"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

You too can make a whopping $40 per hour, provided you're a best-selling author who's won a Hugo Jfc even I make more than $40 an hour

Look they might even get it passed if they title it carefully enough. The Donald Trump Restore Public Decency Act or something

They’re so worried about preserving American heritage and culture from an influx of Latin American immigrants that theyre sending Spanish-speaking tough guys into the streets of Minnesota to summarily revoke our first Amendment rights 🤡

Still can't believe they immediately put the officers who killed Pretti back in the field. Even if the shooting had been justified (it wasn't), it's just incredibly callous and reckless -- to the public, but also to the officers themselves. Just a sociopathic dearth of humanity.

JWST has taken a lot of cool images, but this one is near the top of my list: thousands (!) of creepy fingers point toward a dying star in the Helix Nebula. The close-up is… well, just look for yourself. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/inside-the... 🔭🧪

The key to the far right’s recent ascendence is the realization that if they simply go on traditional or social media and describe things that are completely false but they’d prefer to be true, many people will treat this fictitious reality as, at least, a competing theory that must be dignified.

-[2nd amendment freaks spend 50 years insisting everyone should be allowed to carry guns to resist tyranny] -ah, well, no, not like that

I’m old enough to remember when we were against this

An encounter with white separatists decades ago led to new deadly force policies for some federal law enforcement. Minneapolis is raising questions about whether it's again time to revisit the issue.

I'll say it again: Minneapolis will be their Gettysburg

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I didn't get my way so I'm hoping it all collapses, that will show them they should have convinced me to vote for them!

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

My favorite meme is a dot-matrix printout of a Usenet post that we passed around the dining hall

America as An Idea is globally unique and uniquely powerful - part of why the US has had so much soft power. And also probably why the current betrayal of that idea feels so hard for so many people, both in the US and outside.

I hate the idea of folding because the US has not atoned for its past sins. We cannot do anything about that, but, we are here right now and what can we do to stop the current atrocities? It feels like loser talk to say "are you surprised" and those people are just giving up.

I fear my tipping point into madness is people who hear their fellow Americans raging against ICE’s unlawful activities and respond with “actually, this is exactly what America has always stood for”. Ok well thank you for that extremely helpful contribution

Be the person who is horrified at ICE, not the person who is horrified that people are shocked by ICE

This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.

Seriously, you guys need. to. stop. Canada will not “happily take in“ any American who wants to leave the US

Transcript of Mark Carney's speech

Almost like mayor and senator are completely different jobs with different responsibilities!

.Charles C. W. Cooke: "He's unfocused, and he's wild. I don't know if it warrants the 25th Amendment, but we ought not to downplay how capricious and manic he seems." https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-manic-greenland-pursuit/

NO

BlueSky undefeated in the humorlessness arena

The problem is people (and especially too many in the media) view him as an entertainer. He is not held to any standard at all. And Americans just seem to think government ought to roll along without them choosing their leaders wisely

This is so ridiculous, because the very first of the large scale operations in Los Angeles led to the widely publicized, burning and destruction of multiple police vehicles! Meanwhile, the most “violent” thing to happen in Minneapolis *done by protesters* was a car got broken into late at night.

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models will offer unprecedented insights into how our brains work

Their framework is "my side good, their side evil". They might have chosen their side based on a coherent ideology, but now their other core identities are wrapped up in their political identity. They can't get past the sunk cost of admitting they've been wrong.

What I’ve learned about American politics the last decade is there is an annoyingly sizable population that does not actually believe in anything and simply imprints on the latest thing they heard on the radio like a duckling

who in their right mind would travel to the US for the world cup or olympics seeing what is going on rn

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

That's the point of the violence: To take a handful of incidents and get the media to blow them up into a narrative that the government is omnipotent and that protesting is foolish

Normal people hear “it’s hopeless” and reply with “so what do you want us to do, give up?” No. They want to convince us that the only available option is armed revolt. Don’t fall for it.

"Onramps" & "Offramps" aren't just part of elected politics either. The first step in becoming a more persuasive person is getting over the idea that the things that you believe are *obviously* superior and that persuasion is "fixing" "ignorant" people so they think more like you.

What’s popular on BlueSky isn’t necessarily what’s popular among their constituents.

"People might disagree with you even if you are confident that you are right" is a weird message to be repeating to adults but apparently lots of them need it.

There's a lot of "all or nothing" people on Bluesky who don't understand that almost all of the hard-fought victories for human rights over the last century came through incrementalism.

How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers lbpost.com/news/how-cal...

truly shocked that some people thought there was ever a chance of making this place non-toxic. did you not hang out on Twitter prior to Musk? this kind of platform is fundamentally poisoned, as is all social media and nearly every kind of online community

Reagan is a chromatic dragon who moves through time and possesses various human beings and makes them do his bidding

This whole thread reminds me of my frustration reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. He laments the horrific treatment Nathaniel Ayers received in mental institutions in the 1960s, then later laments that Ayers can‘t be sent to an institution bc “Reagan closed them down” like … hmmm

No one would even want to use ChatGPT if Google just started all its normal search results with: "Wow! That's the kind of question that someone who is smart and also hot would ask..."

Idk man I think we should maybe try to punish anti-social behavior and reward pro-social behavior because the opposite is NOT GOING WELL

any post that breaks contain will be read by the dumbest people you've ever met and boy are they thrilled that they can make other people see their thoughts