I need you people to understand Gavin Newsom's press secretary is really really good at the internet. Being leftist or liberal does not make people immune to propaganda. Me being Californian is how I got started hating Gavin Newsom, but being human is a great reason as well.

This is one of the most painful dynamics about Bluesky. About online leftism in general, really. Too many people care more about their social club than actually challenging power.

More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is. All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses. He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.

It's our job, yours and mine personally, to fucking bury this man's career.

His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!

Our leaders must *choose* between 2 divergent futures- a privilege few are granted. One where they are remembered as courageous examples of strength in the face of hate. Another where they are condemned forever as cowards too afraid to put their bodies between their own people and rapacious evil.

How does someone booby trap their phone to covertly and periodically text/email/transmit its location, and therefore the location of ICE, and what hotels they are staying at?

This dude rules

Holy fucking shit. Call in the National Guard, Americans are being assaulted by a masked terrorist marauder force. Abolish ICE. Investigate them, prosecute them, and sentence them. Charge them with treason against the United States and its citizens.

I'm good with it if Tim Walz or Kamala wants out of the game, it's ugly, but either dance or get out of the way. Walz was the best thing about the campaign, just an immensely decent person, but he needs to act or pass the reigns to whoever can handle things.

This is almost certainly specific coevolution with its corresponding flowering plant, which even when you know the evolutionary and ecological theory, a lot of it feels stupid.

#Measles cases continues to climb. The 2025 tally has now hit 2242 & there've already been more confirmed cases in 2026 — 171 — than were logged in most years from the late 1990s to 2023! Interesting to see the age distribution of cases. Lots of susceptible adults, seems. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Death of a Salesman youtu.be/Y7lGIUzUKOE?...

So good, @ilhanmn.bsky.social 🏆 🤡 LINDELL TV: “Are you worried an investigation could lead to your deportation?” OMAR (laughs): “Oh, you’re one of those people.” 🤡: “Are you at all concerned?” OMAR: “Do I look concerned? Do you just ask stupid questions? Is this your thing?”

The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.

Wishing all ICE officers a very happy Napoleon's Retreat From Russia

I didn't bring up the Uyghur cultural genocide at all. Can't wait for your *War on Terror* but it's fake-communist so its okay bit. The problem with certain MLs isn't that they are leftists. The problem is they are China "magas", who apologize for the same authoritarian tactics the US does also.

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 1942

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

So what do we think is the play by play if/when Tim Walz calls in the MN national guard? I doubt the whole guard is absolutely loyal to MN and Walz, does that mean we select a subset of guardsmen? A posse? We want ICE arrested or kicked out of MN. I just don't know how MN guardsmen would react.

In The People's Republic of China you can rent your property out. Landlords have been back since the 70s. Rental laws favor landlords. China only recently adopted a modest 5% annual cap rent control policy in response to Covid. Housing is abundant and good quality, but often small in size.

The Iranian government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators is horrific and must stop now. All people have the right to protest their government without fear of violence. I support the Iranians taking to the streets to call for a better future.

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens. The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens. There are more of us.

This is a MUST WATCH - you won't regret it. youtu.be/_FKcP8j010o

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

Emily Oster is a demon hellbent on killing your family members. She recommended actions that would have gotten people's grandparents killed in 2021 from Beta, Delta, Gamma and Omicron. Every epidemiologist and virologist worth their salt rebuked her at the time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I’ll address the press momentarily. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/CTm3RqE...

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

For the record, Gavin Newsom has said nothing of ICE murdering a woman thus far today. He's fence sitting the issue and he also doesn't want you to know that he has no control of California law enforcement.

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

Admittedly I thought Tim Walz's rhetoric was soft earlier today. I was wrong. He can speak as softly as he likes if he's willing to swing his stick against ICE.

This is as good a description as any of how it feels. all of this is like stumbling into an angry werewolf hanging from the ceiling in your living room, none of it should be possible

January 4, 2025

Babies who don’t get their first round of vaccines on time at 2 months of age are much less likely to get vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella by age 2, according to a new study. www.statnews.com/2026/01/02/m...

Amazing. This is statistics 101: the Martingale strategy (doubling down bets after a loss) works beautifully until a string of losses produces a catastrophic wipeout. It's true in casinos, betting on sports, investing, everywhere. This is known.

Average US liberal: I like how Newsom mocks Trump! Average Californian: we have to put a (metaphorical) stake through this guy’s heart

openRxiv - a year in review. @tracykteal.bsky.social looks back at how far we have come this year 😀 openrxiv.org/2025-year-in...

All I want in 2026 is revenge

this is really reckless, unethical, and irresponsible behavior, especially as we approach the peak of flu season. it’s also not the first time he’s done this — he’s fully aware what he’s doing is not okay because we have already explained that to him. this guy shouldn’t be repping public health

A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

What do I mean when I say somethings are both real and made up? If you look far enough westward over the Pacific you'll literally see into tomorrow.

AOC on a 2028 presidential race against JD Vance: “I would stomp him.”

Trans people are upset over the sport issue, because sports are not fair, which most are fine with in almost every single way except gender. No one complained that their kid had to play against Shaq or Griner, no parents are proposing weight classes for the football team.

I'm not exactly sure when it happened, maybe it happened this week or when MTG resigned but I now feel confident Trump won't be in office in 2029. We can't be complacent still, maga might not exist as it was, some of these people will get worse and more violent.