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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

“It’s unfair of you to expect me to have had a moral compass long before I was ever forced by a PR crisis to feign one.”

The concentration and quality of EXTREMELY nerdy pun user handles on BlueSky, across multiple extremely nerdy domains, is *chef's kiss*. Just putting it out there.

This @hunterw.bsky.social story about his encounter with one of Trump's paranoid special agents is, in a word, gobsmacking. It includes a Ron Swanson reference that will make @kentremendous.bsky.social shake his head (at least.) If you don't already, support TPM talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

If you have not been to one of the remains of the US concentration camps, find a way to put it on your list. You will feel things. Very little remains of Camp Amache, in Southeastern Colorado, except on recreated dorm and a watchtower and a handful of placards.

Not-Christian Mamdani fails to go to church! News at 11. Sometimes, guys, the straw's too short to bother grasping at.

Only good power scale discourse

And may I add, other immigrants will tell you that Vadym Kolesnik's undying love for Costco (he has publicly used US Figure Skating's socials to ask for a Costco sponsorship) is a rite of passage for all new Americans, especially those from the former USSR and China. I know I have.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

the trick is that all of the 25 year olds on here are also 39

It always begins as a joke.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

i think this is dead on re: the first. Woke 2 needs to lean in heavy on "he a little confused but he got the spirit"

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The country is furious about what's going on. 86% of Ds and 47% of independents nationwide support *abolishing* ICE. He should offer a vision of how ICE & CBP can be fundamentally diminished or dismantled, even if he can't do it today. Creating a road map generates pressure and possibilities. [2/4]

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

It’s one thing to get pushed back. It’s another to attempt a charge right into the heart of the enemy. If it peters out halfway, you’re not just losing, you’re going to be annihilated. Trump is fast arriving at that moment

Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning

one of the more, uh, *extremely* unfortunate details of my new-ish job is that I get biweekly data bout mutual aid scams, including those discovered using our services via microblogging sites and, like ... holy shit. I am at a point that I legit believe anyone asking for rent is pig butchering.

I Thought I Was a Republican, Turns Out I Just Needed a Dom thehardtimes.net/blog/i-thoug...

The spirit of this is right, but “the press” as shorthand for “journalists” did not come into vogue until decades after the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The “freedom of the press” is the right of anyone to publish as well as speak, not a protection for a specific profession.

3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche! findyournews.org/explore/

Ho. Lee. Toledo.

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Let's review... Some key distinctions I use to do my work: Public vs. audience Journalism vs. the media Truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking Political vs. politicized Issues vs. troubles Ritual vs. transmission Expect vs. predict Subscription vs. membership 25/

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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.

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

Young people are killing the umbrella industry

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

my biggest takeaway from my privacy law course was that you can’t escape the omnipresent tracking unless you arrange your entire life to avoid the tracking. Better to accept they know what they know and act accordingly.

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

"There's nothing to fear but fear itself", said the man. This is what fear does. It makes you put down the weapon you need (exposure of The Horrors to the media) in fear of attracting the federal abuse that's coming anyway if we don't stop it. I get it, but it doesn't help anyone. Stay strong Will.

Reminder of the day: Don’t fedpost on big Signal chats either. In a room of a thousand strangers, assume at least one of them’s a bad guy. (In this case, thankfully, no one fedposted!)

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

/18 There were no young women in the parking lot with the young men, but I thought they sounded hopeful that some might show up, if they sang like they meant it. It’s easy to hope for things, on a fine night, with a few tequilas and a stoop grill dog or two. /end

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

No it's because one party thinks ships are obsolete and the other thinks logistics is for nerds, its in the services' interest to pass the buck elsewhere, and Congress can't make campaign ads about investing in logistics. It's no one's priority, so it is just decaying.

For those unfamiliar, in On Violence, Arendt points out that the ability to dish out violence is often confused for power - the ability to get compliance without violence. Successful governance relies almost entirely on power, because violence is expensive and limited.

I'm not going to post screenshots for obvious reasons but I have been alerted that a bunch of the top posts in r/MassiveCock are anti-ICE now and anyone who defends ICE in comments is getting yelled down lol

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

Mamdani wandering through a darkened dungeon, hidden away in the bowels of a forgotten library, pulls an ancient crumbling tome off a forgotten shelf, blows the dust off the cracked cover to reveal the words "How To Do Retail Politics"