True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

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I assume more details will emerge, but this appears very bad. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Amazing, what a piece of shit

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

Still can't get over how Apple and Google removed the ICE app that alerted people that ICE was in the their community, but won't remove an app that has an AI tool that creates 'nonconsensual sexualized images of women and CHILDREN'

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Text POTUS to 45470 for updates on trump gazing out the window at his giant hole in the ground

Earlier today, Elon Musk endorsed full-on Neo-Nazi blood and soil ideology.

Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother. gofund.me/9e987aead

I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

The killing of an unarmed woman by a masked federal agent in Minneapolis is a moral outrage and a betrayal of American values. There has been no justification offered—only deception and deflection from those in charge.

Rest in peace Renee Nicole Good

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

At least they managed to use the active voice here, not the usual “a women is dead after an officer involved shooting” cop speak

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

This is something Dems should legit shut down the government over. If he wants to destroy NATO, he can do it with zero dollars and zero cents in government funding.

The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind

I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.

I hate trump so so so much

Dem bigwigs are inclined to ignore this stuff from Trump, which they correctly see as provocation slop. But this instinct to turn the other cheek has failed us again and again. It has created a norm in which he can act like this. Force Republicans to talk about it. Make it uncomfortable for them.

For the past year I've had the feeling that the Trump administration's primary goal is the creation of content, and I expanded upon it here in the wake of our excursion in Venezuela

We are at the Midnight coup stage of trumps presidency. Only 3 more years

The /SeattleKraken have won five of their past six games! 🦑

The world’s richest man is an explicit white supremacist whose personal LLM publicly produces and distributes CSAM based on real people. He has also built a compound to hold the dozens of children he has had with nearly as many women. This man has a TS clearance.

Classic holiday news dump of testimony that makes it clear Trump is a criminal traitor

Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Christopher Caldwell is a regular contributor to the @nytimes.com by the way, if you want to get a sense of what opinions the intelligentsia think are respectable and intriguing and which they think are beyond the pale.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

Wine Boyfriend Crabs ... uhhhhhhhhhh

Co-sign masking on transit, especially air travel, not getting sick on vacation is nice

Uhhh wat

Gift link wapo.st/49lnBUK So much hate in this story but there’s also a bit of hope too. I wish nothing but the best for you Veronica.

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Pro tip: shovel the sidewalk for the old lady who lives next door.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

True, media should frame this honestly when bad actors are involved.

lol big if true and it’s definitely true DOGE canceled that

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

Ya'll the footnotes. I have never seen anything like this.

Governor Bob Ferguson endorses millionaires’ tax on high earners, unveils austerity-centric supplemental operating budget The proposed operating budget, presented ahead of the 2026 legislative session that's slated to begin on January 12th, would make $797 million in cuts, recover $391 million for…

BREAKING: I support a Millionaires’ Tax on income over $1 million a year. The fairness of our tax system ranks 50th. Let’s make this historic change this session. This is a separate proposal from the budget I announced today — revenue would not be realized until 2029.

Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.