“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots stand against COVID mandates. What we saw in Ottawa was not a protest, but a full-blown occupation meant to terrorize and disrupt people’s lives.”

It's amazing to think about how we got here: The delusional mad king was watching Fox News b-roll, thought it was a current event, and decided to invade Portland--and now the entire MAGA movement is trying to turn Trump's delusions into reality.

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

I’ve also heard instances of this at UVa: well-qualified faculty members who want to teach topics of great current interest and importance are being discouraged from doing so because it feels risky. It’s truly a shame.

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Thankful to be among the 600+

they’re using the lists they created before as the starting point to target political enemies. they’re using noncitizens as practice & to build a case to apply the same tactics to citizens. they’re taking over your info outlets to bend the truth and shape it in their likeness. it’s all happening.

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

This is pretty much true.

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Very confused how Texas Army National Guard soldiers would be deploying to Chicago tonight. This was just announced yesterday, right? You would be hard-pressed to deploy an XVIII Airborne Corps alert unit this fast, much less a Guard unit. Either this was in the works weeks ago, or something is off.

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice? They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

Indigenous people are 5 percent of Canada's population but have made up more than half its wildfire evacuees this year while their generational knowledge of forest stewardship is largely ignored. Indigenous Services Canada says “more work needs to be done” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Not to mention they rammed into a citizen they had a beef with because she was legally exposing them, they shot her, and didn’t render aid. They left her for dead it seems? She was apparently found. Then, as they have done so many times now, they concocted a wild fabrication to hide their crimes.

as a wee lad in the early 90s who thought it would be fun to make cartoons for a living, I did not expect to chronicle the descent of the so called american experiment into blatant fascism, but I guess you play the hand you are dealt

One thing that’s clear, one of the knock on effects of the “Compact” is it’s piling yet more labor on already maxed out faculty at targeted schools: meetings, resolutions, messaging, responding to admin requests for “input,” processing rumors and information . . . It’s just more more on top of more.

Greta Thunberg’s Autistic special interest is saving the world 🌎 , why are people getting in her way?

My recent conversation w @hcrichardson.bsky.social has more views than many of the videos on Bari Weiss's The Fress Press. I am independent, with no support, a janky setup, & started my channel recently. Can someone give me $150 million, please? youtube.com/watch?v=3nTVzhv5jkI&feature=youtu.be

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

I feel like Mississippi Police covering up what was an obvious random lynching in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination should PROBABLY be getting more news coverage...

A fun and informative thread about Thomas Pynchon, one of my favorite authors and a contender for the Greatest American Novelist.

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

Ireland literally getting so much right

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

Nice to see ESPN quote our New York Times story today. But the big story here is this sentence: "According to a report from Deloitte earlier this year, revenues are projected to top $1 billion this year." If true, WNBA players are getting 2% of revenue!!! www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

My advice to people entering their 30s: don’t assume something will die forever just because it appears to be encountering a massive setback/reversal. Wait, plan, breathe, but don’t give up at the first sign of trouble. Courses correct. New information comes out. Shit changes constantly

The entire media environment has collapsed into segregated propaganda bubbles that are all owned by the same people. Our refuge is under siege, granted. I’m extremely pissed off about Link, granted. Going to start a petition to bring him back in fact. But if we don’t hold here, what are we giving up

I don’t know anything about social media moderation, or atproto, or literally any of the back-end stuff that’s involved with building one of these things. I know about writing, culture, organizing, power, and communications though — and we are morons if we abandon Bluesky over some infighting.

People need to start investing in, like, Polaroids and Technicolor film if you ever want to use photographic or video evidence in a courtroom after 2026

Currently at the ICE facility in portland, OR. Some far right agitators have posted plans online to attack the mutual aid stations and take over the area at 7:00.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

did he really not believe the party wouldn’t out him for being this deceptive?

I wonder if Ukrainians find it strange that their flag has become a global symbol of resistance to tyranny and fighting for liberal values?

Hey, Canadian Gubbermint? Does the "take normal security precautions" risk assessment of traveling in the US right now seem...adequate? I feel like this is not "normal security precaution" level risk down yonder. What does it actually take to raise the threat level? #cdnpoli #travel #usa

I wanted to excerpt something from this piece, grab a pull-quote to post. But, as always, Newfield demands to be read in full. Just read it. www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

The Prestige (2006)

Call it a $900/household annual subsidy to unaccountable billionaires.

The really ridiculous thing about this is that if you have spent any decent amount of time on here you are undoubtedly on a list that describes you in much worse terms than this

For your consideration:

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Either you're against fascism, or you're foolish enough to believe it won't come for you.

So are we just gonna ignore that a white kid killed 2 teen girls because he was upset they insulted Charlie Kirk? Imagine. JUST IMAGINE if this was an undocumented immigrant? But meanwhile I bet you’ve barely heard about this atrocity. SMH www.instagram.com/reel/DPewI1w...