And when you get back, not everyone will open the door for you. You are not guaranteed forgiveness. If you spend 10 years hurting someone, and ask, "If I spend 10 years making amends, will you forgive me?" Even if they say no, you should still do the work. Their forgiveness should not be your goal

I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side. But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

me: I wish bands would make songs like how they did it in the 70s like I like new stuff too but there's no particular reason we couldn't just make NEW 70s music foxy shazam, holding my head to their chest and patting my hair comfortingly: we've got you babydoll

is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"

How do you do, fellow neighbors?

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

Everybody was like these playoffs will be wild, the Chiefs aren’t in it, and then the Patriots were like we’re doing this for the poor second graders who’ve never seen us in the big game

Do not let these MAGA parasites try to back track away from the bullshit that they voted for because if you do then that gives them an excuse to vote the same way again in the future.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

White people thought they could stop this by just standing in the way while being white. Nah. You with us now. You’re expendable. They will have someone kneel on your neck until you perish. Then say it was your fault. Welcome.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

🚫🧊 MAINE: Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has suspended the issuance of undercover license plates requested by the US Border Patrol. www.commondreams.org/news/maine-f...

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

Time to spend one zillion dollars at DreamHaven Books!!! I buy almost all my new giant art books and pulpy used books from them. Also I secretly sign books there whenever I stop in for a treat.

I know they aren't the first to do it, but in addition to all the other well-deserved accolades Zohran is getting for stuff like this, shout out to his comms team for the master class on the Aaron Sorkin Walk & Talk

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

One time, I got side-eyed by a seal.

America as you have known it dying because we have to build this country better. Full stop. Holding on to the fantasy nostalgia doesn't help the people of Minneapolis, or anyone captured by ICE. You have lived with an illusion of freedom, but this is Authoritarianism 101.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

when Spock does the neck pinch, even on bad guys, he always catches them and sets them down very politely. letting this guy fully just drop, leaving Jim to try to awkwardly scramble to catch him, is Vulcan for "it is always morally right to punch Nazis"

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

All net proceeds of all these shirts, hoodies and onesies will go to aid organizations in Minnesota working to protect their neighbors from terror. Fuck ICE, stand with Minneapolis.

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Melissa Joan Hart is a legit card carrying conservative republican we are through the looking glass.

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins

Hurricane Katrina moment except this time they unleashed the hurricane voluntarily

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

It was so empowering to see so many of our neighbors show up in Lewiston to tell ICE that they are not welcome here. We need now more than ever to stand up for our Somali friends and neighbors; they make us stronger. ICE needs to be out of Maine and out of our country.

I see yall!!!! We can definitely get her to 10k by 5pm EST!!! Let’s fucking goooooooooooo!!!

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

He was an ICU nurse just like me and they fucking executed him while he was trying to do what is right. I am at work in the ICU as I type this and am seething with rage.

the agent who disarmed Pretti fired Pretti's gun into the ground @chadloder.bsky.social, note the pavement impact

Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For those not familiar, Nur-D is a beloved local rapper and performer. He released two albums, 38th and Chicago Ave, after George Floyd's murder, which are incredibly relevant again now: nurdrocks.bandcamp.com/album/38th

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

This is it. Or more precisely, “Abolishing/defund ICE polls in the 40s. But if we go to Minny, the base/media will push us to take a stance close to abolish/defund. If we stay in DC, we can give vague anti-ICE talking points then move back to affordability, where our talking points are in the 70s.”

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

First of all, aw yiss new OOIOO! YoshimiO (of Boredoms, and the literal titular inspiration for Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots) has been doing experimental music about as long as I've been alive and has yet to miss. SECOND OF ALL, how did I not know Lightning Bolt? This shit is my jam

Love this even more every listen. Makes for one hell of a protest song, and it's gotta at least be in my top 20 for 2025 (I hate committing to a top 10 or even ranking within top 20, too mood-dependent) Genesis Owusu - DEATH CULT ZOMBIE #musicsky youtu.be/vFT7fZA3ybw