Government agents left good to die from the point blank ICE shots. State sponsored execution.

With ICE fascists escalating violence in Minnesota, again, see my article on 13 ways to protect yourself when protesting. Easy but important action items. Be sure you and everyone you know who is protesting is following these rules: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t... No paywall. Share widely.

Now THIS is how Democrats should be talking about Trump and ICE killings.

Many new cases of measles have been reported in South Carolina in the last few days, and there are cases popping up all over the country. This is because vaccination levels have dropped below the level that will protect the unvaccinated and the vulnerable. We have lost

Seems like viral illness are everywhere. So let’s talk about how viruses are transferred from person to person (transmission) and how we can prevent being infected. Examples will be a respiratory virus (influenza virus) and a stomach viruses (norovirus). Let’s start with some basic virology.

This fucking guy.

❤️

Make it viral.

This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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An advocate for children and families (me) or an advocate for war (Lindsey Graham)? The choice is yours, South Carolina.

Phenomenal

This semester I’m teaching a guided research seminar for undergraduates in which they will hopefully have the experience of using the internet as a place of discovery and connection, rather than as the hellscape of algorithmic distraction & rage bait it’s become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

So ... has congress declared war? Are we at war? Is Maduro charged? W what? Insanity in DC and congress? Crickets.

Literally insane. New regime at CBS news: we hear from too many climate experts. We need to visit the Des Moines diner more often, and get the opinion of just folks.

President Stubb: Our relationship with Russia has changed permanently. What is also permanent is that Russia is our neighbor. Our goal in Finland and in Europe is a functioning and peaceful relationship with Russia. Ultimately, everything depends on Russia's actions.

In Staten Island. I ❤️ this.

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

Iranian security forces have opened fire on protesters in Lordegan.

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump: “The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit” youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just released — on New Year's Eve — the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith's closed door deposition. House Republicans continue their attempts to bury Smith's testimony. Read it all here: tinyurl.com/cndtn3ez

Putin has absolutely o regard for life or his fellow citizens. This is NOT who the US should be in bed with.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

The New York Times allowed an opinion columnist, whose photographs appear in the Epstein files, to post his opinion on the Epstein files. This is egregious journalistic malpractice.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Same.

Since I see other folks posting bakes, here's mine - banana bread w pecans and chocolate chips. 🤤

As winter winds through war‑torn lands would call, Homes trimmed their trees though shadows touched them all. Each candle flickered soft against fear, A whispered promise to ones held dear— That love stands guard when nights grow cold and tall. #FiresideFriends (1/3) 🎶 youtu.be/e4VdlJOxxGg?... 🎶

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Just want to remind the US Congress, because some of its members have clearly forgotten this, that the President of the United States cannot just go to war with another country because he feels like it. There is very definitely something in the Constitution about this (have a look: I checked).

Patriot. Baller.

The governor said a "significant majority" of people detained by ICE in Massachusetts have no criminal convictions or charges, and that flying them far away is "intentionally cruel and purposely obstructs the due process."

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Smdh.

Via Anna Barrett: Speaking to more than 1,000 supporters in Birmingham, former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones kicked off his gubernatorial campaign with pledges to protect health care and voting rights and attacks on likely GOP gubernatorial nominee Tommy Tuberville.

Kash Patel and Boingino talking to Kiev, trump outsourcing high level contact to the fbi. Makes perfect sense in don trump's amateur hour. Lil marco and DoS must be livid ... what a shit show.

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

Let's go whitecaps!

FIFA Peace Prize

The windchill here is -4 degrees and I’m waiting for the bus. As I blink through the ice shards blowing into my eyeballs at 30 mph, I think about how glad I am they took the bus shelter down. At least the unhoused will have cause to reflect on how little they contributed to the economy.