To put 200 active measles infections in one state in context, the Disneyland measles outbreak a decade ago - which I did some work on in grad school - was 131 total cases in California. That was a notable outbreak. That's an outbreak with its own Wikipedia page. And it's just like this now

Mom's for Liberty sure know how to pick em.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

Ah yes, we all know that the most effective way to find and arrest child molesters is to approach random people on the street and interrogate them about their accent.

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

This is the spirit of democracy

I mean, this is unironically the establishment Dem theory of political persuasion.

they do not have the guys reminder that some months back they put out a call across DoD for civil servants to volunteer to go be detailed to help ICE and something like a total of 100 people responded

The "everyone is 12" thesis of American political dysfunction remains undefeated in 2026.

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

“Undocumented immigrants are outbidding tech workers in the Bay Area for $2 million homes” vs “Property management firms who own ~2% of all single family homes started the decades long housing crisis”

This guide here is incredible. People in the Twin Cities have really thought this out and created an extremely robust system that people can just drop into.

This is why the old guard types knew that they had to play the long game and keep up the pretenses of constitutionalism. Their goals are the same (the subjugation of undesirables), but they disagree over tactics. High pressure situations like this often lead to the biggest opportunity for change

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

I'm okay with this

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

“Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what's most helpful to you. Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.” - OpenAI Ads Principles In practice:

Walz: “Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Fed’l judge tells the administration to stop violating the rights of people in Minnesota www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

35 minutes after posting, this post by a mirror bot of Virginia State Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas already has more reactions on Bluesky than her actual X account, which has 45 times more followers. And some would still say Elon Musk isn't messing with the algorithms...

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm man

the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.

NARRATOR: this reporting isn't correct

the post everyone got mad about for two hours has been updated turns out it's the opposite actually

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

This already exists. But cool story, bro…

great time for folks to re-read this

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

I’ve never been to Minnesota but from what I’ve seen of Minnesotans all the armies of the world could never defeat these people. 💪💪

Walk past them and vote.

The lady in this photo is autistic and ICE agents dragged her out of her car as she tried to go to the doctor.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.

Attention Florida Cubans! Trump murdered a Cuban in Texas. You could be next

MAHA tho

One thing we really need as a country is to start getting ppl to appreciate MLK & co. as hard-nosed, ruthless political strategists who took on an entire Confederacy’s worth of murderous authoritarian oligarchies and won. And they actively kicked out doomers and edgy weirdos from their movement.

A federal court dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking access to California’s full voter registration database Thursday, warning that the government’s bid for the voter records “threatens the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy.

US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance. Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!

Anthropic: Best for coding applications Gemini: Best for summarizing meetings and taking notes Grok: Best for harassing women and sexualizing children ChatGPT: Best for assisted suicide

If you wrote a novel about how "it can happen here" and had fascist paramilitaries carrying out a pogrom and giving themselves participation awards with skulls and carrion birds on them, you'd be panned for being hyperbolic and unrealistic

The White House thinks the government should be allowed to kill you if you flip them off hahahahahaha. Weak babies 😭😭😭😭

In a hearing on violating student protesters' free speech rights, Reagan appointee Judge Young say of Trump: “It’s fairly clear that this President believes, as an authoritarian, when he speaks, everyone, everyone, in Article II, is going to toe the line absolutely.” Background buff.ly/Ub0LzR4

With the caveat that I am not a real historian, just a scholar of 19th/20th C European politics: Even the Nazis in Germany did not initially go after kids as primary targets. They killed a lot of Jewish, Roma, and disabled children, but mainly as an afterthought.

once again: the civil rights movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.