This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society.

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

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

This is the Malcolm Nance post I mentioned the other day with alt text

something like this maybe

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Seen in London:

None of the DoJ people who have been resigning over the last year are squishy liberals. Many likely would have served willingly in a DoJ run by legitimate, lawful conservatives. But this is an unhinged regime of crooks, sycophants, and morons.

Wishing all ICE officers a very happy Napoleon's Retreat From Russia

I really, really hate that the PETM is now becoming the analogue instead of points in the Miocene. This is geologist code for: "industrial society has fucked up big time."

When the fascist government says "Send us a list of all your Jews," that's not --- historically --- a "good" thing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

support human artists because holy shit

Take a dollar bill out of your wallet. Look at the back of it, on the right. See the Great Seal of the United States? The eagle holds in its beak a ribbon, and the ribbon bears three Latin words. Those words are: E PLURIBUS UNUM. "From many, one." It has the exact opposite meaning of this filth.

A career so far in 5 rivers: Chicago River (North Branch) Red River (Wichita River) Missouri River (Hinkson Creek) Cedar River (Hahn Creek) Hudson River

An easy walk along sea cliffs of Cambrian-Silurian Tumblagooda Sandstone, ~ 450-400 million years old, S of Kalbarri, W Australia. Lots of crossbedding. Ancient river deposits at a time of zero terrestrial vegetation. ⚒️🧪

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

"heckling and, let's be honest, goading" if you can't handle being heckled or goaded, you have no business carrying a gun or exercising any kind of authority. any middle school teacher has greater force of will than those flailing man-children.

I’m just so tired of all of these assholes getting to claim the mantle of Real Americans when I live in an America closer to our ideals than any of them

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

The only synagogue in Jackson, MS burned last night. It was arson. They've been here before--they were attacked by the KKK because the rabbi spoke in favor of civil rights. They have no usable torah for services, all burned. Torahs are handmade! If you can donate a bit this week, here's a spot.

"The heart of Reform Judaism beats in small, struggling, historic communities. That is why the fire in Jackson sears the Jewish soul. It could be any synagogue. And in my darkest fears, I believe there will be more."

baby's first page layout (of course I'm citing sources, the children must learn)

A friend of mine cooked up a flag to show support for strong municipal services and this feels like the perfect emblem of the Mamdani Moment. I absolutely love it.

The arithmetics of glacial till from the Suffolk plateau: Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay + Cretaceous Chalk + Pliocene Crag + Pleistocene erratics from W Midlands, E Midlands, Pennines, Northumbria, Scotland, N Sea, etc, mashed under a colossal ice sheet = the Lowestoft Till. It's a beast of a deposit.

basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.

Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.

Time to consult the Declaration again

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

For the press "the president has turned a federal agency into a political kidnapping and murder squad" is unthinkable. Ergo they must not think it

This is not a structurally sound pyramid

Because "wait for the facts" is what you do when you know the Government is lying to you. Jesus fucking christ, people.

there's a bunch of freaks (derogatory) in the quotes/replies who saw "don't trust what the feds say, let's get the actual facts and make them stop terrorizing America" (paraphrased) & just kinda decided he was "both-sidesing" or "defending ICE" because people are functionally illiterate these days.

It’s great that the champions and defenders of Western Culture are censoring Plato. The moral panic over accurately teaching about American racism was always about disciplining professors in general. We’re a check on propaganda, which propagandists hate.

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

New paper alert! tl;dr: the seafloor of Europa is probably tectonically inert, meaning little to no active fracturing that could expose fresh rock to seawater. Without such water–rock reactions the prospect for there being life within Europa just took a big hit. A thread:

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Fuck it. It's not Friday, but I'm going to share fossils. This is Porocrinus, an echinoderm from the Ordovician Maquoketa formation near Eldorado, Iowa. The arms are missing, but the calyx is very unique.

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

Putting a marker down: he's going to start attacking oil companies soon for betraying him or some such nonsense. They don't seem to want Venezuelan oilfields (for obvious market reasons), and he's going to take that as an attack on his personal obsession with stealing other countries' resources.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster