Raise your hand if, like me, you KNEW that these green pants contained nameless horrors beyond imagining, and the whole “see, those pants were scared too!” ending that Dr. Seuss tacked on didn’t fool you for a SECOND.

A video can’t truly convey the punch in the gut feeling of seeing a heavily armed masked paramilitary police force in your own neighborhood, but this one comes close. Please watch and share.

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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

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.

"The 6-year-old is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE" God have mercy

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake it is said never gives up hr dead When the skies of Nov turn gloomy Not givin you up, not lettin you down Never gonna run round and desert you Nor make you cry, nor say goodbye Nor tell a lie and hurt you"

Watch Marco Rubio's face throughout this interview. He is quite proud to be the Secretary of State for a man who can correctly identify a picture of a giraffe. I wish this was an exaggeration.

"You can't vote out the mafia." From February: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

From the owner of the house tonight:

NYT sanewashing extends, apparently, to sparing NYT readers from a description of Trump's literal shit.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Now amended, of course, to “the law is whatever the f*ck we say it is.”

I guess he’s finally telling the truth, in a way?

⚡️⚡️⚡️Precisely. Presidential pardons are a remedy of last resort, in rare cases when the legal system has malfunctioned. The fact that Trump imagines that he’s been given a stack of Monopoly Get out of Jail Free cards to sell or bestow for profit or gratification, or political points, is grotesque.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

This thirty second Toothless Public Outrage Statement was brought to you by the Illinois State Police and their willingness to guard the Broadview Detention Center so that every single ICE goon is now freed up to teargass our neighborhoods…

Stepping back a bit, we wouldn’t be in this mess if we as a society hadn’t decided that the best way to run our economy was to have huge sectors of it (agriculture and construction chief among them) reliant on the cheap, easily exploitable labor of undocumented immigrants. I hope this is obvious?

So I asked one of my FB friend’s MAGA friends who Knows All about Chicago because he “grew up in the area” which all white suburb his parents fled to when Black people started moving in. (just in case you might have been wondering how I feel about people cheering on authoritarians at the moment)

“Zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go Zombie no go stop, unless you tell am to stop Zombie no go turn, unless you tell am to turn Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think”

And you are OK with Illinois state troopers assisting ICE at Broadview because why exactly…? Talk is cheap, Governor. I was so full on behind you, but words don’t do much unless there are actions to back them up. Deeply disappointed.

This piece means a lot to me. I hope you'll check it out. ❤️

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Sooo… this happened tonight. (Gates opened to reveal 15-20 ICE agents in full Stormtrooper mode, firing flashbangs and tear gas into a crowd of around 150 peaceful, if angry, protesters)

“Stop acting like this is normal” says an editorial in The Paper of Record that’s been acting like this is totally normal.

Imagine if we attempted to deny healthcare, public bathroom access, and a host of other basic human rights to everyone currently living in Nebraska. Fewer people would be affected in that scenario than are presently under attack by the current regime.

Sometimes a hero is more than just a sandwich.

Oh Brave New World, that hath such people in it…

I hope it’s obvious to all that people who are afraid are people that we can stand up to.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

This mashup has me some kind of way

Just in case you were curious about what 10,000 pounds of cast glass looks like. (Or can look like) Artist: Roni Horn, at the Art Institute of Chicago #artsky @artinstitutechi.bsky.social

(For whoever needs it) (And by “whoever”, I mostly mean me - though you are of course welcome to pass it on if it applies to you as well) #ArtSky

When you strip away humanity

The phrase “something closer to a” has been doing a lot of heavy lifting lately. Why are Publications of Note always adding an easy exit? We could be executing dissidents in Times Square, and it’d be a “concerning development bringing the US closer to authoritarianism.”

Caught #TatianaHargreaves and #AlisonDeGroot smoking in public the other day…

This postcard is awesome. If you want some more ideas of where to send it, try this michaelagosta.substack.com/p/wrestling-...

“When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”

Fuck it, they killed him live.

Happy Monday! Offices are open till 4:30 Eastern - time to make those calls!

Some see things as they are and ask why. I see things as they are and ask “why not put googly eyes on them?”

For one possible avenue to fight back, may I propose a bit of a rebrand? I think the good people at VisitFlorida need to hear how a brand new concentration camp affects tourists' image of their state, so I made a postcard to help. Feel free to copy and share!

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Florida’s official state tourism agency found out exactly what people thought about their brand new concentration camp? (I made a thing - feel free to copy and share) [ @hcrichardson.bsky.social , you just asked in your video to be tagged in any new memes, right? ]

Sometimes I do animations, sometimes I do sketchbooks. Sometimes I animate my sketchbooks. #artsky #flora #animation

I think a lot about how our true-crime culture emphasizes that serial killers start with helpless animals. And how Kristi Noem was so proud of the time she handled a difficult puppy by shooting it to death. And how now she’s in charge of concentration camps and disaster relief.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Florida’s official state tourism agency found out exactly what people thought about their brand new concentration camp? (I made a thing - feel free to copy and share) [ @hcrichardson.bsky.social , you just asked in your video to be tagged in any new memes, right? ]

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.