I never underestimate a people who invented putting cheese INSIDE the burger

Happy #LetterboxdFriday, y’all. Spending my frigid evenings catching up on awards season flicks.

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Hollllly moly, when it turns the corner. That is a lot of people.

Say it loud, say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here!!!

weird to me how much defending the homeland and the future of the white race turns out to involve crashing a rental car and then running away

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I never, ever want to hear about “flyover country” or “what’s in Minnesota?” ever again. That is NPC behavior to me. This is my fucking state. And this isn’t even the folks who are still watching out from their neighbors, from home.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

They tried to argue she was a flight risk because she rolled through a stop sign

Under discussed: ICE sending A LOT of MFs who have never driven on snow or ice to a place where people who live and drive are like, "Oh, these streets are BAD bad" Like there are places where I am sure I could get a couple of strides on skates in if I tried. Corners pure ice.

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

The Minnesota strike has made it to the top story on NYT. I am not a knee jerk NYT hater, but imo this is noteworthy given the paper’s relative lack of interest in other recent anti-Trump protest activity

Hell yeah!

If you wanted the story about Minnesota to be fraud then you shouldn't have sent ICE there!

do you think that when TV On The Radio put out Wolf Like Me, werewolves were like "oh FUCK yeah"

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Robocop is also joining the ICE Out strike in Minnesota

at dinner a friend ordered crab rangoon and I immediately said “things of that nature” in the same cadence as the “peace be with you / and also with you” of my Catholic youth

A seersucker suit with a winter camo print

Every time I see that photo of the poor kid being used as bait by immigration fascists I can’t help but remember how only 25 years ago, it was a multi-day scandal that INS busted down a door to abduct a young immigrant boy.

paradoxically, the minute you accept a job as a pundit, you become unqualified for it. this is because punditry belongs in dive bars and union meetings and the like. the only good pundit is some mouthy fuck with nothing to lose

Everyone is (rightfully) dunking on the Titanic part but even if you leave that specificity out it’s pretty crazy to think that it takes more than a night to turn a boat around.

Obligatory “this stuff is still bad” disclaimer but I love that Attorney General Florida Woman has been banished to a state currently experiencing minus 20 degree wind chill to handle basic legal formalities

lol

positive in Alabama and Tennessee, negative in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida that man is 2-7 in SEC play. the boosters have to be considering a buyout at this point

Don’t know if it helps the case significantly but I imagine this will end up as Exhibit A in a vindictive prosecution motion

In addition to the better-known Hmong, St. Paul is home to the largest Karen refugee community in the US. Trump terminated their TPS in Nov. Many could be deported to Burma (Myanmar), where they're subject to ethnic cleansing by a military dictatorship. Including kids who have never lived there.

i think this is correct and i think what it exposed is that our regular legal order was fundamentally incapable of overcoming partisan polarization to impose said consequences

THE PEOPLE'S MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM IS ON STRIKE TOO

There’s going to be backlash for both SINNERS and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Instead of one or the other, may I offer a third option: “SINNERS or ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is overrated-“ “Nope! Swirly time! Into the toilet your head must go.” “But - gargle - ah there’s piss in here!”

We can go back to fighting over our differences later: Nekima being arrested by the FBI for an “attack on a church” is egregious.

Anyway, the main thing you should take away from today’s Oscar nominations is The Secret Agent rules and you should go see The Secret Agent

Honestly, pretty solid batch of Oscar nominations this morning. Good job, good effort everybody. deadline.com/lists/2026-o...

Not sure what the mechanism is, but the next Democratic administration needs to pay reparations to Minneapolis, St. Paul, and every other city illegally brutalized by these gangsters. Just like $3 billion to Minneapolis for a city sovereign wealth fund. Straightforward matter of justice

I really don’t know what to do with the anger I have right now over this. His family didn’t know where he was for TWENTY FOUR HOURS. They deported him and at least two other children to Texas. FIVE YEARS OLD. These people are monsters and I wish there was a hell so they could burn forever in it.

This past year has basically broken down into a series of two-day cycles for me, where I’ll spend one day wondering how it’s possible we get through this & the second day absolutely convinced that we are going to win. I trust Second Day Me more, but First Day Me is a goddamn persistent little bitch

I found out about the Luis Robert trade from the american girl doll meme page

I mean look if nothing else this is an honest exchange.

look I'll take a fair amount of shit from the Scandis, some amount of shit from the Germans and the French, but the English can fuck right off until they deal with their own fascists I don't have to listen to you

History says people have the memory of a mayfly. It won't even take 5 years for the hatred to fade. And most people don't hate America or Americans or anyone else despite internet hype.

Look, when someone from the United States tries to paint all the people of another country as bad, I think most of us in this corner of the internet can recognize that that is wrong. It doesn’t suddenly become acceptable just because you reverse it & have someone else malign all the people of the US

America 2026 apnews.com/article/immi...

The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”

I love my carpy wife

I am currently sitting in a meeting while we plan how to handle this. We will be pulling teachers from regular classes in order to teach our hybrid students. Classes are being rearranged, learning disrupted. The federal government is at war with us and we are feeing it at every level of society.

Look, son. I'm sorry your Bar Mitzvah was a disaster, but when you said you wanted a BTS theme, your mother and I really thought you meant Built to Spill.

Absolutely dying at the idea of suffering a devastating loss and being consoled by a guy in a big funny novelty hat

I'd just add that this can also be true in blue districts. My Democratic town committee is run by a handful of retirees. Whenever anyone remotely young gets involved they jump at the chance to bring them into the fold. You can have *huge* impact locally. But it takes time.