Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

As a proponent of further North American integration in the abstract, it’s frustrating having to functionally give up because Trump makes you feel like you’re trying to get your Canadian and Mexican friends to move into a crack den.

NYSNA bureaucracy pushes through sellout to end nurses’ strike at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The struggle is not over because the new contract will not satisfy the nurses’ needs. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia. The cruelty is boundless.

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

Grateful that @theunpopulist.net gave me full sail on the history of Grant during the constitutional crisis:

We're massively underestimating the countermeasures the public sector will deploy against AI. Your spambot can send me all the requests to reduce your council tax band it wants. I have a spambot to respond. If your case is in any way complex you'll need to visit in person so we know you're human.

as someone who thinks a lot about Woke 2 and its emerging sensibilities, i think it's worth saying that the Woke 2 aesthetic is the opposite of the "anti-aesthetic" of "an LLM that has been instructed to win elections but not to govern" instead: a bit funny, a bit demented, entirely militant

This looks absolutely incredible! And not just because of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein talking about Star Trek Discovery! Might be a good night to call out of work… #boycottSOTU

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Hell yeah Chicago

trump can't stop it, only slow it down say it with me everyone. you know the words. come on now

right here yo

the thing about the immigration number is that it doesn’t just prove that shitheads like matty were wrong in the micro a year ago, it proves *their entire theory of politics and persuasion is wrong*

This rules. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xYY78p/

I know dems are sensitive to politicize the fbi but director using position and government resources to party in Italy while parent of high profile celebrity continues to be mia seems likes a scandal

[personally driving a bulldozer through an unhoused person’s worldly possessions] we must support mutual aid

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

Sorry to connect this to last week’s Discourse but if you do not understand why we’re so nervous about Newsom, look how even a New York institution is caving, in flagrant violation of the New York human rights law and state constitution.

I just read a 10-page research paper written by a comrade on whether *refrigerator magnets* would be a good use of money for an Assembly campaign...and it's turned out to be quite possibly the most interesting practice-oriented paper I've read so far in 2026. (PS: I am now in favor of using them!)

Man I'm running for office and watching shit like this gives the rest of us a bad name. I'm going to spend my campaign money on voter contact, not fucking luxury travel. samsukaton.com

"in a free society, few are guilty, but all are responsible." We are responsible.

"the youth aspire to be entertainers" has always been a thing but the way content creation is at the whim of algorithms and monetization schemes makes it more sinister than a lot of people realize

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

A nice one. Does Mercedes make minivans? (Lord knows Ford don’t anymore) we’re buying you a Mercedes minivan

It’s simple, really. Who is a better representation of the US: the ones who say we peaked back when we didn’t allow African Americans to vote or the ones who see the current flaws in our country and wish to improve on them? We just also have to embrace that.

Hype as hell to start with the endorsement of the California Working Families Party. For those of you who are at CDP convention - come hang out! Lets talk about the race and how we can tax the rich, fix Prop 13, and fund our future! @caworkingfamilies.bsky.social

Just straight theft of taxpayer funds, fun

Sometimes feels like no country in the world gets as underestimated for its size like Indonesia. Average person thinks of like 4-5 islands when you say the name when in fact those are 4 of the 13800 islands that actually constitute Indonesia

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

imagine skating on the death penalty because you suck at coup planning

In the rundown mexican part of town. I just finished one meeting of scheming socialists. I am on a zoom of other scheming socialists while I wait for my quesabirria at the food truck. After this? The bar with more scheming socialists and mexican beer.

The buried lede here is that the woman he had an affair with committed suicide through self immolation

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

remembering Noah picking a fight with a female author of a history book about Japan (I forgot which author/book), him referencing that book, and then her going "yeah, I know, I wrote that book" He deleted the entire trail of tweets leading to that exchange

yeah. short of twitter shutting down entirely, almost every single prediction of failure made when musk was firing everyone has come to pass. it just turns out that twitter power users value their network and racism more than a functional product

When I said Jeff shouldn’t own that paper, I was told he was a benevolent benefactor in a time where print news was failing and that he would never be involves in the editorial process, that he wouldn’t touch the newsroom for his own purposes

Started the day with ashes, ending it with Berning. A reminder that while the Gospel is not partisan it is absolutely political. God humbles the haughty, lifts the lowly, lame to Earth as a day laborer, and was murdered by an occupying military. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

America has a massive gambling problem and it’s generally flying under the radar because Trump is doing something insane on a daily basis that distracts from the many other terrible things that are occuring 🥴