Stephen Miller can feel free to stay the fck away from Star Trek. The first episode of Starfleet Academy was wonderful, by the way.

Every Democratic lawmaker needs to speak out strongly against #ICELawlessness & brutality like Governor Walz does here. The time for mealy-mouthed timidness & focus group-talking points is over. We're facing a deadly serious threat to our national security. We need brave leaders, not cowards!

Everything Jamelle says. Plus: The problem with doomer expectations of "canceling" elections (other than it's annoying) is there are real things Trump/GOP might do to attempt to impede fully free & fair elections and doomerism doesn't go well with preparing to counter and resist those real dangers.

Trump can't suspend elections. There is not one election, there are thousands, each run by the local or state government. Trump can't just send a tweet and cancel them. It's not the same as him putting letters on a building, and he's not a wizard who can just manifest things.

Please read this important thread. It is possible to take seriously Trump's delusional musings about canceling the elections--he may actually want to!--but you have at least take the time to learn why it is somewhere between impracticable and impossible.

1. He wants to 2. It’s plausible he’ll try 3. His people would support it 4. But it’s vastly harder and more complicated than people are suggesting and can’t be done by his fiat

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr. 1/15/1929 - 4/04/1968

BREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."

People really reacting to this without all the details. I am sure there are good and legitimate reasons why President Trump is taking the oil revenue ransom he extorted from Venezuela and is putting into a Middle Eastern bank account that Congress cannot control.

This is what criminals & soon-to-be-sanctioned dictators do: set up a cozy personal nest egg in a country that won't extradite them & has no agreements that would compel them to enforce other countries' sanctions. That's why sanctioned Russian oligarchs made a beeline for the UAE in 2022.

So I was forced to pause this thread when the topic I was teaching came crashing into my life forcing me out of my home and eventually to Spain where I am now. The semester is over but I have some time so I figured I'd continue with new posts now and then...

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"

Alaska Inbox: Mary Peltola Raises $1.5 Million in First 24 Hours Since Announcing U.S. Senate Campaign #AKSen

Fun

President Sundown McGoodbrain thinks he won all three times in Minnesota despite losing all three times.

Dammit, I’m all teary now. Maybe it’s time to just give up and move to Newfoundland.

This.

All of this was today: -the US seized 2 Venezuelan oil tankers -Rubio said the US will sell 50M barrels of Venezuelan oil and dictate who profits -Trump withdrew the US from more climate agreements -RFK Jr. flipped the food pyramid -ICE killed an unarmed citizen observer -Noem blamed the victim

“What fresh hell awaits me this morning?” -America everyday at 8am

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Good that the AP is re-reporting this!

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Not to be a conspiracy theorist…. But anything is possible with this administration. Including collusion with Russia.

I watched a news segment of J6ers “retracing their steps” and placing flowers “in honor of” Ashli Babbit at the Capitol. Reminded of how the Nazis mythologized the Beer Hall Putsch and turned the 16 people who died into martyrs who were ritually honored on the attempted coup’s anniversary each year

Is the government of Greenland running a cocaine/fentanyl cartel? This forthcoming CBS News report says the evidence is strong.

This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.

Absolutely. 💯🎯Yes. All of this.

Please

Jamie Raskin, just now, on impeachment: “They say third time’s the charm.”

I don't know if you're aware of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" or if you just stumbled across reality by accident, but Yarvin is not far separated from Harry Potter fanfic.

What. The Fuck. ?!?!

Cool. But he’s essentially a lame duck Senator so let’s see if he actually has any juice (now that he’s found his conscious).

This is straight out of Stalin’s Soviet Union: the White House has launched a full-blown January 6 revisionist website, claiming the rioters were “peaceful patriotic protesters,” blaming Nancy Pelosi and Democrats for “security lapses,” asserting that “Democrats staged the real insurrection”

Amid the tariffs, Canada’s boycott has cut off the biggest export market for American whiskey and wine. Canadian producers are thriving.

this thread…. 🤯 The only silver lining is that the House GOP had to suffer through almost two hours of this shit. I hope they were all miserable.

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.

Last night I wrote to you about Trump’s desperate efforts to rewrite history. Today, on the taxpayer funded WH website, he’s using our resources to pursue Orwellian 1984ish revisions. It’s our job to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

This is batshit. The White House is doing alternate reality history. It is past time for 25th amendment remedies.

Zelenskyy’s burn skills are second to none.

I want to say ‘fucking unbelievable’ but I’m over un-believing what this orange criminal will do. What also will be unbelievable/but believable is when he pardons Maduro in 6-8 months after some bribe or other. Just hoping more of congress decides they’re done being stepped on and grow a spine.

I would absolutely buy a 24 pack of good bdx for cellaring in 375ml aluminum cans.