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.

This is art. It wasn't before the act of consumption.

Come on @aflcio.org, make it national.

This person, my son, earned a Pulitzer Prize. If he gave it to me, it would still be his. I am a rational person who fully realizes that i did not earn a Pulitzer Prize. ( of course i wouldn’t accept it)

Wow it’s been a year since David Lynch died. Whenever someone says they don’t “get” his work or that it doesn’t make any sense, you know what? Life itself doesn’t make sense. It’s surreal, mundane, strange, and kind of meaningless. Respect to him for capturing the horrors of this thing called life.

it's been a year without you my man and everything has just grown worse and worse since

SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...

The main thing that frustrates me about Walz and Frey's calls for "peace" so we don't give the administration an excuse is the administration will clearly take anything as an excuse. There is no level of calm or lawfulness that will prevent them finding an excuse to invoke the Insurrection act.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

Minnesota must indict the ICE agent who murdered Renee Gold. Force the Trump Regime to do whatever the fuck it is they're going to do in response. There is no reason to delay over a ballistics report, no reason to "keep your powder dry" when the federal government is murdering your citizens.

Feels to me like the Dept of Agriculture cutting all funding to Minnesota including SNAP “because fuck you that’s why” should be a bigger story!

Thank you for telling us you neither serve nor protect. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. That was state murder in broad daylight, captured from multiple angles by multiple witnesses, and the people of Minneapolis have eyes. You support murder.

When Sam Altman & co tell you their models are "trained" on copyrighted material, what they really mean is their models contain copyrighted material in full, and the models are "trained" to *not* reproduce them exactly, to add arbitrary variations, because otherwise they would give away the game.

Just as photocopying a #book has serious #copyright implications, it now appears that #LLM s also copy material learned from. A good read. #artificialintelligence #generativeai www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Reform? The only "reform" I want to see for ICE will need to take place individually and will require an awful lot of wood chippers.

'Attack on Titan' (2013-2023) 📽️

Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.

i don't even really care what the circumstances were at this point. get them out. fire all of them and strip their pensions. add "worked for ice/cbp" as a flag on the background check databases

Seeing people centering Renee’s late husband’s *father* and his narrative that devalues her final political actions more than her gender nonconforming wife who was THERE working together with Renee to document ICE makes me want to scream loud enough to break all the glass in all the world.

We're at defcon all the whistles

The more money, resources, and power you give to ICE, the more folks they're going to harm and kill. It's as simple as that.

Let's be serious for a moment: the problem with "defund the police" wasn't that it was a shit slogan. It was because the slogan was deployed in a context of omnipresent white supremacy, and sought to target one of its most effective tools: the police. And it did so through targeting its resources.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

i am absolutely empathetic to a man whose lost his daughter. however, there is at least one other person who is an obvious participant in this child's life. and as a lesbian it is difficult not to consider the underscoring that is suggested here

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

Abolishing ICE is not enough. All of DHS needs to be ripped out by the roots. Dissolve CBP and ICE completely, and move TSA, Secret Service, FEMA, and the Coast Guard to other agencies.

This happened less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered in the street six years ago. George Floyd's murder led to some of the largest and loudest protests in America since the Civil Rights movement. If we can summon just a fraction of that anger now, maybe she won't have died in vain.

"I'm calling to demand the immediate dismantling of ICE for the murder of a woman in Minneapolis today and the impeachment of the President for his support of that murder" is the easiest call to my senators and representative I've ever made

The ICE murder of Renee Good and the failure of any cessation of the Grok CSAM and nonconsensual image generation are part of the same broader story about the establishment of elite impunity for transgressing all moral boundaries of a humanist civil society with individual rights

Call it what it is. Today, a masked agent of ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. Both ICE and the Trump admin have labeled her a domestic terrorist, despite video evidence that she was not threatening anyone. She was just a mom trying to get home. They shot her in the face three times.

there are many resistance actions that are worth going to jail over posting on bluesky is not one of them!

important message to all bluesky users

@bsky.app what's wrong with Trending topics? For two hours now the feed has been wall-to-wall discussion of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. I would expect Trending to reflect that, but these are yesterday's trending topics. Is there a delay built in? Or is there a filter excluding some topics?

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

this is 6 blocks from the site George Floyd's murder

It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up. On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

what if we all just tried lying down on the floor

@aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team Where is @lexialexis.bsky.social? What are you doing and why?

The only reason Trump's not in prison is because we made him President again. The only reason we were even able to make him President again is because Biden and Garland failed to move quickly enough to hold him accountable in time. Republicans brought us here, but Democrats made it possible.

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: if you press this button, someone you don't know dies ME: ... I don't know you. *maintains aggressive eye contact, presses button* STRANGER: ... ME: *slowly presses button again* STRANGER: ... Look, I'm Bill, okay? My name's Bill. Jesus. ME: ... Bill who? *click click click*