Two other favorites I didn’t write about, largely because @mattgoldberg.bsky.social already did a great job covering them over the weekend: AMERICAN DOCTOR and LADY

New Sundance collab with @davechen.bsky.social is now live on Decoding Everything, going through our favorites of the fest! I sing the praises of BURN, IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, and (going a little against the grain on this one) CAROUSEL. www.decodingeverything.com/best-films-s...

Epstein was a social climber who cultivated an aura of “be nice to me and I might fund you.” It doesn’t surprise me in the least that half of Silicon Valley had friendly correspondences with him, long after he was known to be a monster. But that context isn’t exonerating; it’s damning.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Assuming this story is legit, it’s extremely damning and disappointing

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social ‘s verse about this never fails to move me

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

seems fairly clear that the ICE guys have been told by somebody "if you kill somebody, local police aren't allowed to investigate the scene, and you need to obstruct them"

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Remember when our nurses were heroes.? Remember when we honored people who took care of vets ? They just shot someone who probably was there to take care of people Welcome to America where we “look for the helpers” To shoot them I hope he knew how much he was loved

This from @jamellebouie.net is spectacularly clear-eyed and persuasive, with an undercurrent of righteous anger. I highly recommend that you watch and share.

Sincerely hoping that the collective outrage around the latest execution in Minnesota (what a depressing phrase to have to type) leads to actual change. Cynicism has trained me to expect nothing from Democratic leadership, but what use is defeatism? Fuck ICE. Fuck this administration. Keep shouting.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Today at Decoding Everything: @sdavidmiller.bsky.social counts down 10 cinematic pairings that defined the year 2025. These are always really beautiful and thoughtful and I hope you'll check it out (subscribe for free!) www.decodingeverything.com/10-cinematic...

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

New piece is live on Decoding Everything! In keeping with tradition, I count down 20 of my favorite films of 2025, grouped into 10 thematic pairs. This exercise always serves as a proxy for me to reflect on the year more broadly. I found this one particularly cathartic to write.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

At this point the Academy is just trolling us with the Diane Warren thing, right?

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Loved this portrait of community solidarity

Let this radicalize you.

NEWS ANCHOR: we're getting word that two dozen ICE agents are in hospital after they started kissing a beautiful woman in a skimpy outfit with platinum blond hair only for her to tragically explode because she was actually a big stack of TNT.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

There are far more urgent things going on in the world right now, but I have to wonder how many collective years of human life have been wasted by websites calling a signup/login field a "username" when they exclusively accept email addresses.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

the shooter is literally on camera saying "fucking bitch" after shooting a woman who had just told him "I'm not mad at you" but sure, people who think this sucks need to tone down their rhetoric

Went to FedEx to ship a package. The guy at the counter looked at me, looked at my ID, and said "Tough week to be named Stephen Miller, bud." Amen to that, bud.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

I’m remarkably immune to despair, but sharing footage of Renee Nicole Good’s execution with conservatives in my life, only to have them parrot Trump’s *evidently false* description back at me, may have finally broken me. These are not trolls getting a rise out of an online lib. This is brainwashing.

Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

Can you please share this video of what actually happened as DHS is lying. There were no “rioters” only onlookers, ICE agents were in no danger and none were harmed. It was just murder. They are just here to fill deportation (trafficking) quotas and will kill when they think they can’t.

I lived at Bottom of the Hill in my 20s, in a 2nd floor apartment above the stage. After 10+ years of catching acts like tMG there, moving in felt unreal. Free entry to shows, free drinks at the bar, late nights with the kindest staff and “landlords” imaginable. Cherished memories. RIP to a giant.

Twice a day, Threads will send me a push notification suggesting a post I might like. Without fail when I click on that notification, I will not be sent to that post, but instead to my stale home feed. It’s a clever anti-growth-hacking strategy, repeatedly baiting me into having a shitty experience.

Coding agents, when they discover a bug they just introduced 2 minutes earlier

If I were a Republican in 2025, I might question why 100% of headlines meant to pander to me read like they were written by a 5th grader.

As someone who did AI/ML research in the early 2010s, I often run into tech that seems impossible — shit that absolutely shouldn’t work but somehow does. The one that takes the cake? Depth from a single image. It violates all intuitions; it’s absurd; it works shockingly well. Pure sorcery.

It only took ~15 years of business travel for the stars to align, but i finally get to fulfill a bucket list item: seeing a band i love play a show in a foreign country. @themountaingoats.bsky.social I’ll be cheering for you at The Blue Note in Tokyo next April!

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

@murderxbryan.bsky.social looks like Mike Zeroh got a new copywriting gig