The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.

NB - The study doesn't suggest how much coffee or dark chocolate is associated with the benefit. But what would be the point in consuming too little and potentially missing it?

Kids: Study political science to learn about thermostatic backlash (and keep up on polling data if you want to make broad assertions about public opinion)

Signs you might be a far white authoritarian party (#3279):

There are 55,000 pro-democracy protests documented in 2025. The nation is its people, and the people are rising. open.substack.com/pub/thepeopl...

Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Sounds like the person responsible for printing out "good news from the internet" for their boss took an early holiday.

The Times headline focuses - for good reason - on the gilding of the Trump age Oval Office. In this 🧵 I also said more about who is - and isn't - represented in the artwork. tl;dr - in addition to being a very golden Oval Office, it's also a very white and male one.

"About a third of the walls are now covered in gold — appliqués, frames or other decorations, a Times analysis showed."

Folks outside of MSP, and probably many within, may not realize that ring leader of the Feeding Our Future scandal was a White Minnesotan, Aimee Bock. As a White Minnesotan, I do not consider myself liable for her criminality. www.twincities.com/2025/12/22/f...

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) bridge brigade on Tuesday this week and next week. 7:30-8:30 am, 201 Seymour Ave SE

Folks outside of MSP, and probably many within, may not realize that ring leader of the Feeding Our Future scandal was a White Minnesotan, Aimee Bock. As a White Minnesotan, I do not consider myself liable for her criminality. www.twincities.com/2025/12/22/f...

only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

running out of words for the depravity on display here

Speedily running towards an expansion of mass incarceration.

Neighbors were kidnapped TODAY. We were there in minutes and they were gone. What can you do this week to make it harder for them to take the next one?

This gets to a more fundamental problem: the justices are unwilling to confront what's actually happening. Trump is attempting to create an internal federal police force to use on Democratic-led cities and whose only oversight is Whiskey Pete and Republican governors.

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I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...

ICE deportation flight arriving at MSP Tue Dec 23 at 10:30 AM Vans will drive from the Whipple Building to shackle detainees in the cold and load them at Signature Aviation. This is an early warning; we believe it will most likely come to MSP, but track it here to be sure: adsb.lol?icao=a8b479

Man it's just gonna be Uvaldes till the end of time, ain't it?

The president illegally sent innocent legal residents of the country to an overseas concentration camp, & he & all of his ministers remain in office. This is the total failure of a political system. It’s not just that we’re not actually a democracy. Our institutions are totally non-functional.

Know someone who's had their rights violated by ICE or Federal Forces? Share this with them! www.aclu-mn.org/ice-feds-form/

By censoring the 60 Minutes broadcast, they’ve ensured it will be the most watched episode this year. (I mean, that wasn’t their plan, but it’s an excellent one)

2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

There’s an essay entitled “Thomas Paine: America’s Founding Shitposter” just waiting to be written for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. bsky.app/profile/seth...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

ICE killed an Eritrean Imam in one of their concentration camps this week. Can you imagine if it was a pastor?The dovetailing of #Islamophobia and immigration cruelty is because white Christian nationalism is our stated public policy. It really pisses me off. We have to fight it with all we’ve got.

The VP of the US can give a speech saying no one has to be ashamed to be white anymore — the type of mainstream political speech we haven’t seen since before the civil rights acts, and the rhetoric is treated as merely divisive with few pointing out the obvious truth that white men remain in power.

Have to highlight the absurdity in a public discourse that holds the idea of systemic racism out as exotic and academic while also reporting that one of the two major parties in the country is making racism an explicit central pillar of their party identity.

White supremacy allows for white folks to be the aggressor while feigning that they are the ones in danger. They are so “freaked out” that they are willing to run this man over in their F150s. Y’all…

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/21/c... Local man with untreated diabetes who is not a public safety threat dies in ICE custody at 56.

why it's almost as if billionaires hired Bari Weiss to enflame cultural divides, disorient the public, and undermine journalism in a bid to divide and distract the electorate from the actual causes of most U.S. dysfunction

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.

here’s a list of great independent media outlets to support instead of fascists:

They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.

As consumers, we must use our power to punish CBS for trading the truth for access to power.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Friday night in St. Paul.

"we don’t have to use AI. And every day we don’t, you preserve skills that other ppl are progressively losing." Putting this on the wall in my classroom!

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

"to bigotry no sanction" founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

When have white people apologized for anything?

never had to.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

I will drop this here so people can get where I am coming from. Cause this is unfortunately my Roman Empire and my entire work for the last 8 years.

tbh i think “build a party media apparatus” goes a long way since it at least lets you achieve a level of perpetual mobilization among part of your base and also communicate to electeds what the red meat of the day should be

appreciate this post about the technocratic libs' confused messaging: "it would be like Coca-Cola commercials saying 'but Pepsi is pretty good too.'" substack.com/home/post/p-...