Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

yall missing the keystone reform

🔥🧊

This is such an aspirational thread. Seattle has so much latent potential waiting to be unlocked.

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

🔥🧊

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

"“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

There is no “reforming” this.

Your taxes paid for this.

Thank you for telling it like it is, Governor. I'd love it if you could get the congress critters to understand they should be speaking like you are. Maybe call Chuck.

Abolish ICE. Dismantle DHS. There is no reform.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

remember when the Republicans attempted to repeal Obamacare 70 times while Obama was still in office? how they kept introducing votes that they knew couldn't pass just to frustrate their opponents? bringing this up for no reason

The deputy White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and an “assassin.” In fact, Pretti was a registered nurse working in intensive care at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. This is who he really was.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Society needs to bring back that Pee-wee's Playhouse aesthetic. People don't go out anymore? Give them a reason to visit places. Make them look cool.

I'm just going to point out that ICE is about 23 years old. It was formed as part of the response to 9/11 and was reactionary, performative, and racist from the start. Its not eternal. This is not a thousand-year Reich.

ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds. Deporting children with cancer. Shooting moms. And now, using a 5 year-old as “bait” to detain his family. It’s far past clear: ICE must be abolished. Congress should not give it any additional funding. And the people responsible for its crimes should face charges.

There is no reforming this. Abolish ICE. Dismantle DHS. Impeach the Administration.

NEW: Sen Manka Dhingra (D-Redmond) has introduced a bill that would "direct the withholding of state payments to the federal government if federal funding is withheld..." app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

State Lawmakers Move to Regulate License Plate Readers, Fearing ICE Misuse #waleg

Take Action! The Washington legislature has two hearings on Tuesday on the Driver Privacy Act, which regulates Flock and other ALPRs (licence plate readers). WA residents please sign in and note your position, and provide written testimony - asking them to strengthen the bill (1/N) #waleg

100% agree on this. Claw back ICE funding, put it towards affordable housing. Call your reps and tell them to sign onto the Progressive Caucus plan. reps.fyi

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

People aren’t wrong when they say our tax code is stifling for small businesses. Because we don’t have an income tax (which would better spread the burden among beneficiaries of economic growth), our business taxes have to be higher to compensate. Even worse, we tax revenue instead of profits!

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

On Trump’s “Liberation Day,” he promised that his tariffs would bring manufacturing jobs back to America. But the U.S. has LOST manufacturing jobs in every single month since that announcement. Trump’s economy is bad for American workers. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Been reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the ex-Director of Policy at Facebook. It’s reinforced FB leadership’s profound incompetence, and how Zuckerberg — in particular — has built a tool he can wield to prop up his ego and amass influence at any cost, including human lives.

The Presumpscot River, home of Westbrook, Maine’s “famous” ice disk! www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

NEW // Sunday Video: Seoul Removed Highway, Restored River, and Traffic Got Better www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/11/s...

I will reiterate that no Democratic politician is even capable of commanding a response that meets the severity of this moment. The proper response to the lawless misuse of our institutions is not more institutionalism. It is radical reconstruction. It is transformation. It is revolution.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

“I think we only get to a healthier industry for workers when more studios are sustainable, and more jobs are stable. And things get unstable very fast as you grow.” The industry really does need *more* and *smaller* studios. The last few decades of mergers and acquisitions has been cancerous.

Abolish ICE

Since 2020, when police murdered George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and more than 1,100 other people, more Americans have questioned the role and practices of police in society – and hoped for meaningful reform. So, what does the state of policing look like now, 6 years later? 🧵

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

It took years of corruption to get to where we are now. Right-wing orgs spent $55M pushing Project 2025, political donors spent $15B during the 2024 campaign cycle, and then the GOP steered $170B to immigration enforcement—with many of the contractors having political connections.

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.