All this is distraction from the Epstein Files. Because otherwise we’d dig deep into the documents and find out the secret: that he’s this weird, horrible, fragile, nasty little broken man. That’s why he’s doing all this very normal, charming, dignified and statesmanlike stuff.

It's gonna be a rough week, so here's one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.

You know what would be a great way to get even more people available to protect their communities from ICE? A general strike

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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)

Coiners: eliminate the need for a trusted third-party AI bros:

LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.” @letterman.bsky.social $PSKY youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...

Amber Glenn is the best www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love...

The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is SLOP! “Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms newcompounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.” 🧵

Apparently, this film came out. My daughter is watching it with her friends at college and she recognized the intersection. It's one of her favorite books (I assume it's dystopian enemies to lovers slow burn).

Ah yes the Transfer Portal has got schools talking about income taxes now. UCF first and Houston responded in a quote.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

I’m at an anti-ICE protest in Encinitas, California. Protesters have gathered on both sides of 10 lanes of traffic. Hard to get more Californian than that.

On one hand, Columbo is a police lieutenant, which is bad. On the other hand, Columbo makes more sense if you view him not as a cop but as some sort of supernatural entity, like a fey

“Wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure.”

obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone

This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.

Minneapolis marches: “Say it loud! Say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here!”

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Some really disturbing videos making the rounds, so it’s a good idea to make sure videos aren’t playing automatically if you don’t want to see them. Go Settings > Content & Media, and make sure Autoplay is turned off.

Americans are notoriously concerned about the nuances of sloganeering, as evidenced by "drill baby drill", "mass deportation now", and "I alone can fix it"

Cue "well, we're waiting" meme

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

All the "is it CBP or is it ICE" pedants must be going absolutely bonkers by now.

Perfect, so when they subpoena and prosecute, they'll get all the financial records of the pedophiles at the same time.

Whoa!

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

The sound of Mardi Gras season >>>>> These students work so hard and are so talented. What a blessing on our community

The Leah Chase School, New Orleans’ only non-charter public school, will stay open.

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build an industrial non-consensual pornography and child sexual abuse material factory in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history."

Definitely, everyone call their banks and see if mortgage rates come down. They'll love that.

Or Dems stick to their healthcare talking points on and on until capitulating and everyone's insurance goes up anyway. ::jackoff_emoji:: more than even @unicode.org

Again my Louisiana lovelies press Cassidy on this (202) 224-5824. You may also add in a plea to you stop killing protestors and Venezuelans. I find calling and getting angry mildly cathartic. Usually you get a machine, occasionally a teenage boy intern.

JUST NOW: At end of press conference, Gov Tim Walz (D-MN) quotes George Orwell “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" (Some Congressional Democrats used same quote Tuesday, on 5-year mark of Jan 6)

Yesterday I listened to @newsagents.bsky.social podcast. They did a segment about how terrible it was that the government was doing nothing about X and Grok. I sent them a question asking if they were still comfortable maintaining accounts on there. They’re still posting on X. They didn’t answer.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Maybe Landry could get on enforcing the law.

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

schools closed unexpectedly for two days, what is everybody supposed to do? take off work, lose two days’ wages because the occupying militia can’t be trusted not to murder their children?

seems like a type of community care that will become increasingly useful is ‘ad hoc daycare for traumatized children forced unexpectedly into hiding from their government’

America has a couch-fucking, shit-eating white dude problem.

I think the ultimate reason many of us older people feel like everything is broken and terrible is that we remember when we had access to general purpose computing devices

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

Remember like two days ago when that Hilton branch in Minnesota canceled ICE's reservation and the Hilton company punished them for it? Boy I think maybe Hilton should be informed about what happened today. 888/446-6677

📢 FYI 📢 Community Organizing Fair Sunday Jan 11th 11am-9pm Orgs tabling 11-6

Blood and stuffies. Trump’s America.