Scaremongering you say?

11-year-old boy driving stolen car hits woman in Rochester

Teen accused of shooting and killing another teen during robbery on Flint Street

Four juveniles charged in Greece stolen vehicle crash

Teenager arrested for carjacking involving loaded ‘ghost gun’

And while not strictly teenager related, I get to hear these idiots ride in a pack and go up and down the city streets during the summer.

I’m not saying all teenagers are bad but when schools are the worse in the country, there’s not really any other options for kids.

I will admit I should have put these links in my origami comment, but I assumed this was an issue in many urban areas. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m torn on this because I love that blue states are standing up for DEI. But, like, kids are already suffering enough especially in Rochester which already is ranked one of the worst school districts in the country based on test scores and graduation rates. The teens are already out of control on crime sprees ands joy rides (some young as 11 and 12)here thanks to these kids having nothing better to do than get into gangs due to peer pressure.

If NY state has a backup plan to at least maintain funding levels for schools once federal funding gets cut I’d feel better about this. Spoiler alert: they don’t. They’re also forcing all school districts in the state to switch to electric buses amidst all this new crap going on.

The only people who will suffer from this decision are the students and the communities that will have to put up with even more crime sprees and joy rides. But I guess in war, causalities will happen whether we like it or not.

Ahhh so this is even worse than I thought because we haven’t even seen the effects of the tariffs yet and probably won’t for a while.

Too. Much. Winning.

In my experience I was in the middle of a transition at work. A company was buying the contract of all the other contract companies and the way they did it was shady as hell. We had to sign new contract agreements and had I not signed the agreement I most likely wouldn’t have been able to file unemployment and finding a job would have been impossible.

I stayed in that job way too long because of fear and the devil you know vs the devil you don’t. I worked at that job and company for almost 10 more years because I liked my immediate boss but despised the bullshit the company was doing. It was not good for my mental health.

Had 2008 not happened, there was no way I was signing that new contract. Many people didn’t and struggled for a bit finding new jobs. My mental health most likely would have been better. But hindsight is 20/20

Ok, so 2008 was a 52% loss in almost a year and a half.

Right now it’s only a 16% loss in a little over 2 months.

Someone far smarter than I am could maybe figure out the monthly decline percentage and compare 2008 losses vs now. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a shitload of money, but it doesn’t look like the stock market is anywhere close to reaching 2008 levels of loss…yet.

This is going to be an even more interesting time in the coming weeks. When animals are cornered, things get very ugly. And we’re beyond ugly already with almost half of Project 2025 implemented already.

“It’s extremely troubling, and really a moral failing, in my opinion, of our society, that we are detaining children,” she said.

Morals got thrown out on January 20th, 2025

Sorry, it was me. I’ve been F5ing the hell out of their website because my payment date keeps changing. I technically should have seen my monthly disability check deposited today…surprise, it’s not there yet 🤨🫠🤬

“They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,’’ Sandoval-Moshenberg told me. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”

And I stopped reading after that. So what ‘protected” class will the first legal citizen who isn’t an immigrant to be disappeared be from?

He’s already a domestic threat, he doesn’t care about the Constitution or laws

Is there even a car that is 100% made in the US, parts and labor?

I ask because I’m very confused by this article.

President Trump on Wednesday announced 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts that are not produced in the U.S., effective on April 2.

Ok, so if I don’t build a car here or build the parts here then I get charged a tariff.

“We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff, but if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff,” Trump told reporters.

Ok, so I don’t have to pay a tariff on the parts I use to build my cars here in the US?

In a fact sheet released after Trump’s Oval Office comments, the White House said auto parts compliant with the USMCA trade deal will remain “tariff-free” until Customs and Border Protection “establishes a process to apply tariffs to their non-U.S. content.”

You know, I might have to find me a Dino costume. At the very least I can have fun while I try to increase my steps. They look kinda heavy though

I would be very surprised if any of these idiots even know what 2FA is, let alone use it.

Ok, say this all succeeds and Musk is thrown out of Tesla. What next? He’ll still be the a billionaire with a US President as a puppet and complete “authority” to continue gutting the federal government.

I’m usually really good at being able to be objective and see both sides of an issue. I just can’t do that with this. It’s equivalent to a gang spraying and praying and killing innocent bystanders and saying “Oh well, it was for the cause”. Like how is this any better than the right being ok with making millions of poor people homeless and hungry?

Oh hey, look! I don’t have a Real ID or a Passport. I already can’t fly or enter federal buildings. Now I won’t be able to vote? They’re basically making it a requirement to have a Real ID or Passport to be considered a citizen at this point.

Millions of poor people are about to lose their U.S. citizenship is what this sounds like it’s coming to.

So this is a Pinky and the Brain situation only very real and very terrifying

I’m indifferent on unsold Teslas being targeted, not like law exists in this country anymore. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I am absolutely 100% fucking appalled that people would be ok with doxing Tesla owners. These are real people with families who now have to fear for their safety because they thought it was cool technology when they bought the car. They also may not be able to easily afford to sell the car and buy a new or used one right away.

This does nothing good for anyone and hurts any resistance movement and sadly makes any resistance look like it lacks empathy for fellow human beings just like how what the right is doing shows they lack empathy.

Random peoples’ cars may not be getting burnt, but they are absolutely getting damaged by keying or spray paint or whatever. I know at least one owner who had something like that happen to them and they now fear for their family’s safety because of it. That’s not cool.

So making America great again clearly means a return to the era of rampant racism (did that ever really go away?). And sexism. And ableism. Only this time it’s going to be out in the wide open.

What’s next?

• Child labor?
• Slavery?
• Debtors’ prisons?
• Mental Institutions?
• Orphans for “deformed” children?
• Trail of Tears 2? (probably why he wants to annex Greenland and/or Canada)

This is gets more depressing as fuck every day.

As someone who is in most ways affect by Trump and Elon’s destroying of the federal government (on Social Security disability, on Medicaid, in HUD public housing – all federally funded) I HAVE to pay attention to this stuff thanks to my anxiety and not wanting to be surprised when I’m homeless or in some camp.

My therapist has to constantly remind me to not spend so much time looking at news but god damn this is fucking frightening. I wish I had the option to be able to tune this craziness out.