I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

She’s always shooting her own dogs 😔

“A social media video shows a uniformed DHS officer kicking over a candle at a memorial set up for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.” "The officer in the video told a protester who confronted him, ‘I don't give a f—.’” people.com/dhs-officer-...

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Hours ago:

I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit. If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.

Here’s the video. A civilian was driving AWAY from the scene when shot… bsky.app/profile/dani...

Just yesterday DHS was taunting us on social media. Now they've come to our city and killed a legal observer. How much more can we take? We are being invaded and shot by our own government for the purposes of generating content for a mob of Nazis on the internet.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

rip jeffrey epstein, you would have loved grok

rowan atkinson is going to win an oscar for this role

This would be big: Axios reports former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is "taking concrete steps toward a Senate run" in Alaska and is "expected" to announce a campaign against GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan this month.

This is a win for MAGA. Know what would reverse it? If Schumer or Jeffries came out and simply said Hilton is a DHS-supporting hotel chain and Democrats should not stay there. This is both something they could do (for all the folks who say they can't do anything) and something they would never do.

eagerly waiting for him to try his own covid bleach remedy

Jesus Christ. Every Sunday host should be asking every Republican if they think Tim Walz murdered Melissa Hortman. And when they say no, ask what it says about this president that he’s amplifying this garbage.

rip to one of the goats of all time. see you in valhalla brother

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case. www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Republicans:"Oh ho ho, but what if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files? Checkmate, libs!" House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

Just a top to bottom scam, to raise money for a candidate who can’t run again.

Just read this press release a little more closely, and... my god...

The lesson of the J6 pardons is that irreversible justice needs to be carried out within a single presidential term

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An 18-point shift from 2024 would put every district on the newly proposed Indiana map into play.

Don’t worry, the vacuum guy isn’t going to get residuals now. It’s streaming!

The psychology of this website is so transparent. They're not attacking progressive media (who don't give a shit) so much as they're naming access bootlickers who already often cater to the WH anyway — because they’ll actually freak out and change their coverage *even more.* Just working the refs.

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

All of Bluesky this morning:

Yr open POLLS awaiting my VOTES

Doug Ford to produce ad where Reagan says that pedophilia is bad

Olivia Nuzzi gets a job with Bolts and immediately becomes infatuated with an Anchorage school board candidate

Mine was doing a similar thing with a blood pressure testing kit. About a month later, they sent me a check because they have to spend a certain % of premiums on health care and are required to refund extra. They just wanted to spend money so they didn't need to, and probably inflated the cost.

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK