putting ice in a confined space with cameras everywhere and a bunch of pissed off air travelers is an awesome idea let’s do it

I think this point about “gullible cynicism” is an incredibly important one from @jamellebouie.net, and I think it’s one that applies across the political spectrum and perhaps nowhere greater than on the extremes. We won’t get anywhere if we reflexively distrust those with competence and expertise.

Yesterday night I was talking to @roseyroseamund.bsky.social & we were having a great discussion & one of the points brought up was what exactly is sympathy vs empathy vs common grounding. Sympathy says I feel for you, I am in agreement with you It says you perceive, recognize, accept, & share 1/

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

from the Florsheim of Hollywood catalog

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

Muting "25th Amendment." Republicans are NOT GOING TO DO THIS. As a start point, as long as he's not literally, medically comatose, it'd be much, much easier to impeach and convict. And how likely do you think Republicans are to do that? Right. They're not doing it.

I joined colleagues in calling on the State Department to use all available resources – including charter flights & coordination with allies – to help stranded Americans return home safely and quickly.

Here's what worries me. The U.S. is less oil-dependent than our peers, and so Wall Street has responded far less to the war in Iran than financial markets abroad. When the country calling the shots feels only a small share of the pain, that's a dangerous asymmetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTL...

Anyway, the reason administrations since Carter left the Iran regime in place was an adversarial but contained stable state was preferable to a failed one in that region especially. Otherwise you’ve got an inferno that stretches from Turkey to the Gulf to the Caucasus to Pakistan/Afghanistan.

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Keep watching… 👇 Joe arrived to cheers and, of course, helped with a selfie.❤️

here's a little story. Janet Mills won a big settlement against drug companies as part of the opioid crisis and used it to buy Narcan, enough for every fire station and police department in the state. Republican Paul LePage said Narcan just encouraged drug use and people should die,

How did I never know about him before?

Proud to announce that I earned a perfect 100% score from the League of Conservation Voters for the year 2025! While environmental protections come under attack, I will continue to stand up for renewable energy, clean air and water, and meaningful strategies to combat climate change.

“… the visit went sideways Tuesday night, as the Department of Homeland Security posted messages on social media platform X, targeting Gomes da Silva … Moulton's staff confirmed that they escorted Gomes da Silva out of the chamber, to the congressman's office, ‘due to concerns for his safety …’”

Jesus bunny hopping Christ.

PLEASE stop trying to wreck AOC's career.

Another reminder. Anne Frank and her sister Margot didn't die in gas chambers. They died of Typhus due to overcrowding at Bergen-Belsen women's camp, which also experienced outbreaks of tuberculosis and typhoid fever.

Whenever anyone brings up the "paradox of intolerance", I bring up this meme which eliminates the paradox entirely:

"This is Just Who Trump Is" by @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

How denouncing Bad Bunny could give Gavin Newsom a much-needed Sister Souljah moment.

“Families are limiting movement, avoiding public places and living in constant uncertainty, regardless of their legal status, including citizens.” The Willmar City Council explains how the ICE surge is impacting towns across Minnesota. www.wctrib.com/news/local/w...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Since the Civil Rights Movement, Black and Jewish Americans have worked together to combat persecution and pursue racial justice for all of God’s children. A great local history of this everlasting bond here: flatlandkc.org/news-issues/...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Americans must be eyes wide open that blocking the DHS funding bill will not shut down ICE. ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

It continues.

Casual reminder to ONLY call the elected officials who show up on your ballot. 👍📞🤓 Non-constituent calls do not get tallied and can cause more harm than good. For example, during high traffic times like this, they block calls from constituents who can get tallied.

The world needs to see this: cell phone footage from "The woman in the pink coat." Trigger warning: this shows a real human being shot by tyrannical government agents in Minneapolis this morning.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

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.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Trump’s pathetic trick of causing chaos and then claiming huge victory over a return to status quo would absolutely not work without the media doing the work for him.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Heard from a public school staffer. ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops. If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes. Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.

It’s easy to watch the news and feel overwhelmed or even helpless at everything going on. I need you to fight that feeling. I’m an optimist. You have to be when you strap yourself to a rocket for a living. But there’s real reason to be hopeful this year and l’ll tell you why.

Wherever ICE goes, chaos is sure to follow. Kansas City is strongly opposed to opening a mega detention center in our community. That funding would be better spent on support for local law enforcement and other public safety initiatives. www.kctv5.com/2026/01/15/k...

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

The WHOLE Congress is not corrupt. The WHOLE SUpreme Court are not corrupt. When you don’t differentiate the ACTUAL corruption from those trying to hold the guardrails by their fingernails- you are doing a propaganda. Hope this helps.

Head's up to those in California - don't fall for this little groyper shitdemon.

The independence of the Federal Reserve is critical to the long-term health of the economy. The administration’s attempt to pressure the Fed Chair into lowering rates by launching a baseless investigation is the kind of stuff seen in third world dictatorships. Congress cannot allow this to stand.