I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Congress must now act as a co-equal branch of government and begin impeachment proceedings to stop this Administration’s lawlessness. My statement: mcclaindelaney.house.gov/media/press-...

ICE agents sure do murder a lot of innocent people. And a much bigger number who they randomly shot who managed to survive.

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

Shout out to @robinkelly.house.gov

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

Y'all could impeach her but I notice that this is not what's on offer.

If you don't know your reps, may I recommend 5calls.org? Click to dial all your state and federal electeds, PLUS scripts if you don't know what to say. Pass it on. @5calls.org

Them: How do you know she's lying? Me: She opens her mouth, and words come out.

Screaming "Do something!" is very cathartic and highly recommended. I would only stress that we have a wonderful selection of politicians and billionaires to scream at. There are men and women who have the power to get things done with a few phone calls and a few checks.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Arrest the murderer. Everything else is social media conversation.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

EASY WAY TO HELP

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

This is beautiful.

I often say "The situation is desperate, but not serious" and wonder whether the inverse might be true as well.

You love to see it.

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Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

"X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter" should be the one and only correct denomination of this hellhole.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

"This has been an extraordinarily hard year for science and scientists: not only in the United States, but globally. Science is how we understand risk, plan for disasters, protect public health, and build a strong economy." Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist | Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech

As someone who wasn’t around for Vietnam and not old enough to cover Iraq/Afghanistan, it’s easy to look at media coverage leading up to those wars and say I would’ve done better. I hoped that journalists of my generation would never have to prove that in practice, but it seems this is our moment.

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

I think the most unfortunate thing about all my correspondences that have been saved and analyzed is that many of my very clever puns do not translate.

Wolfgang Mozart, obvs.

I'm going to repost our oped, bc the climate discourse is even worse than when we wrote it a year ago. 1/ Biden's IRA didn't fail bc of of Sunrise, the left, etc, it failed bc it had no impact on working class lives. 2/ Green economic populism is how we win. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

There was a flare up over the weekend between those who are critical of Dem leaders and those who defend them. In all the many times this has happened, I have yet to see a Dem defender seriously grapple with points like those raised by @mmasnick.bsky.social.

People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.

Thursday Jan 8. The start of something new. A series of consumer wildcat strikes! No money for healthcare, plenty for war! Don't buy gas Jan 8th. #CutTheFuel No U.S. occupation in Venezuela!

this company should be nationalized and shut down

A group of people studied long and hard to produce a booklet to help men with life sentences prepare for their chance at freedom.

Learning about fungi with a talented PhD Mycologist & Author, Dr, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian Watch the full episode below ⬇️ youtu.be/XssNEhhUJMU?... #mycology #nycologist #science #academia

Me trying to get away from my groupies.

Walz: "What Trump tweeted the other night put the Hortman children at risk. They have to look at security. Put my family at risk again. What he's doing the Somali community is unconscionable ... for God's sake, the kids of a murdered Speaker. And [Rs] can't speak up and say 'this is wrong. stop it'"

this is how every outlet should refer to X

This is I think the fundamental point. If the argument is supporting further fossil fuel build-out is "politically pragmatic" you need to articulate either how this will enable *faster* reductions in future or how politics will be *easier* under additional warming. Otherwise it's just can-kicking

I just can't help but sigh heavily whenever this man talks.

Feeling guilty about blocking people on social media is like feeling guilty about using the MUTE button on the TV.

Do you suppose he thinks he's gonna live forever?

The most important class I took in nine years as a higher ed student was "Sociology of Gender" (a UG course I took NFC during my DMA) which completely changed how I see the world, gave tools and language to feelings and thoughts I'd had for years, and set the intellectual trajectory of my life

😍😍😍 besides amazing tunes, beethoven also holds a special place in my heart for the best 'last words' of all time 'pity, pity, too late!!'' about him dying before he could drink the case of wine that a friend had shipped to him, which was being held up in customs all around rockstar!!

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

I followed @jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social and I don't know what it's going to lead to...but I'm sure it'll be interesting.

My mother had 8 children and only 3 survived to adulthood. It's likely that my siblings who died too young would have lived longer if they'd had access to vaccines. My mother's own fatal illness, tuberculosis, could have been prevented with a vaccine as well. Antivaxers are a scourge on humanity.

I wish I'd thought sooner to explain to tradpub editors that illustrating a graphic novel is not like writing a prose novel or illustrating a picture book, a 250-page GN is actually like illustrating eight picture books.

The worst thing about purely instrumental music is that it can be wildly and endlessly reinterpreted...that's also the best thing about it...but still.

I do not write what I most desire to, but that which I need to because of money. But this is not saying that I write only for money. When the present period is past, I hope at last to write that which is the highest thing for me as well as art--"Faust."

I have the gift to conceal my sensitivities touching a multitude of things; but when I am provoked at a moment when I am more sensitive than usual to anger, I burst out more violently than anybody else.