The suggested 9.5 percent increase would affect more than three million single-family homes, co-ops and condos and over 100,000 commercial buildings, Mr. Mamdani said as he delivered his preliminary spending plan.

The mayor acknowledged that his proposal would not merely force the wealthy to pay more taxes, but would also be a “tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers,” and stressed that this was not his first choice.

Welp.

Agreed, everyone should read it all and watch the videos. Warning: prepare yourself first.

Maybe that’s why they usually have the detention center in the same building as the training center. Human shields.

Yeah but the owner already got the message from protestors and the fact that the City passed an ordinance to prohibit non-municipal detention facilities the very same day they found out ICE was looking at buying it. The owner succumbed to the pressure and withdrew from the sale, saying they weren’t aware who the buyer was (and there’s a decent chance they didn’t know until it became news since DHS has been sneaky about covering their tracks). A realtor in the area that had been helping them look for properties has also gotten huge backlash, but I haven’t heard whether they dropped them as client. (I live not far from KC so I’ve been aware of the news on this)

She did it for nothing, the warehouse owner had already backed out of the deal by then.

edit after watching video: not the sharpest tool in the shed, lighter fluid squirted on concrete, metal, and glass. Then squirting a stream fluid from the bottle in her hand to the flames, not too bright. But the usual and well-known effective technique would probably also be futile. From what I’ve read the place is completely empty, probably nothing but concrete floors in there.

Let’s go!

Save the Oxford Comma!

Yeah, it’s also easy to pay for several months ahead at a time, and they don’t keep your personal info.

I went with Posteo and have been happy with it. The only meaningful advantage of Tutanova and Proton that I’m aware of is the encryption, but that only works if the person you’re communicating with also uses their service, so I figure what’s the point? I’ve also heard of various problems people have had with with both of them. And, at least at the time I checked, you had to use a browser or electron interface to access them though their own UI. With Posteo I added the account to Thunderbird and I access it through SMTP via TB’s mechanisms (e.g. auto-checking every X minutes and popping up a system notification when there’s a new email) just like with my other email account.

Wyden “wants answers”? Here’s your answer: Are you still sailing down De river Nial? Look into the Don’s pig-like eyes. He is the captain now, in control of the government and supported by the majority political party, his own private army, and the corrupt SCOTUS majority he set up in his first term.

Haven’t you noticed, Wyden? Anyone who ever opposed him, ever made fun of him, or isn’t going along with him is either being “investigated” or arrested and charged with made up crimes (if a lib) or ousted from their positions of power and threatened with worse (if a repub), not to mention getting mentioned in mean tweets that mobilize his minions to go after them. It’s Pay to Play now (in gold is always a nice touch).

The last shreds of the Constitution were thrown out on January 20th, 2025. There are no rules, laws are decreed by the Boss, subject to change at a whim, and only the rest of us are required to follow them.

Choose your Side. Whining is not a strategy. If that’s all you can do, get out and make room for someone with a spine.

“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

Wow. That is a direct threat to kill protesters. That’s when we hear their names is when ICE kills them.

Well I would be one of those noobs, not having used signal or the like before. :) Camera app–are invites done via a QR code then? And we don’t use FB or any of that poison. I doubt I can get anyone to try it out anyway, but good to know about it just in case. Use case would be either an old no-sim phone or android tablet connecting to wifi or wifi hotspot, and/or a laptop/desktop from home.

Thanks! They also have a desktop and a terminal version, nice.

A search for that term brings up about 10 different things from crypto to herpes, nothing about a messaging app

That seems like a better idea, but it 's the same old problem where you’d have to get the people you want to communicate with to switch from Signal to that.

I don’t know how to get one and shouldn’t have to, just to use an app like Signal. Why isn’t there one we can use without having to give them a phone #?

So it’s still yes, you do have to have a phone number.

I thought you had to have a phone number to use Signal.

They love it, it’s the best job they ever had. They get to do what they’ve always wanted–have power over people, order them around, and beat the shit out of them as much as they want, knowing they won’t be held accountable.

Anyone that statement doesn’t apply to, has either quit already or never considered taking a job like that in the first place.

Record them everywhere they go, record everything they do, report everything they do, everything they say, every lie they tell. It’s all evidence. Let everyone see it and hear it and know about it. That’s important not only for right now so everyone knows, but also in case we can ever have trials.

There’s nothing about Meet the Press or Graham in this article so I don’t why you’re talking about them. The article is reporting on the lies and slander the regime’s government officials are standing behind a podium and stating as official facts. People need to know they can’t trust them or believe what they say.