Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

Important NYT piece by a lawyer who works with families in ICE detention. Note that ICE could release the kids (and past programs for undocumented families to avoid detention had compliance rates of 99%). They choose to keep them trapped in “hellhole” camps. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

So I guess we are supposed to believe that Trump isn’t shutting down the Kennedy Center because pretty much every show and performer canceled on them and the facility would’ve been completely empty for the remainder of his term.

incredible

This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.

he spat on a rental car and then kicked it twice. no ice officer was in sight, but five of them immediately jumped out to beat him senseless, and then tear-gassed a crowd of maybe 50 bystanders as a parting shot

It’s the prosperity theology of real estate. If you own a home that proves you’re smart and work hard. If you don’t it means you’re lazy

First Nations Chiefs are calling on Alberta’s premier to resign, accusing Danielle Smith of conspiring with separatists and violating Treaty rights “I hope you have your bags packed. When this referendum is defeated, I will gladly walk you to the border.” #fyp

Re: Trump and AB separatism: story from earlier this year on Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s lawsuit against the Alberta gov has a lengthy section on what separatist leaders have been saying about courting the Trump admin. It’s embedded. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Don’t tell Sam Cooper

This week in things Carney fans have to rationalize... 🧵

Gets his jokes from grok

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

an honest-to-goodness hero

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Trump would be by far the most corrupt president in United States history just on the basis of his presidential pardons alone.

HEY MEDIA: I think when pro sports teams are holding memorials for the people the administration has declared terrorists, it’s safe to drop the “accounts differ” pretense and move on to “the administration attempts to smear the man it murdered”

There have been 3 homicides in Minneapolis this year. Trump’s agents committed two of them: a mom and a nurse who cared for our Veterans. Stay the hell out of our cities.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED

Sick and tired of hearing Republicans say Alex Pretti was resisting. Resisting what? Being beaten? Pistol-whipped? Slammed to the ground and violently assaulted? I'd like to see every Republican in Congress go through that and just lie there and take it. Let's see how unresisting they would be.

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

And even worse, we still don’t know what’s happening inside the Dilley “Family” Detention Center in Texas, where screams have been heard from outside while staff forced an attorney to leave the area.

Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.

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i’d like to think i’m this good of a person but in reality i’d probably be all “tell kristi, i want her to know it was me”

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

I don't know, I just think (or I guess hope) the response would be very similar in most American cities. It's extremely hard to watch US federal agents murder someone in cold blood across the street from your favorite record store and not lose your fucking mind

The plow job on the sidewalks and side streets is the punchline on the running joke that we’re still The Winter City Standard.

Children’s food contaminated with worms and mold, limited access to clean drinking water, and inadequate medical care are among the allegations raised by migrant families in recent court filings about conditions their children faced in ICE custody. (PBS)

If your neighbour sets their house on fire for 4 years & then puts the fire out for 4 years & then sets their house on fire again for 4 more years, you probably shouldn't be making long term plans that rely on your neighbour's house not being on fire, even if they manage to put out the fire again.

All this talk about goalie fights being the best is making me feel like a prude.

I think this is the first Bluesky-native all-time hall of fame thread

Buckwild thread. Don’t sleep.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Venezuela’s acting pres., Delcy Rodríguez said Fri: - The goal with the sales going to private Venezuelan banks is for “foreign currency to function as a driving force for the economy,” allowing for the “efficient management” of international currencies. - “This is not for financial or currency...

thread about X’s new TOS. tldr is musk can now sue users for any reason in a TX court he basically owns, so he’ll almost certainly win. and this is a platform politicians and journalists largely refuse to leave.

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

NPR just referred to the Trump regime’s “willingness to push the boundaries of the law.” Trump keeps breaking laws, and the media keep saying he’s *almost* breaking laws.

When Trump desperately needed people to vouch for him with skeptical evangelicals in the 2016 primary, David was there to do it for him at the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

No shit. We got lifelong gun safety advocates telling people to arm themselves. Shit is real now.

Leaked documents about ICE deployment to Minneapolis suggests they're more worried about the backlash to Renee Good's death than they're letting on: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...

Folks, the "Minister of AI" has the moral backbone of a sleazy backroom art dealer.

One of the, many, problems with politics is that normal people don't go to political conventions, own a party membership, or vote in party nominations. That's why a small motivated group of folks, who are out of step with the majority of Canadians push batshit policies. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The same government that shuttered TikTok's Canadian offices and banned it from government devices. They could do the same to X; they choose not to.

Column: Holding down car ownership costs used to be a relatively simple call — buy used, not new — but that advice is losing utility as prices for pre-owned vehicles soar.