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I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

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It’s absolute negligence that Delta wouldn’t stand up to this. Just absolute collaborator stuff.

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It’s wild to see each day how shameless the president is. To accept that peace medal is so embarrassing!

Shoot this right into my veins.

ICE hired a journalist without a background check, drug test, or anything else. They gave her a six minute interview and then listed her on their website as having joined ICE. This journalist was/is my friend @laurajedeed.bsky.social youtu.be/x9H7Li9NShA

"Every day, those pissy goons go out looking for trouble, and every day people who never previously imagined that they would do such a thing tell them to fuck off, absorb outsized violence for doing so, and resolve to do it again the next day."

Measles outbreak in Snohomish County, lots of exposure dates & locations. LMK if you can’t open the article & I’ll get you the info Measles outbreak declared in Snohomish County www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

100% Embrace joy whenever possible and don’t shame someone else because a new rollerball pen or fuzzy socks made them smile.

ICYMI John Roberts laid out a welcome mat for more Republican election interference on Wednesday The Supreme Court ruled in Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections that candidates have a right to challenge the rules governing the counting of votes in their elections ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

WED JAN 21 - 7:00 PM The Greg Proops Film Club* THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD Dir Martin Ritt Espionage, intrigue, crosses and double crosses. *Curated By Jennifer Dig it Live Cinebabies at the Los Feliz Theatre @amcinematheque.bsky.social www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

No they should trust a guy who drives around with a falcon and a dead bear in the car if your last name wasn't Kennedy you would've been the star of a True Crime podcast by now and not the host

ALERT: My office has received reports of heavy ICE presence near 12th & Maple in DTLA in the Fashion District. Agents are actively walking the area. If you have info report to: LA Rapid Response Network: (888) 624-4752

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let's say the president wants to suppress the vote in detroit. assuming a conventional 20 soldiers for every 1000 civilians ration, he would need more than 12,000 ICE agents — more than double the current number of field officers — to occupy detroit and only detroit, a city of 630,000 people

Fourth graders doing what they can to protect their friends. Even children know ICE are the monsters.

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Imagine if Obama or Biden seized oil from a foreign government after kidnapping the president then put $500,000,000 in a foreign account in a country he does business with only he controlled. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-trump-...

Yes. All of it. Thank you, Senator. I hope that my senators, @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov, join you in trying to hold them accountable. It is well past time to do so.

It’s part of the way I deal with stress/trauma, so I say this with the utmost respect, but I had a vision of the Ken Burns doc on all this, and it has to be slow pans of Norm’s sepia toned posts underpinned by fiddle arrangements of Paul Westerberg’s “Waiting for Somebody.” Goddamn heartbroken.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

I agree that things will get much worse. As a wise man once said, “…take care of y’all mentals…” 💙💚

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

In Minneapolis

Note the restraint and toughness you’re seeing from Minnesotans….then also note that a lot of those people are of Scandinavian ancestry to one degree or another. Seems important right now.

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The last word of every sentence is in italics here, the better to imagine the Beastie Boys rapping about quicklime.

Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.

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It was not long ago that conservative Christians were angrily mocking those of us who noted that extremists were dogwhistling with "Christ is King" and "Jesus is Lord." How gross, they said, to claim Candace Owens was being antisemitic.

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The cool thing about Pete Hegseth is he's going to break every single law on the books, no matter how old or obscure.

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Does this include the Trump organization, whose Azerbaijani property laundered money for oligarchs with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

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lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

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First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away. Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?

end qualified immunity

Battle of the Bulge Episode 2: The Malmedy Massacre:

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

The UW Center for an Informed Public just released a framework for “rapid research.” It’s pitched as academic. But read closely, and it’s a manual for reporting on how rumors disrupt real communities. uw.pressbooks.pub/rapidresearc... /3

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

I know the lady candidate had a funny laugh or whatever, but there wouldn't be ICE goons going door to door if she had won. Maybe some folks should have voted.