ERIKA KIRK’S MURDEROUS BLOOD LUST WILL NOT BE SATED

We have a finite amount of time to spend thinking while on this earth and I am very resentful of how much of it has been monopolized by the whims of a demented old real estate scumbag

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

I heard a story on the radio that I really liked, and I wrote to the reporter to express my appreciation. This is the reply I received: "Thank you David - your appreciation note is rare and came right when I needed it." We should do this more often. Journalism is so important to a free society.

“How can we justify that amount of money with our crumbling infrastructure, our rural hospitals not being funded—and we just cut the state income tax last session—how can we justify that amount of money going to this new program?” Mississippi House Rep. Kabir Karriem said during the debate.

Some day a whole lot of people who helped make this happen will be talking about how they were never in favor of this, how they were always against it Don’t let them get away with it

ICYMI — In negative degrees weather they took a LEGAL naturalized citizen out in his underwear, after trashing his house. They released him an hour later. The cruelty is the point. (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

Isn’t it interesting how the Admin said we can’t afford cancer research but all of a sudden there’s enough money to buy Greenland?

My favorite speech by MLK, and possibly his greatest.

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

Most of your grocery delivery drivers can’t wipe their eyes, cough, or brake hard, they get points deducted for anything that the ai deems “dangerous”. It is in every service and most of the drivers aren’t aware until they get their scores

Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

Watching GB News or reading the Telegraph you realise there is a slice of right-wing opinion that would happily betray this country.

Kinda hard to gaslight us into believing they’re actually supportive of LEGAL immigration when they’re targeting LEGAL immigrants. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes? NOEM: 70% of them B: It's not 70% N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers B: Well, that's from your agency

PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it

Abolish ICE. Destroy their weapons and melt down their equipment. Deny their agents, employees, and bosses all government employment for all time. Remove the agency entirely from the budget and give the money to public libraries and free health care.

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

Wellington Covid-safe friends: just had a great visit at City Dentists, which runs air purifiers + HVE, and staff were in 3M respies. My dentist even commented at one point that Covid isn't "over." Heads-up that waiting room patients = not masked.

the vp will no doubt be awarded the gold medal for “most boo’d person at the olympics.”

This is horrific for our country. We are going down a terrible path and the opposition is so incredibly ill equipped.

Just wanna make it clear for folks: The same way Civil Rights protestors has hoses and dogs set on them? They're causing these life-changing injuries on purpose. They want to scare you off the streets.

"...and that's our focus right now" I chat more about this over at my Substack, which you can read for free: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/christophe...

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

🔴Tony Blair Institute talks lots about democracy But his week I contacted them for comment on this story The response? "You are an organisation with a long-standing and partisan anti-TBI agenda and we will not engage with your disingenuous questions." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

Here are the articles I linked to, btw: 1/2 www.cnn.com/interactive/...

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

They’re trying to deport witnesses to a murder by ICE guards

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

How many lives, homes and livelihoods do we need to lose; how many washed out roads and bridges do we need to replace before we take the threat of climate change seriously? The reality is we can't afford to ignore it. #climatecrisis #keepitintheground #buildmorebikelanes #nzpol

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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

This ICE agent and the man he’s accusing of not being a US citizen have the same damn accent. If this were a movie, this scene would be on the cutting room floor.

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

Everyone is at risk. #Longcovid

Jenrick's Brexit Scandal Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved a project to save Richard Desmond £45m in taxes. Just coincidentally, Desmond owned the Daily Express while it was spewing out a torrent of Brexit hate and lies. A reward for services to Brexit? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests,

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

'that uses Medicaid and other government data'

I asked my MAGA former technician who was an MP in the navy about this. This is what he said: “I think he didn’t need to shoot…he could have gotten out of the way. I was in a couple of similar situations in Bahrain. I technically could have shot a couple of boats, but ended up not. Don’t regret it…”

since everyone loves a good orange cat story, i have one from this weekend 🧵