They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over

"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” Letter from the Birmingham Jail

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

ah, well, nevertheless

(h/t Amelia Buttress)

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

When the racist meme becomes national policy

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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

$800,000 as of this morning,,

#Historians, any data on how #Nazis fare in the cold?

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

The introduction to my book on where whiteness/white supremacy came from is available free online from Cambridge assets.cambridge.org/97810096/276...

This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting. Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

strong agree

I sure hope Klobachar loses in the primary, bc if not we’ll actually get a Republican governor. I’m sure the state DFL and national dems will try to force her on us.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

There always comes a moment when The Sensibles pivot from complaining about protests and tone policing every sign to despairing that people aren't in the streets

We love to see universities caving to right wing hysteria both literally and figuratively paying the price for it

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Every dem (most of them) who began their venezuela statement with "maduro is bad and we are glad he is gone" should retire

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Wtf?

Winter Garden French artist Géraldine Theurot

Uh, huh. And on Christmas eve, I thwarted a group of, uh, potential German-inspired terrorists at Nakatomi Plaza.

Love this

US Department of Labour celebrates a proxy army funded and equipped by France

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

"Saxon." Does that make him a "heritage American?"

This is actually standard replacement theory/"Asiatic horde"/Madison Grant/Charles Lindbergh stuff. "Europe could fall to the eastern/southern/Marxist invaders, then we'd be in existential peril in the USA."

Maurice Prendergast - The Spanish Steps, 1898-1899

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

Freida photo advent calendar Day 24. This is the most popular photo of Freida across several platforms. It has been photoshopped creatively by many people (these will be posted as bonus content later today and tomorrow). It encompasses her being perfectly.

'Leaping Deer' 1955 Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000) Gouache on card Christmas card illustration

Snow Scene at Argenteuil | Claude Monet

That purported allies of intellectual freedom gave the time of day to phrases like “divisive concepts” will be one of the lasting tells about the “liberalism” of self-proclaimed centrists of all parties in this era

I kept seeing people use the word samizdat to refer to the Canadian sourcing of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT pulled by Bari Weiss. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster:

At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

He’s sooo close to just saying, “America for Americans!” He wants to sooo badly.

Ebbing Waters | Frederick Judd Waugh

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.