Dead Man's Wire is a thoroughly good movie! lots to ponder - the creative choice to split the real Fred Heckman into video journalist Linda Page and radio DJ Fred Temple, along with playing The Revolution Will Not Be Televised at the credits were both effective but not overly heavy handed commentary

The fascist government gave ICE a massive funding increase which they’re using to wage war on cities, murder citizens and kidnap immigrants. Senate Democrats response is to offer them more funding. It’s time to abolish the two party system.

the decision by dozens of editorial boards that the remedy to their declining clout was to consider only the far-right and its dabblers as actual Americans has done extraordinary work to neuter elite opposition to the far-right

witnessed perhaps the greatest display of confidence imaginable: someone paying for parking on a DC street while carrying a loose laptop with the other hand

little bro is NOT going to San Francisco (he can't put flowers in his hair)

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

every time there are a significant number of rejections logged on Law School Data for a school I've applied to, and I do not receive one, it feels the same to me as being accepted. this will be repeated cumulatively to build an incredible psychic jenga tower to be toppled when I am rejected

Thank you to Ford Fischer for getting ICE to described how their vehicle was utterly soaked with pee as the result of an easily accomplished effort

they are in fact constantly saying this, top to bottom

The administration may not be willing to admit it but I’ve seen our police officers cooperate with ICE myself. Our police should not be weaponized against our communities. That’s why I introduced a bill to restrict cooperation between MPD and ICE.

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. If Dems have the courage to run on M4A and dismantling DHS we can cement a governing majority and actually deliver for working people.

the media needs to not be falling for weaselly bullshit like this! the "impossibility" is their policy objectives, right there in their very own statement. the State Department is saying its policy object makes complying with a court order impossible - it is defying a court order.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

When counterinsurgents and police kill civilians in order to terrorize a population, they often point to the death of an individual as evidence of wrongdoing. They would not have been killed, by this logic, if they had not already been guilty. We must refuse to accept this exculpatory narrative

two ICE guys are standing at the airport. "Isn't it amazing that only a handful of men can hijack those huge machines?" says one. "Don't be stupid," says his buddy, "They wait till it's tiny up in the sky."

Cannot wait for @janeese4dc.bsky.social to be Mayor.

these are the words of someone completely checked out from any practice of morality: unwilling to say what is right or wrong but only that it is the result of a lack of specialized training

Hamilton Nolan is exactly right here and I appreciate having such a clean analogy to use in the future.

as much as I appreciate local media, a KARE11 host did just say "snowballs are not some innocent plaything, that's what started the Boston Massacre, that's violence" upon seeing a snowball hitting a police vehicle

If the headline is "disputed shooting" rather than straightforwardly telling the public what happened this rewards the DHS for lying about these events

NOW: Mayor Frey says, having seen the video, that the DHS explanation that ICE shooting/killing of a woman in Minneapolis was in self-defense is "bullsh*t." Says he has a message for the agents there: "to ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis."

haven't been a fan of Frey since 2020 but I'm glad he called DHS's explanation "bullshit" and explicitly said "get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

DHS is trying to spin a narrative in which it is appropriate for a law officer to shoot an unarmed driver in the face four times because she was attempting to drive away

use your discretion if it's right for you to watch this video - it's incredibly clear that the agents shot the driver from the side as soon as she began to drive away from them

I think it’s time for Greg Bovino to be arrested by Minneapolis Police. The federal agents are not within their rights to murder observers and if local police are purporting to serve their community, they need to arrest murderers.

it's absolutely stomach churning what ICE is doing in Minneapolis - assaulting protesters, using pepper spray and tear gas at point blank range, all to cover up them shooting someone

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

funniest thread in the world economics reporter: it's crazy Trump isn't in jail for J6 legal reporters: you absolute fucking moron you must know nothing about the justice system

least favorite part of my job has got to be haggling over tiny amounts of money - very cool to have to tell someone its better if they wait to check out of their hotel because if they check out early it costs the same but comes out of a much more limited pot of money

I'd believe that there are journalists who think they might be sent to jail for breaking this kind of story, but frankly they should grow a spine like their colleagues overseas. Some journalists were jailed in Venezuela but as far as I know none were here in the US for reporting on US aggression.

AI politics is class politics - there’s probably a full thought in there somewhere but discussion at dinner with some physicists has me thinking there’s a set of folks who think they will come out on top of an AI for reasons of like, non-material capital, who are completely deluded in my opinion

they're doing it for gender, imo

in hell (using Microsoft Teams for a meeting)

WEEEEEEEE I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE I LOVE POWER VACCUMS I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N

rick grennell is such a ridiculous goon, the kinda guy if you ever ended up speaking to in person you would either need to walk away from or [redacted] in his [redacted]

someone should write about this www.liberalcurrents.com/nimbyism-is-...

My parents’ dog gives me insight into the notion that people will excuse any behavior as long as it comes with sycophancy

I recently got a pair of wide leg pants at Uniqlo and I wear them straight up all the time, easily my most comfortable pair of work pants.

he stole this from my internal training material wtf

Your periodic reminder that downtown housing is expensive because it's "built with only the most expensive construction techniques, on the most expensive land" ggwash.org/view/39226/m...

The first union endorsements came out yesterday. All 5️⃣ endorsed @janeese4dc.bsky.social saying she is a true champion for working people. @atulocal689.bsky.social @32bjseiu.bsky.social @ufcw400.org Unite Here Local 23 Unite Here Local 25 That brings the endorsement tally to 6-0

it's only with courts (read: federalist society appointees) that have totally given up on the rule of law that the Trump denaturalization push could even be contemplated. they're instating quotas to arbitrarily strip people of their legal rights!

ngl I have no sympathy for the owner on this one. It's ridiculous to say "this is why I didn't become a landlord" when you became one the moment you accepted payment for monthly rent. you spent $20,000 because your tenant was two weeks late on rent? sounds like a bad choice was made

Democrats stop praising the fucking monster Ronald Reagan challenge

Trayon is just scared because "Don't Rank Tray" is going to be catchy