Danish veterans say the rhetoric from the Trump administration has been painful. They describe feeling betrayed and abandoned by an ally after standing shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers.

it’s that time again

Also a good learning experience for the "I call it sportsball" folks that sportsball pays for the rest of the paper you love so much

The “vanilla Sprite” option on these Coke mix machines is just to weed out the sociopaths. You’re going on a list.

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

The people who are going to demand that we give them a round of applause for figuring it out 10-15 years too late is already annoying and it’s about to escalate from a trickle to a torrent. Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.

Looking up some whistles I can 3D print and folks,

i will never make light of places that don't get usually snow or ice going into crisis when they get winter storms because we needed to fly in a guy from florida to deal with a single rogue alligator in a park that had easily eluded local reptile guys for over a week.

Although a purely culinary item this pig-shaped pie mould from Pompeii reminds me of the cakes shaped in the forms of animals linked to Seth (pigs, donkeys, crocodiles), which ancient Egyptians ate to show that evil will be defeated and justice when it comes, will be delicious. 🏺 #AncientBluesky

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

ICYMI: Following Renee Good’s murder by ICE, her son’s Minneapolis charter school was forced to go fully online due to right-wing attacks sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

...do people like McArdle seriously think that fascists and autocrats arrived fully-formed? There was famously eight years between Mussolini founding the fascist movement and him becoming prime minister in 1922. When he took over, the courts were still independent!

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

gotta hand it to the president here: for once, he speaks for us all

Just had a full-throated ABOLISH ICE e-mail from Dems Abroad hit my inbox. Good to see.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

bet he wishes he'd fucked off to Cancun

Stunned to learn any of these goofball accounts were still a going concern

US government rn

May I interrupt the horrors to show you pictures of my sister's chickens in cowboy hats

Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance

The BBC is lost

absolutely not, why the fuck would I want to do that

13/ If an American opposes what ICE is doing but not enough to vote in the primaries or general against a candidate who cheerleads for it then whether it's fair to say "this is not who we are" it's definitely fair to point out that "this is who we are willing to be".

There’s no one single answer to xenophobia but surely one small part of it is to look after those worst off

Did you hear that the Hospital has an entire area for people who can only recite "For Olde Lang Syne", "A red, red rose," and "Address to a Haggis." They call it "The Burns Unit"

“Over a three‑year period, across 382 public authorities in England - including local councils, NHS trusts and domestic abuse refuges - only four formal complaints were recorded regarding trans women using facilities such as toilets, hospital wards or shelters.” Transphobic panics are manufactured.

As a historian with a focus on the history of news media and communication: the reported news itself was/is never ‚what happened‘. It is a construction, an interpretation, a mediated version of a perceived event. And therefore news reports were always about making realities.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

A US that is so at war with itself that it can't project geopolitical power is no longer a useful partner in a special or any other kind of relationship bsky.app/profile/davi...

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

Hours before murder of #AlexPretti, I was asked by BBC Radio Wales, "How does it feel to be an American?" "I'm saddened at what has happened to my country with what is now, in effect, an authoritarian government when you see #ICE not just go after immigrants but terrorize communities in #Minnesota"

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I guarantee that Chip Roy not only does NOT do this, but if he’s ever stopped by police he shows them his congressional ID and asks if they know who he is.

Between the president and sen fetterman the whole “government by stroke victim” has taken a hit during this.

Here. Have a thermal video of my cat leaving behind a warm butt print and paw prints. May it distract you from both the cold and the ICE. #caturday

approaching the rally at Hancock Park, near DHS buildings in downtown DC

good list, but it's taking an unacceptably long time to get to "cheese"

PROTEST ACCORDION

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

okay hear me out

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

In the last 24 hours, we have learned that the regime's secret police claim powers to enter homes without a warrant, thus ignoring the Bill of Rights, and that the regime arrested and deported students for their Constitutionally protected speech. There is no ambiguity about what is going on here.

My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power