We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Graham Linehan is cheering for a man who shot a woman in the face while calling her a fucking bitch. JK Rowling sits on her hands. Meanwhile, Posie Parker is tweeting that women should stay at home while men work. Tell me how the "gender critical" movement is a women's rights movement again?

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

Unless there's a disaster, a curfew emplaced on protestors only serves to escalate tensions as it creates a point at which people either sacrifice their speech or face police violence.

Every time police show up in riot gear, in significant numbers, it's meant as an intimidation tactic and show of force, to suppress a protest, or gathering. Resist the urge to be upset or concerned that the protestors react and add the police present in riot gear to those they are protesting

Blakely gives a brief crashcourse into the right wing hatred of 'liberal white women'. They are an amazing creator and you should check them out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ga...

I'm not gonna say that everyone urging people to "protest correctly" or "don't give them an excuse" is a nazi sympathizer, because a lot of them are probably just wrong and it hasn't occurred to them to think it all the way through yet. But as a practical matter it is nazi sympathizer behaviour

"A broad national coalition... is calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10, and Sunday, January 11. In less than 24 hours after the announcement, there are already 1000 events anticipated nationwide." Find a local event here: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=29132

really feels like Becca Good saying “go get some lunch, big boy” is when he snapped. the kind of man who joins ICE is absolutely the kind of man who thinks women should die for saying things like that. they absolutely crash out when we aren’t cowering in fear and making them feel scary & powerful

The way the Trump regime is trying to inexorably bind Renee Good's queerness to their accusations of "domestic terrorism" cannot go ignored.

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This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

It's very clear at this point that the Trump administration's line is "If you're a lesbian with a smart mouth, you deserve to be executed in the street like Kristi Noem's dog". This is an agency whose employees commit systematic sexual assault against lesbians and trans men. It's genocidal.

If the video Hayes is referencing here is authentic, then Good was murdered in cold blood by a man who had no reason to be afraid because he was angry at her for talking back.

The Trump admin and its influencer allies know it's a murder. They're openly lying because they are not at the point yet where they can say "we don't care if it was justified, we kill who we want." This needs immense pushback so they can't get to that point.

We need your help to start calling this shit out. Us doing that hasn’t been effective at stopping or even lessening it. We our brothers and niblings to speak up against it. The trans transmisogynists will actually listen to you. Maybe. They’re more likely to anyway.

Not to harp on my “the trans community is full of a bunch of transmisogynists” bugbear, but there’s a reason cis “allies” now feel comfortable saying this stuff, and it’s because the rest of the “trans community” has shown them that “wokely” misgendering us is a reliable way to get brownie points.

I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime. Gotta do something different.

Often in the last 8 months I've wondered if this person - now head of HR - is exactly why I can't find a job

No they didn’t. This has always been their position “Don’t Tread In Me “ is for real people . Aka White Men and whoever they need at that moment Comply or Die is for everyone else . What’s disquieting everyone is that they are being reminded that “everyone else” is a shifting category

ik twas ever thus but law enforcement is supposed to have guns for 'defense' not to ensure compliance. like this is really just them no longer keeping up the lie.

Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.

It is disgusting to see how most US reporters/media outlets treat same sex relationships. Someone was beside their partner when they were murdered in cold blood and then had to deal with their relationship being minimized, misrepresented and ignored while the media blames the victim.

Dear America, As bad as ICE is, you have a far greater problem. Your fabled FBI has morphed into an in (White) house secret police. They are protecting the guilty in Epstein Files and now protecting the ICE murderer. They have no dishonour. Be afraid.

I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.” Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.

Trump just pulled the United States out of dozens of international and UN organizations. Your fascism and genocide alarms should be blaring. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

me in the background: “are you afraid?” fash in the foreground: [explaining why he’s afraid of me] me: little incel fuck

‪“Go talk to her” the streamer told his little fascist friend as I started flagging them.‬ ‪“I don’t want to because I know she has a massive Twitter following…connected to antifa… If I talk to her I’m going to get exposed,” said Armando, who was exposed by his friend on stream.‬

No.

Something a lot of people refuse to internalize in this country is that cops (at all levels) are almost always rightwing in ideology.

Grok has not "turned off" its CSAM generator for anyone - it has simply put it behind a paywall. Stop uncritically repeating the narratives of tech companies.

So instead of fixing the problem, they instead just made it so only those with disposable income can access the CP generator. Seems worse…

Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.

I was first unsettled, then increasingly furious at the New York Times' coverage of the death of Lia Smith. Here's a thread sharing some trily despicable choices made by @julietmacur.bsky.social in writing about this young woman's suicide.

yeah, the premise of this piece existing, let alone what excerpts I saw, legit made me sick

reporters who look at a trans person's suicide in 2026 and decide 'must be chemical imbalances' aren't doing actual journalism. they're just following the party line. in this case: it's mostly about reassuring deluded cis audiences that everything is actually not that bad, don't worry about it.

they want to bully us to death and then publish sensational 'who knows why this happened' stories after ... truly evil shit.

For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles. Instead, they are taught to do something much safer for everybody involved: Get out of the way. But the federal agents enforcing President Trump’s mass deportation campaign seem to be taking a far more dangerous path.

See this is why you can't just make the problem about "training," like Buttigieg wants to do.

surely this won't be used to explicitly target minority groups who have ever raised money for literally anything

literally starting WW3 Isolated us from every ally then attacks countries in our back yard. Like I knew he was unhinged but I remember conservatives acting like war was bad less than 12 months ago.

7/7: so yeah, while imposition of a false reality is what's happening, it's not a false reality that anyone actually believes. this is why it's not effective to meticulously disprove these claims or point out hypocrisy - misunderstanding this is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.

6/7: allegiance based on shared sincere interpretation of facts can be brittle. allegiance based on tasting power, collectively built loyalty, and affirmed feelings of superiority is stronger.

5/7: all you need to be a part of it is leaning into the same prejudice and grievance and chauvinsm you've been marinating in your whole life. and because a split from reality is transparently inherent to this strategy, you're willingly primed for further dissociation, which is incredibly valuable.

4/7: even better, because you get people acting like they believe it, you get all the benefits of people believing it, but you also get a lot more. the barrier to entry is lower and better tuned for the current political environment since it leverages identity politics instead of material politics -

3/7: in fact, believability even works against you. the more absurd the story, the more exciting it is to insist on it, the more powerful you feel in imposing it, the tighter the in-group bond grows, the more you laugh together at the outgroup wasting time "debunking" shit you don't believe anyway.