Day one: we are reinventing the news Day 10: I need alcohol to be on television

personally I think that a core reason why many people don’t want kids is because they just don’t want a constantly screaming, incontinent creature in their house that costs a lot of money, but it’s still not socially acceptable to just honestly say this up-front to pollers

Speaking personally, I don't think you should be able to be a cop anywhere if you have DV or other violent criminal convictions, and I'd also say that even excessive charging without conviction should give hiring managers pause.

It’s telling when journalists are able to find the active voice. In my mind, the feds are the aggressors, but even if you wanted a more “neutral” framing, you’d make them both subjects in the sentence (Feds and Protestors Clash) rather than making the feds the helpless object of protestor action.

We used to call this subtweeting and also yes

Flock literally should not exist.

Those liberals have already heard the progressive suggestions but want something more conservative flavored. Probably with a side of anti-immigration bigotry.

COMER: We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress Q: Would you rule out bringing Trump in for an interview? COMER: President Trump has answered thousands of questions about Epstein

This is why those of us who live here keep telling you he cannot be our president. For every fun “anti-Trump post” there’s something like this.

Does he mean the ICE presence when he talks about thousands of violent criminals? Because he can get rid of that problem today if he cared.

Hegseth? More like Hagueseth

What the fuck, my fellow millennials? 21% STRONGLY FAVORABLE? That is too damn many of us with a horrid opinion on the world and you clearly did not watch enough Sesame Street. Fred Rogers would be disappointed with you.

“Do not do free labor for evil” says it very very well.

"ICE agents suck and should be prosecuted, and ICE should have its funding cut" is now the majority sensible moderate centrist popularist abundance third way blah blah blah position. Anyone who says otherwise—as many 'data-driven' 'liberal' pundits still do—is really just MAGA without the hat.

Only 2 points underwater for full abolition in public opinion polling? That's a couple strong opposition statements away from net positive support for abolition.

If Dems say "Abolish ICE" it will thermostatically swing on the other direction. Just say "These things are bad and we oppose them!"

Mayor Mamdani issued a fine statement denouncing an antisemitic arson attack against a synagogue in Jackson, MS, and half of the responses say he is at fault for refusing to denounce anti-Israel protests, while the other half say he is selling out Palestine by caring about antisemitism at all.

Lol at that Copilot commercial. If your scouting department is using AI as part of their process you deserve every moment of being a Jets fan

People amazed at the quickness with which Minneapolis Mobilized should know that the structures the community built to survive the last time we were occupied by an invading violent State Force never went away because THE COPS WERE NEVER DEFUNDED.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

This is good.

Never do this. NEVER EVER. The odds that the AI will be wrong and you will harass an innocent are too high. AI is not magic, NCIS is a fictional TV show, and no matter how much you like Abby she isn't actually real. This is a bad thing to do and people who suggest doing it should feel bad.

Positive Bill: Arizona Democrats want to remove surgical requirements for trans folks changing gender markers on birth certificates, requiring only a notarization. They also want to extend gender options to include "undesignated or other". AZ HB 2222 legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB22...

Arizona Democrats are making another attempt to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the anti-discrimination protected classes for Employment, Housing, and Public Accommodations in state law in AZ HB 2217. legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB22...

Guys I appreciate all the support but I want to be clear that there are thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of Minnesotans doing what I'm doing right now. Most are just everyday neighbors, nice old folks, college kids, baristas, who cannot abide what they're doing to OUR CITY and OUR NEIGHBORS.

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

My wife who works in healthcare told me she's out on The Pitt because apparently they're both sidesing ICE in an ep this season and the new main character lady is trying to bring AI into the ER. I thought she was making it up to get me pissed off but no lol she was telling the truth

Target Corporate continues to rack up Ls and reasons to continue not patronizing their stores.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

"the excesses of wokeness" as a broad social phenomenon is one of the most made-up things that ever happened and every single time a progressive person did something obnoxious or mean or stupid it got blown up into evidence of cultural rot, down to individual college students and Goodreads bloggers

anyway as i have said many times — and literally just wrote on saturday — i think we should abolish ICE as well as unravel DHS and i welcome elected officials who embrace both outright but i am also aware that any senate majority will contain moderate and conservative democrats who need an on-ramp.

They are slowly realizing the emptiness of their power. It grew. It peaked. It is dissolving in the face of Compassion! The armor of their Arrogance is buckling! The shields of their Hatred are breaking! The spears of their Malice are snapping! They are on the verge of an undignified rout!

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

I don't consider myself "far left" (I guess if I had to label myself I'm probably pretty close to DSA level of left, but not quite there) and I'll happily say Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE, don't replace it, send those funds to SERVICES. Immigration is a mess, but more cops won't fix it.

The idea that Americans are unusually quiescent is a weirdly load-bearing and ideologically widespread position, one that has survived multiple massive protest waves and visible community organizing in the face of violent state repression with nary a ripple. It's really odd

maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”

Disabled person standing in solidarity with the NYSNA in their quest to achieve appropriate staffing levels and workplace safety measures!

Ban his platform. Hell, CHARGE HIM. Make the case in court that he has known about the problem and not only refused to address it but actively defended it.

This is the early activation of the Quarterly Social Media Estimated Tax Payments Warning System. If you make quarterly estimated tax payments, your Q4 2025 payment is due Thursday!

And even if he signed it into law, Congress can't trust him to follow through with faithfully executing it. People really gotta understand that their president is a criminal.

Worth noting that the only people being violent and rioting are CBP and ICE.

at the end of 2025, i joked with some friends that if 2026 wasn't going to be an improvement, it should at least have the decency to start out terribly, rather than getting our hopes up today, i would like to apologize for my apparent unintended misuse of the lathe of heaven

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

i wish people would mention Keith Porter more. His life was cut short by an off duty agent on NY eve and barely any media mention of it.

I’ve been listening to Marketplace for 25 years now and Kai Ryssdal now posts like we post and I can’t help but worry that this means circumstances have broken him as much as they’ve broken us

If any part of the Constitution is going to be effective against thugs who have no regard for it and state and local authorities who are throwing up their hands if not actively supporting them, it’s going to be because people do stuff like this

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty. Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold. That is a meaningful difference!