Every time you log into X, you are signing a contract that allows Elon to sue you, for any reason or no reason, and have the case assigned to a court where he’s virtually guaranteed a win

To put 200 active measles infections in one state in context, the Disneyland measles outbreak a decade ago - which I did some work on in grad school - was 131 total cases in California. That was a notable outbreak. That's an outbreak with its own Wikipedia page. And it's just like this now

I’m hearing people freak about a military deployment to Minneapolis but it doesn’t change much. It’s scarier but the same. We still outnumber them 100 to 1. They have more guns than us either way. They can shoot us either way. They’ll probably be easier to find and follow if they’re in a tank.

I feel like this pretty much sums up the rot at the core of American civic life as a whole. “Hold the fuck up, cowboy. I signed up for the great power, not the great responsibility when I signed up for the church/media/government/think tank complex/etc.”

i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.

They’re gonna study this shit in 50 years like we study the FLN now bsky.app/profile/rhut...

Mad King, taxes & spending (not run through our legislature) designed to punish states that do not love the king, standing armies terrifying otherwise peaceful cities: when they said Make America Great Again, I had no idea they meant 1775!

The level of organization here is impressive. I hope someone in this Minneapolis/St. Paul effort is writing down a field manual of best practices - what the military would call doctrine - so that when ICE moves on, other places can replicate the tactics that work and iterate on them.

Colleges are closing as we hit the demographic cliff (people stopped having as many kids after the housing crisis and it’s now 18 years later) and they don’t have enough students. The Trump administration’s war on foreign students also doesn’t help. Up to 400 expected to close over the decade.

This guy is far more responsible for what’s happening that almost everyone else in politics

I have been defeated by this burrito and cannot finish it. I know this means burrito for lunch tomorrow but it's so good I want it now

I often think of the man at the back of the bus from Holborn to Euston who was eating liver pate straight off of the pack with a knife, reading about ancient philosophy.

POV: you are A.P. Hill on July 2, 1863, and you could have sworn you just heard someone say “I don’t plan to let you do that” in a Minnesota accent

Camo with reflective vests is a small chuckle among the horrors.

Look at the superior race, out there melting in water

He is hell-bent on destroying everything for nothing

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

Here's a little secret about what ICE is doing. They are including all agents who died before ICE was formally created in 2003 when telling us how dangerous being an ICE agent is. How do I know this? I went by the fallen agents page.

One day during the 1941 Disney animators strike, the animators brought a guillotine as a gift for Walt and his lawyer Gunther Lessing. That’s Looney Tunes legend Chuck Jones leading the parade.

and if you don't, you can still take pride in living your life in a way that would make your great grandpa spin in his grave.

if you are feeling bad (understandably!) about the state of the US, may I strongly recommend visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington? I did so the weekend before the election and it has stayed with me in a very good way

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

There's still a lot of work to be done in combating the scourge of corporate compliance with fascism. But the next time a business gets a chance to become a regime puppet, they're likely to think twice because of your organizing.

Lang's boys are vastly outnumbered by folks in opposition across the road here. People chanting, "go home Nazis" and "Nazis fuck off!"

dc juries out here doing amazing shit for the people

A fucking toy store because they are outspoken in their defense of their neighbors.

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

This is correct. I don't trust politicians who aren't pro-trans, because the only quality I'm looking for in a politician is that they will use their power to protect marginalized people. If they're willing to sacrifice trans people, they'll be willing to sacrifice anyone.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

One of the most vile aspects of the administration threatening our allies is that those alliances were paid in blood. Our grandfathers bled for those friendships. They were brothers in arms through nightmare wars. Our reputation, our honor, wasn't Trump's to sell and we'll never get it back.

🚨THIS🚨 He represents the best of us. Veterans have been shit on more than most people realize.

now that dems have a trifecta in VA, I hope Spanberger keeps charging ahead like this. no quarter. show everyone else how it's done.

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

now THIS is POSTING

this entire presidency is so fucking stupid man national self-immolation led by a senile pedophile because 49.8% of American voters are either fascists or dipshits

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

Martial martial martial martial this has been driving me insane but I don't want to be an ass about it

A big part of the reason I still call myself a liberal in addition to a socialist is that freedom of speech/assembly/voting/movement are non negotiable and don't trust the political vision of someone who's okay trading one for the other

Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia. It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.

The ICE guy I was tailing decided to show me he knows where I live. You can’t really see in the video, but as he drove past my place he reached out the window and pointed at my apartment. Real tough guy

The actual journalists left at @cbsnews.com wanted to do journalism and not report things they can't verify, but Bari Weiss said, "Nah I like this story, so I want you to report it like it's a confirmed fact." As widely noted, this is not how you do "news." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-c...

Minneapolis unions call for General Strike on Jan 23rd against ICE 5 major unions have joined the call so far & the list is expected to grow. paydayreport.com/5-minneapoli...

wild that this would be a presidency ending offense most of my life and is just nothing now

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said

A lot of people keep learning that the Gov Newsom who posts online is nowhere near the same as the Gov Newsom who podcasts & that's because one Newsom is crafted by a queer Latina who understands how messaging works and the other Newsom is the guy who can't stop shooting himself in the foot.

While we’re in the streets demanding ICE Out For Good, Democratic leaders are dodging questions about whether an agency that teargasses babies and kills innocent people should continue to have a budget bigger than most countries’ militaries. It’s pathetic.