I have mastered the technique of pressing the lever so I almost always get a pellet and rarely shocked

In a similar vein, one-third of Americans killed by strangers are killed by police. granta.com/violence-in-...

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i made a helpful reference

The other parents on here all have a household TLC remix called "no crumbs" about how your kid needs to clean up after dinner right

Wow America, you gonna let Iran show you up like that

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. Updated 3:38pm PT January 8, 2026

Capitalism for developers and communism for landlords is, imo, simply the correct approach to housing policy.

A government of the content, by the content, for the content

it’s happened even in high tech industrial policy, the pentagon, places usually more sheltered from looting www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Clearly in my feels on this one: I'd love to see the outpouring of media and interest for state schools being stripped of academic freedom the way we breathlessly looked at funding coersion against the ivies. Florida, Ohio, and Texas educate exponentially more students.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

It’s a structural issue driven by a market that lends obscenely long so offers a one-way ratchet for refi. The work-out is poor real price returns. But most people are sort of fine with that because their disposable income is rising over time.

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

My understanding is that this is a very serious rebuke to Trump & Vought insofar as science funding remains basically at 2024 levels. NASA in particular was ready for a bloodbath. A ways to go yet but a tremendous win for scientists who have been working their asses off to lobby for their jobs.

I know there's a lot going on right now but don't lose sight of the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy's bodyguard is a fentanyl trafficker www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01...

For people too stupid to get it, the connection between Bush administration lawlessness and what's happening right now is that nobody from the Bush administration was ever held accountable for their crimes

When George Floyd was murdered, Dems decided to throw in their lot with the grassroots movement for racial justice. We know empirically that doing so played a serious role in Biden’s 2020 election win. Their lesson from this, however, was that activists actually have demands and must be shunned.

Top-tier bluesky post

Yup. Bovino's formal role is unclear (itself a red flag) but he reports directly to Noem, so he's essentially the CBP chief and/or an undersecretary. And yet he's always on-scene in tactical gear. 100% playing a part for TV, but with real consequences for everyone else.

What do you like on the 1956 Dartmouth conference? Besides that Ron Kline article

As a country, we are sundowning on da computer

I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas. GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

In peak pandemic, Top Chef demonstrated it could be a great sports substitute. Culinary Class Wars (it could only be Korea, this is a Physical: 100 rip-off) just goes straight for that and leaves aside the Real World stuff that fills up every other season of Top Chef.

“Faculty at Texas A&M Univ were told..that roughly 200 courses…could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race & gender, the implementation of which has.. led administrators to direct a philosophy prof to remove Plato readings” www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...

really aggravating that the NYT has a huge pack of the best journalists on the planet, and then nearly all of the key decisions regarding attention, framing, and overall coverage are driven by a crypto right wing nepo baby and a dozen-ish of his toadies

Par for the course but still unnerving to contrast the Trump admin's Minneapolis & Jan 6 narratives. Renee Nicole Good was "stalking" officers & was "trying to run over" an officer, whereas Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood...as she climbs through a broken window toward the Speaker's Lobby."

This is great folks, they're coming up with synonyms for "abolish." That's a hegemony we're making.

Watching videos of these shootings, I'm struck by how they mirror the kind of gunfire that's common in cop shows--with officers firing recklessly at suspects' cars. Which I think speaks to both ICE's lack of training and the way cop-aganda media can erode our ability to see each others' humanity.

If you work in higher ed, we need you in the fight. That means joining @aaup.org and organizing with friends. "Organizing" can sound like something only crazy charismatic activists do. It's not--it's a science and an art and anyone can do it. National has a new (remote) Core Skills training in Feb.

agree. in politics, delulu really is the solulu. the Mamdani campaign explicitly focused their early events on convincing supporters they could win. Greens talk about "being here to replace labour" from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social its "we regret to inform you, we are going to win"

To kidnap Maduro, they mocked up war room in the country club (presumably a drunk dentist on the other side of those flimsy black curtains) to recreate the Obama-OBL-war room photos. In the background are not maps or satellites but X, with a search open for "Venezuela." Not for oil, but for clout.

The challenge is to figure out real solutions to the problems and how they might be reached with the capacity you have now or could have soon, without descending into the sort of fantasy football politics that keep inventing ideal solutions without any sort of platform or constituency.

While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit

Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb

another data point suggesting members of the inner circle may just be fleecing the old man with ai-generated slop behind closed doors. they wouldn’t be able to do that in front of reporters, so they played the real video of the murder, and it confused him

1. I find Trump's claims of US control over Venezuela to be the stuff of fantasy, and am shocked that they are being entertained credulously by the US media and commentariat. I also have a hard time seeing US majors flocking to Venezuela's oil sector, due to political and market realities.

ICE++ the CBP, and judging from the patches — BORTAC. BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP. Just shooting people

We're free!

Minneapolis.

I am generally an optimist BUT

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

This is how everyone on here sounds when talking about getting rid of trump. bsky.app/profile/papa...

Ok pretty boy Jake let's back those f bombs up

Victim's bills are always bad but this is America so: The Renee Good Act for Safe Migration or something like it

DUTCH GUY ON BLUESKY THAT POSTS ABOUT AMERICAN POLITICS ≥ 3 TIMES A DAY: You Americans should be taking up armed struggle against your government. MALCOM X'S GHOST IN HEAVEN: