It'd be really funny if someone in congress were to file articles of impeachment in the same general form of the Declaration of Independence on June 28th this year.

Dude they’re radicalizing grandma.

Something pure and simple to brighten your day.

oversized shirts are silly but they do make you look bigger.

I love this guy.

Everyone who is like “hahah the police will always stand with ICE,” kindly shut up. Your city didn’t go through what our city is going through. Even our observers - not exactly pro-cop people - have noticed distinct hostility between ICE and MPD.

Observers are also listening to police radio chatter and they aren’t, let’s say, being friendly about the feds. You can be the coppiest cop alive and not appreciate a barely-trained, heavily armed rabble bombing the city with tear gas and causing unrelenting fear and chaos.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

I also love that when she was asked about Frey's refusal to call for disbanding ICE, she said "well he can go fuck himself". Chipper, middle-aged minnesota lady talking about church volunteer groups, voting out establishment dems, and how much we need "socialism".

Sir Ian McKellen delivering a sweet monologue from Shakespeare’s “Sir Thomas More” (I saw this on tiktok and clipped it.)

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

shoulders / chest ✅

Rorty: “A liberal society is one vhose ideals can be fulfilled by persuasion rather than force, by reform rather than revolution, by the free and open encounters of present linguistic and other practices with suggestions for new practices.

i pitched “furious minds” to a work friend, because more people should understand what’s actually behind the maga right.

Preach.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Not really, according to this Reddit Post: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?" I told him to read more Fanon

Since the fascists in Texas have decided Plato is too queer to be allowed in university courses, here’s some Plato, from his record of Socrates’s trial, at which he was put to death for practicing philosophy. This is, imo, one of the best things ever written.

i keep seeing people circulate claims that “one of ours, all of yours” (featured on a DHS podium noem spoke at) was a nazi slogan. i have found zero evidence that this was a fascist slogan. if anyone has any (the actual slogan and not just specific instances of massive reprisals) please share.

Banning Plato from your university is pretty much the loudest way to scream “we hate free thought and despise the western tradition” i can think of.

Something to consider: people who aren’t on social media are largely unaware of what’s going on, even if they’re liberal or left-leaning. Talk to them. Be concrete and specific.

Today’s poem: Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy” (excerpt) #lunchpoems #blackhistorymonth

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship. No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

i would like a cute guy to come sit in my lap on the sofa and snuggle. but i don’t want to talk to anyone. also i have work. (paradoxes of modernity.)

it is tuesday! wow!

Midnight’s Children

back / arms ✅

I appreciate that people are coalescing around this opinion.

This is my version of a joke.

They’re straight up nazis, folks.

Abysmal. Wretched. Psychopathic. Robert, you should stick to the foot porn.

Any left-liberal who can look at Jamelle Bouie and conclude “Yeah that guy is the problem” is in fact the problem.

Pragmatism is awesome.

Rorty has a funny bit where he’s praising the New Testament as a vision for a future that never happened, and he says something like “we’ve been waiting an awfully long time for wealthy christians to behave any better than their pagan counterparts, and still no dice”

Today’s poem: Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B” #lunchpoems

the world is going to shit but i love the people on this site.

Yeah I’m sorry this is gorgeous.

People suck at this challenge, and it leads to the most stupid unforced errors.

it occurs to me that the basic flaw in the “nazis are at your door asking for jews” thought experiment is that it still assumes that you, standing at the door, identify as different from the people being hunted down. we’re not different.

it’s kind of insane how overt the misogyny on the right has gotten.

It seems to me that journalists as a class have been so heavily conditioned by the rat race for clicks and attention that their sense of personal responsibility to inform the public and serve the public interest has been almost completely lost.

But when one of us, a Korean War veteran, told this young man that the fight we had been having in the bar had been his fight, too, the young man said, "I lost my conscience a long time ago," and turned and walked out.

happy monday! up to 195 on the scale this morning.

It doesn’t matter that something is intended as a distraction if it is, in its own right, objectively more important than the thing being distracted from.

Dude it’s not from a “place of weakness” if he’s getting away with it all, consolidating power, and doing irreversible damage to our society and our institutions of government. You don’t get to say he’s weak when nobody is stopping him.