People will absolutely drive 30 minutes to do something not in their house.

Man, no kidding. Virginia, stand up.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Well, this blew up. I do not have a SoundCloud but I do have a Venmo and a recent $12,000/year increase in my ACA health insurance premium. No that is not a typo. So anything helps. Those are all just facts. Thank you.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

BREAKING — Mark Dion, Mayor of Portland, Maine just released this media statement re: ICE coming to the Portland and Lewiston. He says "While we respect the law, we challenge the need for a paramilitary approach to the enforcement of federal statutes." Full statement shared with me:

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Backed, agreed, supported 💯

Coywolf seems a little rough to pronounce. But I guess wolfote is not great either.

Oooof

put this whole speech on a yard sign

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

This dude is intense and correct

If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.

ICE attacked a guy's six kids by throwing flash bangs at his car and he had to take them all to the hospital. He had nothing to do with the protests.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

Ayo this is some A+ comics marketing. Seven issues, newsprint, manga size, $9.99. Perfect. Automatic buy. Good job @fredvanlente.bsky.social, etc.

give DILBERT to Olivia Jaimes, let her just go hogwild with it

We are not kidding or being dramatic when we say this shit. Minneapolitans and St Paulites are making their peace with death this week. How’s your week?

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

I don’t think we need to hand it to Hitler

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

If there is ever a contest for most Goth-looking human being, she stays winning. She is the ideal.

Wel, duh. Especially of cozy mysteries. We KNOW how much you need to relax into fiction.

Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.

Yes, this is an easy one, actually

Steven Soderbergh is 63. ‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’ www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...

Well played

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Early Dilbert could be incredibly on point at times, and it's important to acknowledge that rather than pretend it was always terrible. Scott Adams getting high on his own hype, emerging from his hate chrysalis, then doubling down on it, was very odd. He poisoned his own legacy well before death.

On the list of terms we need to reject as a society, 'non-lethal' is way way up there.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

For Once I Have Been Proven Right and I Will Crow About It Forever: A Poster’s Story

I just went looking to see if a copy of Scott Russell Sanders' tremendous essay, "Under the Influence," was available anywhere online, and it is: sfuadadvancedcnf.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... I can't recommend this one enough.

The idea that Americans are unusually quiescent is a weirdly load-bearing and ideologically widespread position, one that has survived multiple massive protest waves and visible community organizing in the face of violent state repression with nary a ripple. It's really odd

Incredible band. This sucks.

This one feels a little Capital Steps.

I don't think this made it into my Bob Weir profile a few years ago. "If you don't you're in trouble."

Just a screenshot from one of the best films ever made (M, 1931).

Seventeen Republicans join Democrats to pass a three-year extension of tax credits cutting ACA premiums

There are no more excuses: The Senate must take up and pass this clean three-year extension of ACA health care tax credits. Americans’ monthly health care premiums have already spiked.

Repost if you agree: The Senate should vote TODAY to extend the ACA tax credits. The House already passed a bill with a three-year extension that would bring down premiums for MILLIONS of Americans. Now it’s up to the Senate. Leader Thune: Let the Senate vote ASAP.

Melt, and no more be seen