These days I don't read a lot of mainstream American reporting because it's genuinely worthless and you can just hear what they're going to write coming out of Trump or Vance's mouth anyway. It is hard to describe how much shittier it has gotten in the past couple years.

Calibre Press, an organisation involved in shaping how police behave that I mention in this video have a blog in which they often justify police violence. It's noteworthy that their post about the murder of Renee Good is (for them) very tempered and both sides-y. calibrepress.com/2026/01/conf...

This video is always relevant when people start trying to talk about the need for 'more training'. This is about police but ICE is trained by many of the same people discussed in this video. They are doing exactly what they were trained to do. youtu.be/EHX612I5Tv0?...

This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.

Extremely excited for this new project from @kayandskittles.bsky.social, who is better equipped to bring the research of historians to a broader audience than just about anyone I know. youtu.be/VW6ao1WvAIE?...

Check out video essayist and phd graduate student, @kayandskittles.bsky.social's new podcast! They are covering academic history in an accessible way. Worth your time! youtu.be/VW6ao1WvAIE?...

Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.

I’m of the firm belief that police and militia members have been quietly running right wing death squads in the US for years. The fate of the most notable Ferguson protestors is the most blatant example of it. ICE in 2025-26 is simply the same people operating in public.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

starting to suspect that it may in fact be a bad idea for the US govt to be giving out guns and minimal training to a bunch of pedophiles and rapists who flunked out of mall cop boot camp and want to feel strong

ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen. Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo. Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.

I seem to recall police murdering people in Minneapolis going over poorly, historically.

Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum.

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

A lot of people know after the 'abolition' of slavery in the British empire, the state paid £20 million in compensation to slaveowners, but there's a lot to be said about what these slavers did with all that money.

(trying to subtly ask if a guy is straight) is he, you know... a friend of the pod?

telling my kids that this was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

I've lived here for a long time and it is still absolutely true, hack or not. The British aren't getting out from under this one, they haven't earned it. Just one of many deserved punishments alongside 'having to talk like that'.

All the people commenting that I don't look the way they expected are required to submit a drawing of what they expected so I can assess if it's a compliment or an insult for my list of blood feuds.

Given the whole pesky 'voting' thing I'd say bad polling is one of the main things that causes governments to lose actually. I don't necessarily want an election right now since Reform is riding high but it does seem like a government tanking so hard and staying down should probably trigger one.

Everyone check out @kayandskittles.bsky.social 's new podcast. Though it doesn't involve me and I can never forgive them for that, it's a vital and important topic for these dogshit days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6a...

Channel update and a cool new project I'm launching. youtu.be/n9nDv6LxC0U

Oh shit, new project by Kay of @kayandskittles.bsky.social fame! Take Back History show sounds like it’s gonna be siiiick. 🤩 youtu.be/VW6ao1WvAIE?...

Channel update and a cool new project I'm launching. youtu.be/n9nDv6LxC0U

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like nothing is on fleek anymore

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

Odysseus meets a cyclops.

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

Hold on guys, middle class commentators in the Unlimited Genocide Country are reliably informing me he was a bad guy so maybe it's not that bad to kidnap the leaders of other countries?

Liberals constantly say they’ll vote for 99% Hitler as a “lesser evil” yet in a situation where Maduro is a “lesser evil” to the alternative they prefer the 100% Hitler option

The official positon of the EU on invading a sovereign state is that it is very bad when Putin does it but fine, maybe even good, when Trump does it.

To the Labour right, distancing yourself from a rich person just because he's a drug added Nazi running a child porn site is "student politics" and "the politics of protest." The serious politics knowers get that you have to work with the child porn drugs man. That's what big tent means.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

We have entered an era of me being nice about NYC despite it being located in the great satan.

I think we've seen people, with good intentions, try to push for various non-fascist political projects attempting to use this post-literate (and certainly fascist) mode of propagandising that the article describes very well, and I don't know that it really accomplishes much.

Sure it reflects incredibly poorly on you to not understand the very obvious reasons this government is disliked, but I gotta hand it to you it's very funny to turn off replies to stop people telling you.

jeremy said some insane things about confucius

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

Episode 81 - Digital Asbestos Kept you waiting, huh? Link: pnc.st/s/videogames...

"Would you rather be a human? Or have they already killed you, too?" — @leadhead.bsky.social Listen to Leadhead.

I am so sick of all you assholes making me see Will Stancil posts despite having him blocked and his name muted. No one gives a shit about this annoying loser but you. Give it a rest and spare the rest of us. Pick up a hobby. Go down on your wife

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Who could it be???

The grinch in “die hard”: Takagi: *looking at the grinch in a Santa outfit* “you want to steal Christmas? What kind of a Santa are you?” The grinch: *grinning wickedly* “whoever said I was a Santa?”

President Xi, the wretched authoritarian backwater of "Britain" cries out for freedom, please.

Greta Thunberg has been arrested on terrorism charges for speaking out in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. FUCK this British government. https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842