A war against decent people, waged by the dumbest, meanest creeps around.

Fetterman particle levels unacceptable.

I enjoyed the hell out of Blue Moon, especially Ethan Hawke's performance, of course. The script's a blast.

being able to terrorize immigrants in such a way that white people dont notice isnt a flex. to hell with any mass deportation regime, no matter how "civil" you can make it appear

trying to see if this loops perfectly on bsky

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

So many smart and eloquent people out there with real expertise And insight and this smelly little Nazi keeps getting bylines.

In a slightly different way, this is also the moral of the MN fraud cases. It’s what happens when you fund essential care and education services through underregulated middlemen, rather than as public goods. Neoliberal rot all over the place, and fascism is the worms that crawl out of the rot.

There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.

Revenge of the Nerds was a warning people ignored

It’s not “deeply concerning.” It’s not just ICE agents. It’s not <like> authoritarianism; it <is> authoritarianism. It requires immediate impeachment & removal, & I wish Obama, along with Clinton, GWB, & yes even Mitt Romney, had the courage to get in front mics every day & call for that explicitly.

Future historian are going to see the moment incels gained influence in the US security state as the beginning of the American century of humiliation.

Brilliant analysis of an iconic scene from CASABLANCA with too much contemporary relevance. “The Germans are but one small enclave, finding themselves within a community that’s filled with less traditional power but greater numbers and far superior zeal.”

Video footage appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment’s descriptions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions at a protest last month inside a church in Minnesota, according to a review by The Post.

Le look étonnamment moderne de Gabrielle Etéogella (1896).

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

right wingers have been very mad at rep brad tabke for openly helping ICE resistance and everything they share just makes him look cool as hell and don’t forget he won this seat by only 14 votes!

Every Winter Olympic sport was invented by a drunk guy with a death wish, except curling, which was invented by a drunk guy with a tiny broom.

This quote is actually saying the quiet part out loud: "You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market" is an admission of how people in the US have been implicitly subsidizing the global healthcare system, to the benefit of the other OECD countries specifically.

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

let him cook

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

The Constitution's supremacy clause bars local interference with federal officers when they act reasonably, within the scope of their duties. But when agents cross that line, experts said, there's an obligation to try to hold them accountable.

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious. We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

"As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it’s most needed."

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

A bunch of physical paragons all riding their own emotional tsunamis, all housed together? How do you not end up with constant fucking?

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Y'all need to check out @lyz.bsky.social's newsletter because it's always killer, like this review of the Melania movie. 'Simone Weil once noted, “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, and boring.” And that’s what this documentary is accidentally showing us'

forgot the most important of the genre

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

The second ICE shooting in Minneapolis happened on the north side. DHS said two men attacked an agent with a shovel and a broom. Charges have been dropped for both men. Prosecutors write that newly discovered evidence is "materially inconsistent with the allegations." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“Our affiant lied, of course, and we have now learned there’s video to contradict him.”

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

Reminder that just 2 weeks ago, an agreement was signed for ICE/DHS to house 500-800 agents at Fort Snelling. So drawdown? Maybe. Going away? I remain incredibly skeptical. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

In case you're falling for the optics of the supposed draw down in MSP as a victory, Senator Tina is making it clear why they're going on TV and lying about it and hoping you buy it too: The funding deal.

GOP has badly overplayed its hand in MN and I don't think they're going to be able to make the fraud cases the center of attention anymore, especially now that the Fed prosecutors on the case have resigned in protest, but they're sure going to try.

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I'll believe it when I see it.

Commentators seem to be missing the main point of what Homan is saying -- he says that AG Ellison and Walz agreed with him that "County jails may notify ice of the release date of an inmate just as long as they don’t hold them past the release date."