The 2020's version of 1850's Guano Imperialism.

My parents are divorced so we have two January 6ths

Absolutely correct. Nobody is doing anything to stop him. Our entire country is untrustworthy, pathetic, embarrassing, hateful, and dangerous. I fully support the rest of the world totally isolating and ignoring us, we more than deserve it.

take a peek into the median northwestern suburban mind and you'll find someone seething at the idea a court could order their kid to enroll in Minneapolis Public Schools JUST because the schools are good and it's closer to their home and the community they've lived in most of their conscious life

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

If you are a DFLer running for anything from dog catcher to Governor, before I give you a cent, my time, or my vote, you'd better tell me what you're doing today, when Kristi Noem is in town with up to 2000 new ICE agents, kidnapping peeople off the street, pepper spraying and threatening civilians.

There's a certain kind of person who grew up in racist late 20th century drug hysteria and they saw white people dying of OD more and they had to imagine a massive international criminal conspiracy to kill white Americans and not just "We handed everyone oxy for 10 years and then stopped"

Also the BBC lol "I am, sir, Nicolás Maduro. I am president of the Republic of Venezuela and I am here kidnapped since January 3rd," he told the court in a calm Spanish before an interpreter translated for the court. "I was captured at my home in Caracas, Venezuela."

It appears two ICE observers following ICE agents on 31st in south Minneapolis this morning were arrested. Activists say it appears the ICE observer vehicle was stopped or slid into something, and ICE agents used pepper spray and broke the car window, arresting the occupants.

We've been through a lot lately, and it’s not over.  Extremism is knocking on our door, as YouTubers and federal agents. Schools and hospitals are slashed while Trump pardons crooks and gives handouts to billionaires. Minnesotans know there’s only one way to weather a storm: you don’t do it alone.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

The thing about “Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over the future of [country]” is that you can keep extending that logic indefinitely by threatening people will military force unless they surrender to you. This is “we will conquer the entire world unless someone stops us” logic.

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

I don't like the appearance that the White House forced Walz out. The post about a Hortman conspiracy was vile. The fact remains, Walz never should have announced for reelection. Feeding our Future was always a political time bomb. This was entirely avoidable.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

“Fascism does not rest explicitly upon an elaborated philosophical system, but rather upon popular feelings about master races, their unjust lot, and their rightful predominance over inferior peoples.” — Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

I'mma keep saying it. Democrats have continuously and actively chosen to position themselves in ways that ALSO make them the enemy.

And keep in mind, part of what separates this a LOT from other such incidents is that the principles were constantly protected by the feds. During the HEIGHT of the war on terror in 2005, Bush refused to extradite a guy who killed almost 80 people with a plane bomb. www.reuters.com/article/worl...

you can't understand what needs to be fixed if you don't get that we've been barking up the wrong trees and poisoning our minds for decades. these places are bad for us. they are bad for the world. you should view what we do here as slightly less responsible than shooting up heroin.

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

CBS News is reporting that the Trump Administration has begun deploying hundreds of agents to Minneapolis (Minnesota). This is especially concerning with what we are feeling on the ground of increased immigration enforcement. 1/

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Steven Miller is a dangerous far-right extremist, as are several other key members of the Trump administration. Perhaps the media could cover him as such?

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Sorry but if your immediate takeaway about kidnapping a head of state and bombing an apartment building for no fucking reason is to talk shit about tankies you don't need to touch grass, you need to fuck the whole lawn.

I really need everyone saying "it can't get worse for Venezuelans than Maduro" to look up what we did to the Philippines under Taft and Chilé under Pinochet.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

The Trump administration on Wednesday froze federal childcare funding to ___every state in the US___

This isn't the point here, but the racist activist complaining that NYC transplants are "failsons" is ... from Syracuse

Reminder that any concept of "Western Civilization" that tries to claim that Christianity (or sometimes Christianity and Judaism, in the name of "Judeo-Christianity") are the heirs to ancient Greek thought, while excluding Islam from that heritage, is fundamentally incoherent.

glad to see that my “lyman stone gives off hitler particles” intuition was correct

You don’t need to know a single fact about Somali Americans to know the campaign against them is morally hideous. Either you can recognize that these campaigns are wrong a priori, or you are in your heart a racist.

This is not true at all; Harvard has dozens of people teaching the subjects broadly defined as constituting "Western Civ," in departments as broad as History, Philosophy, Classics, Art History, and more. But more than that, it is shameful to see a rabbi engaging in this anti-intellectual nonsense.

Strikes me as having substantial upside but I’m no expert.

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.