I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this. There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate. Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

I wrote a bit for this too. If narrative game design is something you're interested in, check this out.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

you best start believing in interregnums

Every department will have at least one historian of the Eternal September 11

23rd century scholars: “claims of ‘Bush did 9/11’ refer to the proliferation of state security forces he supervised in the nascent days of the Long September 11th Period”

on the whole, I would not recommend “the long september 11th” as an era in which to spend one’s entire adult life

New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

I don’t particularly like living in the “leadup to” paragraph

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.

Minneapolis prevails

if you’re here to be rowdy stop by and read some of my real shit instead. minneapolis prevails

Given the volumes of new people I should do an introduction thread. I'm Uel, I live in Minneapolis currently, and have lived all over the United States over the last decade. I was part of the fiction-writing side of weird twitter, from around 2012 onward, and wrote a good deal before the downfall.

I have a piece in this alongside so many other wonderful authors!

fish sauce and chili peppers are her go-to for inflexible ingredients? really?

Apple and the BEST little fat belly. She is so sweet and doing so well now.

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

My campaign ad in 2028: you will go months without thinking about politics. Your government will function. You will be able to worry about what color the dress is or if the boy in the balloon is okay, not whether you’ll wake up to a tweet about invading Vanuatu because I saw a tik tok.

Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.

incredible 🤣

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

We have a ton of great journalists. What we need is an army of Excel geeks to figure out a sustainable business model for independent, worker-owned media outlets that can scale up and down

They're releasing 5 heroes at the same time. I don't know how to properly explain this to people who don't work on a live service hero shooter but that's insane

ah here we go

post this cat

Just an example of two of the journalists I've see suffer layoffs: @nitasha.bsky.social who is one of the very best critical tech reporters working today, and Caroline O'Donovan -- who covers, you guessed it, Amazon. bsky.app/profile/susa...

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Mostly dipshit over here

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

it’s even dumber than that; musk or zuckerberg or bezos or whoever could pay work crews in every city to design and build monuments to them on 24/7/365 shifts if the monuments were what the wanted. what they want is for people to *want* to do it

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

They don’t have the capacity to shut down elections entirely, but what happens if they drop a tear gas canister in a polling place because m people in line start yelling at them. that‘s the threat model I see, not just passive intimidation

huh. weird. Probably Fine

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

i don't usually do fundraisers but i do believe in love, and Seattle

The things we do to keep us safe NOW are what will carry us through November.

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whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

forcing 5 hours of business meetings in one day on a developer should be considered a war crime

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

Pretty much any work that relies on creative skill is taking a bad hit; too many people look at it and think, “that’s not hard, *I* can do that” - so (a) they don’t value it, and (b) they can’t tell the difference between good and bad quality. As a result, they’re happy to settle for “cheap.”

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Expanding upon this, something I’m not yet seeing discussed about today’s Post news is how it further consolidates the power of the New York Times to set the national narrative. I hope you trust Joe Kahn’s editorial judgment because it is as close to monoculture in news as you can get now.