it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs: 1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts 2. cops must be present at all times during protests

Good morning to all but especially to the birds already out on the worm grind

New column today: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Times are tough and most things suck, so here's a Green Heron with a really cool reflection. Most importantly, fuck ICE. ACAB #birds

just gonna post this thread again

“Winter Hunter” Painted on a preserved beech leaf 🍂

if you joined ICE I don't think you just get to melt back into society ever again. I think it should be the albatross around your neck for the rest of your life. I sure as hell won't hire anyone who worked for ICE. hope that signing bonus lasts

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Star Tribune has identified the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good as JONATHAN ROSS after DHS head Kristi Noem exposed details about a separate incident he was involved in during today’s press conference in NYC www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

The Blocks' statement said they "will exit with [our] dignity intact." Wanna bet, you weirdos? I have time today.

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

These are the scum operating on your streets.

The Blocks can rot. As a historian, I hope not a one of them believes they'll leave this earth with a legacy worth honoring. As a Pittsburgher, I hope they leave and never come back, every last one of them. Never let them dine in this town or walk our streets in peace again.

Thinking about how in 80s Minneapolis teens formed Anti-Racist Action to fuck up Nazis. ARA went national, kicked entire generation of Nazis off US streets And that in 2020, Minneapolis rose up for George Floyd & burned down precinct, inspiring biggest uprising in US history

John Fetterman runs away from doing the right thing like he's chasing a jogger in his neighborhood with a firearm.

Every ICE agent and on up has to be investigated and face justice for the horrors they have done, from the first day of the agency’s creation. Abolish. Prosecute. Consequences.

small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him

ICE just murdered a U.S. citizen. This violence is the direct result of racist rhetoric coming from Donald Trump and his allies. This is dangerous state-sanctioned violence. We will not stay silent while unqualified masked federal agents terrorize our communities.

The Trump regime’s internal security enforcers murdered an American citizen in broad daylight. The regime is illegally blocking the release of evidence of Trump’s extensive collaboration with Epstein. They’re agitating for war with France and Germany. It’s completely insane anyone supports them.

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

lowkey the world isn’t actually that dangerous, right wingers just made it that way

When my worst fears come true, they just get replaced by new worst fears. It's not that big of a deal.

Like crows pecking through your garbage cans, these are the days of our lives

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Spineless, the whole lot.

Democrats need to strongly and uncompromisingly demand that Trump is removed from office for illegally starting a war for oil that benefits no one.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

We have to impeach him.

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

The fuck is he talking about? You don’t have to say an “if trump” he calls his media enemies the “enemy of the people” a term used by the Khmer Rouge to describe its many torture and murder victims; can someone check the tape on whether this dipshit - whose desk I asked to spit on when I first…

Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week

I'm happy for your positive life change it's just, well it's really shining a light on my failure to do the same

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

As 2025 comes to a close, I think my favorite lifer of the year was this gorgeous Red Phalarope that spent a few days hanging around a western PA lake this fall. This year was awful in so many ways, but I'm grateful for moments like these. I never imagined an opportunity like this. #birds

everyone who cooks has a favorite spatula, spoon, and set of tongs if they're willing to be honest with themselves

a horrible year is ending. it is now time for a horrible year.

How are dipshits being swayed by MTG’s crocodile tears apology tour

if you venture deep enough into the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, you can meet what’s left of Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Grip