Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

I miss my Die Hard black Oxford shoes from Sears

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays.

I don't know why but this pop culture reference from @jbpritzker.bsky.social COS brings me joy and comfort. Exodus is coming.

Awful for farmers, but also terrible for transportation workers. Lots of truck drivers and train crews out of work because of this.

(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on. @reuters.com www.producer.com/daily/china-...

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Well worth a read. Really glad I served on one and didn't try to get out of it. Jury duty is surprisingly rewarding.

Trump to Manhattan: Drop Dead

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Never been prouder of my state

"At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe. The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly gray-blue color. Her face contorted as she tried to gulp air. 'I think the longest she would stop breathing was about 10, 11 seconds,' said her mother."

If clowns raped kids like preachers rape kids it would be against the law to take a kid to the circus. www.joemygod.com/2025/12/pent...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Mindless hostility to Iran leads to big bucks post-Senate from some Gulf monarchy

Congrats to Meg Lugar Nikolai and Shelley Buck on primary victories tonight. Strong wins are testament to the hard work you and your teams are doing. Thank you to every candidate in the field. Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙

I mean, we can't even pretend we're the good guys here. We're just evil motherfuckers led by a madman. Like, you know, Germany in the 1930s.

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

This is insane.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

BREAKING! We’re proud to endorse Meg Luger-Nikolai for House (64A) – a labor lawyer ready to fight for working families and strong public schools across Summit Hill, Union Park, Mac-Groveland, and Summit-University neighborhoods of St. Paul. Voter info below... #mnleg

Just Minnesota topping the charts per usual.

Jfc. Senator John Hoffman reports ICE took the owners of crumbs and coffee in BP this morning and left the building unlocked with money on the counter.

IOWA — “I’m a very pissed off conservative Christian woman. I almost died because I was denied medical care after being diagnosed with a fatal fetus… Cornered by the system… pro life? Choose me. Choose the mother.” It had to happen to her to get this? #ForcedBirthNation

We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed

After months of pain for him and his family, we’re happy to welcome our SMART union brother Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers—and we’ll keep fighting back against attacks on them and their rights. https://bit.ly/4q2VjEZ

Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

Trump wants to make sure Andrew Tate can find more victims

America’s unions celebrate the long-awaited release of SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Welcome home, brother.

Immunity can wear off. Time to get checked. I found out my mumps immunity had worn out. www.cvs.com/minuteclinic...

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.

I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.

Who says we need the Senate to convict? The Constitution? Clearly that can mean anything. If John Roberts wants to ignore it so can we

For the December 16th State House Special Primary Elections, the Minnesota AFL-CIO is proud to endorse union member Meg Lugar-Nikolai in District 64A and Shelley Buck in District 47A! #mnleg #BetterInAUnion #LaborEndorsed

📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia. Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L

Absolute hero! Make the cowards run and tell them they are worthless.

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

This really is the root of the problem.

On the one hand Whiskey Pete violating all rules of info security merits no discipline, on the other hand two guys clinging to wreckage must be killed b/c of the danger they pose.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia. They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana. Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

There’s an established penalty for ordering the killing of shipwrecked sailors (even during a war, which we are manifestly not in) and we should apply that penalty. I would say it’s vitally important to apply that penalty, in fact.

Because serial killers always want their next kill.

Ugggh. Do better House Democrats