs while claiming American kids just don’t want to work, and need more diversity in ski towns (look at their promotional material if you don’t believe me). The truth is the pay is barely enough to cover resort dorm housing, so the big resorts barely enable young workers to make rent. The two that bring in the most J-1s to my local resorts are USE and PIEE. The Council on International Educational Exchange and the Universal Student Exchange. USE is headed by a Peruvian CEO Rafael Espinoza. The other group is headed by James P. Pellow who has an EdD (lol). These guys and their lobbyists benefit from a low paid foreign underclass of workers staffing ski resorts. Their organizations (plus the State Department) are responsible for taking away “ski bum” jobs from American teenagers under the guise of cross cultural exchange. The main lobby group that advocates day and night to keep your kids out of these jobs is the National Ski Areas Association. They lobby Congress, the State Dept, and Lawmakes to make sure the j-1s flow. Their materials claim that diversification and multi culture exchanges are much needed in ski areas! Vail Resorts and Powdr corp partners closely with USE and CIEE to keep their cheap foreign labor flowing. I never voted for any of this, zoomers surely did not, zoomers are being told they’re weirdos for not working these gigs, but good luck getting rid of any of this system as this is probably the first time you’ve heard of these groups.

@TheStalwart no gas, no fracking, no nuclear, no tech, no nothing. what is NY's plan exactly?

New York has become the first state to announce a datacenter moratorium. There will be a one-year ban on new development while the state assesses their impact on energy prices and the environment. nytimes.com/2026/07/14/nyr…

@PeteButtigieg ?????????????

Don't let anyone tell us we can't have nice things - like good roads, schools, and health care - as if the world's richest nation couldn't possibly afford it.

@lazylogic777 @JesseKellyDC Obviously.

@WestMichP2 @JesseKellyDC Bigger deportation numbers are a required component of righting the ship. So I'm not sure what it is you are saying.

If true, this is beyond pathetic. This administration had better start growing some balls when these communists run ops that get them killed. The whole point of the op is that you’ll get scared and stop.

@fwmarqix None of this actually happened and its dogshit AI writing to boot.

My son called me from jail at 2AM and the first thing he said was "don't tell mom." I told mom. Right after I hung up, I rolled over and said "your son's in jail" and she sat straight up like she'd never been asleep a day in her life. Now. My son is 29. Not a kid. Owns a truck, pays his bills, shows up to things on time. This wasn't a pattern. This was a Tuesday night going completely sideways for reasons I was about to hear. We drove to the station. On the way, my wife asked questions I didn't have answers to. Her: What did he do? Me: He didn't say. Her: Was he alone? Me: He didn't say that either. Her: What did he say? Me: Don't tell mom. She stared at the windshield for the rest of the drive. We got there. Talked to an officer who had the energy of a man who deeply regretted his career. He explained that my son and two of his friends had been arrested for trespassing. On a golf course. At midnight. With a shopping cart. I had to ask him to repeat it. The officer did not enjoy repeating it. Apparently the three of them had taken a shopping cart from a nearby grocery store, brought it to the golf course after closing, and were racing it down the hills in the dark. For fun. Grown men. One of them is an accountant. My wife stood next to me absorbing this information like a woman being slowly lowered into cold water. Her: A shopping cart. Officer: Yes ma'am. Her: On a golf course. Officer: Correct. Her: Why? Officer: Ma'am I stopped asking why about ten years into this job. They released him into our custody because technically nothing was damaged, the cart was returned, and the golf course manager was more confused than angry. My son walked out looking like exactly what he was: a 29-year-old man who had just spent four hours in a holding cell rethinking a decision made at 10:30 PM. He saw my wife's face and immediately said: Son: Before you say anything— Her: Don't. Son: It was Marcus's idea. Her: Don't do that either. We drove home in silence so thick you could park in it. Around the third traffic light my son said quietly from the back seat: Son: We were actually going pretty fast on that third hill. I made a noise that was not quite a laugh. My wife turned and looked at me with a face that said if you laugh I will divorce you in this car. I did not laugh. I waited until I got to the bathroom. My son paid a small fine. Did some community service. Still brings up the speed of the third hill like it's something to be proud of. His friend the accountant put it on his calendar as an annual tradition. My wife has not forgiven Marcus. She forgave my son by Christmas because she always does. But every time he visits now, she looks at him for just a second longer than necessary. Like she's calculating the odds.

@lazylogic777 @JesseKellyDC How many times are we going to watch this same movie and nothing changes and we just get bigger deportation numbers?

@WestMichP2 @JesseKellyDC They paused because they smoked some shit invader and the optics are bad because the media said so. Completely pathetic behavior.

@lazylogic777 @JesseKellyDC I didn't say they were going to reinvent anything. They are going to pause, refresh training, and get back at it. If you want to troon out thinking they are going to stop deporting people for millionth time, that's up to you.

@WestMichP2 @JesseKellyDC The theory behind how, when, and where this is appropriate has literally decades of evidence. This isn't new or ground breaking and they aren't going to discover some ground breaking methodology.

@BrerRabbitBurnr @Oilfield_Rando @GhostPournelle Yeah I don't know how many times you can fall for the same damn thing and think deportations are going to slow down.

@WestMichP2 @Oilfield_Rando @GhostPournelle 'all non-urgent vehicle stops' "Sure, Sue. I'll throw you a bone."

She’s worse than a Democrat.

@David_J_Bier Yeah, they should be stopped if they're illegal.

Drivers shouldn't drive off when ICE agents try to stop them. It's dangerous for everyone. That doesn't mean ICE agents should stop them to begin with, or chase them, or put themselves in harm's way, or shoot them. Better ICE policies at each stage could prevent deaths.

@lazylogic777 @JesseKellyDC A panicked illegal tried to escape with a DHS officer in the way. It makes sense to see if they can do vehicle stops without putting officers in harm's way. The communist would like nothing more than a dead ICE agent.

@WestMichP2 @JesseKellyDC He didn't say DHS/ICE was the op. He said the democrat aided interference was the op. Face it...they're kneeling for domestic terrorism. Even if it is only a "pause" it is still pathetic.

@Oilfield_Rando @GhostPournelle She didn't. She jumped in front of something that was already happening.

@GhostPournelle How many Democrats can pick up the phone and stop deportations?

The film director behind the Pratt campaign says the feds are investigating voter fraud in LA. "There's going to be arrests."

@david_shane It's how you know that what's most important is how they feel about themselves rather than whatever good they're trying to do.

Interesting to me that some people are passionately devoted to using the proper buzzwords. There are many better potential names for this box (that, you know, might actually describe what you'd find in the box).