The new video makes clear that 1) he told her to get out of the car, and ultimately shot her, because he wanted to punish her for making him feel small 2) she made him feel small, not because she was a threat to him or anyone else, but because she was not afraid of him

But even if terrorism is their objective, that doesn't mean they're all-powerful. Part of the spectacle is making them seem bigger & tougher than they are. Recall: they only have 22,000+ ICE agents. While NYPD, alone, has 33,000 officers. The Minneapolis Metro is 3 million. 🧵

I say this as a USian: the whole world, but especially Europe, needs to cut us off like a gangrenous limb. We WILL take you down with us if you don't.

Reading Rachel Cusk makes me want to comment on my own motivations for every tiny thing I do like some kind of nature documentary narrator who in fact hates all animals.

Once again, ICE are claiming that the victims tried to run them over in their car. They've invented a new kind of bullshit, everybody: the more time that goes by, the more it stinks.

Send dumpsters to the houses of every billionaire on the planet. Crews in hazmat suits. Psychologists who sit them down while they sob over the prospect of giving away $1 million. "But what is the hole this million dollars fills? Where is it?" Billionaire, sniveling: In... In m-my... h-h-HEAR-R-RT.

On my hands and knees begging the Blue Crew liberals to understand why my friends and I are so fucking done with the Dem establishment. I hold my nose and vote for these bozos year after year so they can have a job saying "whaddaya expect ME to do? I'm just a smol bean with no power or influence!"

before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told It’s meant to justify the murder nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems

My fellow whites are whiting overtime today 🙄 Yes this is a subskeet and no I will not explain it.

Today I met a lovely woman who started out as a maker of bespoke lingerie and moved on to making gender-affirming garments and post-surgical recovery garments for trans people, and I feel ever so slightly better about the world.

Please see the award-winning poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by the US government today in Minneapolis. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

The alt-text on this is fucking brilliant. (Always read the alt-text.)

The GoFundMe for Renee Good's wife and son 💔

Once again, if the leaders of our institutions showed half the bravery of regular people out in their fucking pajamas this shit would be over.

Minnesotans are amazing people. We should all be in awe of them.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

“She was probably terrified,” Ganger told the paper. “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

This video of what appears to be the wife of the woman who was shot and killed by ICE today, taken immediately after the shooting, is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in a while. I'm speechless. I hope this woman is safe right now. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

Abolishing ICE is not enough. I want every last one of them shoved into a clown car and driven straight to hell.

This city is going to explode. ICE killed someone three blocks from my house, then shot pepper balls in the face of people who had gathered to witness. Then they moved a couple blocks away and kicked in the doors of a house. They can rot in hell.

IT'S KING CAKE TIME MFERS

The BEST show I've ever seen was a retrospective on the Ballroom Scene and its intersections with the Black Power movement at our tiny local art museum, the Centro Dos De Mayo in Móstoles Spain.

People should've KNOWN bc I was 5 when this came out and it was my anthem for the next 2 years. Drove my parents absolutely nuts. Somewhere in the family archives there's video of tiny me in sunglasses dancing to this.

My dog is the goodest boy.

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Mayhaps we take the problem of fundamentalism a tad more seriously

Oh my God I felt this right in the solar plexus

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Stop. Please. These are not distractions, just because you are being distracted. All the things matter. All the things are important. The lives of Venezuelans, just like the lives of migrants or trans people, are not distractions. They matter. We matter.

Next person to say the word "distraction" near me is getting Batman slapped straight to hell.

They seem to have hired the same set designer who did the production of 12 Angry Men I was in back in 9th grade. Those black dropcloths have really held up.

"Stop calling AI slop" says man who looks like the skull at the bottom of a well who makes you answer three riddles at peril of your eternal soul

My deepest sympathies with anyone who has a book coming out next week.

My country is so fucking vile.

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

If you’re still talking about the Epstein files like they’re some salacious distraction, I’m going to remind you how very wrong you are. They strike to the heart of discussions of power in this country and connect directly to the debate over CSAM production by Grok. A short thread:

Hooray, another year of me being SadPabloEscobar[dot]jpg

Nihil novi sub sole.

Omg, I'm DEAD?? Like 4 times over?? And I gotta find out like THIS 😫😫😫😫

Every day I look forward to @neilayounger.bsky.social 's daily newscasts from the past. If you're a Tudor-nerd, or a history nerd of any stripe, do yourself a favor and follow along in 2026 - uh, I mean 1583.

There exists in the law a concept called "disparate impact." It's one of the most important aspects of the kind of law I practice, and it's been under attack by the right for decades. This is a gross oversimplification, but disparate impact is something like this:

Ominous portents in the woods on this, the last day of 2025 💀

Is it just me or has the phrase "comes from a place of immense privilege" been co-opted by the immensely privileged to mean "how dare you point and laugh at my obvious nakedness you lowly plebe???"

Found my headstone inscription:

Once when I was employed to sit and watch an empty building an elderly woman wearing a cow onesie wandered in to use the bathroom and I had to help her out of and back into her onesie. Never received any explanation other than "I just like it. It's comfortable, and no one else is wearing one."

I really hope anyone out there who has chosen not to meddle in the so-called "Trans Debate" either way does not miss the use of the word "KILL" here. Bc it is absolutely about killing people. Not "ideologies" - people. No one with a conscience can afford to sit this out.

they have designed these machines to simulate human agents and they are constantly pitching the idea that these machines really *are* agents, but when one of these machines kills a person they say “you can’t hold them to account, they’re just machines, read the instructions”