Muscatine County’s detention of immigrants on behalf of the federal government has been the subject of at least five civil lawsuits and an alleged ethics complaint concerning the former County Attorney.

I really hate how much politics and media coverage is just journalists pretending to not understand what's actually being said and done by people in power.

We're obsessed with "Having skin in the game" and we've created a class of people who don't give a shit about anything or anyone else. They're not part of society anymore, they exist outside of it. You don't have to be a genius to see the endgame of that

Chicago.

Serious question: is anyone else just totally sick & tired of hearing about AI? I have no interest in it; in my world it has created more problems than solutions; and it's the enemy of imagination & creativity, the things I'm most invested in. I'm also tired of being told I'm a luddite for the above

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I think people intuitively understand this in terms of like, a band that isn't very good getting all sulky and mad at the audience after their mediocre set and then posting online about how the scene sucks instead of practicing

6:11a on a Saturday what are we doing here.

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

He does this every Friday.

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

No. Bring back Murder, She Wrote.

I think she’s the best in the whole world, but they didn’t ask for my vote. Couldn’t be a bigger fan of our sweet Beth! chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

The feed ended with every single cop in attendance checking their phone.

@bethtuba.bsky.social !!!!!

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

My “suggestions” for the Dems on ICE and CPB: ICE out of MN, no money for and ICE and CPB out of appropriations, and a Congressional investigation into Renee Good’s death.

Mister Culver has always been there, will always be there. The Cheese Curd of Life is growing where the spirit never dies.

If there was video of a Senate Dem giving a compound fracture to a Marine while wearing his dress blues, that guy would've been burned at the stake by close of business

"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."

Mother's Father: Author of short stories, novels, stage adaptations for Broadway, and then later, travel writer for magazines. Father's Father: Army Veteran (Korea), Quarry Worker

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime —Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

To the homies: my dm’s are always open to you if you need to talk, if you see a turtle or other critter, if there is a sweet little angel baby dog or cat, if something exciting happens to you, if you look cool and want to share, if there is some music I need to hear, etc. Share. Make community.

It’s just such a silly argument. If people want to bring the country leftwards but think religious people shouldn’t be part of it they’re ignoring everyone from Martin Luther King to 3/4 of places where a country has moved leftward

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

showers of gore

My daughter turns 5 soon, and started singing a "gummy bear song." I looked it up, put it on, first time I've ever heard it. Ever. She knows every word and knows the video literally scene by scene. Says she saw it at her "other day care" so like... ~1.5years ago. Video has 3.8 BILLION views.

and none of the widespread abuse and neglect to which both gay and trans children are subjected by their own families will ever get an Atlantic article bc they don’t actually care! lol

‘Tarzhay’ is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and Target is no friend of mine

Incredibly stoked for one of my projects, New Standards Men, to open the Longmont show, in the hayloft of a barn, which will rule in every way.

theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

We got y'all somethin' good for De La Soul Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

call me, coward

Serious question: is there something different in how county prosecutors’ offices are legally defined/structured in Minnesota vs Illinois that they’re doing this while the Cook County prosecutor says she can’t legally investigate anything to do with the feds? Or is it just a matter of will?

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

No way we’re having midterms with what these gas prices are about to do

NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.

Monday

Rapist pedophile cannibals run the world and I still gotta go to work tomorrow lmfao c’mon dude