An email I received today from a Fox "News" "reporter"

How is "ALL of ICE out of Minnesota" a solution? Do you think they'll behave differently in South Dakota or Illinois or Oregon?

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Couples' Halloween costumes for this year: sorted. Though one of you will have to walk into the party backwards.

Lmao the Landmark in Kanata has 4 showings of Melania on Saturday, what do they think is the audience is for this? You'd have a better shot just letting someone pay $5 to watch trailers for two hours

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say? This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

I have been writing researching and writing about threats to Ilhan Omar for like 8 years and so I don't mean to go all Bluesky Discourse™ on a viral moment I just see in her my friends who I worry about and I'm still shaken. That was too close. My article (well my research) from 2019

This is great shit

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

More than a little late, but a great development that will hopefully find echoes in other local PDs

CBS's new Ukraine correspondent: a kid fresh out of college whose sole life experience is complaining about being canceled at Yale. Merit!

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

Interesting plan to promote the heroes of the Minnesota resistance

Larry Nance Jr., forward for Cleveland Cavs

Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.

Former MLB OF Kole Calhoun speaks out. “What this administration is doing is blatantly racist…I’ve been silent because that is easy. I don’t care what side you’re on or who you voted for, this is wrong… Wake up! Speak out!”

Get as many people as possible to unsubscribe from OpenAI, from ChatGPT.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Apropos of nothing in particular, every time I hear something new about Fred Trump, Donald's father, it really impresses upon me what an absolute monster he was. Like, gothic-novel shit. Doesn't excuse Donnie but it sure makes sense of him.

Just landed in Minnesota for tomorrow's game. At MSP airport, they had a dog that was just there to be petted. That was his only job. He was very good at it. We need more freely pettable dogs and fewer untrained and unrestrained masked thugs who are beholden to neither law nor basic humanity.

State media. Tell the kids.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

give us what we want or we kill another hostage

Whenever the topic of travelling to the U.S. comes up in conversation now, my friends and colleagues and acquaintances have all taken the position that they won’t, and they don’t know when or how they ever could again.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

After George Floyd's murder I was on a call with my employer's editors talking about how newsgathering after police shootings and during protests. At one point I said, are we issuing any guidance around not repeating police statements until we have more information? Silence. Stop. Doing. This.

A reminder that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns the largest sailing yacht in the world and spent $50 million on a tacky wedding.

Corporate cowardice makes the @wsj.com: @wsj.com #$TGT #$HLT www.wsj.com/business/min...

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

I'm just going to continue to re-post my Nov '24 commentary for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social "Welcome to the American Petrostate" thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...

Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

I don’t usually post or repost political stuff, because we get enough of it in our daily lives, plus others are better at explaining stuff than I am. But this is something that is important to point out. I would recommend looking the original short film and watching it.

Has a great world power ever destroyed itself before? No hostile outside rival, no natural disaster, no great economic calamity, just ... indolence & ignorance. Is there precedent?

Some days I think the rage will eat me alive.

When the Senators traded Gufavsson, his Ottawa career total was 79 goals allowed on 77.7xG faced, a net shot danger of +1.7%. He's improved since then, but even if they'd gotten that (v. ordinary) level of goaltending this season they'd be thirty goals to the good of where they are.

Is he trying to kill Carney by making him die laughing?

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

Carney should show up to the meeting anyway, then when they ask why he’s there he should be like “Oh, sorry man, I didn’t see your letter. I’m not on Truth Social.”

One of the best things about how we tell history in Philadelphia has been the acknowledgment of the lives of enslaved people at the President's House, and their efforts to escape George Washington's ownership. And now it's literally being erased.

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.