This is the level of discourse I’m prepared to engage in today

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

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Therapist: You have trouble keeping employment. Have you ever had a job you really enjoyed? Me: I worked a zoo for a while. Therapist: And what did you take from that? Me: Definitely not a penguin. Therapist: what? Me: what?

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Here's the time it takes to get utility scale electricity production up and running. Wind: 6-12 months Solar: 3-12 months Natural Gas: 2-3 years Coal: 4-6 years Nuclear: 5-12+ years

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

In a world where grief bleeds through the seams of our hyperconnected lives, where minds fracture under invisible weight, where democracy withers in the shadow of rising authoritarians—joy is no longer luxury. It's insurrection.

I have a feeling this is exactly what’s going on here. They are giving the appearance of backing off. Notice that Steven Miller is not being talked about at all. He is the one who actually needs to go. This is his handiwork.

People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

I wonder if this quote will come up in a hearing in a federal court in Mpls that is going on right now? Seems like it could be relevant. 🤔

Do y'all remember this from 2016? I think about this a lot. ❤️

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

"For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”" letterfromjail.com

One of the things I love about this is that it highlights how people tend to interpret scripture and revolutionary writings (e.g., basically everything MLK said) in ways that give them comfort. That is literally not what any of these writings were about.

This is a question that should haunt every fucking American.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

If I were an actual religious leader in the Twin Cities, I would be thinking about organizing the most enormous public memorial service possible for Good and Pretti. Time it with the next general strike. Put *everyone* in the street for a funeral procession that stretches for miles.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

Get. The. Fuck. Outta here! What a fucking football team.

There's no return to status quo normalcy the day after Trump (or Vance) is gone. That is only the start of a period, for some years, of reconstruction to establish a new constitutional settlement. And that means, by necessity, extraordinary measures not necessarily intended to be permanent features.

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Astro Doughnuts hosted a CBP happy hour for those of you who want to not spend money at businesses that welcome the bitchmade chuds that terrorize our community

Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments. Email: [email protected]

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

the average food service worker in Minneapolis is braver than any university regent

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

I don’t know what I expected but it was not that

Nobody is beating Indiana this year.

The question if a police shooting is justifiable is just 1 question to ask. 1st: this wasn’t justifiable. But for me the real question is was it inevitable. As police, we must do everything we can to avoid deadly force. Many times the suspect makes it inevitable. Not in this case

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

invading venezuela is not a distraction from the epstein files. he invaded another country, violated international law, murdered dozens of people. that is important in itself; people who care about that aren't being "distracted." 1

Apropos of nothing really, I wonder what Paul Bremer is up to these days?

and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shouted-

Holy shit, I didn't think I could love Brandi Carlile more, but this is -amazing-. youtu.be/VnstFOTGJgc?...

Same energy #KavanaughStop

FYI, If your child falls into an enclosure we get to keep it.

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Racism. The answer is racism.

Something that just occurred to me is for all Hegseth's machismo prostrating it's like a classically cowardly thing to kill defenseless men in war. Like by millennia-old standards of honor.