So, today ICE tried to violate the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

kinda feel like more people should know that illegally entering the US, under what the law actually says, is supposed to carry about the same penalties as a speeding ticket

It's Tuesday. You know what that means. Last chance for a little mystery work before Frosty Faustings too, so you don't want to miss it if you're entered in that. #fgc 💪🕹️ challonge.com/TNM41

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

If you're resistance, if you're opposing something much larger than you - your biggest resource is morale. Celebrate your wins no matter how small, because they are proof, because Gods don't bleed, because every small win underlines that the struggle might be there tomorrow, but it is not forever.

I'm glad the worst people on earth are on their back foot today but until the two murderers are arrested and prosecuted this is all fluff

It's true but also if I pick up a MOBA or shooter I get to interact with the game a bit even if I'm getting destroyed. I hit mobs, I level up, I fire big gun. If I get bodied in a fighter against someone better, EVEN WHILE EXPERIENCED, there's a good chance I didn't interact with the game at all.

I get the anger and understand the reluctance but "you are not immune to propaganda" isn't just a funny thing on a Garfield meme.

The Surprising Physics behind Mommy

The "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people" tweet has echoed in my head for nearly a decade now and is always relevant.

Incredible

it’s that time again

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

A vlog brought us here

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I was told for the last 27 years that the reason we cannot have any sort of gun control, regardless of school shootings from Columbine on, was a need to stand up to a tyrannical government. I watched more and more children die or live in fear to get to this moment. And now, nothing.

There is a need for people to say their stance loudly, publicly, broadcasted, unmistakable, and at times we *do* need those people to be our elected officials. Now definitely isn't it. Everyone else with a voice needs to do this while the people we elect to act on these stances need to act now.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

You can follow the news here: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... Grateful to the people who document this. So sorry for the people who had to witness this, but grateful to them for witnessing.

I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it. Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.

Tomorrow, the Democratic Party of Evanston members will vote to endorse candidates. Unfortunately, the DPOE misrepresented us on the ballot, didn’t tell us, and still has not issued a formal correction. So we’re doing it ourselves:

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

Minnesota is the best of us.

When you and your mates are three pints deep at the Prancing Pony and someone asks you if you know a Baggins:

This is an Elite Beat Agents sequence.

this is the only way to appreciate someone playing a bitchin guitar solo

I'm not going to say give Capcom the benefit of the doubt but what I *will* say is this article is from January 2025, and Capcom has A. Disqualified submissions from a Street Fighter art contest after it was revealed to be AI, and B. Outright has no AI art as a requirement in their Megaman contest.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Its happening!

Thinking about this again today, as most of the right wing seems prepared to blow up alliances & collapse the dollar rather than abandon the leader who pays them their psychological wage. And of course! They're prepared to destroy just about anything to preserve what matters to them most: their hate

Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

LotR discussion is always welcome but the last three episodes have been an exceptionally good time.

Listeners, the power of the Three Rings is ended. This week we fulfill our oath and complete Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy with THE RETURN OF THE KING!

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The absolute accuracy of this.

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

www.npr.org/2026/01/17/g... I know this is preaching to the choir but, beyond the ghoulish nature of our government to cancel this and other USAID grants, the fact that this grant was roughly 0.03% of what just got promised to ICE budgets...there's no words for how lost we are.

As the world's *biggest* hater of Uma, the payoff was far and away still worth it.

If I were hiring games writers I would be laughing like a super villain at my sudden fortune of having Ash Parrish available for work

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Trying to fit NRS games in the tourney schedule:

Shri Thanedar figured it out? SHRI THANEDAR? This is a real low point. This one hurts.