Yes, exactly! Also linked to the prevalence of nepo babies and elites in journalism, which was facilitated by centering media in the most expensive cities (NY, DC, SF) and requiring unpaid internships, low-paid labor, and expensive degrees for entry. The reporters won't report on corrupt friends.

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

Filmed by @kurc.com John Kurc. open.substack.com/pub/jennbudd...

Yeah. When the administration shooting clergy in the face with less lethal munitions is outraged about "religious freedom," we should maybe take their indignation with a fistful of salt. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

From THEY KNEW, published in 2022, on how shared loathing of Epstein and desire for the truth unites the country: www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

MAGA headlines tomorrow: “Shit and move on: Hunter gatherers didn’t use toilets either” “The manly art of sharting” “Alpha move: Trump forces the media to smell his shit” “Why Big Pharma wants you to hold it in — and why Trump said hell no”

Before I read posts on here today, please tell me which MSM outlet was parked outside “youth pastor” and sometime Speaker Mike Johnson’s home (D.C. townhouse or home in Shreveport) this morning to get his reaction to the Epstein files & the horrifying allegations made in them against the President?

Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.

Yes & specifically it shows that status competition in these elite networks isn't based on money, but on impunity. The ability to do wildly illegal or immoral things &--this is the important part--get away with it. Serial rape, especially of children, is the ultimate status symbol for these men.

"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

groimes, oim een theh eepsteen foiles

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Indiana doing Indiana things.

Feds have been ramming people with their cars. No one has murdered them in response. If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social I AM BEGGING YOU: Please lead a vote of no-confidence in Schumer as Minority Leader. It's a closed door, secret ballot conference vote. We cannot let this man, who is not made for this moment, be our downfall. He's not a bad man, he's just not up to History's moment.

It’s about damned time someone sat down with @jennbudd.bsky.social to talk ICE/CBP.

Oh look, another top Gavin Newsom advisor signing up to work for tech oligarchs amid Silicon Valley fascism. If you want to know where a politician is headed, look at who is hiring up their favored consultants. Those contracts speak more truth than any speech. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Unless you are personally related to Schumer or Jeffries, THERE IS ZERO REASON for you to be in strangers' mentions getting into your feelings because they are being criticized. NO REASON. You need to regulate your feelings.

There is not a liberal I know who doesn't have Trumper relatives, including me. Please knock it off with the patronizing 'liberals need to get beyond our bubbles' bromides. We know who they are and how they think. And for our own mental health, we choose not to engage with it.

"There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society."

In a next-level feat of gaslighting, Team Trump says ICE's critics are gaslighting THEM

I've been representing protesters pro bono since Trump 1.0. In that time, I've represented protesters against the Muslim ban, ICE, trans bans, DEI bans, genocide in Occupied Palestine, police brutality, and more. Want to know why more people don't protest? Here's why.

So many lawyers says this and yet *re-formers* continue to boost them. I understand why people who don't know anything promote them.

DAMN! This is well-written, well-sourced. Just incredible lifelong dedication to documenting our police with clear insight. It’s long but so worth the time and such an important perspective.

New books by David Silverman, @mattdelmont.bsky.social and @letsgomathias.bsky.social

really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots

The Regime keeps telling us they turned MN into a deadly police state bc the state won’t cooperate with ICE. Texas is cooperating-They have created an entire kiddie jail where children as young as 5 have been held without procedures for 8 mths.

MAGA guy noticing his wife packing lunch for the kids: Holy shit I am married to a highly trained ANTIFA sleeper agent.

imagine looking at the democrats and the left in this moment and thinking "ah yes, everything we are seeing here is being meticulously organized and controlled from the top down"

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

Keep pushing. The dam is breaking. — Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

When any of us enter the debate about Alex Pretti's gun, we're implicitly allowing that there could be a reason this wasn't plain murder, which is why we have to make the case that it was. We don't have to make the case. It's on video. We saw it. No debate.

Oh wow, what a surprise

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.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

As they twist themselves into knots to try and justify the murder of a 37 year old white male American gun owner, what normally passes for the pinnacle of humanity as far as the Right is concerned, I expect that their dominate narrative will be "he was a race traitor".

(popping in for just a sec to mention that again Bluesky trending topics aren't showing what everybody is talking about, if you want to see what really is trending go to bsky.app/profile/numb...)

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

And Enterprise Rental is the primary rental company for ICE. So please! Boycott the FUCK out of that company if you travel/rent vehicles!

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Arrests calmly ongoing. This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.