(this isn't an exaggeration)

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

my ultimate wish for U.S. politics since I was like 14 lmao

Shooting mothers, nurses, while arresting priests and toddlers - this is what comes of that. Their terror campaign is completely backfiring on them. People aren't backing down, they're just getting enraged and radicalised.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

Always read @mashagessen.bsky.social.

I agree with this + I sorta sneered at the “resistance within the Trump administration” stuff but in retrospect there were principled people within his first administration preventing enormous harm.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

every time

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

Our country is not yet lost

PS1 Beavis and Butt-Head are here to make your day better

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Ami in perhaps the most nineties outfit of all time. (I think yellow is definitely Ami's best color, but I really cannot imagine her putting together an outfit like that.)

These monsters are sick.

Seven Democrats! Literally seven people out of 200 plus! (And of course the funding situation is messier than that) When you equate this with “the democrats” you are doing the work of the enemy.

no matter what idiot viziers think, "sending in the military" is not a win button

Not that I expect much strategic thinking out of these people, but that Trump and Miller chose to make their first domestic battleground a part of the country broadly associated with kind, middle class Americans with fun accents is, to put it mildly, fucking idiotic.

Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

the trump people, business leaders and the dog-brained pundits in nyc and dc saw trump win in 2024 and thought “okay, we’re just gonna do fascism, the argument is over” and they’re all going to slowly wake up to the simple but true counterpoint: nuh uh

I love that Colbert is using the his final days on the evil CBS/Paramount to interview and promote organizers, scholars and activists taking on Trump and authoritarianism. It’s very satisfying.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Minnesota has been A1 on the Times and WashPo nearly everyday for the last two and a half weeks, but still complaints of no mainstream coverage.

getting mad at wyden — who has one of the strongest records of voting against this admin in the entire senate — for this post is a remarkable act of pointless performative outrage.

so many clergy coming to protest ICE that they're overflowing the airport sidewalk we are going to win

Dr. Ian Kelson from the '28 Years Later' films might be my favorite movie character from the last 25 years. It's a huge task to portray the embodiment of the sort of selfless humanism that gives hope in a hopeless situation, but Ralph Fiennes breathes absolute life into him.

so many leftists kneecapping their politics because of this tbh

the fight for Ukraine is the fight for all democratic, free people (likewise the fight for Minneapolis)

This is, almost unbelievably, followed up with a possibly even dumber story about Patel’s people vigorously arguing with British intelligence to try to get them to okay him tweeting a photo that was taken at Windsor Castle with a bunch of spooks whose jobs are state secrets.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

dipshit who cooked his brains on drugs in 1990s Russia lol

wow we really got the All-Stars here, huh

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

This is a great list for anyone new to learning about the military or even those of us looking to expand our knowledge into new areas. I would add another key category to the list, though, which is military power & effectiveness. There is an entire & very good sub-genre on that topic. 1/2

If you’re wondering what the 73% is thinking…

Okay. So we self immolated ourselves on the international stage so we could keep the defense framework we established with Greenland 70 years ago. Sick.

thinking about the funniest joke ever put into a video game again

"I'm off to kill the most powerful man in the world." - Phantasy Star (Sega Master System)

only thing blue line i recognize 🫡

World Cup is gonna go great.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.