I've had this image in my head for several months now and have to get it out

NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about their plans

I'm not saying Biden wasn't an old man who had trouble speaking near the end of his term, but we never got any policies or anything that went wrong because he was old. Trump is threatening countries over his delusions right now and nothing from the press.

We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

If MLK were alive today, where would he be?

I don't think it matters much how we treat a handful of "saw the light" dolts but it's not clear to me why they're more interesting than people who were right all along

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

The civility police lose their minds when you accurately describe a racist person as a “racist” but this is nothing. Imagine if a Democrat talked about red states like this.

This is deranged in so many ways. 1) he’s admitting he only cares about peace bc of a prize 2) Norway doesn’t actually give the award 3) he ended zero wars 4) he’s bombed 7 countries I’ll never forgive anyone who has ever helped this weird old asshole

As everyone is talking about how insane Trump Greenland attack is, reupping this post about how badly NYT sanewashed Trump's comments on Greenland. He as much as told them he had to "possess" it bc he's a malignant narcissist worried about protecting his manhood. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...

It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become. It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.

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David Brooks: This is a war on blue states Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes

When ICE fires multiple chemical rounds directly at the head of a praying, priest, DOJ concludes it is completely justified. When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation. It's not about immigration; it's about control.

Want to stop deepfake exploitation? Give its victims a cause of action against the deep-pocketed companies that made the AI, not just against the pseudonymous and likely judgment-proof incel losers writing the prompts. Promise you the companies would solve the problem pretty quickly

People are not talking enough about the antiblack and anti-African reason for the ICE sending thousands of its agents to Minneapolis in the first place It's always about fucking white people, wven when white people are the reason we're all in this situation in the first fucking place

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

There is no "actually to remove Trump from office the solution is not to talk about Trump being removed from office." That is not a thing. You want to remove him you push to remove him. Same for Abolishing ICE, passing universal health care, whatever. Push for the thing and don't censor yourself.

- are strictly focused on the day-to-day right now. They're falling into the trap of what they always do, which is to play the last election's playbook, and it's cyclical in how it will frustrate voters every cycle. I wish they'd learn from this.

We could have had Patty Murray as leader, and I'll never shut up about this. I've seen people say this is Mamdani's playbook, but there's a key difference between city-level governing (as large as NYC is), and federal governing. Trump's actions are fundamentally damaging the country as a whole.

Good rule of thumb for friends is to imagine if China decided to start loudly discussing taking Hawaii, and how quickly you'd see red, and how unfunny you'd find it, and how belligerent your reaction to it would be. That is how Europeans and Canadians feel about this rhetoric from the US.

"if we go down this path it will destroy America as we know it forever. Every single person here will be poorer and less free for the rest of their lives if it happens. Here is my bill to prevent any funds being spent on it, and an impeachment resolution to remove everyone who has advocated for it"

“We worked so hard to arm these people. Why are they armed?”

Hoping for the gritty remake of Bluey.

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Caleb Williams plays football like how I studied for finals in college

Every Caleb Williams play

Different communities have different needs & challenges. What works well in one place doesn't necessarily work well somewhere else. I wish more folks understood this, that there is no "one size fits all" to this kind of thing.

have you considered that the CEO is an unremarkable pasty weirdo who lucked into his massive advertising wealth and isn't actually good at anything?

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

company rebrand away from Meta when I still want a detailed tell all about exactly how they lost this much money, just an incredible amount of spend even in an industry where compensation is absurd

It’s weird that perfidy war crime by Hegseth was a one day story

Extraordinary way to present two sides that is unintentionally revealing: “Americans believe this. Republicans believe that.”

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I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis. Maybe I'm wrong, but 1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city. 2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis. 3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

I have some bad news for the Truth Social community.

Isn’t it interesting how the Admin said we can’t afford cancer research but all of a sudden there’s enough money to buy Greenland?

Those folks look Minnesotan😉 Fine Snow 1/18/26 16° Feels like 6° Wind 8 Gusts 17 Below zero gusty tonight Forecast later in week much colder! Visitors not used to Minnesota cold should stay inside! Minneapolis Minnesota

Precisely.

One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.

Fuck this “no doxxing law enforcement” rule. If the state is going to give you a deadly weapon and license to use it, you’re damned right your identity SHOULD BE PUBLIC.

Probably a lesson in there somewhere on how much energy went into scolding people online for playing the Nazi card in arguments even as more and more people were actually being drawn to that identity.

What worries me with ice is that the public has no way of knowing if they are really ice. They have unmarked vehicles, wear masks, show no warrants or legal paperwork, no identification, and appear very unprofessional and violent. Anyone could be impersonating ice to terrorize our communities.

Trump is raising taxes on American consumers to pressure Europe into giving him Greenland. I'm no polling expert, but I suspect if it were presented this way, a large majority would be against the policy. And I think this is an honest presentation—you can subsitute "prices" for "taxes" if you want.

The latest tech boom has made numbers meaningless. If a movie loses $25 million dollars everyone involved must commit ritual suicide, but a startup with no product and fairy dust and promises ask for $87 billion in investment and people shower money