Every British law is like "we've banned ninja swords from being owned by ovulating immigrants" and every American law is like "we've subsidized human consumption of cattle-grade sorghum with a tax credit program of 50 billion dollars over 10 years"

I don’t know what film school is teaching “unnecessary-flashback-episode-late-in-the-series-order”, but I wish they’d stop

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

"They start by questioning the assumption that CEOs necessarily seek to advance “legitimate” ends. Instead, they suggest that a persistent issue is predation: the exploitation of asymmetries in information and power to the disadvantage of shareholders, creditors, customers, or employees." 🔥🔥🔥

TJ vs. K-State: #BlueCy

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

Just saw the trailer for Wuthering Heights, which seems to focus entirely on the two lead actors. It’s been a long time since I read the book, but based on what I recall I don’t understand how you make it a two-hander???

as upsetting as this is, we have no historical evidence that Ben Franklin would even comprehend what you meant if you gave him a thumbs up.

Dear Adobe: SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOUR STUPID AI TOOLS Why is it that EVERY TIME I open a document in Acrobat, I have to x-out of a pop-up offering to summarize it with AI? Why is there no “never show this bullshit again” button? Why is there no “FUCK YOU” button??????

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

[stares directly into the camera]

I think about this post a lot

Lotta nurses going home tonight to have tense words with their cop husbands

from Threads: HereswhyKevin "where's the gun?"

"What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent's head in her hands and keeping his airway open. "’I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,’ she said."

If I ever get murdered by ICE, I know much of BlueSky will be loath to defend me once the news reports on my many speeding tickets. But I want it noted that I got a zillion speeding tickets *in my twenties*, and that as a 40-something lawyer I drive as slow as the rest of you nerds.

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

I think this is interesting. www.ice.gov/news/release...

They managed to radicalize Seth Moulton, of all people. Goddamn.

My guess is that in the crazy upside-down world we live in now, every murder by ICE makes additional murders by ICE more likely. These guys are feeling more and more beleaguered AND more immune from consequences with each new violent incident.

What is happening in Minnesota is unacceptable. This needs to end, now.

It’s as bad you think it is. Worse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is one of those things that in another administration couldve been a months long scandal if the media wanted it to be. call it AgentGate. What did Bondi know and when did she know it? Weeks of opinion pieces etc etc.

Hooooly shit. This really drives home how much damage the imbecile has already done.

I just thought everyone should see this

if it brings bluesky any comfort, thanks to declining us life expectancy he's already long dead statistically speaking

waxy carcass ass president

Me: *chopping onions* Wife: Are you crying? Me: I used to have a pet onion when I was a kid

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

The whole internet loves Musicology Duck, a lovely duck that talks musicology! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck has been kidnapped

This thread is like an action movie and at the end there are videos to prove it’s real. Cannot recommend highly enough.

You're paying for this. Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs. Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.

this is fucking incredible

This is what American patriotism looks like and it's going to win.

We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...

It took less than a year under Trump 2 to turn midwestern moms into the Free French under Nazi occupation.

Please answer honestly: do you remember or did you ever see that there was a video clip of Donald Trump calling Kamala Harris a “fucking bitch” in the summer of 2024?

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.