Hello to Bluesky, the official app of sports. Please send me inspiring stuff you’ve seen from Minnesota during the ICE occupation. I’m gonna use it in a BadFaithTimes.com blog.

the average minnesota politician is like "have you no decency mr trump sir, i am so mad, i will send out a fundraising email that says f*ck" the average normie minnesotan is like "this is stalingrad this bakhmut all your children will die in the ice"

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

This is a powerful episode, @socialistdogmom.bsky.social - I don't know how you do it, but I'm grateful for your storytelling.

This dude is intense and correct

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

Are we?

Ya know how they always talk about looting when citizens protest? Every accusation is an admission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looting

Remember this whenever the democrats insist the problem with ICE is "lack of training" or some other such bullshit. The problem is institutional. These are the people ICE wants. There is no fixing it. The only option is doing away with the agency entirely.

Before opening your door to ICE, know your rights, as recommended by the Immigrant Law Center. Remember to assert them calmly and safely. Info also available in: Soomaali, Español, Hmoob, Afaan Oromoo ➡️ https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPLS/bulletins/403db4d

@whysophiewhy.bsky.social - have y'all considered having Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social) as a guest for any of the CoolZone pods?

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

You can tell they’re lying cause they keep saying that “rhetoric” is worse than 3 bullets in the face

I say this as an American who enjoys WW2 content, but Americans revelling in our WW2 actions is essentially Al Bundy waxing about his 4 TD game in high school. We're cooked, have been for a long time, and keep dwelling on the one time we did something cool that doesn't mean anything anymore.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Leftists 20 years ago: it’s bad to invade a sovereign country for flimsy reasons and no plan to avoid monstrous ramifications Leftists today: it’s bad to invade a sovereign country for flimsy reasons and no plan to avoid monstrous ramifications It’s like they don’t even see their hypocrisy 🙄🙄🙄

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵

Thank you AOC. Drugs have always been a boogeyman used to justify imperial intervention and resource extraction in Latin America. I'm an anthropologist with a PhD in this subject, I made a video this morning to explain the context:

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

“In almost all regions of the world, the top 1% of the population is richer than the combined 90%” according to the new UN report on inequality “the bottom 50% of the world’s population holds just 2% of all wealth” peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/18/h...

We should secede from the federal government that supplies Ohio with 35% of our funding. But also, may our great country be blessed on its 250th birthday later this year.

Welcome back, Pedro Avila! 🇻🇪⚾ #GuardsBall #ForTheLand

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

It's only surprising if you're a complete idiot and/or paid shill, lol.

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

The House will have been in session for fewer than 30 days between July 1-December 31 and just had a 53-day recess. He makes $223K/year plus benefits including 75% of all health expenses for his entire family. Affordable Care Act subsidies expire Dec 31st for everyone else’s healthcare coverage.

Hey, @kavehmd.bsky.social - apologies if this is something you've answered a million times already, but what's the song you use as the podcast outro music?

Hey loves, can you do me a favor? Y'all have been working your butts off to help raise November bill money after my second layoff of the year last month, and now we're just $618 short. If you see this, will you please share it? December is creeping up quick. Thank you all so much for helping!!

If you tell normal people without tech brain that AI doesn't make a profit, they're really surprised.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

@kavehmd.bsky.social any chance you'll have an ENT (or whoever else might be knowledgeable about it) on to talk about tinnitus sometime? As an uneducated layperson, all I can find are quack remedies and "I dunno, go back in time and wear earplugs at concerts, maybe?"

Both parties may not be the same but if this country is ever to be free, they both need to be destroyed, one way or another.

The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

HEY IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE NOMINATING SOMEONE UNDER 100 WHO WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO DO NICE THINGS IS REALLY POPULAR

perhaps spending more than half their ad budget on ads attacking trans children was a tactical error

Imagine being a Democratic leader who refused to endorse Mamdani, who has advocated for throwing trans people and immigrants under the bus, and who has otherwise acted like it's still 1996, and then just walking in to work today like your entire world view didn't get obliterated last night.