Challenger disaster and R. Budd Dwyer taking his shot.

Fingerspood (Ms Phidippus otiosus) was excited to be out and about on a warm day before it gets cold af down here 💛 #EmotionalSupportSpood #FingerSpood

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

a reminder that AI isn't just cringe; it's part of this administration's toolkit.

It's such a contrast from these MAGA freaks who're whipping their guns out at girl scouts ringing their doorbells, openly fantasizing about getting the opportunity to use their toy on someone, brandishing it while ordering a coffee, etc.

The rightwing gets guns and they're openly fantasizing about using them, telling everyone around them just how eager they are to use them on someone else, "I *wish* someone would mess with me" kinds of edgelord nerd bullshit.

Think about how although Pretti was a gunowner, when he saw someone being attacked his first response wasn't to use the gun but to help them up and ask them if they're ok. It wasn't even on his mind that a gun would be useful. Compare that to the paranoia of rightwing gun culture.

I find this language really gross. First off, it's weak as hell. But second, if your demand is simply that ICE leaves Minnesota, that's just telling them to go to another state to terrorize people. These centrist squishes need to push for full abolition of ICE.

The things people said about me in the 2010s for calling fascism what it was...

If you're talking about Kamala Harris winning the election, it's the same as talking about Deadpool versus Wolverine versus Cyclops. You're living in a world of fiction. People are dying. Pay attention to what's going on around you RIGHT NOW.

America, we have reached a moment when silence is no longer acceptable. Heavily armed forces—funded and directed by the Republican Party—are attacking and killing American citizens. Trump and his administration must be removed from power immediately. Impeachment cannot wait.

“When I see the murder of [Good & Pretti], I see the lynch mobs that killed civil rights workers in the 1960s, I see the Klan terror that [ran through the south]…we have a duty, a mission to unify now or never. Are we ready for this movement to go nationwide [and international]…” —Cameron with PSL.

There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

People say that the GOP is all stick no carrot, that they forgot the bread and circuses. But the thing is these guys are all incredibly cooked in the CSAM slop Nazi bar, playing to a tiny but loud group of utter freaks for whom murder and cruelty *is* the carrot and the bread and the circus.

from alex pretti’s parents:

Bleeding Minnesota

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

Alex Pretti was the best of us. Nothing can account for his. We all need to internalize it, be honest about it, and aspire to be a traitor to the unfair power structures of the world. His coworkers have said he was actively against misogyny on the job. He intervened when Feds brutalized a woman.

cold comfort to those parents but they raised a son who was willing to put himself in harms way for others. we need people like that

ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

no matter how bad you are at your job, no matter how crazy things might get, very few people in modern history have ever been more over their head while in charge of a more fucked up situation than kristi noem

I guess the part I'm past is that a political party is going to do anything for the people? No. They're for their own stocks & interests. All of them. No one is going to sue or vote this evil away. It just has to be stopped. Total rebuild is the only way

oh is it the language of resisting violent racist authoritarianism or does he just mean Arabic?

In addition to abolishing ICE and trying and jailing every single one of those fuckers, disarming US federal law enforcement so they can't casually kill people seems to be a minimum demand for the future.

A l conservative woman I grew up around used to tell me that leaving free things out for the community was foolish because somebody would come along and hoard them all. I eventually noticed that if we were someplace where they gave away something like toothpicks or salt packs, she would hoard them.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …

… Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background

They watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

The rush to lie about and justify the murder of Alex Pretti, whose ruthless execution was filmed from multiple angles, is astonishing. If that's how they respond to a well-documented case of lawless abuse of power, how do you think they'll handle the ones that aren't filmed?

The list of possible reforms is quite short: abolishment and imprisonment.

chris murphy supports ICE and will never help dismantle it. Do not trust this man, he is not on our side

Some people say not to call them Nazis because there are antecedents in our own history, while others are over-reliant on outside examples. But it's important to acknowledge the mingling of our own trends and history with global fascist legacies and movements because that's our reality.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

They just figured it out.

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

The federal government is terrorising communities, brutalising anyone they chose, immigrant or not, breaking its own constitution and killing its own citizens. It is doing this to distract from their flagrant illegality & corruption, and to protect powerful paedophiles. The USA is a failed state.

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

There has to be a word beyond outrage for when this loathsome, lying pack of slovenly frauds uses a Web 2.0 version of the Klan to publicly butcher the best humanity has to offer and then dare you to question their right to do it and laugh in your face about it

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Policy-wonking will not save us.