My @mprnews.org colleague & I rode along with observers after the Twin Cities surge at the start of December, well before most national publications came to town. It was really necessary to get at what ICE is really doing on the ground & how people are opposing it. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Not remotely good enough. Set up an independent commission to investigate ICE crimes

He's. Not. Pivoting. He's NOT. De-escalating. He's. STILL. Blaming Pretti for his own death. He's. STILL. Not allowing independent investigations. He's. JUST. Replacing one fascist lunatic with another. He's. The same. Exact. Authoritarian. Piece of shit. He's always been

meanwhile the tom homan led ice operation spent yesterday pepper spraying children and abducting people from bus stops

you know that part in "shawshank redemption" where andy dufresne finally gets a check for the prison library after years of sending a letter a week and the screw asks if he'll stop now and he says no, now I'll send two letters a week? that's where we are now. double down.

Standing against ICE violence is working! Greg Bovino has been fired—the leader of this lawlessness and ICE operations in Minneapolis. Next, Kristi Noem must be impeached and ICE must be disbanded.

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

here’s where i’m at everyone in ice, everyone who gives them orders, everyone who votes to fund them, every politician who refuses to call for their total abolition and putting every single one of them on trial for crimes against humanity? i’m gonna start believing in hell just for them

Very cool! Anything else happening in Minnesota right now, Amy?

Listen, see all this money here? We all know it has to be used to hurt people one way or the other.

fuck 'em up, Coop

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

42% for abolish ICE without an iota of mainstream elected Democratic buy in, this could be over 60% if they tried even a little.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

At some point, threatening to conquer the entire Western Hemisphere has to be seen as more than a distraction from health care and it is deeply cynical and destructive for Dems to continue to speak this way

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

In the NFC South, the playoffs make you!

Trump/Hegseth/Rubio killed 40 Venezuelan civilians two days ago. They've been murdering random fishermen for weeks. Think about that. Really think about that. Think about shaking the hand of someone responsible for that. Think about writing a news article about them and not mentioning that.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Who defends the world from America?

I don’t want to argue with Democrats all day but goddamn why do people never look at the US War machine and be we should dismantle this system and not just hope it never gets in the other guy’s hands.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."

Tech back in the day didn't say use it or else. It was useful to us. Stop putting stupid ass takes in the paper. 'Just give up and do what OpenAI wants' is dogshit and brain dead

The gaslighting from people like Yglesias about what happened during the 2024 campaign has been absolutely enraging. Harris ran the campaign centrist wonks & the consultant class wanted, & it blew up in their faces.

One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Thirsty mf @captmarkkelly.bsky.social who keeps asking me for money and pretending to be a defender of democracy voted against the trans community. Whats crazy is it's not only morally wrong, it's bad politics, too! Even craven ass Adam Schiff voted no!

do you remember 13 years ago today? remember thinking surely this would be the last straw, that something would change? i remember weeping at my desk thinking about the wrapped presents waiting under so many christmas trees for six year olds who would never come home.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.

more like american canto writeo

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

ALTMAN: And so you can use Sora to generate interesting videos of you and your friends, all with AI. FALLON: (giggling) So, heh, so that's a video of me in space, wow! ALTMAN: Exactly. FALLON: Could you generate a video of me where I'm not just a useful clown for fascism? Where my work has meaning?

Formula is a miracle get fukt you melting candle

Every piece of fiction made by Irish people set in Ireland: This place is riddled with incestuous rot. There is nothing here but decay and strip malls. We are a dying country. Observe us as you would cannibal rats in a cage and and stay far, far away. Me, partaking: Gosh I'd love to visit Ireland

At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz acknowledges that the reason he is in Israel instead of Netanyahu being in Germany is the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu.

There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online: ✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content ✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online ✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well

Looks like RFK Jr. Stadium now