Every single local grade school in my city has community safety patrols to defend children & their parents against ICE. Most are founded by &/or partnered with school boards. These are not extremist, violent positions. These are working people protecting their loved ones from the American gestapo.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

don't write songs about it or make tv shows about how bad they feel about their actions or or movies or comics or music videos about it. they are fools. they are an embarrassment to humankind. they are the mcdonalds happy toy version of nazis. our job is to make sure they know it

Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.

hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk

We will never, ever forget any of this senseless brutality.

Every single fucking time, I swear.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Not the wine moms 😭💀

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

I wrote about a fake child care scandal, the connection to the murder of Renee Good, and the right-wing vengeance ecosystem.

He did it. He actually did it.

Holy shit?

When you go to protests you’re going to encounter some corny and cringe people you’re not fully aligned with in various ways and I think that’s OK and not something to get Yosemite Sam mad about.

Go Bears 🐻

It’s probably a bad sign for humanity that the main job of the Vice President of the United States is to shitpost on the world’s leading CSAM generator.

This situation is really escalating in a terrifying way. Minnesota I am so fucking proud of you and also so mad for you.

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I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

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I spent the first eighteen years of my life in Minnesota; most of my family is still there. It’s such a wonderful place full of strong, brave souls. I haven’t been able to function all day, I’m just so full of rage and despair.

Minneapolis.

this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you.

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

They are counting on you giving up. Doesn't mean you can't be afraid, angry, or both, but spreading hopelessness is spreading inaction in the face if fascism narratives and that's euthanasia for resistance.

Minnesota elected officials can either arrest this ICE-uniformed killer, in which case they are on the side of their murdered people, or they can choose not to arrest him, in which case they are not. I don't think it's more complicated than that. They have already waited an hour.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Action helps with the rage and despair. Do a thing.

Saved this post from @nnedi.bsky.social from June in my camera roll. Still tracks; feel like it always will… 🫠

I have a football question. Is the QB allowed to point at members of the other team and compliment them or wink at them while going through their presnap cadence? If so, why don’t they?

It’s interesting how Grok’s “Apology” was covered uncritically by the press while Grok saying the nude images it produces are “just pure, unfiltered fun” is shrugged off. Literally the exact same source.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Idk if it’s a bug or what but my Dispatch ending made no sense? I can’t be fucked to give this game another four hours of my life to figure out what went wrong 🫠

Great thread by @rblemberg.bsky.social about negative reviews that every writer -- and reader -- should check out.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I contacted my reps in Congress demanding they move to impeach Trump for his illegal act of war. Congress has the power and responsibility to hold him accountable. If they don't even try, they are basically approving his actions. History, both short and long term, will remember that. So try.

Let’s fucking go.

I was going to say that people working at X must be relieved the attention is off their automated sexual harassment generator but then I realized they work at X so they didn’t give a fuck about that to begin with