Washington when 😭😭😭😭😭

"the slave catchers are different from the immigrant snatchers" ahh rhetoric

I love this. Fully obsessed.

It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.

this is our boy's time to fuckin shine ✊

Like, yes. At some point we have to stop making excuses. They are big kids. They can be accountable for their opinions and actions.

This is a horror show, but also demonstrates a big and awful lack of understanding in our culture: this *would be* pregnancy loss. That someone having to terminate a pregnancy is treated differently from a miscarriage is bananas! It's just a shitty value judgement!

This is obviously the right decision. It should spark a wider conversation about social media platforms. We clearly can't - and shouldn't - just rely on the responsibility of the owners. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so fucking disappointing and enraging.

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

An impediment to change has always been people’s preference for the familiar even when they know it is bad (see: healthcare, policing, etc.) along with eagerness to dismiss alternatives at the first sign of issues. Creating something new scares many people more than living within oppressive systems.

[horse meeting] We're getting a lot of good feedbag

This interview of Fiona Hill by @meganjgibson.bsky.social is excellent and full of insight and zingers such as this on whether Trump is driven by his legacy www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

This is terrifying. Y'all, the antisemitism is so bad right now.

As a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence, I cannot describe how much it pains me to hear the Vice President say we owe a debt of gratitude to man who shot a woman in the face and then called her a fucking bitch.

Francis Fukuyama, to History:

Yeah. So bad nobody has ever talked about this before.

bangers and mash is when you're making good posts while watching a korean war medical sitcom

The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on. This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.

Republicans are scared of the republican voting base. Democrats are scared of the republican voter base. The democratic voting base is taken for granted because democrats know they don’t have to appeal to them. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SAY VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO

Take over major cities. Cause chaos and violence. Bring in even more federal agents to “suppress” violence. Get folks scared to disrupt by killing a few activists here and there. Man the polls with armed troops or “postpone” the ‘26 election entirely because of chaos and violence.

The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.

YEP.

I'm seeing people say that if a law enforcement shooting was illegal, it wouldn't have happened, and for the umpteenth time I shout from the heavens ILLEGAL DOES NOT MEAN IMPOSSIBLE

When MAGA watches Band of Brothers, which side do they root for?

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!

Please remember that Republicans proposed bills to criminalize abortion and roll back the ACA and whatever favorite nightmares for DECADES in some cases, knowing they'd fail but getting it on the record.

From @harshawalia.bsky.social, a must read:

yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

'Don't fight back that will give Trump an excuse to escalate!' is the most asinine dogshit take on here- the man *instigated an insurrection* because people *voted him out* No level of law abiding pacifism will placate him- he registers it as weakness, and an invitation to multiply his abuses

When you learn how many "they should have just followed orders" people are in this country, then you begin to understand how we arrived to the point of a federal fascist takeover.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

Welp. Guess I'm switching to Protonmail.

Do not trust anyone who would both sides a genocide. They have no scruples whatsoever.

Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen... Truth is the greatest love

hard to understate how much of a disaster the entire post-9/11 government restructuring was. creation of dhs an absolute nightmare.

Gentle reminder that every life in Gaza is a whole universe too ❤️

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

Weighing evidence is fine but it’s wild how US media never starts from the presumption that cops should never shoot citizens dead

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

It's not that ICE isn't about immigration; it's that immigration enforcement is about policing, which is violent and oppressive and hates protesters.

Hell yes, shut it all down. Call your representatives and tell them to actually do the only thing they can to halt this madness.

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.