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“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

Please read this. 🧵

Mikhail Shaidorov: -has braces 🥹 -skated to music from “The Fifth Element" -was World's Most Stunned Guy after it became clear he would be on the podium (let alone win the gold medal) -won the second gold medal *ever* in a Winter Olympics for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

It’s impossibly funny to say, as a national news organization, that you and your audience don’t speak Spanish and don’t know anyone who could tell you what he said

Womp

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Very excited about the acquisition of my latest Bay Area shibboleth

Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Can you imagine what would happen if a college democrats org made a post saying the traitors to the people should be killed with depictions of guns pointed at abortion clinic protesters?

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

Between Pretti in Minnesota today and Rittenhouse in Kenosha in 2020, there is likely no starker illustration of the unsaid maxim of conservative politics that "[t]here must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - FW

Melissa Joan Hart is a legit card carrying conservative republican we are through the looking glass.

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

Folks in the replies truly working this metaphor OUT

In fact, every university that hosts Duke should unnerve the visitors with chants of "STE-PHEN MIL-LER 👏👏 👏 👏 👏" It'd be a great way to rattle them but also a nice middle finger to this administration in a non-news forum

Like so many, I’ve been affected by the new US federal stance against science. As a result of this and seeking a better life balance, I have accepted a new Full Prof position at the University Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🤩 I will miss CA deeply, but a new adventure awaits 🐟 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

can I share my all time favorite picture of myself

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

lmaooo

Wanda is a real one. I once ran in to her at Fire Island at Cherry's. She was dancing with her wife. I went up to her to thank her for standing up for trans folks. She asked if I wanted a hug and she gave me one and we briefly danced together.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

The playoffs are alive on BlueSky, the official app of sports. @dennycarter.bsky.social

This thread is harrowing

Another image that sums up the protest.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I have slowed my use a lot and frankly it has only been positive. I haven’t missed anything important, and my mind has been able to concentrate more capably and instinctively on positive aspects of my life and how I contribute to others.

Think we should probably revisit this thread every year

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.