I will continue to never stop blaming them for this.

For those keeping score, the annihilation of Taiwan under a One China invasion would be the textbook definition of a genocide destroying a national group.

This should turn out well.

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"I issued a statement. The statement speaks for itself." A woman was murdered, in the street and on camera, for the not crime of following directions but he's too busy to give her a human response that isn't run through his staff.

Walz: "We have learned that the Trump administration has now denied the state that ability to participate in the investigation. I want to make this as clear as possible: Minnesota must be part of this investigation ... it feels very very difficult that we will get a fair outcome."

Aside from being a toadie, Noem is utterly unqualified to deal with the gravity of this situation. She is just going to repeat the same lines that she was told to say. A cabinet level official with the rhetorical skills of the coffee intern.

I mean he's got nothing to lose now, might as well end his time as Governor by going down swinging. Who knows? It might even revitalize his national prospects. People like fighters.

This is all Rittenhouse has though. He's literally too stupid to do anything else. He couldn't make water if you locked him in a room with a snowman and a blowtorch. He's literally just a joke even to the people who supposedly like him.

Going Defcon 1 to defend and lie about the obvious murder is probably the biggest clue so far that this administration is significantly weaker than they want to appear. They can cover this up. They can lie. They can acquit this thug. But you know what happened. Don't stop.

A barrow afraid of some candles.

So...if everyone is a paid agititator domestic terrroist, no one is.

Kevin is a great, fair-minded friend and I always appreciate his take.

The DHS is a failed experiment. Whatever it was meant to be has become a paramilitary unit of a government without guardrails. It should be abolished at the minimum.

"[G]et to keep your life." I don't fucking think so. Its the second goddamn sentence of our first single statement as a nation.

This is actually a great example of why the DHS needs to be abolished.

Shot, smoke, and snowballs. History echoes.

Which is why he remained in power from 2020 til today, right? Nothing quite like surrendering in advance.

"If you took voting seriously..." "Its not our fault! Fuck you!" Trump won the popular vote. More people voter for him, post insurrection and Biden, than for Biden's VP. Unless he was brainwashing people with his MAGA witchcraft, Dems failed when it counted most.

There are a lot of bad takes floating around. Some of you are really searching for the next Mueller Report to swing in and save you. Sorry. This woman's murder isn't your miracle cure to start solving the return of Orange Crush. Only actually voting can do that. You failed in 2024. Fail less.

I mean...the pedophile stuff remains worse. We've had literal unapologetic murderer Presidents before. Let alone cover up murderer Presidents.

And people read stories about how soldiers could bash the heads of children against rocks and wonder how they be normal. In this guy's mind, it was all in a days work. Evil is banal.

If only voters took seriously the bare minimum of what they were told to take seriously...

You know, loving the 19th century as I do. Sometimes you just want to post primary source images of scythes. Chrystian Piotr Aigner, "A Brief Treatise on Pikes and Scythes," 1794.

Welcome to the mirror universe. Yesterday, MAGA had to remember the day the cops rioted against the Dear Leader and killed a woman. Today, a fed gunned down a domestic terrorist for the crime of driving while following orders.

Only a few years ago, this would be seen as a tragedy even by the government who killed her. Now, its "We killed them. Thank Christ for that, am I right, fellow sociopaths?" Abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

The future governor of Minnesota, ladies and gentlemen. "Where is the fascist focus on keeping costs down?"

This is an important step and the United States should have been at that table. Instead, we are an enemy power to the security of the Atlantic World; all the way to the Black Sea.

Another impeachable offense.

Maduro stole an election. Trump tried to overthrow the gov't, failed, avoided consequences, and was allowed to run again and win. Not the same. If you are a represenative uninterested in talking about the actual issue of using the military for civilian law enforcement, what's the point?

If we cannot afford PBS, we can't buy Greenland. FFS!

A reckoning will come. I have to believe that there will be.

If you want to know the level of the conversation about Greenland at the moment, Carla Sands (Trump's first amb to DK) was on Fox talking about what if China militerized Greenland first. The authonomous territory of a NATO member with US Space Force base on it. We already militarized it, Carla!

Erasmus Darwin writing to Ben Franklin (July 1772) and mentioning his speaking machine is really adding more evidence that you could probably connect anything back to Benjamin Franklin somehow.

If I were Denmark, I would pre-emptively draft an Article 5 request just in case. And plan for resistance against a US threat towards Greenland. It's sad we're here but after Venezuela, you cannot dismiss anything.

*sigh*

On the fifth anniversary of attempting to overthrow the government, he is musing about overthrowing the government. Top notch work voters. You saved the world.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

January 6, 2021 — A date which really should have lived in infamy.

*currently undertaking a New Years major reworking of the library that lets go of a lot of stuff no longer relevant to my work that I cannot store anymore* Historians organize their shelves with a system?

Oh BlueSky. *detach quote* *block the likes* *block the account* That was adorable.

It is unfathomable that this is taking place.

Yeah, I quietly made a New Years Resolution and then...everything happened. So, I should help bring something less bad to talk about. Too bad I focus on genocide and military history in the 18th Century...

This is the execution of an aspect of The Great Society.

I was pondering since Maduro's hearing isn't until March that Trump basically has a hostage to force concessions that benefit America (*cough*him*cough) which will be followed by a conditional "pardon". If he says he likes the term kidnapping, than he's holding a dictator hostage for a ransom.

Neat.

"I am still President of my country." Errr...

The first great American 250th anniversary date of the year arrives this Friday: the publication of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, which occurred on January 9, 1776. Many sources have the date as January 10, 1776. This is incorrect. But what accounts for the confusion???? Friends, follow me.