"...witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help" www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

As @lukeoneil47.bsky.social once wrote for Esquire about Michael Brown, "If You Are "Waiting for the Facts" from the Police, You Will Be Waiting for the Rest of Your Life."

Denny is completely correct here. I'll even go a step further and say that strictly from a craven political ambition standpoint, if you're the person who stands up to this murder and takes ICE to task and doesn't back down, you become the 2028 Dem frontrunner overnight. People yearn for a leader

Local news has now posted video from a neighbor's surveillance cam. It does appear like the officer may have been pushed aside slightly by the bumper as the victim turned to leave. Again, seems clear from the video that there was no deliberate attempt to run anyone down.

In the video in the post, you can see that the officer can clearly get out of the way of the vehicle, at first doesn't, pulls his firearm and continues to shoot as the driver has already driven past him. bsky.app/profile/bnon...

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

100% stenography of lawless authoritarianism as headlines, without any mention of the lawless authoritarianism. Democracy cannot survive this form of “journalism.”

you know your company is doing great when the FINANCIAL TIMES publishes this headline

Now that Trump says Venezuela will hand over 30-50 million barrels of oil, with proceeds of sales to be controlled by him, I want to reiterate: He's inviting our oligarchs to reap great riches by buying into his scheme of imperial hemispheric domination. newrepublic.com/article/2049...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Very important thread on why Trump is targeting places like Venezuela. It makes no sense under a model of Trump as head of a nation-state, but makes complete sense under a model of "neo-royalism" where the primary driver is not national interest but interests of "elite cliques and sovereign rulers."

Scooby Doo-ass sounding imperialism

Lots of the footage of Venezuelans cheering on the US are from US cities. In the streets of Caracas, people are making a run on the banks, gas and groceries out of fear. Disinformation is rampant right now as the truth is suppressed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries

Even worse, different members of the Trump administration have different things in mind. To the extent Rubio, Hegseth, and Trump have put any strategic thought into Venezuela, it's with different goals and different understandings of what matters in the situation. So the whole is even less coherent.

With complete sincerity: OK grandpa, let's get you to bed

Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

If Dems can’t argue against the outcome here, their opposition to the process will be narrow and legalistic. Yet obviously if Trump HAD come to Congress, it would have been incumbent upon Democrats to deny him authorization, because the policy is fucking insane. www.offmessage.net/p/30-thought...

Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

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Very important thread on why Trump is targeting places like Venezuela. It makes no sense under a model of Trump as head of a nation-state, but makes complete sense under a model of "neo-royalism" where the primary driver is not national interest but interests of "elite cliques and sovereign rulers."

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

This could all be avoided if more people just got into Blitzball

Trump is looking like the subliminally flashed face from the Exorcist

Like Vance’s speeches about real Americans being connected by blood and soil, using abstract sounding “places and people” as euphemism for the global white race

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I have no memory of watching or saving this but it’s at the top of my camera roll so uh

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

Every member of Congress not calling for impeachment and removal is failing their own oaths of office.

These people are not slick. They're not savvy. They're not thinking two, three or four moves ahead. They did a raid and kidnapped an adversarial country's leader. Now they will attempt more things like this because it worked once. It's not any more complicated than that. So yes, maximum insanity.

👇🎯 Once again, I ask, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen in the last year to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any traditional meaning of the words? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

👇🎯 Rofer’s Razor

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

This is the context in which Chuck Schumer will probably maintain his stance of “no impeachment, hopefully our Republican colleagues will help us with this“

when baby goes down for her nap right at halftime

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

I finally finished a project that I've wanted to make happen since 2010: Turned a 2003 iMac G4 (my favorite computer design ever) into a modern machine running modern MacOS. This was just an empty shell (no screen, no innards) when I bought it in 2018. And bonus: I found the perfect stand for it!

“In terms of global stability, the worst thing about the Maduro rendition is that it worked.” @julianborger.bsky.social writes absolutely correctly. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

1/As @nytimes.com reports, Venezuela/Honduras comparison shows this is not about drugs. It is about personal interests and those of the inner circle around Trump. Trump wants Venezuelan resources. Brologarchy wants to protect network city in Honduras. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

“The law probably won’t matter in court” seems a pretty accurate headline right now

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

“Have we actually asked Shredder what his intentions are? Can we assume his references to killing Master Splinter are actual threats? And, should we assume the Krang want to take over the world just because they said they wanted to take over the world? Have we really listened to both sides?”

As much as this government is all impulse/no plan in some areas, they are hyper-consistent in their quest to re-segregate all elite spaces and fully restore / re-impose white male dominance across all spheres of life. The defining project of Trumpism as a political project.

saw someone recently who was in their feelings about this, but I think it just gets more obviously true every day. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...

I don't have a good answer, but my question is what moral duty did these newsrooms have to the 40 dead Venezuelans – and the unknown others who will come after?

Ninja Turtles reboot where instead of April O’Neil it’s Bari Weiss

I just learned about this one yesterday but I can tell it’s staying forever