Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here

The attorney general is threatening a state that the federal government will continuing murdering its citizens in the streets unless they provide access to state voter rolls, a lawless demand which is the subject of ongoing litigation.

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

"Everyone is 12 Now Theory" seen in the wild:

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?

FUCK ICE and those seven house democrats that voted for more funding for this bullshit.

Having an argument where this shooting might have somehow been “justified” and I’m going to lose my goddamn mind

Trump hates America’s cities and the diverse communities that coexist there. His only interest in America’s cities is yoking their wealth and productivity to drive his domestic and foreign terror campaigns. He’s a mad king who’s deployed an army against us.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.

We should also talk more about how too many Republicans do not see entire swaths of people as actual people. You don’t casually muse about starting a war if you see troops as humans with lives and families. Normal people don’t fantasize about those from other countries dying for their own amusement.

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

China is the world leader in wind power.

cc: SCOTUS

Good stuff youtu.be/Rem4OSSuVCc?...

this is literally why the 25th exists but our politicians are absolute cowards

I've been saying to get rid of your ring for years, but SERIOUSLY. Get rid of your ring!!!

Drivers on the NJ Turnpike understanding that they need to turn on their lights when it’s dark and snowy outside Challenge level: Expert Plus

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

The US does not need to steal Greenland because we can have any security concession we want under the status quo. US companies are also free to make mineral deals there, but almost none do because it's not commercially viable.

Kind of think this should be the standard (obviously would have to get creative at national level or use microscopic font lol). But I think there is a significant portion of this country that thinks that swearing in on the bible means you’re swearing to obey that book

Crazy that they want to create a new state and add two senators and a representative for a place with 60,000 people that are hugely socialists, including no private ownership of land.

The EPA (Earnings Protection Agency)

Slightly diminish a band: The Stationary Wilburys

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

There’s a certain point at which if he’s gonna no longer be a part of the equation, now would be the time. I don’t know if it would actually make a difference on this but “detonating NATO” can’t be something even the business ghouls want

i think these absolutely deranged right-wingers have convinced themselves that the average American believes that it's acceptable to publicly execute nice white mothers because they have pronouns in their bios i also think this is a gross misrreading of actual public opinion

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

I want a bong load "*",8,1 of that.

a pretty accurate heuristic for this admin imo is that they're less likely to do things that are Actually Hard, which is orthogonal to how many people they hurt. deporting lots of people in a legally defensible and popular way is Actually Hard. it is possible, just not for them.

This is not how you endear the citizenry to your authoritarian consolidation plans, btw

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

2016 vs 2026 More gray, mostly.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

This week: we execute a U.S. citizen. Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.” It's so transparent what's going on here.

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There is no democracy if half the populations believes the penalty to even potentially disobeying instructions from a federal officer is immediate death. Wesley Hunt is an absolute goon.

Particularly when conflicting instructions (“‘Move! Stop! Open the door! Keep your hands where we can see them!”) are being shouting at you by multiple officers.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Why not? We can abolish ICE just as easily as Trump got rid of USAID.

If we had a normal President, he'd express human decency and offer condolences for the MURDERED U.S. citizen under his watch. Instead, we get a paragraph of propaganda and excuses that put the blame on the victim – a tactic Trump has used on women for decades. Disgusting.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

Next we're withdrawing from the Make People's Lives Prosperous And Enjoyable Commission, the Keeping Everything From Being A Total Misery Institute, the Living In A Peaceful World Fund, and the Partnership For Not Living In A Hellscape because those are Weak and Contrary to US Interests 😒

One of Trump’s ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. We need an immediate investigation into the ICE officer, accountability and justice. My heart goes out to the family and the people of Minnesota. ICE is clearly not making us safer. This needs to stop.

City Hall in the fog.

Observation in the field (airports, one suburban grocery store, a large shopping mall) over this holiday break has confirmed to me that among other problems we have a bona fide Crisis of Spatial Awareness