Whitewashed bankrolling is when you “conditionally” fund an institution over which you have no actual authority, particularly when administrators of that funding affirm that current operations are 1) completely consistent with the objective, (2) could only be made more efficient with more funding.

we did

Christ this is grim.

I come back to this open letter (from 2020) a lot, and I’ll give it the last word. amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-emplo...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This is what happens when every tech company fires their ethics team.

Realizing how deeply rooted commercial beauty standards for women are rooted in pedophilia and how openly they’re perpetuated by the sick fucks who own the retail and technology markets really turns aging into a thing that makes you safe instead of a thing you prevent or fear.

No one’s missing mother is more important than another, and so a week later the FBI is predictably nowhere on this. The USA is a cruel, exploitative, lawless place; cruel, exploitative, lawless things happen here. Safety is defined by your alignment with power and your ability to make it rich.

Honestly it’s the “and watch it” that’s creepiest here.

Honestly it’s the “and watch it” that’s creepiest here.

Weird thing to say to Epstein survivors

WOW. Worth it.

Yeah, it's fucking obvious he's going to fucking try a coup again if he loses the midterms (which is incredibly likely). I give it a 99% chance. Why this isn't treated as an existential threat by the people who *want* to lead Congress next year is frankly mystifying.

God the rage this makes me feel. The open, brazen support for a genocidal regime when all the while our country is dying too. Here. People, here, who have given Schumer all the power he has. He doesn’t give a fuck about the murder he funds. Not there. And not here.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

My Roman Empire is thinking about how obsessed dudes are with the Roman Empire without realizing that the reason it fell was over centralized power in the hands of incompetent emperors.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Unless it changes their minds to the point of impeaching and removing Trump and Vance and prosecuting Noem and Hegseth then I don’t want a change. I want them turned into electoral dust.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

If you have a place near your house with the good ranch, the special ranch that’s far superior to other ranch and only comes in the little plastic cups with the lid, you know about the small but concentrated joy I’m about to partake in.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

They just want to kill who they want to kill it’s not complicated. The rationale is window dressing.

I’m not saying I’m mad about it but in 15 years I’ve literally never seen a weather system hit NYC at more than 50% of the forecast.

They literally just say whatever the fuck

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Democratic leadership has millions of people behind them who want to be a part of making this stop. If they wanted it to stop more than they want to placate centrist voters, they’d make it stop, and if they stopped it, they’d get re-elected. Bipartisanship is a pipe dream. Galvanize or be complicit.

He should block the bill and shut down the government. Wait it out like they should have waited it out before. The Americans who oppose this regime are prepared to bring their communities together to help those affected by the shutdown, Minneapolis is proof. Its broken. Shut it all down.

BLOCK THE FUNDING CHUCK

ICE agents murdered Alexis Pretti in the street and then scurried apart like children running from a jar of cookies they’d pulled down from the counter and smashed on the floor.

ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

A generational ice storm is about to kill a lot of people and break a lot of infrastructure because our forecast and response agencies are gutted and our current administration does not care about scientific agencies nor relief agencies nor people nor infrastructure.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

Democrats needing to message on affordability as the country endures a brutal authoritarian takeover is tragic. Take it from someone who lives in occupied Minneapolis. Our problems go deeper than prices.

it’s so cool that the only use case for ai is to distort everyones perception of reality. this needs to be heavily regulated immediately, especially when a government can do this

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Americans thinking the crisis is over is precisely why we’re in a crisis to begin with. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-crisis...

Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God

“What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one.” Amidst all the horrors, here is a hope-affirming thread about Minneapolis:

They get worse in every city they occupy. There is no limit.

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime