Holy SHIT dawg

The administration is staffed by an endless parade of of degenerates, perverts, criminals, and scammers; and if you maintain an account on X the Everything App you’re regularly introduced to new ones you had no idea existed!

Not to be too hyperbolic but I feel like price discrimination at this granular a level, if done at scale, kinda takes a sledgehammer to some of the fundamentals of microeconomics. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve been writing this story as often as I can without it feeling repetitive. This is an excellent thread, as all of Jamelle’s threads on this general topic today have been, and I hope folks are really taking this in.

Cheese is just fully off the dude’s cracker at this point.

The limitations of his office notwithstanding it is in fact important to have a mayor, and behind him a series of affiliated parliamentarians and councilors, who will say this and say it repeatedly.

elections are also a civic ritual and i find the insistence that everyone will just shrug at an attempt to end them to be strange

All respect Elie, who specifically "refuses to seat or acknowledge?" How does that work? Because the outgoing House does not exist on January 3. It is a new House. So unless the claim is: They are going to barricade the House with armed goons, who is doing the refusing?

you know how there are episodes of things like The Office that are too cringe to watch and you have to leave the room because of secondhand embarrassment? this is sort of like that

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

turns out a significant amount of americans want to live in a dystopian police state

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.

Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going

A very embarrassing day for the world

I have nothing more to add, and I really ... I know this shouldn't be the thing that breaks me, and it's certainly just a cumulative thing, but.

In a sign of solidarity, Machado has gifted Trump his 2013 Gold Glove

BREAKING: The Senate Law & Justice Committee just advanced SB 5855, Senator Valdez's bill to prohibit law enforcement from wearing masks and to require identifying information. ICE is out of control. Let’s get that bill to my desk immediately so I can sign it into law.

There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)

besides all the obvious things to say, my hot take is that this is also time to retire the Nobel Prize as this whole thing is too embarrassing for words

you can't make me learn who david shor is. i won't do it.

Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

from a thread by a historian of Reconstruction. this bit seems key

BREAKING: Federal judge lifts Trump stop work order on Empire Wind, second loss in court this week over him halting offshore wind construction @heatmap.news

The lesson from the Press Secretary's disassembling here is that more journalists should take their adversarial obligations seriously. The question itself was strictly factual; the characterization he then offered was prompted by Leavitt herself. It's fair, and more importantly good, journalism.

this is the crux of it i think. i'm naive for not cowering in fear. if my grandfather had tried to vote for the first ten years of his adult life he could have been killed. i think i can deal with an ICE chud at my polling place.

yeah man, what would i, a black guy from the south, know about thugs intimidating people out of voting? what possible experiences in my family, which has been here since slavery, could ever inform my perspective?

i have an idea: I should get to drop one user of this website, per month, into an alligator pit.

Another very good one featured here: Greg Bovino, the roving commander of the administration’s immigration crackdowns, yelling at protesters on Sunday in Minneapolis. Bovino is going to be with us for a long time; he’s clearly trying to make himself the paramilitary version of a celebrity general.

fuck this guy so much

ICE is failing miserably in their attempts to pacify a mid-sized city of polite Midwesterners. And they're going to try the same thing in a city of 8.5 million *New Yorkers*?

I mean, his analogy to checking consumer reports would imply "get a second opinion" or "consult the standard of care/licensing bodies/government recommendations" which are all fine things to do - but of course he knows what people will actually do is watch wellness grifters on social media

“Reform and retrain” ICE is some seriously weak shit. Call it laboratory liberalism. The data clearly justifies a more aggressive approach. “Reduce ICE funds and restore ACA spending” probably the most popular message rn. What voter is moved to vote D by “retraining” ICE? Come on

it's important to take time out from the news and focus on less loaded topics like advertising and diet culture and the myriad ways capitalism wants us to hate ourselves

The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."

official behind warm milk signing ceremony fired newrepublic.com/post/205305/...

BREAKING | The Pentagon has suggested it would take over editorial content decision making for Stars and Stripes in a statement from the Defense Department’s top spokesman.

Gotta say: this one hurts a lot more than the VOA stuff imho

Low-poly WIP reveal! I got super inspired by Mega Man Legends, and it turns out lowpoly modelling is SO MUCH FUN?!?! I gotta make more lowpoly stuff (and I gotta rig this for vtubing now!). #b3d #lowpoly

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

we (the "angry mob") are going to win www.foxnews.com/us/angry-mob...

Host: A Babson College student's next semester starts in less than a week, but she's still fighting to return to the US after the Trump administration deported her to Honduras. Despite a formal apology from the administration, there's still no government plan to help Any Lucia Lopez Belloza get home

Less than 12 hours after Blanche's threat — after another federal official shot at another person in Minnesota — Trump sent his "INSURRECTION ACT" threat.

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

Elon Musk Files For Custody Of All U.S. Children

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/

I never saw a challenge coin outside the military until about 15 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous in law enforcement, which increasingly views itself as a military endeavor