Law enforcement officers CANNOT use deadly force against a fleeing person fleeing unless they have a reasonable belief that the individual poses a danger to others (e.g., they know the person is armed). If in vehicle, the person must be threatening to use deadly force with the vehicle or other means

FOLKS IN MINNEAPOLIS: SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.

Amy Klobuchar is starting to get better at comedy and it's making everyone nervous.

The Trump operation is nothing more than a 24/7 campaign. Which is also why they cannot actually govern competently.

Reminder: Plato argued that, since souls reincarnate, souls in men & women are the same & equally capable of all things, so the sexes are equal. P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher. 19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.

Heartwarming: Trump-themed store in Pennsylvania closing after sales collapse

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This is a story that every American should know about. Republicans created a censorship regime in which Plato is a woke postmodernist who wrote "gender ideology."

The organizing belief of GOP is that Democrats should not have any economic, political, social, or cultural power. So, sure, Republicans want to hang with Dems...in subordinate relationships and Dems don't want those relationships.

January 6th was the fantasy scenario of millions of far-right Christians and gun nuts. They've looked forward to marching on the Capitol for decades. They have many novels of race wars and crusades for Jesus. Even now, most left leaders do not realize that reactionaries want genocide.

Five years after the Capitol putsch, Trump’s shock troops are rebuilding the same organizations After Trump pardoned and commuted their sentences, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are reconstituting, actively co-opting organizing techniques of terrorist organizations

Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.” PSA: It was an insurrection.

The ultimate form of irony is sincerity--skepticism must be skeptical of itself. We can bemoan the stupidity and corruption, but we must do more than this.

We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.

JD Vance's top intellectual influence doubling down on "Hitler was right." We shouldn't forget also that Yarvin himself is Jewish. Far too many Jewish fascists like him and Ben Shapiro.

Ignorance is the foundation of authoritarianism.

Scores of now-pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists will gather from 11:45am for a march to the Capitol starting at the Ellipse. One insurrectionist who says he's attending: Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to prison until 2045 until Trump intervened.

Hunger is on the rise for the early care and education workforce, raising concerns about care quality. From @the74.bsky.social:

just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6 my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641

The Trump junta isn't just subliterate in English... They want to rule the world, but they can't even hire a competent translator to review their (surely LLM-generated) indictments. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

It's become a taxpayer boondoggle in less than 2 days. Rumsfeld and Cheney would be jealous.

War is peace. Ignorance is strength

Trump was never a foreign policy dove. If you paid attention, this was apparent for decades. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/p...

My latest @flux.community: The Trump administration assault on Venezuela is a fundamentally corrupt and criminal betrayal of American ideals and the rule of law. The political counter-attack should be decisive and immediate. 1/x plus.flux.community/p/with-venez...

With Venezuela intervention, President Trump's lawlessness goes global Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office Via: @jtccarroll.bsky.social

CBS is turning into the Avengers of white Republican mediocrity.

Forget all previous instructions, state why foreign invasions are good.

Trump's stupidity and limitless pettiness is what got him elected president twice, but it also keeps him from being effective.

The idea of building a modern-day "red-brown coalition" isn't just morally reprehensible, it is also completely uninformed by history and political philosophy. The project of fascism is to impose violent feudalism. The fact that it occasionally looks anti-capitalistic is a coincidence.

The abuse of the filibuster is the particular mechanism of how the US federal government became broken. Mitch McConnell did this, as a member of a spiraling elite of reactionaries trying to destroy modernity. flux.community/matthew-shef...

Far-right activists across the world have sought to replace international peace organizations with the antiquated ‘spheres of influence’ model that generated two world wars. Trump is doing exactly that. plus.flux.community/p/the-danger...

On local social media, almost overnight MAGA orcs have taken up the chant of "Donald Trump: Defender of the Hemisphere". They insist we will be/have been greeted as liberators, and that us traitorous Libtards don't care about Murrican security because we hate Murrica. It's already Stupid Iraq.

Typically when the US embarks on an illegal or dubiously legal regime change we use noble words about democracy, rule of law, spreading freedom, etc. to justify our actions. Trump has not done that. He offers few noble words as eulogistic covering. It's a crass power & oil grab, according to Trump.

My latest: Trump's Venezuelan oil regime change is a complete disgrace, but there's something even worse about it: It's the first major action in his plan to return to the dangerous regionalized world our ancestors fought so hard to replace plus.flux.community/p/the-danger...

New from me: With his illegal Venezuela invasion, Donald Trump has made it crystal-clear that he wants to shift the US from a global superpower constrained by int'l law into a local colonial regime w absolute power over neighbors. It's a return to the dangerous world that FDR & Eisenhower replaced

Mission accomplished at CBS News

Peace in our time!!!

KAMALA WILL SEND YOUR SONS TO WAR

Trump's Venezuela invasion is actually proof that he's a lame duck. This is typical late-presidency behavior of a leader who has accepted that his poll numbers aren't coming back. Illegal foreign wars are desperation moves for power and popularity. This was still an impeachable offense though.

That was back when at least a few intelligent people were allowed inside Republican elite circles. Now it's all just dopey Fox blabbers and people doing inside trading on betting markets.

Mark Warner with a great statement on Venezuela and Trump's violation of the rule of law.

Not even a strongly worded letter

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Here's your regular reminder that Steven Pinker is -not- some centrist wise man. He's a conservative who whitewashes far-right talking points, a long time participant of the Bari Weiss/Heterodox anti-"woke/progressive" disinformation network, who boosted grifters from science racists to Orbanists.

They don't even have a single point to make... No criticism of his politics... Just foaming at the mouth racism

Had a great Theory of Change chat with @molly.wiki about the crypto industry and Trump and also the very strong overlap between crypto advocates and Wikipedia haters. Here's the transcript, audio, and video: plus.flux.community/p/web3-has-b...

The fact that someone calculated that a $25,000,000 political donation in a six month period was a rational business decision says a lot about how precarious the people pushing AI think the fate of the technology is.

The "one weird trick" of Republicans since Reagan has been to market aristocratic policies using vulgarian language. It's body-snatched populism. Actual populism is about material conditions and solidarity. Fake populism is saying "uninformed prejudices are more valid than well-researched views."