One aspect of this is to reassure federal personnel that they can engage in lawless violence without fear of consequence.

strongly recommend involving witness. their work is invaluable. check out/share this training. cc @samgregory.bsky.social

For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

American Idiot with a 50-ft high image of Trump's face incoming

Me, an idiot: I'm worried about these parties that seem really hostile to darker-skinned people. James Orr, an actual associate professor at actual Cambridge University: It is impossible for populists to be undemocratic, because of the Greek origins of the word "democracy".

Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations. They won’t say a word.

Here is something wholesome and wonderful as an antidote to the various shitshows: these dudes are absolute heroes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

Amazing numbers. 86% opposed overall. Only 14% overall in favor. More than ten percentage points below the crazification floor! (A handy rule of thumb is that 27% of Americans are just nuts and will agree to anything.) This is what happens when you let twitter-pilled weirdos set policy priorities.

This is who voted against establishing DHS

Worth reading if you're not familiar with Fraenkel

New important publication in #LongCovid & #MECFS! After a viral infection, cells lining our blood vessels can become damaged and enter senescence, similar to accelerated aging. These cells are not healthy, but they also don’t disappear. Instead, they send out constant stress & inflammatory signals.

The US government is being run by people who sound like they read the Melian Dialog and thought it was a blue print for imperial success. The US ability to project power, and I mean hard power, not soft power, is highly reliant on positive foreign relations that give us bases all over the world.

does making excuses for an abuser fall under "free markets" or "personal liberties"?

ICE again denies a delegation of three congresswomen access to inspect their Minnesota black site, and attacks the crowd that gathered to support them.

When the UVa Board of Visitors hired the new president, against explicit instructions from the incoming governor, they gave him an $8M golden parachute. At a public university. To make Trump happy. This is wildly inappropriate, and I hope sanctionable.

This is an absolutely explosive claim. I’m not saying it didn’t happen but something more than a screenshot of a screenshot on Twitter should be required to make you accept something this serious as fact. Would love to see more reporting or the ID of the person making the original claim.

When 10-1 meets 8-0 ❤️

Oh shit you activate Minnesotans’ creativity AND their passive-aggressive tendencies? You have no chance, dude.

Oh, the media noticed… This photo is from June 3 2025 on Martha’s Vineyard. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/03/m...

Does @arlcountyboard.bsky.social have an opinion on Flock surveillance?

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

All Dem senators should be doing this, not only Klobuchar and Smith. We're in a crisis - start acting like it.

really need to put the laundry in, but he's so cozy

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death. The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post. This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide. wapo.st/4qR1T1U

Davos should un-invite the President. Hit him where it hurts: attention.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

The reason Jan 6 was so terrible, the reason many of us have been in a state of horror ever since, fearing what was coming, wasn't the idiots at the Capitol that day. It was the impunity of the people who organized it. Because those people learned they could get away with violence. 3/

To all worried about J6ers or Proud Boys in ICE - no. ICE is recruitingscarier people: former prison guards, hardcore white supremacists. J6 was a mob of idiots led to violence; the Proud Boys who led them specialized in fake fistfights. Their time is over. Trump and Miller have the real thing now.

I grew up in Minnesota Right now nearly every person I know there is doing all they can to support their community This is who we are in the United States as much or more so than the violence in headlines May our leaders lead on an alternative future where we lean into the best of ourselves

Thank you to every reporter and observer putting their bodies and lives on the line to document the crimes of this Administration. We are all in your debt.

Relieved beyond belief that the Dems swept Virginia last fall. Another four years of Richmond walking hand-in-hand with the Trump Administration would have been devasting.

[alt text added] Is it "depraved indifference" for: an ICE agent to threaten a visibly 9-months pregnant lawyer with a canister of pepper spray toward her face for politely asking the agent to leave the law office's private parking lot they were trespassing in and park in the govt lot instead?

Really hard to claim you can't just axe agencies you don't like after the year of DOGE

"Abolish ICE" is not a hard thing to explain, at all. It's bizarre that anyone would claim that it is!

We’ve reached the point where any criminal offense (by a wealthy or connected defendant) that is subject to state jurisdiction must be prosecuted by local DAs or AGs. We should just assume that rich, federally charged criminals will buy their way out. They’d be crazy not to.

Interesting article, but not entirely convinced. Would be very interested to see if there's been research on the impact re the sex of the observers (are male observers more effective at deterring violence than females)

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

This messaging app might be handy one day. Get to know Bitchat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth mesh networks. no internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. bitchat.free

Bottom line, though: Taiwan is a point of consensus. No one accepts the possibility of independence, Taiwan is part of China and that’s not negotiable. Xi cannot afford to be outflanked on that issue.

Third: there’s a lot more fragmentation in domestic Chinese politics than it looks. People talked about at least three strands: “accelerationists”, who think China should take advantage of Trump’s turmoil and move fast on Taiwan; others who want to play nicer; and those who want to wait and see.

In my latest Substack, I explain why every video of what ICE is doing in Minnesota (or anywhere) is a powerful form of resistance open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

I don’t get how they can fetishize meat this much and still make it look terrible. This dude eating a big ol plate of gristle.

X’s terms are insanely agressive, and basically represent an effort to force every litigation against Musk—even ongoing suits—into Reed O’Connor’s courtroom.

Cannot really state how much I despise Kavanaugh and his SCOTUS buddies for making this possible. They'll be called Kavanaugh stops forever, my dude. You'll never get that stain out. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThhBjY45/

the Stancil thing really does drive home how much greater import some people place on having a completely correct billfold of opinions than actually doing something worthwhile in real life

I can't imagine dedicating my academic career to making bad faith, historically illiterate arguments that people born in America are not citizens.