The debate format TV show has killed more brain cells in the last decade and a half than all the moonshine ever made combined in human hisory

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

There’s no question that a significant portion of that country is in a death cult, and nothing less than aggressive denazification-style policies will be able to solve this

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

glory to the martyrs who defend the republic

For those outside the UK who may not have seen, we had a reckoning on media regulation 15 years ago, and the media won a decisive victory against meaningful regulation. TL;DR, they were caught hacking the phone of a murdered child, there was an enquiry, but they avoided all the recommendations…

Adam was absolutely cooking here Minnesota has proven that the people will lead when our political & economic leaders will not I used to roll my eyes sometimes when leftists would yammer on about the power of the people. I thought it was a bit naive & idealistic but it’s actually human nature

The location of Hernan Cortes' grave was formally a classified secret in independent Mexico for over a century to stop it being destroyed. When it was finally declassified in 1946, there were calls for the bones to be physically crushed and disposed of in a public ceremony.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

the problem is that people have extrapolated Gaza policy, where Biden and by extension Harris really weren't much better to...everything else, which is just insane

Chi vs Jeffries 2026 ❌ Chi for Brooklyn Borough President 2029 ✅ Chi for NYC Mayor 2033 ✅

my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms

guys its fine that they voted for the death squad bill, it didnt actually matter

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

yeah the very grim truth of nonviolence is that the two primary things it does are “demonstrate that violence will not move the opposition, that they can brutalize us and we will not abandon our cause” and “garner wider sympathy via being brutalized by the state”

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all

UPDATE FROM NICOLLET: After the shooting, maybe a heavily armed ICE officers rushed to the scene. They then either got trapped or refused to leave, leading to a near-riot - awful situation. The state seems to have removed ICE and all law enforcement, and the crowd is now a furious, peaceful protest.

i keep thinking about how Trump openly admitted to saying that the Guard should have stolen voting machines in 2020 after he lost in an interview this year whatever happens is going to make Yoon Yuk-Seol look like a genius in comparison

(the national guard does not work this way and would have likely been trapped by litigation)

no matter what idiot viziers think, "sending in the military" is not a win button

realistically i think it probably ends up producing a Yoon moment but 10x dumber

It feels like we are slowly lurching towards Christmas in Târgoviște

people worry too much about "rigging the midterms" (a phenomenon that would require force they do not have) with "civil crisis over Congress post-victory"

Being American is knowing you might be shot to death every time you leave your house - school, work, grocery store, movie theater, doesn't matter where you go. Home's not safe either - abusive family member, neighbor, cops. Hard to be afraid when maybe being shot is just the baseline of daily life.

Yes, that’s exactly it. The whole reason they’re there is they want revenge for the George Floyd protests

Do you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers

Oh god shut the fuck up and grow a spine

I'm not doing a lot of posting here, but I can tell you, Maine is absolutely under seige. When ICE comes in, they come bringing terror.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

the normal thing that the state authorities can do if they do not want civilians deciding to try to retaliate us to charge those who commit murder, even if they are feds, and force the federal government to defend withholding them in court, which they will likely lose

There is no provision for martial law anywhere in our system of government That is not what the Insurrection Act is, it's not what it does. Despite what the administration apparently believes

A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest. DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir. That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s sad that people have to be this brave. And inspiring. And I aspire to be it. Freedom or death. No other way.

I can’t imagine this administration thought this would go any other way. They’re creating people who are willing to be killed by the feds purely because the feds have invaded their city and are terrorizing their neighbors. The Trump admin created this.

If the dude who helped make Sarah Palin famous can learn and do better, we should expect no less from elected officials

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

The largest socialist organization in the US (which, notably, does have a council-level presence in the Twin Cities) really ought to return to the kinds of discussions it was earnestly having during Trump's 1st term: constitutional overhaul. How can we be the parliamentary agitators for new law?

It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?

Andy Burnham applies to stand for Labour in Gorton and Denton byelection

Trump is getting pushed back on every front. There’s a lesson here.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

This is why they can’t really make Kirk a martyr outside of the people who were already his fans. You can’t keep treating gun violence as no big deal, allowing scores of school kids to get shot and killed, and then say one guy getting shot was The Worst Most Horrible Thing Ever.

the central military commission of china is now too small for a wechat group

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Noem has been constantly claiming that if the MN gov basically signs a deal to sign over enforcement, they will leave i think that is more telling than anything