Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE. Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill. 📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social

Casten taking shots at him:

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

People have all these weird nerdy made up reasons not to like the press, they make obscure claims about them being "running dogs of capital", and "manufacturers of consent". I dislike the press because they are nosy and look into my various crimes and misdeeds.

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

It's like they're doing to "Clap your hands if you believe in fairies" part of Peter Pan but for Captain Hook instead of Tinkerbell

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Got yelled at this week for making statements that will supposedly alienate the average white male voter and what I want to emphasize is this: appealing to the average white male voter is not my aim and not my job.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Yes! YES! YES!!!!!

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Human beings are capable of believing almost anything if they feel the expectation of their community - that they should kill themselves for their emperor, that they should burn each other as witches, that they can be cured of cancer by faith, that their neighbors are parasites who must be interned.

Idea: AI = flying cars Helicopters are flying cars. But we don't all drive helicopters because 1. Energy intensive 2. More extensive training required 3. Other solutions are good enough for most cases Helicopters can save lives, AI can discover drugs. But using both all the time? Nuts.

Another Kavanaugh Stop sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Thinking about how in a game of Secret Hitler we played recently the secret hitler won by unanimously being voted in as chancellor whilst openly declaring he was hitler from the very first round and its just amazing to me how real that was just sleepwalked into a win for facism

Instant all-timer here:

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

From Amnesty International:

the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...

there are literally billions of people in the global south whose human potential is suppressed or extinguished by the legacy of colonialism and which could be actualized in a cambrian explosion of creativity through open borders but pronatalists never think of that because theyre white supremacists

there is a voice that whispers in the hearts of men, saying "what if thy neighbor COULD work, but COULD NOT vote?" that voice is the devil.

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

Q: So your job is to judge people, but not to judge people for judging people. A: You’re making it sound like I approve of Krampus’s methods. I don’t. Just because you share a holiday with someone doesn’t mean you agree with them on everything. I love kids.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

"What are believed to be ICE agents" is not a sentence the news should have to use to report on law enforcement operations.

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

Group L ... Oof. #groupofdeath

Reading the interviews of Gabriel García Márquez and this passage stands out to me, from the 1970s but relevant in this time, that in this era the fight must be for collective happiness, which as he astutely describes, is the only kind of just happiness

NYT Spelling Bee: “Zoonotic”? No! How many times must I tell you? No science terms! No proper nouns! No foreign loan words! NO SLANG! NYT Letter Boxed: “Felching” haha that’s hilarious brah yeah go ahead

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

Columbo voice: “Secretary Hegseth just one more question, if such an order had been given should it have been disobeyed as unlawful?”

Has this been posted yet

"To each his own bubble; that is the law today." - The Ecstasy of Communication

Strong floors create no ceilings. No ceilings create weak floors. Weak floors create ceilings. Ceilings create strong floors.

unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

@profanity.accountant, fuck me up

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

What a great headline

"Leave it, he's not worth it!"

Hear me out: "Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans":

Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration. It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery

this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.