this is how you get people who think it took professional grade logistics to drop a few thousand hand warmers in Minneapolis. it's okay though, I'm sure war doesn't require any sort of logistics or supplies more complicated than that.

As a formerly professional and currently recreational Shakespearean scholar, I can affirm that there are exactly two evenly matched couples across 37 plays: Beatrice & Benedick, and the Macbeths.

Literally: requiring judicial warrants to enter private dwellings--one of the cornerstone complaints of the people who gave their lives to free us of a king--is a nonstarter

“They are not going to want to make it any harder for ICE to do its job by creating new rights for deportable aliens and new red tape before they can take action against someone.” NEW RIGHTS NEW RED TAPE I don't know how many other ways to say it's the literal constitution

The most alienating things about the lessons being learned (presumably) from generalized voters is that when your basic human rights rest on court rulings and political will of the executive branch, every election can be and have been life or death for POC and LGBT people.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

No, I haven't. Though it's interesting that in an article that elbow drops from the top rope onto AOC for stumbling in giving an on-the-spot live answer on a massive stage, the author and New York Times managed to fumble a basic fact about a very prominant public figure.

Every one of these whines about “warriors” having to endure education and interaction with civilian agencies boils down to this: When you factor in politics, strategy, philosophy, ethics, outcomes, etc. there’s no way to conclude that indulging my impulses is always right and that makes me feel bad.

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Yet another reason never to take Matt Yglesias seriously

remember everyone to teach your kids it's not safe to help strangers because they might be the US government

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service... cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Jesus Christ this is amazing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

Chuck Schumer’s insistence on “reining in” ICE is so infuriating because they simply do not believe themselves bound by the law. The only solution to ending the concentration camps, the torture, the abductions, the murder, is to disband the agency and prosecute the lawbreakers.

Support every trans, non-binary or questioning person you know. Speak out for those you don’t. Vote for politicians who want to expand humanity, not shrink it. And for god’s sake, stop buying Harry Potter or the works of those who want to ruin the lives of our loved ones out of their own ignorance.

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

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I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets. If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

I never want to hear a Republican bitch about the cost of a social program ever again

Trump is already at mid-30's approval. There's no path for that to improve. Any Democrat running in 2028 should be the odds-on favorite to win. The problem with Gavin Newsom is that he will govern as a Bill Clinton reactionary, kill the party's energy, and hand the country to a fascist in 2032.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean

After 35 attacks and 131 deaths, we’re normalizing the illegal boat strikes, erasing the dead as "narco-terrorists"—even while drug supplies appear unaffected. Some in the military are growing comfortable with this. But the slippery slope is clear: impunity breeds escalation, perhaps even at home.

I don't like Republicans. I don't want to choose between Republican lite and Republican classic. I don't oppose people like Newsom and Fetterman and Cuellar because I'm a Republican. Fuck Republicans. I oppose them because THEY are Republicans.

We may not like what these conservatives do, but we must respect them as men of principle, committed to reducing government to its core functions of providing armed guards and private jets to conservatives.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Are there any sources y'all would recommend that do a deep dive into the social effects of online sports betting or Kalshi style prediction markets? I feel like I understand why these things are bad in a general sense, but not the actual effect they're having on people/society.

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Also, in GYRO SHOOTER news, I am looking to hire a concept artist to come up with some arts for me. 🔹 The three GYRO frames (Hammer, Cable, Saber) 🔹 The primary aliens (Charioteers, Code, Cuckoos) 🔹 Cool mission tech + weird alien tech My primary inspo is hero shooters AKA Rivals, Apex, Overwatch

Interested parties should send me links to portfolios, rates, and other details to cam AT rustysellsword DOT com. More inspo: Anthem, Marathon, etc. Also likely that we'd want to retro-concept these to a 16-bit version on 80s consoles and 90s and 2000s.

BREAKING: Following Law Dork's filing on Tuesday, the court in U.H.A. v. Bondi lifted the sealing requirement — aka, our third request — for the documents to be submitted, including the ICE rescission memo relating to 8 USC 1159. Subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

I'm not kidding when I say this, they will be discussed the way former African presidents and Indian chief ministers are

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

The sense of despair i feel when I think about AIs impact is getting harder to keep at bay.

This is probably the most exciting/most important community project going on in my side of the RPG scene right now. All the bloggies entries read by community members so you can catch up on the best of RPG theory and reviews from this past year.

Not sure if this is the case but holy shit was it the case with Jan 6 when EVERYONE agreed it was one of the worst things Ever and then Dems… let millions of people just lose interest in a matter of weeks

Really crazy to hear Lyons keep saying ICE agents in MN are simply carrying out targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operations. ICE is literally circling elementary schools in this Minneapolis suburb every day, looking for brown and Black children to nab. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

In just one year, the number of people in ICE detention has shot up by over 75%. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick explains how immigration detention has become bigger, harsher, and less accountable than ever.

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it