Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

We're living in a bizarro world where polling at 5% doesn't deter the party in power at all, while the opposition party constantly wrings their hands about accidentally being too aggressive

Curious to see if other journalists note what all four of these people have in common

maybe 2% of this place is even aware any of this happened, in part because they've outsourced their senate knowledge to a former social media intern for Tina Smith who now lives in Australia

explaining a boycott to a dutch person; so imagine a burger

weed smokers finding each other at the function

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

the median American voter:

I feel like I am going insane I am reading about babies being fed formula mixed with dirty water because theres nothing else and fed food with bugs and denied medical care and locked in a cage and I dont give a fuck about your political strategies!!! What if that was your child!!!

Oh hell yeah

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

This is common sense but I've also seen it happen personally. People will be like "you need to let the established activists run the show" but the established activists are often just ass at it

Went out and did trivia for the first time since before COVID, joined two randos and made a team and had so much fun! Also I thought I would do way worse and avoided it for a while with that assumption, but I knew a bunch!

Kicking people out and declaring press attention bad is how movements die

At the time I really did not enjoy Alec Baldwin's Trump on SNL but honestly at this point, it's aged so much better than any other portrayal. Just an angry, stupid old man.

Proof that Geese is an SNL psyop from the start

Me: Jacob Wilson rated *surprisingly* low on my projection points system I'm working through. I should try to trade him away in the fantasy league I have him, let me work up some offers... * @cptowers.bsky.social makes all of the points why on Fantasy Baseball Today* Me: shit.

Win Butler/Arcade Fire and it's not close, thankfully they've sucked since the allegations so no loss on new music but really kills a lot of the pre stuff which was my absolute favorite

It's almost February, someone not evil please sign Framber Valdez and Kyle Mooney pls

Former MLB GM John Coppolella to join Harvard's Institute for Politics this fall

Huh

At work and having an awful flare up, wish me luck

I am so sick of quotes like this. Just being mean to ICE agents isn't enough, & it's not why MIN has been successful. Resistance takes a organizing infrastructure for rapid response, looking up plates, & delivering groceries MIN was uniquely prepared. Other places need to do the same—& FAST

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

MAiD is definitely the thing I politically supported most since moving leftward that I now find to be a huge mistake. My relatively RW Catholic friend was right on this. Sigh.

Excited for all the people in Baltimore city government who went to sleep before 10:30 and will wake up to find out they have another 2 hour delay. Props to the early sleepers on this one.

Why doesn't Framber Valdez have a job

It's subtle, but Schumer saying "her boss Stephen Miller" is targeted to get the press asking Trump why Miller is running his White House/whether Miller is actually in charge and lying to the old man.

couldn’t hack it at ups. well time to be a nazi

Puppies romping in snow for those who need them.

Saddam Margins

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

Mike Elias needs to do something

Uh sure guess I'm vaguely pro it being post work day? Still miss it being midnight

Am I the only one who thinks olive oil is a weird interest for a professional resume? I'm not saying it's a red flag but it's something

People mocking the baggy suits for an easy laugh, but riddle me this wiseguy: how else are you carry $50K in cash bribes when you have been told to stop using your CAVA bag?

Can... Can we not? Feels real shitty to see this shit taking off. At some point we're going to have to put our fucking foot down about this "what are we, a bunch of J- I MEAN ISRAELIS?" shit when Americans see American evils enacted Americanly. avaduvernay.substack.com/p/the-narrat...

Tablet figured it out? Tablet? That's a real low point.

She has so much more guts than these goons in the White House and the goons they send to terrorize schools and grocery stores.

Rep. Omar and some other national leaders live under constant threat, more so than other politicians. I think she decided, long ago, that if it's her time she will die on her feet.

Sigh I'm just so tired

Fire her security if that was any weapon this ends up a political assassination. That could have been nerve agent, toxins, biological agent or chemical agents and I know too many people that know how to make these

Oooooh it's getting real

I'm sure people will make me regret this but we dont need to let american institutions like ICE off the hook for their behavior. They didnt need to learn from Israel (or any other country) to act the way theyre acting. Im not saying ignore the connections but lets just pump the brakes a little

The attack on Ilhan Omar happened only days after an attack on Maxwell Frost.