Minnesota pays ~$119 billion to the federal government in taxes and receives only ~$75 billion in benefits. If the Trump administration decides to withhold funds from liberal states and those states stop paying, the government will be broke very soon.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

jesus

Democratic leadership doesn't understand that people being disappeared from the kitchen table IS the kitchen table issue.

This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.

I reshared @siembranc.bsky.social's excellent toolkit "How We Dealt with Border Patrol" in NC just this morning in my newsletter before this horrible killing. It's worth people reading and then acting on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

This is a lie and should not be spread. Renee Good has a wife, who was, horrifically, in the car with her when she was executed by the government. It is flatly untrue to assert that child has no one else in his life.

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According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle. This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.

"An eyewitness told MPR that ICE agents gave conflicting orders to a driver in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, with one agent ordering her to drive away from the scene where an ICE vehicle was stuck in a snowbank while another yelled for her to get out of her car as he reached for the door handle."

Outside I ran into Minneapolis Chief of Police Brian O’Hara who says he will abide by an arrest warrant should it be issued.

i'll take it

"States can prosecute anyone for violations of state law, regardless of their rank or authority. Murder is a felony in the state of Minnesota, as it is in every other state." @ddayen.bsky.social

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

Gift link: wapo.st/4sspUOp

It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

Not to mention that they have a duty to do so. We should at least act as if the Constitution is still in force, and impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors is not really optional if you take your oaths seriously

Symbols actually matter. They make it clear you give a fuck and where you stand. Symbols motivate action which creates change.

More importantly, average drivers do not cause the bulk of street safety problems. There’s an 80/20 rule in street safety, and for the deadliest drivers, speed and risk are the reward. Prudent, anxious drivers (and transit users) are most interested in AVs, not the worst drivers. 8/

Thoughtful thread. Also, comparisons between autonomous vehicles driving carefully pre-selected routes and human drivers aren't 1:1.

If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

The district he is running in is BLUE blue. He is running to make the country less blue. That is what he is doing.

Conway is one of the millionaire Republican assholes behind the grift Lincoln Project that pours donations into their consultant pals. Anyone who supports his move into Dem party politics is a fool.

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

Wonderful little article about the 10th anniversary of a wonderful little lesbian bar keeping Durham NC a wonderful little queer haven.

Better Schumer: "Given this reckless behavior that puts the United States and the world at grave risk of war, I will direct my membership to vote against the Jan. 30 CR to fund the government until we can be confident the Trump admin. will not pursue military action without Congressional approval."

Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it. /1

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

you have to hold your finger on this miniscule bump for 3 seconds to release the EV charging cable plugged in here. why isn't designing something so profoundly awful a career-ending mistake? Easee's a Norwegian techbro 'disruptive' company btw, with plenty of scandals sifted.eu/articles/how...

In general it has been fascinating to see years of EV tech being consumed by early adopters, enthusiasts and car-guys and then a huge range of obvious issues emerge once broad society tries it and finds a massive swathe of basic design problems across charging, vehicle interfaces, etc

Of course, they could have just designed a button that looks and behaves like a button. It’s not hard, so why do so many designers screw this up?

lol designers. Thread.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

Ok, didn't look up that the podcasts were in 2024. But Pam Hemphill? She's a professional interviewee selling a redemption story. What about interviewing former Rep. Matt Rosendale about why he went into the alley behind the RNC and waited 18 minutes, emerging minutes before the pipe bomb was found?

I can provide interview questions for a dozen current and former members of Congress who had direct, on the ground connections to Jan 6 backed up by video.

Zohran pulling the Carcetti maneuver with the Williamsburg Bridge is good because basically all I want a mayor to do is go around and point at janky stuff and tell someone to fix it

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

I get that nothing will come of this but if you want people to think a thing is bad you have to do things like this over and over, no matter how futile it feels or is. There's a reason the GOP voted at least 60 times on pointless attempts to repeal the ACA between 2010 and 2016.

Rousseau had a warning for those rulers who think “might makes right”.

The only US colony of substantial size, the Philippines, was already transitioning to independence pre-WWII, which is why it happened immediately after. It did sometimes get muddled because of anti-communism, to be sure, but the official US policy during and after WWII was always pro-decolonization.

The US pushed for decolonization. This was a point of contention as far back as FDR and Churchill clashing over it during the war. That's why it was baked into the UN Charter. We also excluded colonial empires from NATO coverage. Eisenhower threatened to crash the pound sterling over Suez, etc.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Some very good science news for a change; Congress is poised to reject Trump's horrible 50% cut to NASA's budget: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

These headlines came 25 minutes apart

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.