This is who I voted for in Fetterman's Senate primary, incidentally

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

“Where are all the campus protesters?” Fucking El Salvador, probably, because of people like you

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Exactly. Protests are a PRESSURE tactic. Who would be effectively pressured by a protest at a campus where there wasn't any collaboration with ICE?

Oh he used one of those Babyfoot masks, huh

So Elon is puppeting her now, right

Update: ritual performed She added a little procession around the potty. For flair, I assume

There's also the fact that Harry Potter just kind of sucks and always has

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

I didn't read the Bovino feature in the NYT but I find it delicious that he is huffing and puffing about being thrwarted in his plan to deport a third of the US population while looking like an old man trying to cosplay GI Joe. The people of LA, Chicago and Minneapolis should be proud.

Clearly I.C.E wear masks not only to hide their identities but also so it won't be clear that it's like the Confederate army after 1864, everyone is either 17 or over 45.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

There is an elusive sweet spot for me between TOO ANXIOUS TO DEAL WITH ANY OF IT and Not Anxious Enough To Deal With It Yet and if I ever I manage to medicate my way to that in-between space I'm going to be fucking unstoppable

Four year old cried when I said it was time to stop using the toddler potty in her room so now tonight we have a farewell potty party scheduled. We will have ice cream, then wassail the potty with a song she wrote: Goodbye potty I love you Now I'm going to use The upstairs bathroom

This is an exciting new constitutional development.

Also kind of an unusual glass cliff situation though because the fascists really wanted any semblance of fair reporting driven into the abyss as quickly as possible

I used to think military strategy/tactical stuff was very baroque and complicated. And maybe it is but also "you can't magically win by bombs" and "don't sail your ships where the enemy can easily hit you" seem pretty accessibly self-evident to everyone except the actual people doing bombs/ships

Oh no not Sora! Whatever shall we do?! Here I thought this technology was ‘inevitable’ and we are ‘simply going to have to adapt’ if we ‘don’t want to get left behind.’

I know I don't have to tell any of you here that ICE is deployed at the airports because he wants everyone to know that they are his personal police force and that he will deploy them anywhere at will.

They were trying and failing to get people to subscribe at $20/mo and each 60 second video was costing the company $15-18 in costs to make. That’s it, everybody, right there. That’s the Economics of AI. Visionary stuff.

I wonder if its signal will interfere with transmissions from the golden Bibi beepers

None of this trash is “inevitable.”

I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good. Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).

Gotta be humbling having a billionaire villain create the Metaverse from your hit novel, "Please Don't Create the Metaverse"

"as a good faith showing, let's do a ceasefire for the precise amount of time it takes all of our assets in place for invasion"

This framing is appalling and, importantly, just fucking wrong - "just $1" is $1 too much, because the charges are illegitimate - it is not illegal in Georgia to induce one's own abortion, so I don't know what "illegal abortion" the AP (or the prosecutors) are talking about here

And much as it is criticized (mostly fairly) I think that social media has played a significant role in this. I often wonder how Iraq 2 would have played out if we'd had robust social media at the time.

For years, when we had conversations about intersectionality, I attempted to include the experiences of children & was dismissed. This is changing. Which is good. What would be GREAT is more people, adults really, being able to hear how much sense it all makes when a child says the same thing.

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

Tragic that we’ll never find out what Dilbert thinks about this war

An incredible country run by extremely normal people

Trying to decide if I should panic buy a router, this is the most ridiculous timelines

Huh well that sounds ominous

I think a lot about how people say the SCOTUS stuff won't be undone for generations and I have to say, there is a poverty of imagination at play there. We need everyone and ESPECIALLY Dem politicians to believe that we can and will fix this, by extraordinary means if necessary (and they will be)

Someone is bringing me worms, someone else is bringing me forsythia to root. Not to be too cute about it, but spring is here and mutual aid is blooming and it's lovely

ICE goons strolling around airports, all geared up, mostly doing nothing on the clock while TSA personnel who've gone unpaid for over a month look at lines of hundreds of people to screen does not seem to be a great way to build inter-departmental understanding or to improve public opinion

what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad

Between this and "the war was Pete's idea, actually," you can almost hear the scape being readied for the goats

If you have ever taken an international flight into the U.S. you understand how ludicrous this is.

DOD needs this

Seems like ICE agents have been ordered to go unmasked at airports. So, a good time to photograph as many of them as possible, so details like tattoos or how they arrange their pouches or patches can be matched to faces later after masked abuses.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

HOWLING

Chekov’s Goons.

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No a single thing happening right now is "hard to message." 1. No war on Iran. 2. Donald Trump is responsible for gas prices rising. 3. The GOP has shut down the TSA. 4. Abolish ICE... etc etc etc

in three weeks they have fucked this up so comprehensively that returning to a facsimile of the previous status quo is now the goal

This is my 10pm dread; he’s temperamentally unsuited to these types of conflicts and I’m genuinely fearful of what he might do out of impatience.

Ukraine has benefited from extensive access to European electricity, weapons, manufacturing supply chains, humanitarian aid and financing that Iran has no equivalent of. Cuba shows how far the US is already willing to go, Gaza how far Israel has gone.