This is her real job and she's very good at it

Ok welcome newbs. First rule of Bluesky: you gotta go up to the biggest, baddest account in the yard and miscomprehend their joke. That or Alf hog.

who needs therapy when u can respond to MAGA cope with this picture?

I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting

Was nervous about WMATA changing the whole bus map but it seems to be going well, makes my commute much more bus-viable. Metro lead times are way down, haven't seen anything above 10 mins on weekdays, and haven't been stuck in a tunnel in years! Grudging respect to Randy Fine, sea change since 2016.

Your honor, as my dear friend Tony D will attest, it was in fact whiskey Friday at the time of my arrest.

Two things that I have not successfully conveyed to people without deep Minnesota ties are the scale and extent of the ICE occupation (a word I don't use lightly), and likewise of the community resistance.

What's interesting about national democratic politicians calling to de-escalate is that they're mostly talking to the TV? Like the audience is either Trump or 'their' people.' Good luck with the former. The latter? Best option is TV because there is no connection between the streets and the party.

This is the kind of mockery that actually does help to destroy the image of a regime

The Nobel prize thing reminds me of the time Putin just straight up took Rob Kraft’s Super Bowl ring because he liked it

The great achievement of MAGA and MAHA is that Canada will now grow more seed oils so it can buy more Chinese electric cars

We’re in a new era apnews.com/article/chin...

one area i agree with trump is not letting this woman anywhere near the reins of power in venezuela

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

Greg Grandin's book on the border talks about this.

Winter vegetable stir fries are tougher. Great Hunanese one: sounding radish slivers / xiang luo bu si. Briefly cooking julienne daikon with chili, scallion, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil.

Is there on good essay just about how Big the USA is and how that's a hugely important part of our politics (electoral college), culture (somewhat provincial), and economics (giant internal market / resource base at crucial moments of development) ???

The Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy is feuding with neo-Nazis online as to whether Jews are responsible for letting “barbarian rapist hordes” (her words) into Europe.

"A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3."

"No new apartment buildings! Destroys the town character. Also why are my property taxes going up?" --someone who's paid off the house they bought for ten grand under Reagan

lol machado knows she should've given it to him in the first place, when the cameras were there. You ain't getting a job out of this girlfriend.

Are we?

what a legend lmao

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

I never saw a challenge coin outside the military until about 15 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous in law enforcement, which increasingly views itself as a military endeavor

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023 “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

Just so. I think the broadening of this radicalization--the multiracial, cross-country crowds of 2020, the Sauvignon Bloc today--can be explained by the broadening of repression beyond the "usual suspects." And the broadening of economic precarity among the same (this is the DSA/Bernie story).

Indeed one of the things that is freaking them out right now is that the insane gerrymandering is v vulnerable to wave elections. When you keep carefully cutting and rearranging to turn 50-50s into +5s or -20s into 50-50s, then a +8 year actually spreads the damage around much more broadly.

Short-term future of American science and medicine incoming

Do not doomer in my replies. We’re no worse off than people trying to figure out how to make the world a century ago. Or the century before that. Or the century before that. Our challenges are just different. And our will to meet them is less robust. That is the *first* thing that needs changing.

Completely changes the experience of watching sports too. Hyper-focus on individual players and bespoke stats for the sake of parlays, you're in your phone the whole time watching it. Brutally anti-social.

This is what planning for a general strike looks like fyi

Maybe this will help folks see why I say the government desires to resegregate society

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

"I'm gonna take more bribes from weapons manufacturers for sponcon"

Figure we’ll see elites of all kinds steadily abandon the MLK Day charade. If not a campaign to reestablish King as the most hated man in America. May it be a welcome clarification. Let’s think about what King stood for in his last year. 🧵

You assholes put Rümeysa Öztürk in an unmarked van for writing a milquetoast op-ed

One of my most politically cynical friends, raised-on-south-park type of guy, quant at a family fund, has become a block captain for tracking ice in Chicago. Same with a neighbor, who'd done PTA but never been to a big protest before--much less direct action. People are radicalizing, practically.

You're not wrong - a storm *IS* blowing from Paradise. Here's why that's bad news: • The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what's been smashed. But its wings aren't strong enough. • What we see as a chain of events? Actually, it's one single catastrophe.

Activism step 3: the more boring the work the more important it is.

Sometimes I yearn for a broadly representative social media without the idiots who can't read and then I remember that's basically a good newspaper and I can get one of those, my preference is pink, but there's not a good one in my metro anymore and it sucks

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10+ years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

TSMC discussion of Arizona fabs from their earnings call - accelerating timelines - going to build more - aiming for ~30% of 2nm/cutting edge capacity in Arizona - yields/defect density "almost equal to Taiwan" - concerns over Taiwan electricity availability

Same in our neighborhood in DC, our relatives' in Chicago, our friends' in LA... It's going to get bad but we are going to win.