"Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all."

🧑‍🌾 ICYMI — “When are you gonna stand up for us instead of kissing Trump’s ass for these trade deals?” A MISSOURI FARMER to repmarkalford (R) about Trump’s policies raising prices and crushing farmers. (H/T @corybooker )

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

Supe que me gustaba la poesía cuando leí: "Quiero escarbar la tierra con los dientes, quiero apartar la tierra parte a parte a dentelladas secas y calientes. Quiero minar la tierra hasta encontrarte y besarte la noble calavera y desamordazarte y regresarte."

at what point does a government lose all legitimacy

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

We know viruses can do this! Measles does!

the daily caller published a call to violence of the left yesterday, a news organization that has connections to the heritage foundation

This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.

Ezra is right to call attention to his own struggle over how best to respond to that. But I think it also reflects a certain lack of preparation that, as TNC points out, Black Americans and other marginalized and vulnerable groups have never been able to afford.

The problem w/ Ezra Klein—& *some* White progressives in the Democratic Party—is that he REFUSES to understand there is a difference b/t “political” beliefs & White supremacy. Some of this is foundational hatred that White progressives have renamed “political backlash.” 1/3 🧵

There is this attitude that had Democrats won, the White supremacy we see wouldn’t have arisen. But that White supremacy was already here. Black people understand that. The problem is Ezra Klein—& some other White progressives—believe Democrats failed voters & caused this White supremacy. 2/3

So, we’re almost at the end of this podcast w/ Ezra Klein & Ta-Nehisi Coates & here’s my conclusion: Coates has kindly been gentle parenting Klein all through this, but the problem is, Coates is having a moral conversation while Klein thinks this is politics bc he has run out of moral imagination.

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

Reaping 🌱

Andy McCarthy: "The indictment almost fails as an indictment in that it doesn't give you notice of what Comey has actually done. But factually there's nothing there. So this smacks of wanting to put Comey through the process, which is what lawfare is."

No one’s saying she can’t be criticized. We’re asking: When has any white man in her position held responsible for policy? When has any white man been so fervently and consistently held accountable for the devastation and destruction that this country has caused abroad for centuries? Name him

The Michigan Mormon attack was perpetrated by a White, Conservative, Christian, Male, Veteran. Don’t let anyone spin this that’s what it is.

VOTERS: Democrats are spineless wimps who don't believe in anything. HAKEEM JEFFRIES: *lips on mic* thats right

it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Ultimately, Jeffries is lavishing praise on someone who *left* the Democratic Party—the party Jeffries belongs to—while refusing to support the person who won his party's nomination.

79. American citizen.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in Portland: "I will not be approving utilization of the Oregon national Guard. The President does not have the authority to deploy federal troops on State soil."

It's really only a matter of time for every blue city. I can't imagine it'll be long before Trump comes for Seattle.

Ngl Eric Adams cooked here

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

What if you were immune to all viruses? 🦠🧪 A small number of people carry a rare genetic mutation that causes their bodies to produce interferons, virus-blocking proteins, all the time, keeping them immune without activating the rest of the immune system.

Francis Collins, former NIH director on Stephen Colbert. We will see mRNA research breakthroughs in other countries.The #NIH nurtures medical miracles from spark to treatment- Alzheimer’s to Huntington’s Disease to cancer. You can’t just turn it off and then on again. 🧪Via @Brianwlegate on IG

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

#GreenSat Foggy morning in the forest 🤍😊💚 after a cold, windy and rainy week. Have a pleasant weekend everyone 🦋✨

ICE has escalated week after week. They have told the village of Broadview that tonight will be a "shitshow", terrorizing residents and using more force against protesters. I would not be surprised if we see dramatic escalation from ICE tonight. 2/6 www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadvi...

Such things include the sharing of knowledge, the welcoming of immigrants, and the mixing of culture (e.g., a British printer making an Asian design). It reminds me how classic American style lives on in Japan through menswear enthusiasts, as comedian Mic Nguyen joked below IG nicepantsbro

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Wow! What a breakthrough moment for these women. #WRWC2025 #RWC2025 #RUGBY

There is no such thing as reading alone in this house

this woman has been working at Nintendo for almost 20 years and nearly a decade longer than the guy she is replacing how much more qualified does she have to be lol

ㅤㅤ To put this in perspective, if most of the animals in the ocean are bioluminescent (from single-celled bacteria to colossal squid) then a majority of the creatures on the planet are communicating using language-of-light dialects that we don’t comprehend. ― Dr Edith Widder ㅤ

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

"It's Time to Abolish ICE" Whistleblower @jennbudd.bsky.social, a former Border Patrol Agent, exposes the corruption, crime, and racism of ICE and makes a compelling case why it's time to abolish the modern Gestapo. Take time to watch this. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

That's part of the point. By agreeing with something obviously, clearly wrong, that proves your loyalty