If you were going to be teleported there and back, and could only enter one place, I’d suggest Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street, a Spitalfields row house refurbished to look and feel as if its 18th/19th century residents have only just stepped out for a moment. Extraordinarily experience.

"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis. Maybe I'm wrong, but 1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city. 2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis. 3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.

Truly truly truly cannot recommend this, and the entire Dryco series enough. Random Acts, in particular, is one of the most profoundly unnerving things I’ve ever ready (complementary)

A new title for our orange boy Wheezy, describing two very different aspects of his orange boy-ness: The Cataleptic Catapult.

Also: The Minnesota Historical Society has this flag but *doesn’t keep it on display,* because it’s, you know, a confederate flag and that’s gross. So deeply Minnesotan. “We humiliated our opponent but the real prize is that we refuse to display the trophy. They know we have it.”

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

secondary to the terrible content, gavin could be using his celebrity and influence to promote and elevate left wing media voices who are desperate for any kind of boost in visibility but instead hes doing whatever the fuck this is

The pseudopatriotic British right has always worshipped established power for its own sake, and this now reaches its absurd endpoint in the pages of the Telegraph

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent amplified President Donald Trump’s message to European allies that the US won’t back down on taking over Greenland, saying the continent is too weak to ensure its security. Listen to that and the latest stories on Bloomberg News Now.

The joint statement just published by European leaders reads like something they would say to Russia about Ukraine: "we stand ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that we stand firmly behind." www.government.se/statements/2...

The Feds are NOT investigating AND are NOT cooperating with local and state officials who ARE trying to investigate. (Worth remembering that Todd Blanche was formerly Trump’s defense attorney .)

I don’t know what you do when even debunking this ends up making the slanderous association stronger

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

What the ‘Federal Invasion’ of Minneapolis Looks Like on the Ground: Photos talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/what...

Arlit Maria Martinez is a mother of 4. Her son, Kevin, died of cancer while she was in ICE custody. ICE refused her request to be at Kevin's side in his final moments. They must let her attend Kevin’s memorial. Arlit, I hope you hear how many patriots stand with you.

consistent with his lowkey eugenicism & a pretty lazy take. Sometimes when everyone is done w/ you it’s because u suck “You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.” www.importantcontext.news/p/jon-stewar...

Good morning to everyone except the chud / chuds behind this sculptural intervention in Dude Chilling Park

they have actually detained tourists with valid Electronic Travel Authorizations (ETAs). and sent them to detention centers for days or weeks

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

#OtD 17 Jan 1893 a coup d'état took place in Hawaii, organised by United States. A republic was briefly declared, and the island was annexed by the US five years later: the first of many overseas imperialist conquests by the nation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8879...

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

This is scientists’s version of tearing down parts of the White House.

Probably a lesson in there somewhere on how much energy went into scolding people online for playing the Nazi card in arguments even as more and more people were actually being drawn to that identity.

More people should know about the day 90% of Icelandic women went on strike, forcing real political change towards gender equality: www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!

I guess there's a reason why piece of shit pointless columns from completely gassed hacks like Kristof, Brooks and Dowd get dumped in the wee hours of the weekend. It's like, people are so sick of you they're not even wasting hate-clicks.

Francois Hardy ~ L'Anamour (from Comment te Dire Adieu, 1968) #NowPlaying #FrancoisHardy #BOTD #MusicSky One of my favorite ones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQxP...

72% against. That’s like leprosy numbers.

We keep talking about the midterms as if we're very sure of the issues that are going to decide them, but I think about where the country was a month ago and where it is now, and I honestly can't begin to (and don't want to) imagine the world we'll be living in come November.

So when republicans do crimes it doesn’t count?

A lot of men seem really upset that the new governor of Virginia is a woman and already vigorously cleaning house after the shitshow that preceded her.

Hominin fossils discovered in Morocco, which have been dated to about 773,000 years ago, may be close ancestors of modern humans. The findings, published in Nature, provide insights into African populations before the earliest known Homo sapiens. 🏺🧪

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Well, it is pretty. So far.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.

"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval w ppl loudly expressing their disapproval. The noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon" it.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

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Immigration federalism

Looking at this picture, an idea came up for the next Halloween costume:

I think the last 24 hours in VA are a stronger indication of what the Democratic Party platform will be in 2026 and going forward than the feeble quaverings of Chuck Schumer.