Incredible to me how many mainstream democrats have talked themselves into the position that the growing chorus of voices criticizing their choices as enabling fascism are both worthy of sneering condescension and also not real, thereby proving that they’re the best choices

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back. Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.

Y’know, I was just worrying that the moment the heat went down one degree, there would be a bunch of status quo liberals ready to declare victory and hand all the tools of ethnic cleansing back to the people who were doing it, ensuring that this situation is not addressed and will happen again

i just want the world to be free

Shotguns for the Storytellers A poem for all victims of secret police.

It’s pretty wild to love America as a sort of amorphous almost religious concept but simultaneously hate the people of America so deeply

That’s what that one guy said about Elon, he loves humanity but doesn’t love human beings. What’s the fuckin difference man? Human life isn’t an abstraction from the thing you claim to love, it’s the thing itself. If you harm Americans you hate America, if you harm humans you hate humanity.

the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.

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

My new video comes out tomorrow, but if you donate any amount of money to the National Immigration Law Center, I will send you the link right now. tiltify.com/@yacobg42/su...

Am told a group of activists had barricaded themselves in San Diego’s City Hall demanding Mayor Todd Gloria meet with them to set new standards for how SDPD responds to calls related to ICE.

If nothing else these past days have made every high-powered political thriller of the last fifty years look incredibly stupid

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social 1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.

There's also been a shift in character in activism. In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact. In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I was already broken and then the Liam Ramos thing broke me again. But the other form of broken is to think it’s fine and at least I’m not broken like that.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few. -Percy Shelly, The Mask of Anarchy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It always drives me a little crazy when people say “you have to consider both sides.” No, you really don’t. For starters, there are usually far more than “both” (aka just 2) sides to an issue. And when one of them simply ignores facts or invents them, they don’t warrant any deeper consideration.

Minneapolis is in a worse state than what the videos convey. I fear people don't grasp just how bad this blitzkrieg against our people is. It's everywhere, all the time, and only the most egregious bits that get reordered at all gain traction.

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

ICE totaled this car, abducted a woman, and then left it in the middle of Snelling Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the Twin Cities. This isn’t law and order, this state sanctioned terrorism. It’s fucking disgusting.

Centrists do not seem to recognize “you cannot vote for the future you want because nobody else wants that” and “everyone who disagrees with you has psychological problems” as propaganda scripts, which, today, seems inexcusable

Why is the dessert fork so small? Do these fools think they can make me eat dessert slower, or eat less of it? Do they think they can dissuade me? Discourage me? They'll soon learn these tactics are in vain.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

I would say it answers those questions, not raises them

I feel like being much more cautious with my words for a lot of reasons but one of them is because I think we are all going to need each other

America has used the word “illegal” to mean “bad” for far too long

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

I personally think that when a guy like Cuban says he has an easier time talking with nazis and pedophiles on twitter than human beings on bluesky, we should believe him and draw all the obvious conclusions about his moral character and ultimate goals.

got inspired

That snow-golem has the arrogance of unlife. Just walks right up to the constable and says “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”.

This thanksgiving I’m reflecting on my growing suspicion of any Christian group that claims to be “religiously persecuted“ without any additional context around why there might have been conflict with other group. maybe it was unwarranted! but the Pilgrims were mad they weren’t *persecuting*

A lot of buzz on the timeline today about genAI and honestly I think AI’s main use case is halfassing something you don’t think matters very much. I also think there’s a big connection there to politics and policy. We keep halfassing, and we’re over the tipping point of that reckoning coming home

LISA: I feel like I’m going to die. BART: We’re all gonna die, Lise. LISA: I meant soon! BART: So did I…

It’s a small contribution to the mess we are in but one thing that sucks about America is how our public discourse doesn’t even *pretend* to engage with ideas. They just assert “my enemies believe X” and everyone just goes along