News outlets declaring “Trump Accepts Nobel Peace Prize” is a red alert state media indicator

It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.

72 hours, really.

Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

I think @dustyschmidt.bsky.social had an easy-to-understand explanation of how algorithms are weaponized against democracy and why we can't ignore it: badfaithtimes.com/untitled-7/

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

You would have thought it was Kissinger, but having the actual physical Nobel Peace Prize publicly bartered in exchange for a literal international war is the point at which we can say whatever Alfred Nobel had in mind has run its course and then some, time to pull the plug.

New: “This is the modern Fugitive Slave Act,” said a judge when describing ICE behavior nationwide.

this whole thing is just a late-era WCW plotline, the face champ turns heel and vacates the belt to the bigger heel

I asked AOC about X saying Grok AI will ban undressing. "They're doing it to avoid accountability, and they're doing it to avoid there being legislation passed that actually protects people, and I don't think that we should accept it." More here. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Dunno, extortion seems pretty inelegant to me.

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

It is hard to explain institutional collapse to voters; videos where state actors are clearly acting in abusive ways explain themselves.

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

hurts to see someone living your dream

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

Compare and contrast

speaker of the house mike johnson looks at ice agents shooting random minneapolis residents and says, "ice is doing what ice is designed to do"

An absolute, irrevocable national disgrace.

I am just a pollster, standing in front of a bunch of elected Dems, asking them to lead on public opinion rather than hedge and tiptoe and moderate for fear an imaginary future backlash that will probably be manufactured by the right wing ecosystem anyway, regardless of what Dems do or don’t say.

MINNEAPOLIS — “The real criminals is ICE… Another person shot because of their skin color. Even if we’re citizens, they don’t care. Because they’re fucking racists.” A witness talks to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social after another person was shot, they say with a pregnant woman in the house.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Not the point but it’s a small comfort to remember that Ted Cruz has aged like dumpster cheese.

This.... doesn't actually work in this instance.

i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”

"They have certain budgets that they want to stay within and certain money allocations they’re used to spending." www.acmepackingcompany.com/green-bay-pa...

His hands are bruised and hurt. The bad breath comment is ableist, ageist, and maybe is a lifestyle choice. Where is the civility for such an old men?

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Trump‘s and Bondi’s abuse of the Justice Department is an impeachable offense.

4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.

They did this all fall around Chicago, esp targeting landscapers & construction workers. People would drive by a house & notice abandoned landscapers’ gear in the yard. Then they’d find an abandoned truck. Under the terror & thuggery is the fundamental objective: meeting Miller’s quotas.

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

You can hate the fandom and the state, but the Green Bay Packers community system is the only truly good sports organization in America, I will take no questions or queries at this time.

Of all the southern mythologizing, this is the one I find most frustrating. Grant was not stupid, he did know how to conduct war and strategy, what separated him from "intelligent" generals was his decisiveness and guts and ruthless operation.

this is cold as fuck

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

I DM'd him on Facebook to tell him his name had been released, and he may want to private his socials. His response was to change his PFP to this. Absolute king shit, gives zero fucks

The Michigan auto worker who was flipped off by Trump after heckling him has reportedly been suspended

tip of the cap to everyone keeping today holy

They'll stick to an official line of not explicitly saying it, keep all the face-saving off ramps open, it can be spun as doing what he asked for. But this is an actual for-real military deployment in response to a fear of an American invasion. Soldiers to defend themselves from us, the rogue state.

Ruthkanda but even more racist and even more improbable

The President of the United States. 🇺🇸 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

.@PabloReports: Why do you think it’s so hard for some to just accept that you have always been for abolishing ICE? AOC: I don’t know, man. People are like, “Oh, you said cut funding, but not abolish”—how do you think you abolish an agency, man? You don’t keep funding it to the tune of billions

jack daniels can be classified as either bourbon or whiskey, since bourbon and whiskey are simply different names for identical products

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

Shoot it straight into my veins Senator

Something I learned at business school is that the people who are at the gears of power in this country are all drug addicts.

Get him Ford guy