Jesus, this is a brutal minute.

Two fables to share with you this morning: Fable number one, or why doesn't anyone know who Ernst Röhm was anymore? (a 🧵)

Duuuude, that's me on the drums! Well, one of the drums, anyway. A silver lining in [everything everywhere] is that you can come with an instrument, bump into a random group of people, and get woven in to a moment of utter joy in the midst of it all. Most people still don't suck. Good reminder.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I’m going to respectfully disagree. Unless your personal health is at risk because of past trauma, we ALL need to watch, and be traumatized, by it. This is what America is becoming, and unless we’re happy about it, we need to internalize exactly what happened so that we can’t pretend otherwise.

WTAF America.

I was living in China during the Arab Spring of 2011. The wave of anti government uprisings started with the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, so “jasmine” was banned from the Chinese internet for a while, leaving many tea producers very confused about why one of their products was being censored.

Day-umm WaPo. Why don't you just start using the lyrics from Free Bird and My Way for your headlines? It'd save you some time.

Does anyone besides me remember the Reagan Era movie Red Dawn? Where a bunch of All-American high school students in Colorado took on the evil invading Soviet army and against all odds, triumphed through sheer pluck and tenacity? Why bring this up now..? No reason, really.

Oh man. It would be terrible if people started following Bovino around and playing Baby Shark. It would be terrible because he would hate it, and it would probably become his theme song, and it would make his Nazi in a long coat cosplay all the more ridiculous. So no one should do that.

“These senior citizens on the bus with me are tiny people with tiny budgets and tiny left uppercuts. Under every understanding of law that has existed about personal property for 500 years, to keep your wallet you have to be able to defend your wallet.”

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

In Chicago last fall, some fresh new outrageous ICE bullshit occurred every three days or so. Now it looks like they're upping the cycle to 18 hours, minimum.

New long-term Trump strategy plan just dropped:

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

COLLINS: Minnesota officials say the FBI isn't sharing evidence with them. Do you believe the FBI should do that? TRUMP: Well normally I would, but they're crooked officials. Minneapolis and Minnesota are being destroyed. I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I won Minnesota three times.

Abolish and prosecute ICE.

Nonstop lying. Abolish ICE

Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Well, as a side note, the leftie alt wellness people who went antivax then backed RFK then swallowed the whole “he kept us out of the forever wars” argument can certainly go f*ck themselves…

What to say about this thread re an actor I don’t know anything about? 1. Damn, that’s a HUGE commitment to a bit about 2. a really easy target but 3. So many of these are laugh out loud hysterical, and 4. You need to have the Simpsons’ Monorail Song playing in the BG as you read this. Srsly.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

OMG, the release of the Epstein files finally proves what we've suspected all along - OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING RUN BY A SECRET CABAL OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN SUPREMATIST PAINTERS!!

“We fall into this rhythm of silence.” A poem by Dorianne Laux.

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.

ummmmm....

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. ❤️