Feel like this is a good time to ask @faineg.bsky.social to repeat their occasional admonishments against trying to down regime UAVs.

Every minute is another inch we, collectively Wile E Coyote, sail out over the abyss. We can either take our lumps now, or face utter catastrophe later. Some (likely significant) pain is already baked into the outcome, but we still can minimize it.

Bloomberg confirmed the letter, But no one else of note has touched it, even to say reports are out there That’s…interesting

I run into this frequently – just today, even! "Why bother to pass 'The Good Law' since the Iowa GOP AG will never prosecute and the Iowa GOP Lege will invalidate it?"

This might be even more niche than Roddy McDowall and Ricardo Montalbán, but: The Catfish Place, Nichols, Iowa. Imagine, if you will, a seedy supper club.

Ricardo Montalbán cheats Roddy McDowall again.

UN: A staggering 55 million people across West and Central Africa are expected to suffer crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the lean season from June to August as funding cuts to humanitarian operations continue amid rising violence and displacement.

These idiots are living in a simulation.

Fuck you, make me.

For those of you who want your local electeds to do... something, but you don't know quite what that might look like:

I posted the attached letter this morning. I do not have Becca Good's address, and so I sent it via @timwalzparody.bsky.social, I hope he and the Legislature of the great state of Minnesota take its contents under advisement. Let our law be a memorial.

While the Reverend isn't fighting fascism he somehow finds time to fight Islamophobia.

These goons don't need babysitters, they need prosecutions.

The Peace President is working with diligence to bring you hot wars, but he isn't sleeping on cold wars, either.

One of the clarifying things about going through the fire is that it diminishes your fear. I say this as a man of privilege, and I recommit to using it for the public I serve.

The intimidation campaign continues.

Fellow travelers of the regime have surrendered their dignity. We will strip them of their pretended patriotism.

Add another count to the bill of particulars for the upcoming trials.

Read this to stiffen your spine.

Denver.

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Two closely related points. • The regime doesn't give a shit that it's putting civies in danger, all these chuds live behind the wire. • The regime gives a similar number of shits about the Goon Squad – they're practically begging someone to try a Castle Doctrine to escalate.

"I'll be at your trial."

"These are pretexts."

Short thread with the links from the QRs in the images below:

Missed my friend at the protest this afternoon, glad to see her here.

Both foreign and domestic, this regime is too little butter over too much toast. Exhausted. Overspent. Feeble.

Whatever you think of my politics, I take the job seriously.

The giveaway here is that the letter is also addressed to the mayor.

The fatal error, the assumption baked into Dave's priors here, is that ICE is enforcing the law. They're the American version of Russia's "Little Green Men." Given the regional variation, I will continue for now referring to them as The Goon Squad. But utterly lawless.

I'd encourage you to take two minutes to read this.

On the scene near the site of the shooting

i am asking about this after reading this WIRED report and i am giving you an honest, no-shit CW before you read it

The suit challenging the validity of last year's Iowa SF75 (county supervisor districts) will proceed to trial next year. The State's motion to dismiss, and the Plaintiffs' motion for temporary injunctive relief, were both denied.

Listen to Nick (laudatory)

I ask @robsandia.bsky.social if he would push for the repeal of Iowa Code §27A and 27B? Iowa Legislature - Code Chapter Listings share.google/geQ2JlfJwOzf...

Oh, he's in the hospital? Good, he should be easy to find. He should immediately be taken into protective custody for his own safety until an arrest warrant issues.

Like, this is correct, but just not in the way she means it.

As a (local) lawmaker, the law of unintended consequences lives near the front of my mind. Wyoming amended its constitution in 2012 to try and weasel out of participating in Obamacare. Ope.

Jon here is on the Board of Supervisors here in Johnson County. He caught a fucking boatload of shit after refusing to put flags at half mast after a certain assassination last year. Recommend y'all read his thread about these loons.

It's damn short notice and the middle of the night, but we have ICE check in accompanying to do at Square D Drive, Cedar Rapids, at 8. Rest well, friends.

It's damn short notice and the middle of the night, but we have ICE check in accompanying to do at Square D Drive, Cedar Rapids, at 8. Rest well, friends.

1-x I'm going to take a moment to circle back to the C Kirk imbroglio. I felt it was a line that needed to be drawn and vigorously defended. Vocally and forcefully. But at a cost. I paid the toll because I have said and believe if my privilege is a bank account, I want it overdrawn when I go.

If Bondi understands the implications of what she's saying, she'll be begging to be on the first rocket to Mars.

We saw lots of laws to this effect in the wake of George Floyd, including here in Iowa.

Between the dishes and reading Le Carré. Checking in, lest we've done some more murders or kidnappings, please reply if so otherwise it's back to The Secret Pilgrim.

Another blow for truth from @naomioreskes.bsky.social and colleagues. A great story from @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Any system of law that idolizes itself as "wrathful" is no system of justice.