Hell isn’t hot enough for those in charge.

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

WE DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS NONSENSE IN LOS GODDAMN ANGELES?!

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

As I've said many times, this is an awful thing that we are doing to ourselves for no discernible reason.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

The other takeaway from that Super Bowl broadcast, for me, was that betting apps are the tobacco companies of the 21st century: Supercharging self-destructive behavior via lobbying and psychological/content manipulation.

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

Watched the halftime show. I guess where I fundamentally depart from MAGA is that, when I see something like this, celebrating a culture that's not quite mine, with some references I don't get, something that's not For Me ... I *like* it. I like seeing inside other worlds. Why wouldn't you?

This was the USSR's policy

I had to look this up to make sure it was true... The guy is the definition of a bottom-feeding grifter.

A reminder to the haters it takes this many states to outnumber the American citizens in Puerto Rico (~3.5m v. ~3.2m)

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Looks like Birnam Wood getting in on the action.

Bad bunny’s message being “together we are America” while a bunch of people went to watch a separate show so their eyes don’t god forbid land on him is the clearest cleanest commentary ever.

Shouting out every fucking Latin country in front of THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE— Thank you.

That's up there with some the best halftime celebrations we've gotten.

Here’s my package from last night in Los Angeles. Found the SRT (Special Response Team, CBP tactical unit) presence to be particularly annoying and focused mostly on that while filming. These guys inflamed tensions when it wasn’t necessary. The victim is doing alright, from last I heard.

Good. Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Reupping this because a colonoscopy is no big deal and anyone over 40 should be talking to their doctor about getting one. Take care of yourselves, people.

Everyone who has worked in publishing or read screenplay submissions for a production company can tell you about the piles of dreck they've had to sift through to find good writing -- well before AI was ever a thing. AI just makes the pile bigger, without copyright protection.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

When your representative says "Don't talk to me about my own morality," I suggest talking to them about their own morality INCESSANTLY.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.

We know the Feds are in cahoots with Meta and that Meta is sharing information with the Feds to target people. Signal chats for organizing. Nothing else. Literally nothing else. No photos, no video, no posting to social. Full stop.

Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.

I didn't have "ICE dismantles itself because recruits desert their positions after realizing they've been scammed" on my Bingo card of possibilities, but I'd take it.

Ah, I understand the racists are upset that one of the most beautiful women in the world was cast in a film as one of the most beautiful women in the world

Bad Bunny thanked his mom for having him in Puerto Rico, told the people on the island there's nothing they can't do, and dedicated his award to all Latinos and to immigrants who keep pushing forward with a lot of strength.

jesus christ

re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.

Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.

Attached is the 53 pg legal memo sent to Alex Acosta in early 2007 detailing the scope of the federal charges the DOJ wanted to bring against Epstein, incl that he was considered an extreme flight risk. And with the snap of his fingers, Acosta made it all go away. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Trump’s obsession with “agitators” made us curious. Do paid agitators make more than Antifa? Do you need training as a crisis actor or can you just show your false flag operator’s license? Does the health insurance pay for autism-flavored Tylenol? Read at: www.contrabandcamp.com/p/we-intervi...

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers. Because we need more cowbell.

If you step back, there’s no logical reason immigration enforcement should be any more “bad ass” of a division than parking enforcement. And if they DO stumble on a bad guy in an investigation, they should have to call a real cop.

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street