Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

joining the war on cars on the side of going to the beach on the weekend

homeowners are offline, renters we run this joint for the next hour

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

He has a constituency. It is just not many average voters. Spend some time with political operatives/journos/pols who are over 60 in DC. In private, they complain about AOC and “wokeness” as much as Trump/MAGA. (And to be fair, plenty of elite Dems 40-60 have these same sentiments.)

we've developed a tool that supersedes and renders obsolete the guillotine. it's called taxation. we've never quite had the courage to deploy it as indicated.

Orwell once observed that the British were able to dislike Prussian militarism despite possessing an Empire because the Empire was defended by a navy, and a navy was "an external weapon which cannot affect home politics directly".

Arendt: "“The so-called hypocrisy of British politics was the result of the good sense of English statesmen who drew a sharp line between colonial methods and normal domestic policies, thereby avoiding with considerable success the feared boomerang effect of imperialism upon the homeland."

I was friends in high school with Alex Pretti and he was so smart and kind and funny. I can’t fucking believe this

America does not have an immigration problem. We have a nativist bigotry problem.

Conservatives love doing the opposite of occam's razor. "Over 10% of people are on food stamps because over 10% of people are in poverty" is too simple. It has to mean there are actually half a billion people in America.

Happy Halloween, the holiday that reminds us that it’s fun and cool to give every child a welfare benefit

Food stamps remind me of vaccines, we basically eliminated hunger like we eliminated measles, both incredible human accomplishments the GOP is determined to reverse.

One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.

I think it is also important for Greenlanders to stay cautious on their way to the doctor, as they might accidentally obstruct the work of a law enforcement agent and get shot

Reuters reports that U.S. officials have discussed offering lump sum payments of $10,000 to $100,000 to Greenland residents as an incentive to secede from Denmark. It might cover two or maybe even three hospital visits in the U.S., depending on coverage plan, networks, and luck

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Everyone who seriously, genuinely considers themselves left of center in any capacity should be actively asking themselves and their immediate colleagues and comrades: "what would a constitutional and political state of affairs look like where these events are made functionally impossible"?

Good attitude to have

We gotta abolish Border Patrol too

the US is (i'm reasonably sure) the only current democracy where the term dates for federal office holders are set in the constitution with no wiggle room to change them under any circumstances (or at least that's how we've always interpreted it)

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

Proportional representation creates a structure where extremist parties must moderate rhetoric in order to become coalition-eligible. PR systems reward voice, not **rupture**. Compare this to winner-take-all systems, such as the system in the US, where losing is often politically existential. 3/

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

The largest socialist organization in the US (which, notably, does have a council-level presence in the Twin Cities) really ought to return to the kinds of discussions it was earnestly having during Trump's 1st term: constitutional overhaul. How can we be the parliamentary agitators for new law?

We have an executive branch that's on a crime spree against the American public. The other branches of government can use their constitutional powers to put a stop to this. If they decline to do that the only other remedy is in the declaration of independence

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

Conservatism is best understood not as love of tradition but as a reaction against egalitarian challenges. We do not have any concept of trespass in Germanic or Gaelic law traditions. Trespass is not ancient—it is Anglo-American and its maladaptive.

The NSDAP was not primarily a party of the unemployed proletariat, nor of the landed aristocracy—it was a party of status-anxious middle-class voters. This is one of the most stable findings in modern German historiography. Nazism was rooted in middle-class radicalization. 4/

If we had a functional education system in the US, the general public would have a functional understanding of world history and how to think and communicate coherently. The reason that we don't is American Conservatives and the Republican Party that represents asset holders. 1/

Nordic resilience was not inevitable. It was built deliberately, slowly, and at moments of real danger (1917–1935). American Conservatives treat institutional reform as a threat rather than a solution. Extremism is not a pathology of belief It is a symptom of institutional failure under stress. END

The fundamental difference can be summarized: Nordic systems normalize loss: you lose today, negotiate tomorrow. American systems moralize loss: you lose today, and the nation is stolen. Radicalization is less about ideology than about whether institutions make defeat survivable. 14/

Low institutional trust, high constitutional rigidity The US combines: Deep distrust of government With an extraordinarily hard-to-amend constitution This creates a paradox: people want change, but institutions cannot deliver it. That gap is where extremism grows. 12/

Universalistic welfare states Universal, not means-tested Administered locally but guaranteed nationally Framed as citizenship rights, not charity Universalism reduces resentment between social groups Prevents welfare from being racialized or moralized 5/

Nordic societies built tripartite institutions linking: Labor unions, Employers’ associations and the state. This meant that class conflict was: Recognized as legitimate Managed through negotiation rather than street politics Anchored in durable organizations 4/

What distinguishes Scandinavia is not the absence of conflict, but the early institutionalization of conflict. Nordic states adopted **proportional representation** (PR) early in the 20th century. Radical movements were thus drawn into parliament rather than forced to operate outside it. 2/

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

Currently, the organizational leadership of ICE/CBP is telling agents to be more aggressive, not less. This fits with a pattern of impunity we see with authoritarian security forces. For example, the are rewarded for the number of arrests, which incentivizes indiscriminate arrests.

Stephen A: Skip I want to ADDRESS the issue [Bayless nods] You KNOW I think no one deserves to die Bayless: Absolutely Stephen A: BUT!

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron? A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

i just got out of the feature length adaptation of All You Need is Kill and i'm very surprised to say this but: tom cruise and edge of tomorrow executed on its themes better