One of the most hilarious unintended side effects of the administration’s lies about “organized groups” is that the people I know who aren’t quite as plugged in are all like “wait, there are organized people out there! Awesome! Where do I join?”

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

thanks so much to Abby for texting me “EXPLAIN THIS” I am exactly the right person to ask because of course my parents were in it fun fact: technically due to some long-overlooked loophole they are still technically the only people allowed to ride a horse into a church the fits were SO extra

You know, regardless of if it's ICE or trans rights.. the details don't _entirely_ matter for you to see that he's a leader who can somehow get bullied out of the correct position by Ben Shapiro in 2 minutes. That's the opposite of what we need.

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it

Somebody called him California Cuomo and that's all I can think of when I see his rotten face.

Look at this absolute queen

Rioters are painting TUNNELS on ROCK WALLS right in front of ICE agents in order to make agents CRUMPLE THEIR NOSES AGAINST THEM

i see that refusing to ever hand it to gavin newsom remains both factually and morally correct

Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want

they can jail us and they can kill us but there is no universe where they can make me or any of my neighbors ashamed of what we are doing

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.” Absolute gigachad shit

Key point here. @nytimes.com made the editorial choice to elevate Third Way memo because it buttressed "Dems divided over Abolish ICE" story they set out to tell. And Third Way produced the memo because they knew it would get media attention from reporters looking to tell that story. It's all rotten

Right now I care about punishing the people attacking my city more than I care about healthcare policy. … and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.

Remember when you travel in Germany, say, and you wonder, "How did they build Dauchau, here, in a town?" This is how.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

a non-zero number of pasty-faced ICE goons who are fully ancestry dot com-pilled about being like .0002% Irish will have their day sincerely, authentically ruined by this knowledge, and that makes it so beautiful to me

Tangential from this important point: cops do this, too, especially if you "don't belong" in a nice neighborhood. ICE's playbook is not from nowhere.

They were trying to leave the area, not even part of the protest. No amount of passivity can protect you from the violence.

Dems won the presidency, the house, and the senate. Maybe the most successful political slogan in modern history

Imagine your job consisting of the angriest people you've ever seen in your entire life yelling at you 24/7 and throwing bottles of piss in your car while you battle the subzero elements they don't even bat an eyelash about. Imagine the toll that takes on your psyche. May they never find peace.

like yeah on this basis I am forced to conclude I am in fact a harder fucking operator than a strapped 6’2 guy from Dallas who shits himself with raw terror when he sees a Ethiopian restaurant

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Pondering how AI is taking us back to mid-1990s “Dark Forest” Internet safety guidelines being correct: - assume nobody is who they say they are - don’t reveal anything about yourself - everyone is out to get you until proven otherwise - don’t believe anything you see online without verification

I suffered 'internal bleeding' (a bruise) today when I walked into a door frame. I managed not to shoot the door frame. Get fucked.

have you ever been in the middle of fiddling with a spreadsheet at work and a voice in your head suddenly goes MAN WHAT IN THE ENTIRE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE, THE DANES ARE OUR FUCKING ALLIES, THEY BLED WITH US IN AFGHANISTAN AND SYRIA AHHHHHHHH then you just go back to fiddling with the cells

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

once more with feeling

I love that we have four or five separate examples of ICE thugs directly threatening to murder dissidents by saying precisely the same thing (haven't you learned your lesson?), and it never fails to just make people virulently angry. They just refuse to believe it's not working.

I’ve seen videos of the Nazis using that “didn’t you learn” line at least five times since Renee Good was murdered, and I very much hope what we’ve learned is fuck you.

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

Damn, rest in glory mother

I think a lot about the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment and how bravely they fought in the Civil War and am sincerely touched to see how that fearlessness and willingness to put it all on the line continues to resonate in the hearts of Minnesotans today

Kristi Noem must be impeached.

Free family planning is vital to liberty

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Sample contextual 🧊 epithets, for you to freely use and share : • Failed mall cop • Coward • Thumb • Traitor • Baby • G.I. Joker • Clown (see also: assclown) • Buffoon • Tweedle Dee, particularly together with his brother Tweedle Dum • Assface (see also: fuckface) • Shithead • Nutsack • Paul Blart

PAUL BLART MALL COP works well the the clap clap clapclapclap rhythm

The median American voter wants all the immigrants deported except for every one they've ever met or heard about.

This is honest to god so inspiring. Look at this community absolutely and without hesitation say "NOPE, NOT TODAY" to these chuds

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

somebody needs to run up miscarriage and fertility statistics for cities that get hit in this way, would be not at all surprised to find it's an observable hit in the time series (tear gas is an abortifacient)

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.