I live an hour outside Minneapolis and the local Facebook pages are all just conservatives bitching that their favorite cheap buffet restaurants don’t want their workers kidnapped. They feel entitled to treats and want the employees to suffer at the same time. It’s casual cruelty, nothing else.

i am watching ken burns american revolution right now and this is literally what every letter from the era they read sounds like

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

Boomers really think masks are only for covid.

seems fine. totally fine.

If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Hey. No one is secretly mad at you. Go have a snack. You’re beautiful. You’ve got this.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

peeschools! fucking preschools! I hate these people down to my bones

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

I say over and over again that Trump would not be possible without the sewer of mis- and disinformation.

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

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.

There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination. Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...

hard to see another country living your dream

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.

"A dramatic surge in 911 calls to Minneapolis police have reported arrests by ICE that left cars abandoned in the roadway, blocking traffic — sometimes with dogs still inside. " www.startribune.com/in-new-york-...

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

It's *good* that public people who lots of folks pay attention to wore anti-ICE pins to a swanky event. It has gotten coverage. People who do not closely follow politics might get curious and look for information. And under fascism, making public your ethical stance is important in and of itself.

FINALLY, a leader willing to end the war on protein

They’re desperate for a west wing episode instead of reality

The NYT has run a thousand of these pieces over the last decade: The brave Republican pushing back against Trump and leading the party back to normalcy. The shift never comes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

The president of our campus has a tone a little too close to primary voice

An ICE shooting in Glen Burnie, MD. Local police investigation indicates ICE violating procedure & lying about at least one essential fact: the second victim was not a passenger in the car agents shot at but rather was already in ICE custody. Hard to fathom. @thebaltimorebanner.com

"...42% of U.S. adults now support abolishing ICE entirely, while 50% oppose getting rid of the agency. That compares to 29% in Summer 2018, when the phrase was a rallying cry for progressives, 21% on Election Day 2024, and 37% in mid 2020, during the recent peak of the social justice movement..."

Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.

About once per month Dottie the Cat will eat her food too fast then drink a bunch of water and then throw it all up right in front of me.

Sure fb is drenched in ai slop, but have you considered that LinkedIn is also drenched in AI Slop????

look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

The patriot bonus was to make sure the military would follow orders like we all knew it but this is the thing

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

a vibe shift is occurring man

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

Plot thickens mtg v djt

There's a ton of stuff in here that Ed put the stats in better than I could, so if you got the time it's well worth the read. But this line killed me! "Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas"

Cats figured out that if you're going to be annoying you also have to be funny and that's something we could all learn from

Trump is gross for so many reasons. When you focus on his weight, I see your derision. Not for him, but for fat people. BEING FAT IS NOT A MORAL FAILING.

Christmas Eve as a mom: festively doing chores in a festive onesie while doing festive math problems in your head calculating if you got equal presents for the kids and remembering where the festive heck you hid them

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Making a frosting this morning before work so i sat on the cream cheese on the seat warmer in the car like a hen on an egg

Wow @michaelhobbes.bsky.social carrying @theoceanblooms.bsky.social ‘s love of James Cameron. Obsessed.

I’m sorry but the ocean is not a serious place