Please enjoy this article about a porridge-making championship.

The Commonwealth cemetery in Bayeux (completed 1952) has a latin inscription that reads: "we, once conquered by William, have now set free the Conqueror’s native land," an almost thousand-year grudge.

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

...shattering car windows, breaking into cars and homes without judicial warrants, beating people for being insufficiently docile, stealing people's belongings...

protesting isn't violence violence is shooting people in cars, killing and blinding them, and kidnapping others for no cause

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

How it started/how it's going

Even while CBS is repeating the party line about alleged internal bleeding, the administration pressures them to kneel further. How embarrassing.

As an old person, I specifically remember being warned about this when the Patriot Act passed

Feel like I’m going to lose my mind explaining to people that what’s happening now is an expansion of domestic policies to larger scales, not an introduction of foreign policies to domestic life

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

The book that predicted all of this press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Thanks to an EXTREMELY generous donation from author pal Jennifer Armentrout, we get to redirect a lot of the whistle money we've raised over the past week to orgs on the ground in the twin cities who need help! @ziibiing.com's website is a huge help in finding who, well, needs help!

While the U.S. is actively weakening the FDA, Canada is preparing to stop doing its own drug reviews and defer to foreign regulators. “Public service savings targets” in action.

Guten Morgen Bluesky

ge-sīclian, wk.v: to be taken sick or ill, to be infirm. (yeh-SEEK-li-ahn / jɛ-ˈsiːk-lɪ-an) Image: Sherborne Missal; England, early 15th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 74236, p. 30. #OldEnglish #WOTD

I get a little twitchy when non-Romance normies (and dudes) start playing with my toys before they shrug off their judgemental attitudes. But then they are changed! They are horny and crying at the same time! Romance, baby!

Sometimes I get annoyed at Heated Rivalry takes that are ignorant of the art form, the universe of Romance. But then I'm delighted seeing people's first experiences with Romance. Intimacy! Vulnerability! Growth! Becoming the people you need to be to be happy and make each other happy! It's good!

a statistically significant percentage of my youth was spent reading 80s and 90s fantasy novels selected primarily based on how pretty the lady on the cover was and it made me the person I am today in every way imaginable

Snowdrops are quietly emerging across Dyffryn Gardens. Have you spotted any near you?

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

And then gullible Dems like you, thinking he accomplished something with trolling rather than doing his job, will go join that idiotic app, only increasing it's reach and longevity. If it doesn't matter, I guess Dems should go to 4chan and write for the Daily Stormer too

A congressman giving Trump money by joining his nazi social media site (through ad traffic) + validating that platform through his presence on there when he's a goddamn congressman that could do this in Congress is not good

Trump: I want to destroy this country and anyone who gets in my way. My congressman:

Dan Goldman, my Congressman, sucks in too many ways to mention in this character limit. He won his first primary by less than 1K votes. Brad Lander, outgoing Comptroller, filmed an ad where he successfully ate a hot dog on the Cyclone. Please make this happen. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Fascinating ad. Leans into Brad's slightly nebbish, admittedly corny persona - and then, not using his name, quietly rips into Dan Goldman over his corporate fundraisers, writing letters rather than taking action for immigrants, slavish support of AIPAC, and not supporting Mamdani.

Lander's shown up for NYC all this year and put in a ton of work and absolutely deserves the seat. The fact that I'm living in Minneapolis and know his face and name is proof enough of that.

Also just lol Dan Goldman. I love that this ad directly calls out aipac as bad while also positioning the candidate as like a Jewish Mr. Rogers? You literally love to see it.

welcome to the newest member of America’s hottest club, “Primary Every Democrat.”

Holy effin’ birthday boy! These obviously campaign spots for Dan Goldman aren’t paid for by his campaign—they’re paid out of his Congressional account!

The focus of the Goldman ad is a messaging bill he introduced to prevent ICE agents from hiding their identities. It won’t pass this Congress, but it’s an interesting choice given that Lander is known in this district for getting manhandled by masked govt thugs while trying to protect immigrants.

It is over six months before the New York primary, and tonight I have already seen a TV ad from Rep. Dan Goldman. He just got a credible challenger, @bradlander.bsky.social, mere weeks ago, but Goldman is already out there. That’s how much money Goldman has.

We don’t want war. We don’t want lies, greed, corruption, hatred. We don’t want masked ICE thugs. We don’t want a convicted felon and rapist in the White House. We want America’s promise of life, liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness for all under government of, by and for all!

This is a real tweet from DHS. The Republicans will never stop. Not ever. There is no amount of people they can murder, terrorize, rape, abuse, and disappear that will satisfy them. They want anyone who isn’t a cis white man to live in terror for daring to imagine equality. Norms will not save us.

This is real...a civil war between culture of the right "Hate and Violence" and the left "Kindness Equality". The support from Republican voters for State Sponsored Terrorism is loud and clear- www.newsweek.com/ice-approval...

It’s painfully obvious these goons have no idea what they’re doing. And they’ve learned nothing in the past week. Imagine going to a doctor’s appointment and all hell breaks loose. They cut your seatbelt, and yank you out of your car. Why is any of this necessary?

In Mass, this could potentially be a significant difference, as our declaration of rights has been held to offer broader protection than the United States Constitition. (An officer's mistaken belief that the law permits a search or seizure doesn't make it okay, for example).

Setting federal law to one side, state courts and state officials should ask whether, given the behavior of ICE & CBP, state officers can assist those federal agents without running afoul of state equality and/or search-and-seizure provisions.

*ICE handing out fliers claiming it’s illegal to profess concepts of equality* … Technically this means a statement like “Trump < Sewer Water” is legal.

elected dems need to get on that “i don’t need a ride i need ammo” energy.

sometimes leadership is balancing competing interests in policy and sometimes leadership is taking seriously the task of citizen you urge for others

if you're above it you're outside of it, and i don't see what good that is to anyone

no more “saving your powder.” it is time for our leaders to personally demonstrate the power of nonviolent resistance for the people they serve.

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

"We must urgently step up our efforts to cut emissions and prepare for the warming that is now inevitable." 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...

Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"

Someone inside DHS leaked the names of 4,500 ICE and CBP officers to a nonprofit that tracks ICE. About 80 percent of those name are active. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support