Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

In honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Found fifteen Sharpie caps

This post (the thread it’s from is good reading) just unlocked a whole trove of Latchkey Kid Snack Memories attn @douglasmack.bsky.social

Perfect example of the popular American idea, related to the prosperity gospel heresy, that bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people (otherwise is an abomination); in consequence, minimally humane treatment of people imagined as "bad" cannot stand.

Lol there's a parking lot literally behind this building

At Children’s Theatre with family and, fyi, at least as far as intermission, this production of Treasure Island is one of the best shows they’ve done in years Live sea shanties Impressive shipboard/tavern set Swordfighting Reed Sigmund as LJS (who else?) Plenty of scariness 2 full hours long

I feel like this man would benefit from an audience with Pope Leo

Awooo! I’m never ready when the first Wednesday is the first day of the month!

You could also have headlined this “How police put two innocent men in prison with coercive interrogation techniques, but how their crime finally caught up to them” except that, well, *did* those cops suffer any consequences for their misconduct?

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

So heyyyy the board is saying, essentially, that they do not do thorough background checks on the people they hire to lead their schools. That's the charitable reading here. (psst how much you wanna bet there's a different ian roberts at issue here)

Someone should buy my neighborhood ice cream shop/cafe and start a new and joyful career. I will partner with you in any community-buiding projects you want to do with the space!

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Sometimes I think we need to start doing (baseball) or (lynx game) the way people do (derogatory) and (complimentary) and similar but who am I kidding? A lot of times the "oh no" stuff is in the moment and haste is important.

Well well (gist of the text is report parking in the bike lane to 311 and it may lead to future design changes)

One of the reasons we need to identify these agents: The public has a right to know what kind of certification and training they have passed regarding responsible handling of firearms in public. A law officer needs to be held to a higher standard than your average dude w/a permit

the Catholic struggle of having to wait a full 27 minutes into this crime show before a criminal psychologist finally explains the victim’s odd pattern of wounds to the cops - but not to YOU, because you can clock a stigmata at fifty paces and have been waiting irritably for everyone to catch up

Waiting for that viral hit article "How to not kill cyclists and pedestrians with your vehicle." Any day now, I know it. I can feel it in my bones.

Not political in the sense of affiliated with an organized movement, but these shootings have a politics, in which the alienated, anxious, egotistical man vandalizes a society he resents and envies in order to assert dominance. If Elon Musk didn't have billions of dollars he'd fire into a crowd.

Maybe a hot take but: “for the lulz” is inherently a political motivation, and we should stop saying it’s not political. It might not be a traditional partisan or ideological motivation, but it’s still a political one.

The Becka Thompson residency dispute, and the other ones like it, show that the centrists and their donor class hold Minneapolis in total contempt. Rules are for suckers, community means nothing, you don't deserve better, shut up and vote how we tell you or the communists will let you get crimed.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

"Fisher later learned from the owner of the company that aĺl five of the detained workers were documented."

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

that feeling of being ten and sinking your teeth into a Grownup Book full of words you imperfectly understand, staying up too late reading under the covers with your flashlight, is one of the defining joys of nerd childhood. let reading be a little dangerous!

famously, as soon as one person dies, everyone else loses their constitutional rights it’s only fair and definitely logical when we’re talking about someone who was supposed to be a champion of free speech (even if he liked to put professors on Watch Lists)

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

🇺🇸 Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was pulled from the air hours after the US government threatened to cancel broadcasting licenses because of comments the host made about the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. ➡️ u.afp.com/SPbw

Not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, but if you think his show should be canceled for this, you’re a hack and a total fraud who should never pretend to care about free speech

Old too-rich dudes: A library for every town! Concert halls! Awards for peace and science and literature and the First Amendment! New too-rich dudes: Gonna build a sub and find the Titanic, go to space, invent a racist robot, rent Venice (Image is of Robert Redford and Paul Newman)

MINNESOTA MENTIONED

Just like #BrianKilmeade of @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy said they should do. Funny how that happens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=paU3...

Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk

1/2 In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo. Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:

Also: I don’t know why it’s so hard to refrain from assumptions about who to blame for a murderer when we know so very little. It was true when we still didn’t know who had killed Melissa Hortman and her husband. It’s true now when we don’t know who murdered Kirk. Assumptions are predictable!

The best time to celebrate a person’s public works is when they are living. If works didn’t merit encouragement/celebration while they lived, hard to see why murder would change that. Condemn murder & all political violence. Sorrow for the bereaved who lost a private person they knew/loved.

probably worth thinking about what it would mean to pursue accountability for what increasingly looks like murder www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Well this is SOME THREAD

Look, what’s going on here is he’s venue-shopping for a Reichstag Fire

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.

Clearly too much to ask that they have FIRST thoughts independent of the regime

They also do this to pictures of larger-sized people in stories about, e.g., fat-loss drugs and the like. Dehumanizers gonna dehumanize

Next time, they mean to make sure that the Ashli Babbitts have guns.

Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom was of this world, you would have seen my followers fighting to defend me, but my kingdom is of another place.” (John 18:36) The message of the gospel is that Jesus chose to be demeaned by a government weaponized against Him. Pick one.

Look, there’s “no true Scotsman would do such a thing,” but then there’s “no true bachelor is married.” When Jesus said “my followers would not fight to defend me because my kingdom is not of this world,” and somebody else says “I’m fighting to defend Jesus’ kingdom in this world,” one’s a phony.