america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

EXCUSE ME BBQ ISN'T TIME AND LABOR INTENSIVE HAVE YOU MET A PITMASTER THEY DON'T GET MARRIED THEY ALREADY ARE COMMITTED TO MEAT

Mood in minneapolis right now

If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Someone bought the domain Nazis.us and pointed it to the DHS website. #GoodTrouble

This is absolutely what happened.

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🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

i love how every post-Fox conservative is "wait, you guys actually believe this shit?"

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

Here's our 7th most-read piece of 2025. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

Wife: That a**hole is on the cover of The Atlantic Me: You’ll have to be more specific

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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

Wilfred Owen weeps

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going. Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

One year ago

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

This is the lesson of 2025

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

@timmiller.bsky.social has a message for Stephen Miller

@housedemocrats.bsky.social Please stop treating me like an ATM. If I give money to one candidate, that means I support that candidate. It’s doesn’t mean I want you to spam my phone with texts and calls from every candidate in the country.

Kennedy’s the fifth dentist in those commercials where it’s like “four out of five dentists say you should brush your teeth” and if they cut to the fifth dentist it’d be RFK Jr, tweaking out on Zyn patches and roadkill, licking his rotten teeth and telling you “toothpaste is how they autism you.”

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.

in fairness to andreessen he has had to overcome this country’s very real discrimination against coneheads

That there’s a police state.

So urban workers will be sent down to the countryside, then? If only history could be our guide…

You basically cannot.

Reading this headline and smelling toast

U.S. funding for anti-HIV initiatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cut. Humanitarian officials fear infections will surge.

Having kids is fun because you get to see all the stuff that annoys you about yourself plus all the stuff that annoys you about your partner just walking around taunting you starting at 5:30 a.m.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

"My brave compatriots and I await the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city to confront a force of as many as eleven or twelve of the enemy, all cleverly disguised as 'dishwashers,' 'nannies,' and 'landscapers.'" buff.ly/E8hjuAF

#NoKings Atlanta.

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party