If you don’t think BlueSky is a bubble, have a look at the block lists you’re on and the block lists that the people you know subscribe to. This web site is full of people who want nothing but validation of their priors, and who want to punish wrongthink.

Simply mind-boggling. Racist ace of spades cards left behind following ICE arrests in Eagle County, Colorado nonprofit says, via @coloradosun.com

FIFA is directly involved in Trump’s treachery. They should be boycotting it forever.

Dark.

Whenever there‘s a blizzard in Denver, I go out with my 4x4 and a tow chain and help people in flip-flops and a hoodie get their cars unstuck.

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

When I was a teenager in the 90s the existence of "videos of people dying" was the stuff of urban legends or the supposed content of lurid, hard-to-see underground movies like "Faces of Death." They weren't the main focus of national news for weeks at a time.

If you, like me, have been wondering why Minnesota leaders can't seem to do more than beg Trump to leave... @vermontgmg.bsky.social lays out the stakes www.wired.com/story/why-mi...

This is the logic you use when you want to isolate and cut off a city and then turn it into rubble. This is the kind of thing Putin’s stooges in the Duma said before he turned Mariupol into Aleppo.

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I think we can safely say two things: lack of training for new recruits was not the cause, because they are far from new recruits. Also, this is how border patrol normally behaves at the border. They’ve long been a feral criminal gang. The solution has always been to throw more money at them.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

@jamellebouie.net and @radiofreetom.bsky.social are the most patient people on this web site.

i really like the people telling me to read a history book

I think we can safely say two things: lack of training for new recruits was not the cause, because they are far from new recruits. Also, this is how border patrol normally behaves at the border. They’ve long been a feral criminal gang. The solution has always been to throw more money at them.

Trump sending two gay men to Iran to certain execution as early as tomorrow.

Yes.

Hundreds of constituents braved the cold today to protest in Longmont. The lawlessness and cruelty being perpetrated against the American people must end. I voted against the ICE funding bill — the Senate must do the same this week and block the bill!

Statement from Alex Pretti’s parents to CNN: “We are heartbroken but also very angry… The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.”

ACORN lost its way but it was also the target of a hatchet job. If you ask me, we don't spend enough energy going directly after Republican groups and influencers they way they attack us.

🚨 JUST OUT from @schumer.senate.gov ▶️ "“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included." Now we are going to need him and every one from Sen. Dem to hold the line.

The parents of Alex Pretti, killed today by federal agents in Minneapolis, live in Colorado, per the AP. Renee Good, killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan 7, grew up near Colorado Springs. apnews.com/article/immi...

He wasn’t murdered by an ICE agent, he was murdered by a border patrol officer whom AFGE cannot confirm was not a member of AFGE.

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’ Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota. Read now: zeteo.com/p/dhs-shooti...

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

This is a scam PAC run by Natambu Foley out of Alpharetta, GA. According to OpenSecretws, it is a Carey PAC only allowed to promote Kamala Harris. It raised $1.9M in 2024 and spent only $200,000 of it on supporting Kamala Harris. www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...

When this pencil dick is frog-marched—and he will be frog-marched—it will not have been soon enough. Every one of these monsters must pay for their crimes, and an example must be made of them. There can be no turning of the page.

There's some of that Seth Moulton fire I remember from when he was running for office, which instantly died down after he was elected and he turned into a legislative potato. I know these people have it in them. I helped a bunch of them get elected in '04, '06, and '08. Bring it!

remember when erick erickson was haha’ing about tossing his opponents out of helicopters?

all i have to say is that certainly the mind behind dhs' social posts, and the mindset of a lot of people in this admin, the online nazi mindset, is "there is a plague on this country we must eliminate and anyone who stands against us is a brainwashed race traitor," and theyre acting accordingly

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

The chair of the DNC is from Minnesota. Democrats in Congress need to follow his lead.

I think this would be a good time for media to contact every local pro gun lunatic and ask them now that they’ve achieved a nation where even a straight white guy with both a federal and state background check and a CCW permit can be executed without trial by jackbooted thugs, was it worth it?

Renée Good had just moved to the twin cities from Colorado

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Laying a honey trap for JD Vance.

Are you within 200 miles of the White House or Mar A Lago? Are you helping to organize a protest at the White House or Mar A Lago?

I checked facebook just now like an idiot. It does not matter that he had a concealed carry permit, if he didn’t want to be executed, he shouldn’t have been carrying a gun to a protest say people with Kyle Fucking Rittenhouse as their profile pic.

For years I’ve been telling the base on twitter and elsewhere who complain about dem messaging that they aren’t the target audience, which is true. But when dem politicians come on here, there‘s only one audience and it’s not low information nonvoters. Pols should adjust their message accordingly.

So I don’t see it this way. I think the Dem establishment wants to win a majority in the House and Senate and thinks ducking policy debates around immigration is part of a winning strategy. And I wish I could confidently say they are wrong. But I can’t.

Sickening. Abhorrent. Lawless. This cannot continue. The Senate MUST block the ICE funding bill this week. Full stop.

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest. DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir. That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We actually do want professionalized police forces that are well-trained, but training is not the current problem. Also this web site is currently very exercised about the term, and I probably wouldn’t use it here just to avoid a meltdown in the replies.

Do not let black bloc motherfuckers start a conflagration for their own jollies. They don’t live there. They‘ll go back to their comfortable homes and leave yours in ruins.

This is critical. It’s very tough to explain in depth right in the middle of this crisis when emotions are high, but you just have to trust that this is not the first time this has happened in the world, and this is well-studied and well-understood. Be strong, be brave, be smart.

Rights for me but not for thee.