And since the whole world is going straight to hell, by way of a happy birthday Wolfgang here’s the last damnation scene of Don Giovanni, with commentary from F Murray Abraham’s Salieri #Mozart

What if, instead of scolding people who aren't afraid to describe fascism as such, the "let's temper our rhetoric" crowd observed how absolutely preposterous it is to describe a licensed medical provider facilitating entirely legal, entirely normal, care as an "extremist" and a "radical"

I mean they have done this shit for years, of course it's not a coincidence

Even as Ive been watching the rise of global fascism, and the mainstreaming of so much hate, its kind of terrifying to realize how normal all this has become--"Anne Frank was legal" jesus christ.

There are many, many people in the center/who describe themselves as "liberals" who use this word, and variants of it. Here is dipshit extraordinaire, Matty Yglesias, who uses the word all the time, urging the "defunding of the language police" www.slowboring.com/p/defund-the...

A 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian beauty box with original containers for makeup and beauty products! 🤩 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

I'll call this one The Three Tenors From Hell. I'm awaiting their last performance with the greatest anticipation.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945. We will never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and aim to fulfill the promise of "never again" to ensure the darkest moments of history are never repeated.

Stephen Miller wasn't in the meeting, but the comms team was. This tells you this isn't a policy shift, it was just a meeting to figure out how to sell the bullshit better. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/noem-trump-meeting-minneapolis-ice.html

California: First measles case since 2012 confirmed in Napa County localnewsmatters.org/2026/01/21/f...

Editorial by WSJ: Measles as a ‘Cost of Doing Business’ www.wsj.com/opinion/meas...

Some 2,255 measles cases were recorded last year, marking the highest point in over 30 years.

We already had the real-world experience of unvaccinated people getting measles, and it's why we invented the vaccine for measles. It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.

There have already been more U.S. measles cases in the first three weeks of 2026 than there were in all of 2023 and 2024 COMBINED: www.jezebel.com/measles-case... #measles #disease #publichealth #quarantine

If this is true (and that’s not a small if), it is reasonable to posit that Bezos is trying to offload the Post. Or kill it altogether. Sports is a top driver of traffic and subscriptions for most news sites. And we’ve seen how Bezos and Lewis have mangled the Opinion section.

US government rn

If the human shield language brings to mind the IDF, there’s a reason for that: ICE and CBP are among the US state entities who train with Israeli security forces. deadlyexchange.org/about-deadly...

its awesome how being right years ago brings absolutely no comfort

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

That was, of course, the idea. They thought they could make the whole country this way with their dipshittery and algorithms. But instead it just made the dipshits much easier to see

Sniveling cowards

the woman in the pink coat who filmed alex pretti’s execution is afraid to go home bc ICE agents are following her meanwhile they’re out here crying over a hurt fingy

If you're not familiar with Sarah and her profound insight, knowledge, and writings, now is the time.

Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue. "A neighbor was taken here" "Abolish ice" Minneapolis January 25, 2026

this is a great way to respond imo zero hedging zero disrespect just a quick “excuse me, that’s not true”.

the administration's ongoing justifications of this obvious murder make their goal clear: the only thing that will keep you safe is total and complete submission, at the expense of any personal values or constitutionally guaranteed rights

"It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE's actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...

Michael Che on SNL: "I get that I.C.E. Agents are people, allegedly. And they have a job to do. But at some point, while you're pepper spraying old ladies or shooting at a nurse, do you ever stop and ask yourself, are we dicks?"

One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee

My heart breaks for Minnesota, and for our nation. More of us need to speak up and speak out. Complacency is complicity. bsky.app/profile/rasu...

Renee Good’s last words were, “I’m not mad.” Alex Pretti’s last act was trying to help a woman ICE agents had shoved. Damn, Minnesota. You sure do make good people.

We need to stand with Minneapolis and stand up to this atrocity in every city across this nation. There is no neutral position. It's ICE or US. It's time the American majority wielded our collective power. Enough of this shit. May the good people be counted now.

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

What’s that? #Caturday

Minneapolis: That's not a shooting, that's an execution. The victim is on the floor, already shot, and an ICE agent fires 3 more bullets - that's what you do when you want to make sure someone is dead. No excuses.

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

People (like my own sister) inside their right wing media bubble have no idea what is happening in Minnesota. None.

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...

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.

ICE agents are trained in Israel and use Israeli technology. gizmodo.com/ice-israeli-... Whistleblower video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl6V...

All but one have AIPAC as their biggest donor. (And it's their second biggest donor.) Israel loves ICE. Massie is one of few congressmen in either party who refuses money from AIPAC.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

We experienced a whole bunch of these US and UK made weapons, during the 2019 protests here, in Hong Kong.

Breaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

if we abolish the gestapo who will do the important work of the gestapo

The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

I spent last weekend in the hills and enjoyed the profusion of stars away from light pollution. It was lovely to walk around in the quiet at dawn and in the peaceful night.