Unheralded part of that Diggs TD - he arched his back and put his forehead into the turf while making sure the ball never touched, so there would be no question if it had gotten reviewed.

Random cameo from @big-iron.bsky.social in one of my dreams last night. You were working the grill at a neighbor's cookout, to general acclaim.

Would you say it's a global far-right power grab? (credit to @brooklynmarie.bsky.social )

Six years ago today, I did this tv interview, which the veteran tv journalist later called “the most delightfully sarcastic conversation I’ve ever had”

My turkey meatloaf is so ugly... (How ugly is it?) ... that if it had legs, it would be chasing Kurt Russell around Antarctica.

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

I used the volunteer at homeless shelters were the residents worked up to 38 hours per week doing manual labor. Many employers didn’t want them working 40 hours a week regularly, because then they’d have to offer benefits.

Anyway, the mere existence of ICE (and of borders) is a human rights violation. People are meant to move around the world freely, and any restriction of that movement is immoral.

This is a great teaching example for why cross-national comparison matters in social science. People also make “bad choices” in peer countries, but they’re far less likely to end up homeless.

No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

My man, let me tell you about the magic of primaries, 2 YEARS away. February 2028, 734 whole days, and registered Democrats only vote for Democrats. Lovely Primaries, when we get to vote our hearts and our hates, and nobody is fucking inevitable, especially Kim Guilfoyle’s former fuckboy.

Queerness will remain political until you actually separate church from state. Deal with it.

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No, i will never forgive those calls and i will pass my hatred down to my children.

"How I can testify about documents I've never seen, because you dickwagons haven't released them? Gargle my toes."

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

I struggle to understand why Minnesota's senators don't go nuclear and refuse unanimous consent on ALL MATTERS until the body demands answers—& withdrawal—from Minneapolis

Every year I tell myself I should stop watching american football because its rules are such a fucking convoluted mess that they cannot be enforced consistently yet every year I tune in to the bills and every year some fucking scam like this happens.

ARE YOU FUCKING ZEBRAS FOR REAL

This is a longshot, but... any people in Austin or thereabouts who work for the library system? The short version is we have some books that people like, but which we printed wayyyyy too many of, and I would love to donate a LOT.

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Speaking of white women stepping up, please read this very short thread about how much of a Hater™ Mamie Fish was during the Gilded Age. Incredible politics.

I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

Covering this stuff tactically & reactively, focusing on "is this legal?" & "can he do this?" & "how will it work?" is important, but really beside the point. Enough. He's imposing fascism at home & destroying our most essential pillars of national security & world order abroad. The rest is noise.

There is a significantly non-zero chance at this point that you (generally speaking) are experiencing some form of trauma & stress response/issue. State terror is a form of abuse; Trump is publicly abusive to others (verbally) in addition to his SA activities Self- and other-care is praxis.

Sound on. This guy's cheerful-yet-realistic energy is best felt through your ear-holes, not via the captions.

protestors are nonviolent and I don't think anyone believes escalation is a good idea. politicians should *say that* and emphasize the violent escalation of the trump regime, rahter than scolding people in the streets for potential future actions which the pols might disapprove of. 1

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

Per an excellent write-up I'll link to in the next post, these dudes are in the "will commit violence for peer acceptance" category of shitheel. Middle-aged white males are the folks they see as "peers" so loud disdain from that group completely undermines them. Dudes, get out there and shout!

Whatever he had like 12 followers

thats his hole. it was made for him.

The Wild's old coot in the booth is such a fucking whiner, JFC

I'll protest your facism AND curse your family. I got the time.

If you have a reason to make shrill ear piercing noise on a budget but want it to be fun, might I suggest the tin whistle? Plus, who doesn’t love a lil Irish jig 🍀

Cats cuddling, morning Sabres hockey, afternoon Bills football. That'll do, saturday, that'll do.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

Well, that took no time at all, did it

Block instantly.

Depending on how my weekend goes, I'll try to do a thread tomorrow pulling together the various legal (terrorism from the US code) and doctrinal definitions (revolution, rebellion, revolt, insurrection, insurgency). Not to be pedantic, but to see the differences & similarities.

If you are a Republican, I do not think you are a fascist. I *observe* that you are a fascist.

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They have very simple brains and can't fathom that someone who looks like them doesn't agree with their racist, violent beliefs

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, you move.” (all the honor to @straczynski.bsky.social )