2001: A Space Odyssey has been on TCM today and it’s remarkable that they managed to make this before we landed on the moon. We just aren’t afraid of space enough to make sci-fi like this anymore.

you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred

Yeah the right wing posting machine has got nothing in response to this

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

*sarcastically* bing-bong

the training thing is a useful instrumental lie to hamstring DHS ability to put goons on the streets and expand legislative oversight. it would be cool if people would recognize it as such and move on instead of arguing with every damn press statement announcing that a Senator is doing a good thing

Democrats spanning from Jim McGovern to Seth Moulton have publicly called for abolishing ICE and there are clearly Dem votes for a shutdown so naturally "why aren't Dems saying anything?" remains the easiest way for low-effort clout chasers that don't pay attention to anything to rack up RTs

No need to call Cortez Masto fyi

Someday I’ll find out if Yu Darvish can actually throw all his secondary stuff with his other arm

Seb Gorka’s in charge of making the case and nobody likes him

So are the Knicks just going to be bad for four years or what

I think of Seth Moulton as a Rob Riggle character

One of our big advantages in this moment is that these guys are so used to lying to people who will believe anything that they’ve become incredibly bad at it to a new audience

Bluesky Pro Tip: Don’t DM A Stranger Like This

I don’t say this to be glib, I’m just observing that Bluesky is packed to the brim with 37 year old white men who regularly attend protests, so I think this event is going to play out a little differently On Here than most.

Minnesotans love and believe in Playing By The Rules!! It is probably the highest-trust state in the damn country. The details here DO matter to a huge degree to a huge portion of the so-far-uninvolved populace. I have MAGA chud HS classmates who were upset about Philando Castile. It matters.

I keep seeing leftist posts about how him being a legal gun owner doesn’t matter and we’re all fools for adopting their framing, and that’s too-smug nonsense. It matters to all the normal Minnesotans who want a reason to say “well it’s complicated” to keep from getting mad.

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.

This is exactly why it’s so important to not shoot back as well

Concealed carry is legal in the state of Minnesota

I don't think I need to add any words to the "video is horrific, don't watch it unless you're prepared," but the real concern is it's clear what little discipline ICE had is collapsing under the stress and constant opposition and that's real dangerous.

The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”

I’m going to go for a walk, that was an execution in the street. It’s not going to be fun to be on here today.

Okay yeah don’t watch this it’s absolutely worse than the murder of Renee Good. There’s like six to ten ICE agents beating on the person and then one just opens fire.

I’m sorry but as someone who has a book and a PhD on this exact thing, this is just straight up not true. The majority of Nazis discovered living abroad (particularly in the US, Australia, and UK) faced almost no legal consequences beyond the occasional loss of citizenship.

It’s cool that through phrases like “Drop Off Port” you can tell who gave him bad information recently. Transshipment is a Howard Lutnick thing.

Deeply jealous of the 100 degree heat at the Australian Open

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

Now watching

Re LRT: I’m quite alright with MN Dems staying out of the protests. Making them partisan undermines the message, its way more powerful that all of this came organically.

Counterpoint: that kind of thing doesn't play as well in Minnesota as it does elsewhere. Politicians who shove their way to the front of a protest are perceived as trying to steal the thunder of the real organizers, and Minneapolis is a city of organizers. So a lot of local pols tend to hang back.

It used to be that the single sentence summation of conservatism was “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect”, but now it’s “We can do whatever we want and you have to be nice to us when we do or else”

They’re trying to do another Cadaver Synod

I can't get over this bit. Jesus tapdancing Christ.

Went for a walk outside and it’s so windy and the roads are so salted that I came home dehydrated

People say that viewers and readership don’t matter, the billionaires will keep funding their news outlets, but a newspaper that’s all propaganda and no interest isn’t going to get read by anyone they’re trying to reach. You need things like the sports section so people read the propaganda.

I'm sorry, I cant get past how weird the bottom half of Kyle Tucker's face is. He's like a talking shovel made out of skin and hair.

INSIDE PAUL MCCARTNEY'S NOTEBOOK C G Nurse Nancy's feeling fancy dancy Am F At jamborees with Brother Jim * INSIDE JOHN LENNON'S NOTEBOOK To Do: ☑️ look up more slurs for wife

I love it when people ask questions like this to try to trap people. We had a whole bunch of requirements that moved people to vaccinate their children and they've been slowly dismantled by kooks! You don't need to vaccinate at gunpoint, just bring back the requirements!

a very good, thoughtful Helen Gao piece on actual *life in China* at the moment - and whether the economic slowdown and social crisis is making for a more interesting, thoughtful way of living for young people. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/23/c...

You have to admit that ICE running their car head first into a pole with anti-ICE posters is a great visual

These numbers are incorrect. The methodology they use is not appropriate. x.com/i/status/198...

"Environmental Insurrectionist" is a great example of how the right can only learn new words when they're being used to accuse them of crimes and then they only learn their meaning well enough to turn the accusation on their enemies

I finished Indiana Jones and the Great Circle last night and you could make the argument that it's the second best Indiana Jones movie? Just a remarkably well done story and characters that I enjoyed immensely. Play it so maybe they'll keep making them.

Boy, I sure don’t like the Vice President insulting the life I live by calling it meaningless

In case you’re also wondering this: it’s because SNY is still owned by the Wilpons

Somehow, Quadro Tracker returned

The regime has no impulse control