This is older than you may realize, the song "That's when I reach for my revolver" by Mission of Burma comes from a line of a play by Hanns Johst, a nazi playright. The full line is: “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun” or accurately translated "I release the safety on my Browning!"

2026 basically

So obviously this is very bad, but the DMV becoming an actual open-air sewer is a wee bit on the nose.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

An ICE vehicle and driver is stationed up on 43rd and Humboldt with a most of the neighborhood there and folks are playing Short Dick Man and having a dance party with bull horns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcre...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Real patriots are righteously angry. These crimes mirror those that the American Revolution was fought over. We need leaders who feel this, too and can speak to it.

I know this is tiresomely pedantic, but we need to be clear that Congress needs to defund, abolish, and prosecute ICE *and* Border Patrol.

A thread about a city that I love.

A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.

People are being tortured and murdered in the street. the idea that in addition to this, we have to call our reps and tell them we dont like it seems insane.

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

this has been the central, animating principle of American conservatism for decades

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

imo it's pollyanna-ish to believe that the general political situation--the trump regime writ large--unwinds peacefully. the big political project of opposition should be building the infrastructure and installing leaders who could actually win the inevitable standoff we're careening towards

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

Keep thinking about how Bush and the GOP used 9/11 to ram through this radical expansion of violent law enforcement and the surveillance state. There were lots of times in the last 24 years when there were opportunities to challenge the 'America is under threat!' narrative and dismantle DHS.

Why is Donald Trump targeting Venezuela? On a new episode of The Political Scene podcast, Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to talk about the Trump Administration’s military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean. Listen here: swap.fm/l/tny-tps-Aw...

Gustavo Petro's “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy" bit is a great line for an opposition party in the U.S. to borrow

Desperate to get through to the president to persuade him to stop the war, protesters have started flinging photos of attractive Venezuelan children over the White House fence.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Fictional conspiracies operate on the naive premise that evidence and exposure would bring down the conspiracy.

Have to hand it to the Democrats to cave and help Trump politically immediately before releasing a trove of documents making it absolutely clear he is covering up his direct involvement in the most infamous pedophile ring in history. Bravura stuff.

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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u know what 2 do.

If we have real elections next year, we can get out of this. We need to do everything we can to make sure this happens.

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One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods. It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.

I have a friend who dreamed she got lost in the basements below a Del Taco. She encountered a man in the darkness and she expressed surprise that the Del Taco had so many levels. The man said "There are more levels to this Del Taco than you'll ever know" Then she realized it was Shaq and woke up.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Trump administration revoked more than 6,000 student visas, State Dept says reut.rs/45F7hvQ

Well the thing is they are not going to do that because they do not care about the well being of this city but rather yearn to use it as a punching back while encouraging the aesthetics of militarizing liberal/Black urban enclaves and any analysis of this project should start there. Hope this helps.