We had a good sense the kids would be off at least a few days for snowstorms so we started a Miyazaki movie weekend. There's a relatively small pool of ones that are appropriate for our youngest, but so far we've hit My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo. Tonight's selection, Secret World of Arrietty.

So as someone who “actually *DID* conduct COIN at the battalion level, I have to speak on this because there’s so much bullshit here. Beyond all this being written by AI, there’s so much wrong here that I refuse to believe this guy is legit. Let’s make a thread.

The perverse thing is that Trump is the one who taught his whole administration and Republicans more broadly this approach: never apologize, always double-down, blame the victim, attack attack attack, lie lie lie. Then the moment it backfires he cuts them loose. He does not give a shit about you.

Conservatives talk about how bad things were under Biden but I actually have fond memories of a time before we were all looking at frame-by-frame analysis of snuff films every couple weeks.

Kristi Noem:

they had him down on the ground, he never once reached for his gun, they noticed it and disarmed him when his jacked rode up, and then they shot him you’re telling every gun owner that if they carry, and agents see the gun, they can - at best! - panic-shoot you and you’ll be smeared as a terrorist

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

The left didn’t make the men you ordered to occupy the city for no reason shoot a man in the back. The left didn’t tell a bunch of masked armed yahoos that they had “total immunity” and you would let them get away with murder if it came to that.

This is excellent

JD thinks the way to counter-spin the narrative about the masked paramilitary goon squad murdering a man in cold blood is to tell a story about how some other goons had to sit in a restaurant for a little longer than they planned

Just as all of America had hoped, the New England Patriots will be returning to the Super Bowl this year.

All politicians do performative acts of service. Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing. Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

The credibility ship has sailed, my guy, the entire country saw an unarmed restrained man shot in the back ten times and the admin immediately started lying about him, even if they get bullied into a full investigation now there's no getting that credibility back thehill.com/homenews/sen...

From “he was doing a crime” to “hey look let’s not talk about whether he was guilty or not” in the span of two sentences, loser shit

Total speculation but I would not be surprised if behind closed doors these fascist fucks are being a lot more explicit about waging war on blue cities because they’re blue, and I bet they’re dumb enough to be putting it in writing. Once Ds have subpoena power we should start digging everywhere.

think they failed to consider a few things when they decided to use the promise that their goon squads will not be subject to any disciplinary actions as a terror tactic. sure if you remove your car's brakes people are gonna give you a nice wide berth. but how are you gonna park this thing

Yeah man gee why aren’t there more stories popping up organically about the professionalism and courtesy of ICE, truly a head-scratcher

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

The state of Minnesota and its statewide law enforcement agency are asserting themselves against ICE and the federal government over investigating Alex Pretti’s killing. Apparently learned from the aftermath of ICE killing Renee Good and the federal cover-up. More ready this time.

I know you can’t put too much stock in anecdotal evidence but as someone with a severe brain sickness that makes me look at a bunch of algorithmically-fed right-wing shitheads on Facebook the reaction to this shooting is pretty different than even the Good killing

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

This is about as clear and unambiguous as it gets. He was carrying a phone, they took his gun, and then they shot him several times in the back. Murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Lies like this should be understood less as an attempt at persuasion and more as feeding their followers a script

Extremely funny that they’re still trying to go with “they share PDFs of signs and tips on where to get gas masks!” as evidence that these protests are some master conspiracy instead of just… people communicating

Maybe this is cope but this “hey let’s do a proper investigation and wait for clear answers” act, as opposed to immediately closing ranks, smells to me like they know this one might be too blatant and they’re going to have to sacrifice their little goon to defuse it

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

These are just straightforwardly concentration camps. Horrifying. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

I don’t think I’ve seen a single video of ICE in the last three months where at least one ICE agent doesn’t have their own phone out, recording, for facial recognition capture But now they’re claiming Liam Ramos’ dad fled and abandoned him and the admin hasn’t leaked any videos of the event Odd!

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

I wrote about Kiln and why Double Fine feels like such a special developer in today's changing industry. www.gamespot.com/articles/i-h...

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

These weird dorks realize the name plate is just a kinda hacky joke on the name of the character which is literally “he-man” right

This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure

When I watched Mr. Rogers, I didn’t understand that the things he did that were overtly political, like sharing a dip in the “pool” with a black man, were actually political, because he framed them as basic decency and I was 5 and by the time I saw that rerun it was normal because decency won.

Yale Law grad pretends he didn’t know what it meant when he claimed ICE has “absolute immunity”

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

He's learning how to write the letter W

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

Imagine patting a little fella on the back and telling him to go help you entrap his family and thinking: this is good honest work, I am one of history’s good guys

My barometer for which things actually make a dent is fairly unreliable these days but I feel like "jackbooted agency that's already unpopular distributed a memo advising agents to violate 4A rights, but on the DL" could break through

Every day under this administration is a fresh round of “is he this stupid or just pretending to be?”

I know the leopards eating faces thing has become a lib cliche but it’s not every day someone just unironically recreates a meme like this

I never really understood how this game wasn't bigger. Double Dragon given the Mighty Final Fight treatment, with a ton of replay value

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)