I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

x.com/therickwilso... @popehat, you've been summoned at the bad place. It is not RICO, it's goats.

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

As tensions build with Canada, many young Republicans are expressing concern about their future ability to visit their girlfriends.

Their leadership also refers to that restaurant as existing in a theater of war they’ve been deployed to

Shoot first; don't ask questions later.

More info here from an old classmate!

Damn proud of Minnesota.

One of the inciting events of the revolution, other than the tea thing, was when imperial soldiers gunned down a bunch of civilians in Boston commons. The soldiers mostly got off but the george lost the colonies.

Stephen Miller is a very sick person, more so, IMO, than the president. And he is calling the shots. I remember when Terry Moran dared to make this observation and got fired from ABC for it.

Fucking clowns

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.” Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.

"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful." - Theodore Roosevelt The point of an ideal is that "try to live up to it" part. We're imperfect, individually and collectively, but the job is to strive.

Note, Jim Jordan said that voters elected Trump twice. That is, he confessed that Trump lost in 2020. Cancel the hearing. He just confessed to the crime.

George Conway: “Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all”

Presumably you saw this going around

Shit. This actually makes a lot of sense!

For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026 — Amanda Gorman #poetry #notmine

My personal view is that you need to go limp and not resist, as any attempt to fight back will clearly be used as a justification to escalate, even lethally (despite being legally prohibited). Yell your name to bystanders, tell them to record, scream “I am not resisting!” Words are your weapons

No Thank you for your attention to this matter

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

⬇️ They are absolutely being trained to do this, and then to claim that they are being threatened and therefore justified in using deadly force. This is almost certainly coming down from Stephen Miller

Frankly, it might be *better* if everybody tries to slow roll this and we don't end up at SCOTUS fighting about immunity until 2028 or after. As I wrote this morning "a change in the administration might make SCOTUS think differently about whom federal officers should be allowed to murder."

No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority. It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.

Make it viral.

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

I won't circulate that awful video, but it’s very telling that the first thing the two ICE agents do after the shooting is pull up their face coverings—as if all they need to do to mask their behaviour is to mask themselves, as if their anonymity is a shield against all accountability.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

Alabama vs. Indiana is a fascinating matchup because Alabama is what Indiana so badly aspires to be: a university whose men’s basketball team can make the Final Four.

It is 2026. I am watching Indiana bully Alabama in the Rose Bowl.

Alabama rn #RoseBowl

Single best description I've ever read of Bitcoin mining

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

This is absolutely right. The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Now that we know microplastics are stored in the balls and anti-autism is stored in the foreskin, really looking forward to finding out what’s in the shaft.

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

As a kid free adult, I am happy to pay more for kid free experiences. Some parents are awful! 18+ is a little loaded, it means more than just "no small people." I'm offended by the parents who ignore their kid in public while the kid is disruptive and obnoxious.

Bove is going to be the new Clarence Thomas, but worse (until he gets elevated): A petulant, vindictive asshole who is going to use the bench to make up for his moral emptiness and deep sense of inadequacy

@kenwhite.bsky.social Emil Bove? They confirmed Emil Bove?

So we're past the "I'm not in the files" stage, and we're onto the "I'm in the files but the files are fake" stage.