"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

this happened to me on youtube the other day for an educational video intended for people trying to learn that particular language!

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sorry to everyone i owe work to i'm having trouble compartmentalizing the concentration camps

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

"hi, sorry to bug, just checking in again on this overdue invoice"

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

You don't need Amazon Prime.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

i have been taking an occasional recess from the horrors to take kpop dance classes

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Tonight, my Minneapolis neighborhood gathered on street corners and in our local park to mourn Alex Pretti. This is our FOURTH vigil in eight months. No community should have to go through what we're going through.

a mayor who is actually interested in maying

media gotta stop calling everybody protesters just bc walking around occupied streets

i don't care how anyone got here what the fuck

They are fucking murderers

You're gonna make it after all ✨

contrast this thread with the classic eric adams strategy of ignoring an anticipated and well-reported extreme weather event until a few days after it had already passed to release a statement about how no one could have predicted this

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

Trump's buddies now control TikTok in the U.S. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/t...

"Criticisms of AI must include guidance for responsible engagement with it, not just exhortations to avoid it" good lord, I am so tired of these pieces that are the "sensible AI guy" stance that mostly comes down to "AI is here to stay and I am ready to lick the boot, begrudgingly"

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

i simply don't think we need ICE and do not care how someone showed up in whatever place they happen to live.

ICE is violent. Shooting bystanders is violent. Tearing people out of their cars is violent. Going door-to-door to rip apart families is violent. The way to restore peace is get ICE the fuck out of our communities

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

It may not seem like it, but right now is a great time to think about the different world we want.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

idk anymore man, here's my dog

Why is this the world we're making for ourselves lol

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.