See if this deputy had listened to the union and not bought Starbucks from any location during the duration of their ULP strike maybe they wouldn't have gotten this cute pig on their cup and had suffered so much trauma

*Trump spews the most racist logorrhea a sitting president has ever directed against a single ethnic group in one public interview* "I've heard many people say that this is generalizing a population." if this is being a journalist i am just as happy to be a podcaster

They like to call themselves protectors of women. But that protection extends only to women who fawn over them.

“Women should smile more.” (Woman smiles) *gunshots*

Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days. End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.

70s too. But yeah.

JFC what a bunch of snowflakes.

I miss him every day. The world has gone to shit since he left it …

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

White people who are afraid of becoming a minority feel that way because they know how they themselves treat minorities.

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Trump is threatening credit card companies with a law that doesn’t exist! The dude is ill, seriously ill! bsky.app/profile/fint...

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

The one thing I've picked up from the recent swath I've cut through reruns of Law & Order is that we're all due at least one instance a day of yelling "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" like Sam Waterston.

I just want to be able to pick up the phone at work when it rings and yell “WHAT?” like Captain Cragen.

BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T *GET IT*

the streets themselves will rise against them

I love Mamdani’s interest in small, unflashy reforms that make a material difference to the life of the city

A small reform, but noticed and appreciated at least by every parent in NYC

THIS THIS THIS they don’t need more “training” to know not to shoot unarmed people in the face.

Good thread and a reminder that you should block these people on sight. I understand if you feel powerless. But if your solution to that is to try to drag other people down into that state of helpless despair with you, that's a block.

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Honest to Pete what kind of question is this?

This is one of my fave stories. The traitor's battle flag was captured by the First Minnesota Infantry at Gettysburg. 3/4 of the regiment died that day. Va has repeatedly requested its return. MN gov Jesse Ventura notoriously responded, “Why? I mean, we won. We took it, that makes it our heritage.”

We are blessed to share the Earth with her.

Happy Birthday, Pat Benatar!🥳 Pat did this! And shout out to the late great Michael Peters (Dreamgirls, Beat It) on the choreography.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

“.. BUT ..”

Many of you have become drama-addicted doomers, and you seem to think it's important for the rest of us to join you. Yes, things are bad. But change is within our power. Grow up. Act like sober, responsible adults in a democracy instead of cynical, all-is-lost teenagers. Now get off my lawn. /5x

When the Trump era ends, and it will, the U.S. should use Germany’s model in how they currently deal with Nazism. In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.

Her last "threatening" words to the ICE agent were, with a smile, "I'm not mad at you." His last words to her, after he shot her in cold blood, were "Fucking bitch." Perhaps, perpetually lying JD Vance is as big a sociopath as Jonathan Ross.

I love this book so much. My family (kid now 19) still greets each other with “It is hot out here in the sun!” “It is not hot here in the shade!”

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.

The Toronto Sun needs to fire Bryan Passifiume.

JD and Rubio never lose their obsequious smiles, but you have to wonder what the presumably more hard-boiled CEOs of Chevron, Exxon/Mobil and ConocoPhillips are thinking

i honestly can't believe i didn't see this until today

100% this!!!

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

Me: (watches news video about Minneapolis) Me: (scrolls down to the comments section) Cookie: That's quite enough of that! I'm sitting on your phone now.

STILL DIGS GRAVES IN CASE YOUR FORGOT 🪦

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Be Minnesota Nice until it’s time to Minnesota Not Be Nice

When you succumb to the cynicism, you are helping Trump. He wants you to think that all is lost, that he is all powerful, and that there is nothing we can do. The fight for democracy is hard, but it is worth having. We have shown we can stand tall. We have shown we can win.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

I had an interesting, nuanced conversation with Bela Fleck about why he isn't playing at the Kennedy Center. "Not canceling is taking a side," he says, and he wants to be nonpolitical. Here's a gift link to the piece: wapo.st/49szcRI

I wonder what any of you would do differently in your lives if I said "yes, America is at this moment a fascist nation." Because I tell ya what, if I thought so, I'd be doing things differently. For starters, I wouldn't bother worrying about elections or candidates or whom to support. /1

Not a good sign when the Rupars feel they have to leave town. Aaron, we are keeping you and your family in mind

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

No, you made collect calls and used code names when the operator asked you for your name so when your mom was told the name by the operator she could reject the call (so no one paid anything) and know she was supposed to pick you up at the mall.