Was feeling down on my job etc this morning, then "We Can Do It" came on and I was like "dammit Ice Cube from 1999 is right! Gotta put my back and/or ass into it"

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going

I get why people would want to believe that the midterm elections will go just fine and hopefully they will, but let's not pretend things like the Wilmington Coup didn't happen in the US. Five years ago we saw a coup attempt happen live! None of those people are in jail for that now!

Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)

Played through this with two kids recently, it was great. We've played a bunch of other GMT COIN games together and the oldest was like "this made me want to get back to the relative clarity of Vietnam and Malaysia"

Sorry but how many times did we say that Gaza's charnel house and Columbia's campus were the proving grounds for the coming billionaire-funded surveillance-capital network-state fascism

The trick being pulled here is that the very AI being touted has polluted the entire ecosystem with garbage. Why is it remotely better to trust "Gemini" to "suggest" things than to just look up the actual facts using a browser search engine? Why would you prefer a salesman to an encyclopedia?

This is a worldview that makes the transatlantic alliance dependent on European states adopting the Trump administration's ICE-agenda far beyond anything even FdI in Italy or SD in Sweden have contemplated defenseanalyses.org/work/the-res...

The groyper end of the MAGA state have turned the cult of SOF into a full-blown religious creed cc @sodrock.bsky.social

Guys like this who also write for the DARC edgelord "think tank" represent the intersection between the intellectual Landsknechtisation of US SOF and the radicalisation of the US Right

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

You know Trump is a lame duck b/c the regular guy who called him a pedo to his face is still alive

I hope the poor schmuck who will the the first American to die in the war between the US and the Demark-Sweden Alliance at least voted for Trump three times. Why not throw a little karma in this mess

these thinktank nerds are putting their slimy fingers in an increasingly-leaky dike. they are not pushing public opinion but rather trying to smush the AbolishICE toothpaste back into the tube—an impossible task

Wonder if ICE takes MLK day off. Gotta admit there's some layers of irony either way

This has been true since the 1950s when the pace of technological + social change outpaced the ability of politicians to apprehend it, much less keep up or get ahead of it. More than ever authority figures rely on summaries and advisors, hence their love for lobbyists, influencers and AI

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

You can literally see the point in the mid-1970s when neoliberalism's artificial austerity starts to drain all vibrancy out of the world

Amazing essay that feels like it gets to the heart of why queerness will always be revolutionary in a heteronormative society like ours

Really loved this, from @taliabhatt.itch.io, on strains of anti-radical and accommodationist feminisms, and their fundamental hostility to lesbian perspective and ultimately to lesbian existence. taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/political-...

I have to say I thought DHS would totally hang Ross out to dry and use the focus on his individual prosecution to distract from The Purge, but joke's on me for underestimating their stupidity

100%, I would just add that it's one of the few works about "The Power Of Stories" that really earns its subject matter. And the art is incredible

Browning's lines "I love thee to the level of every day's/ Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light" are almost too true and beautiful to bear

“abolish ICE” is polling better than gay marriage did in 2008 but we better treat it like “abolish the nuclear family”

I just don’t think the real problem with Trump’s American Einsatzgruppen is that they’re “poorly trained “

If you're in Massachusetts, LUCE is a great organization to join, but if you go to the bottom of their website you can see a coalition of groups supporting immigrants across the state.

when agents shoot people in the face directly under Bovino's supervision, that's what the training gets you. When Bovino taunts and threatens members of the public and electeds, he's doing it as a highly trained senior officer.

anyway I think the way to puncture the "training" bubble is pointing out that people like Bovino and Ross are senior force veterans doing that training and they're the first ones to tell you that none of their actions are mistake or error right now.

There are a lot of big words in this but I was able to read the whole thing and it’s really fucking good

During my few years as this institution, I heard repeatedly about this particular legendary, beloved teacher. I just couldn’t bring myself to adopt such winning qualities: megalomaniacal control and verbal abuse. Probably wouldn’t have worked for me anyway, because I’m not a man 🤷‍♀️

Noticing that liberal capitalist societies support immoral systems of exploitation while sometimes funding complementary systems to ameliorate, but not challenge, the constant exploitation, creating a decaying feedback loop requiring infusions of cash from territorial expansion and speculation

paypal mafia + founders fund dude is ambassador to denmark? yeah no this is a thielworld joint, 100%. these are authentic, homegrown, unethically sourced, artisinal techbro brainworms that they are simply sharing with the king. they are not the king's brainworms. bsky.app/profile/capi...

a real third-eye-opening theme in matt levine's money stuff column is that a lot of "investing" that isn't just "put money in index funds" is really just a way to demonstrate group affinity. this applies to meme stocks, obviously bogus crypto projects, etc., but also all kinds of way to spend money

Vance’s slanderous denunciations of Renee Good, a person decent in ways he can never hope to be, boil down to “she was a race traitor”

The only way the next democratic administration is going to do anything even somewhat resembling reforming and rooting out lawless thugs from ICE and elsewhere is due to sustained popular pressure. Otherwise, the instinct from the Dem elite to just turn the page and move on is going to be massive

GenAI is a window-dressing project. Everyone either oohs and aaaahs at its parlor tricks or its deceptions while healthcare systems, insurance claims, and parole decisions are offloaded to algorithms trained on citizens’ expropriated data.

it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs: 1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts 2. cops must be present at all times during protests

"Jon Ross" was merely a vessel for the will of John Roberts

John Roberts killed Renee Good

Hate to be that guy but: read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe if you want to grasp what the hell is going on right now. We’re living in what he calls the Society of Enmity

This police-against-the-populace model has deep roots in both the Jim Crow south, where cops enforced segregation, and the industrial north where they were deployed against organized labor

It's not an excuse, but it is worth remembering that mayors in most cities very much do not have control over their police departments if the mayor doesn't like something the cops want to do, a phenomenon that would be a red alert civ-mil alarm with the military but something we all accept w/cops

Local security services have sided with those of the central government, in defiance of local civilian politicians, against the populace

When you're at the "functionally infinite money" income bracket your value heuristic changes to value things you can't get normally with money, which includes a lot of things deemed immoral and/or illegal It's no surprise that Big Tech looks the other way w/r/t CSAM unless called out

The Minnesota Murderer Jonathan Ross has been a right wing racist “troop” for decades now. Imagine what being a toad who thinks it’s a god for that long does to your brain - pure uncut psychosis

"our job is to shoot you in the face if you fail to do as you're told; your job is to thank us for it" is quite the value proposition

America has a long, long history of "police riots" causing chaos in various cities and towns -- what's new is that it's now federal policy for their mercenary bands to do this on a regular basis. Literal pillage, kidnapping, and murder of the people by the feds is the essence of Trumpism

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...