PSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Ready team? Start up those shedding fans, we'll have these originals recycled into real media in no time.

For example, on immigration policy: bsky.app/profile/vict...

no but for real "Nonbinary" is CRAZY for Nintendo no "other", no quirky "i dunno!", no "bodytype c" Nintendo straight up used proper gender terminology what the fuck

so I subscribed to Rocket Money a while back and then forgot to unsubscribe. Let me tell you, those guys are total hypocrites

I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now

the first best Senate ask is to split the DHS funding from the rest of the minibus. It wrongfoots Republicans, it unites the D caucus, and it becomes more compelling rather than less compelling the longer Rs resist it. plus all the minibus components were negotiated separately anyway

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up. Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

These guys just want to wipe the shit off their shiny toy so they can play with it when it's their turn.

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Internet historians: Is "brigading" a concept that started during Web 2.0, or did IRC arguments back in the day also involve accusing your opponent of having manufactured support?

I'm excited for the sudden and sharp correction of our shared reality, as it once again ceases to be broadly partisan to say "the government shouldn't be executing people" At the same time, please note that the red line wasn't ICE street murders -- it was trying to blame Pretti's death on his gun.

british guy: americans suck uniquely british news headlines: Lord Coffee says loo peeping incident was 'lapse of judgement,' will retain leadership role

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

Sometimes I laugh when reading judges describe the various reasons why there nothing wrong with sweeping and inhumane actions by the government. It's like they can't imagine people getting fed up with a broken system. They act like jurisprudence matters in an era where law doesn't.

[stares directly into the camera]

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Could the secret police PLEASE use silencers when they shoot civilians for backtalk all this noise is disturbing my vibe coding

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

The only reason id ever get into game dev would be to make a soulslike about John Brown

Bill Foege was a public health legend. His loss is profound, particularly at this time. That he died at the end of the week in which the US withdrew from #WHO & the chair of ACIP mused about whether polio & measles vaccination are still needed — no words. www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...

I simply can't believe the franchise about bold exploration is doing something new and different AGAIN What's their problem anyway? It's like they've got some kind of credo or charter they follow...

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

Way too many ppl blowing off revolutionary steam by talking about a government shutdown like it's an off-switch for ICE, which it isn't. So many civilian feds still have jobs, still manage to do work that makes life better and safer. Helpers like Pretti -- That's who goes unpaid in a shutdown.

Keith Porter, another man killed by ICE. Keith Porter. Alex Pretti. Renee Nicole Good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

This is the same exact awakening you will need to have about your whiteness, your masculinity, your straightness, your wealth, whatever power-holding facet of your identity you struggle to own the weight of.

Hey you know that uncomfortable, existentially reorienting realization you might be having right now that America is harmful, has always been harmful, is built on harm — and you are in & of it, even as you might choose to rage against it?

A shutdown does nothing of substance because DHS already has some frontloaded approps from reconciliation, DHS ops continue in a lapse in appropriations, and in any case DHS employees are gonna be willing to do their "work" for free much longer than civs at DoD/HHS/Labor/Ed/State/HUD/Trans

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

if we can be summarily murdered for responsibly exercising our most explicitly guaranteed constitutional rights, and if our exercise of those rights can be cited as the justification for our murder, we no longer have a constitution or a country

they summarily executed a fucking VA health researcher. our field cannot just ignore this. or just release angry statements and move on.

Guy who pays good money to make his vanity plate repeat his car's model number or engine specs

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Time for everyone paying attention to Minnesota's General Strike to read up on Aquatennial & Bloody Friday - Minneapolis

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

How cool would it have been to wake up after the Reichstag fire and see Zentrum post “thinking about this king” and it’s a picture of Wilhelm I?

Ernest Goes To Camp With Big Naturals (dir. John Waters)

Lloyd they killed a woman.

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

This is why I don't really believe in the "harm reduction" model of voting. I despair when my government empowers monsters to do monstrous things. I don't much care what color banner they do it under. If you're waiting anxiously for a return to this, then you're the kind of centrist fascists crave

Obama awarding his former guy, Tom Homan, and presently the border "czar" under Donald Trump, an award for being so efficient at deporting millions of immigrants in 2015.

This was after mind you Tom Homan had come up with the brilliant idea of separating families as an enforcement strategy.

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.