Do you want to help Minneapolis out in a different way? Help set up some new street medics so that they can make sure community members are cared for at protests. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Hey we live in hell so how about buying some wound treatment for medics who have to be out on the street patching up their neighbors instead of *not* doing that and living the lives they lead before the goonsquad came to town.

The rightoid claims patriotism as his own. Yet here I sit, frozen pizza and Diet Coke before me, watching the Olympics.

Right? It’s going to absolutely shatter our relationship with the USA in a way that dwarfs even the last year, and it’s not even on their radar. A half dozen idiots apparently freelancing this in Washington is going to crash entire markets and industries.

it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late

The problem I have with "see, we said DHS was a bad idea" and the like is not that it's wrong. The status quo did have lots of problems and weakened guardrails, of course. But it's absurd to minimize, especially now, how radically different Trump is as a fundamentally lawless anti-constitutionalist.

Apparently in addition to Springfield (as basically in the entire city) having to shut down today, 30 columbus public schools received bomb threats today as did the Ohio Statehouse. JD Vance manufactured this moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

They’re trying to open the largest prisons-turned-camps in the hemisphere and it barely registers as an issue

Although it's less funny and more coherent when you consider the NYT's anti-trans crusade. They like the parts of libertarianism that involve tax fraud and child molestation, and not the parts that involve civil liberties. No circle to square, really.

Exactly this: people demonstrate prioritisation of some lives over others all the time. We don't need to be theorising inside the frame of their moral intentionality we need to interpret things through whose lives are allowed to be destroyed for the sake of others.

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A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish. www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...

Last night President Trump raged about young children being exposed to the dancing in the Super Bowl halftime show.

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

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There's something very funny about the two main NYT Discourses being "the libertarians were actually right the whole time, shitlibs!" and "weed bad."

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Matt Christman is the human pet guy's Steve Minecraft.

Why I get extra salty about the weed concern-trolling.

Fun fact: Before Nixon launched the War On Drugs in the 1970s, the Shafer Commission led by a Republican governor took a deep look at marijuana in the US and recommended decriminalisation.

maybe the most upsetting and nefarious thing that the NYT does here, backed by predictable quasi-prohibitionist healthcare sources and reporting, is insist on equating cannabis addiction to alcohol addiction, in terms of severity or damages. It’s frankly offensive to anyone who grew up with drunks.

There’s a story of a person who developed CHS, and I want to be clear about hyperemesis— it sucks, is real, don’t want. But it’s not a creeping threat to people, and the easiest way to treat it is Stop Consuming Weed. But you can find way worse booze stories in your local 12 Step hall, lol cmon now

second, a new-to-me humdinger, the claim that “nearly 2.8 million people suffer from cannabis hyperemesis syndrome”. this is bonkers on its face, a stat made up to scare the uninvolved. Click through the studies mentioned, you end up with a projection from a single study, spun up to a What If number

Okay, the New York Times has a very dumb op-ed about the US’s “marijuana problem”. You are completely valid in just dismissing it as fear shit, but I will make a Lil’ Thread of some of the dumb stuff in particular, for the Sickos and Curious. Keep your cool, remember: it’s bad on purpose. Andiamo:

very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”

Nice work from @wileydcope.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

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OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”

I know a rascal when I see one, and this is 100% rascal

"no one is allowed anything nice you peasants need to suffer"

Switch to a healthy alternative like steroids, nootropic stacks, daily psychedelics, ketamine, and compound Glurgnov instead, you lazy fucking degenerates.

Russ Vought is doing everything he can to target the CFPB and its workers, including illegally cutting critical healthcare and insurance benefits. But he underestimates our resolve and dedication to serving the public. This story about one of our members is case in point.

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store. He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day. This is a diseased society.

'they were too busy being Latino,' says man whose entire job, personality and political ideology are about being white

Trump spoke at the fucking Libertarian Party Convention in 2024!

Sue who was detained in early December and had her wedding band cut off, is out on patrol near daily and has had them tell her the final warning over 10x.

I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Chat, can fascism survive with 3:1 disapproval by young men?

Millennials would rather yearn for the mines than go to therapy

For context, the single Tweet in question was advocating for the mass murder of immigrants.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

mike tracey has been a hack for his whole career. sincerely, the worst part about the astroturffed political media is the demand that i’m never allowed to remember anything, or notice patterns of behavior, because it obliterates their entire project of assigning unearned good faith to creeps

For YEARS on Twitter Tracey and some Hindutva types reposted a screenshot of mine criticizing Tulsi Gabbard as fash.

Maxine Waters went too easy on this ratfucker.

Mike Tracey is a greasy right wing opportunist posing as a journalist, whose latest trolling engagement shtick is harassing victims of Jeffrey Epstein Notice how Newsnation and The Hill prop him up as a serious good faith actor

Also notice how the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) (which helped validate and elevate other bad faith assholes like Glenn Greenwald) still pretends Tracey is a good faith journalist doing actual work, as opposed to a squatty contrarian engagement troll

TJ Sabula, the @uaw.org worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector,”has kept his job and has no disciplinary record for speaking truth to power. The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.