“Let this be the beginning of the end for ICE and for this Whitehouse.”

Huh you don’t say

Words for anyone who feels connected to what happened in MSP today. ❤️

I haven’t seen anyone else point out that the MSP murderer shot toward the victim *and one of his fellow goons* who was right next to her trying to open her door. You can see the second goon jump back as the gun goes off. So fucking trigger happy to kill civilians they’ll endanger each other.

Elizabeth Catlett, "Mother and Child," 1944

Holy. Shit. I knew this was coming; that doesn’t help at all.

Starting my 11th g Am lit class today, which is all about how stories shape our idea of what “American” means. Just put a hold on this book at the library bc I revise this course every year…

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

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… “Ty goodnight” would actually be shorter….

A good read.

Goddammit why didn’t I think of this

I swear to god I read “Senate Incel Committee” I resent that my brain has created that association

My mom used to send me to the liquor store to cash checks and pick up cartons of cigs for her. Truth.

Read this short thread.

“Govt is not a business, it regulates business” Short, sweet, correct.

LALALALA I AM NOT LISTENING LALALA

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.

Honestly the fact that we are all here on social media instead of calling ppl on the phone or showing up at the nearest government building with bullhorns is a bad sign. It’s a fucking Saturday ffs.

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass

Was waiting to read Spencer’s take

I believe this is the latest social media post from the US Director of National Intelligence, who hasn’t otherwise been heard from today.

Why are people assuming US troops and not Eric Prince employees will enforce US order in Venezuela?

Take a breath. Get up and get or refill a glass of water.

Kicking myself for not having done more serious reading over the years about US interference in LA

This is true. We lost a cat to coyotes last August (really they can prey year round). At the very least, keep them in from before dusk to after dawn. And make sure they wear bird collars. Also not gonna get into indoor/outdoor argument, I’ll just mute or block if I need to.

Our story @taskandpurpose.com is updated with everything we know about the attack on Venezuela, or "Operation Absolute Resolve" as the US calls it. We also have information on Delta Force and the 160th SOAR, the units that captured Maduro. taskandpurpose.com/news/venezue...

This is insane. If your member of Congress doesn’t support impeachment, call/email and ask why they are giving away their Constitutional power

Rubio, miller, and the tech billionaires to senile racist grandpa: “just like Reagan, and there’s oil! And money to be made!” I fucking hated the 80s the first time around.

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He’s already already threatened Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba today. While directly invoking the Monroe Doctrine. This is a war on Latin Americans

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

"I'm sure there's a lot of people at Meta, including perhaps Alex, who would like me to not tell the world that LLMs basically are a dead end when it comes to superintelligence," he says. "But I'm not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks I'm wrong. I'm not wrong."

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Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Childbirth. Thank god for modern medicine.

SWEET

The masks off for cops law is getting a lot of attention but this matters just as much, I think.

This is an amazing story. I am team bear all the way but clearly the situation is impossible for the homeowner. I can’t imagine a lawsuit being useful but I can totally imagine flailing around for any tool that might move this to the top of someone’s priority list.

I have walked to the cvs for more tissue and back and that is my activity for the day 🤧😷😪

According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen

This is a great metaphor. The grammar of civility.

I can’t believe there is an entire thread about this and no one has mentioned my nightmare scenario of a pet that’s been hit by a car or is having another medical emergency and needs to get to the emergency vet as fast as possible.

I refuse to buy a labeler bc plastic junk but I do in fact have a roll of masking tape, a roll of freezer tape, and a sharpie magnetically attached to the fridge. And have labeled shelves in fridge and pantry. Bc this household has massive ADHD.

There we go

Huh, I had a dream about teaching students how to organize against 🧊. That’s a new one.

Anyway it is a stupid analogy, used to confuse more than clarify. They are tacitly issuing a recall of the 20th century HE compact because the current political and technical class don’t intend to have a middle class. Without the latter you don’t need the system we built.

TIL!