Wasn’t a cause of the Titanic’s demise caused by belatedly turning the ship against the iceberg and causing more loss of buoyancy?

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

A map of all the states that have enacted voter suppression laws since 2010 alone. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

“Evil villain who also isn’t a bigot” has got to be one of my favorite tropes

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The hours between 12:30am and 7am. Whenever in there I'm not sleeping is my time for me

Absolutely. Service and thoughtfulness first. Everything else is after

My regrets are largely matters of timing. Starting college too soon. Staying in a relationship too long. Taking so long to shoot my shot with my wife. Taking too long to move on from no-longer-serving-me circumstances.

0 being fully accepting of myself and all that I do and 10 being criticizing every little thought, action and feeling? Probably about a 5. I'm pretty satisfied with my choices, try to be aware of when I can do better, and when I don't choose to do better I let myself know.

Yes and no. The reasoning for both answers is: once you're dead that's it. Game over. It's just oblivion from then on and my brain can't yet understand the state of not-being.

What's for dinner?

Performance-level proficiency with every instrument

The smartest people in the room are the highest compensated

Not that I have much experience, but governing anything.

*gestures to the current state of the world*

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hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

You know, Europeans can feel whatever they want to feel about this situation, that’s fine, but actually, I have never blamed a country for its dictator, especially in places where wealth equality is staggering and where larger powers exert enormous influence on elections.

John Oliver or someone should do a supercut of all the instances of "Trump says wild thing, probably joking" (time passes) "Oh he did it for real..." Like Muslim ban, fomenting Jan 6, claiming not to know anything about project 2025

Day by day increasing the odds the world’s longest peaceful border won’t stay that way, and for no apparent reason.

Broken clocks blah blah twice a day

Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.

Late to the game but he got there. Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.

These fucking assholes drove by an elementary school during the short window of morning drop off. They want to intimidate us but all they’re doing is pulling every single parent off the sidelines.

You can know more than the things you know. You can do more than the things you can do. Effort, focus, and time (and money) can fill the gaps.

“You don’t get to have any say or opinions about the Democratic Party, which is currently seeking your vote” is quite the claim

“Children’s food contaminated with worms and mold, limited clean drinking water, inadequate medical care among allegations raised by migrant families in court filings about conditions their CHILDREN faced in federal custody.” The “pro life” party popular.info/p/ice-has-st...

His name is DAVID EASTERWOOD and he’s not just “reportedly associated,” he’s the Acting Director of the ICE Field Office here. They want to be badass warrior spies with no mercy, no rules until they face the *tiniest* bit of accountability, then they cry like babies who got their juice box stolen.

Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Trump corruption just made it harder to switch phones between wireless carriers, a huge gift to shitty, predatory telecoms that hate competition. Enjoy the populism everyone!

This feels like the second coming of The Boondocks and I love it 😭😭😭

The EPA says it will stop estimating the value of health benefits of reducing air pollution until it is “confident enough” in its models. But uncertainty doesn’t make an estimate useless. This is like ignoring weather forecasts because they might not be perfect 🙄

Thinking this morning about how many college majors involve 10-20 courses in the actual major, or 2-4 semesters of time. This means 30-60 credits where students *should* focus ~3 hrs per credit per week on that work incl. class time. This is just stream of consciousness + Google so don't mind me.

The lesson from the welfare-fraud scandal in Minnesota is that if Democratic state and Federal governments invest time and effort into fighting corruption and fraud they will receive zero credit for it, but the right-wing media-grievance industrial-complex will still use it to justify pogroms.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Huge mistake by Mamdani to say clearly that a bad thing is bad. He should first triangulate the message and then remove every aspect that might offend Republicans. That's the savvy Dem consultant way.

📌Mamdani is a generational political talent, because he has vision, and is not afraid to speak truth to power, and stand up for what is most certainly good and right. You can do that when you don't come off as scripted, boring phonies, who are worried about offending donors, Hakeem and Chuck.

Recall that *our* part of the "we" is only about 14% of the population, and "we" overwhelmingly voted against this administration. *EVERY* other recorded demographic was close to being evenly split. No one even comes CLOSE to being as against this admin. Source: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

I see a lot of non Black people on here saying, “…we should have done more to prevent this” and I’m trying to understand who is WE?

Federal prosecutors are investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. n.pr/4qqiXvI

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Courts didnt just “start hearing” these cases. Fed’l prosecutors chose to charge “failure of an alien to register” to get a stat, when these folks were almost certainly already detained & in line for deportation. Prosecutors should use their resources for serious crime www.al.com/news/2026/01...

thanks so much to Abby for texting me “EXPLAIN THIS” I am exactly the right person to ask because of course my parents were in it fun fact: technically due to some long-overlooked loophole they are still technically the only people allowed to ride a horse into a church the fits were SO extra

The rhetoric MAGA media is using to describe Minnesota protesters is increasingly unhinged and militaristic -- "insurgents" and "terrorists" waging "guerilla warfare,” looking to provoke a "Fort Sumter moment" and start a civil war. New from me and @slawton.bsky.social at @mmfa.bsky.social

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

The FBI searched a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into classified material, people familiar with the matter said. It is exceedingly rare for federal agents to search a journalist’s home. trib.al/tKsg85n

The filing comes a year after the company completed a high-profile merger combining Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in a $2.7 billion deal.