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how did we lose her. where did she go

Today, Republican senators ramped up their impeachment rhetoric against judges whose rulings they don't like: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I should note I've seen multiple examples of this being done with her corpse, it's not just one image.

DAY 8

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Yeah - I also think in general a lot of this stuff is just overworked. British politics *has* in my view become 'how do you unite your bloc and divide the other', but I don't think that changes the winning strategy all that much in reality.

I think this is a mistake twice over - it is being used to defend a strategy that is not working, and can't ever work, but also it is a misread to see 'bloc politics' as, essentially, a cheat code to go 'this means I don't need to care about Conservative-Labour switchers ever again!'

This is the key thing to understand - the debate around 'is there bloc politics?' has become, within Downing Street, a proxy for 'is Morgan's political approach workable?' Hence the excitable froth around it you get being briefed out.

I know I have been focusing on Venezuela recently because otherwise I would go insane but just so you know fuck Trump, fuck ICE, fuck Stephen Miller, we Venezuelans don't discriminate authoritarians.

That's the thing. Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks pushed the franchise back towards episodic storytelling. Which means the possibility for extreme highs and lows, and also means you're not stuck with the same bad story all season. (Discovery s1 Klingons, I'm glaring at you.)

With Starfleet Academy, Star Trek tries to boldly go into a strange new genre: the teen drama. Does it work? Sometimes, remarkably well. (I may have choked up at one episode.) At others, very much not. My review:

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

And then led a raid of Uber drivers at the airport. It REALLY is time to ask what instructions Stephen Miller gave Greg Bovino, bc the RESULTS suggest Miller wants an excuse to invade with troops (and there are right wing propagandists on Xitter who are laying the groundwork).

With renewed attention on a takeover of Greenland, @ryanlcooper.com, who reported on and visited the island last summer, writes that an annexation would be pure bullying with little to no strategic import. prospect.org/2026/01/08/d...

it’s clarifying to know these people would be fine with ICE killing you so long as it was within policy

The Maduro regimes continues to run Venezuela without Maduro. How did US removal of Maduro to steal their oil help the people of Venezuela? If this was about helping the Venezuelan people, Trump would not be backing the current regime. But it’s about stealing oil, nothing else.

Alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi arrives in China after extradition from Colombia

SIR, PLEASE DON'T GIVE RFK JR. ANY IDEAS THX!

“4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea” implies 20% of people enjoy diarrhea

Scum seek jobs where they can act like scum with authority.

Medu #グラブル

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They lie about everything

It’s impossible to put all these emotions together into a policy program. Fascism’s innovation is saying “What if we told everyone they don’t have to make it make sense? That the leader is above them, he has made it make sense, and their only responsibility is to follow him?”

The thrill of feeling powerful, the rage of feeling victimized, the satisfaction of being told some ethnic enemy is behind all your troubles, the dynamic energy of iconoclasm, bitter nostalgia for a stolen past, the catharsis of victory, the sadism of watching the helpless crumble before the strong

That makes fascism a useful instrument for gaining power - you are literally releasing people from the perceived duty to think critically and allowing them to wallow in rage and grievance, and many people enjoy that. But it also means fascism always tends to evolve into a certain shape

I don’t think fascist ideas are simply instrumental for gaining power, to be honest. I think they’re the ideas that arise when you give resentful people a permission structure to indulge in whatever beliefs excites them most, without any requirement those ideas cohere together.

Last Christmas, my child was in a residential treatment facility for a little-known neurological eating disorder called ARFID, so we missed @allelitewrestling.com's Christmas show at the Hammerstein Ballroom. This Christmas they're healthy, so we went. I wrote about all this for @defector.com.

The U.S. military plans obsessively for enemy moves. Who checks whether its own plans actually work?

The Smithsonian is facing an ultimatum from the White House to comply next week with a comprehensive review of the institution’s content and plans — or risk potential cuts to its budget.

trying not to violate the terms of service

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

The moon is potentially gonna be *arches eyebrow* toast.

Garcia uses his opening statement during Comer's Minnesota fraud hearing to point out that "some of the worst fraud and corruption is actually found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" and that the administration is punishing innocent kids

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Flatly wrong. No, it is not true that ICE only has jurisdiction over immigration issues and can’t arrest citizens. Immigration officers have authority to criminally arrest anyone for any “offense against the United States” (interfering with a federal officer would count) and any felony they witness.

They do get training in de-escalation, but it’s clearly not enough training. And as for the initial arrest, there has been a lot of reporting that DHS is arresting people on claims of “interference” with federal operations, a vague crime they are trying to stretch, so probably would have been that.

Yes, they are federal agents who are trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and have somewhat broad arrest authorities, and are thus protected by all of the various doctrines that apply to law-enforcement officers.

IMHO, this is the best way to frame this. Whether the shooting was or was not legally justified (and remember that the legal precedent tends to be incredibly cop friendly) is very different from whether the Trump administration is telling the truth about what happened. They are not. They are lying.

CALL OF DUTY WOULD NEVER

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

A thing that makes all this extra satanic (as an atheist I’m using that word to describe things a lot more nowadays) is they couldn’t just say it was justified & the radical left is at fault. They HAD to smear her as a domestic terrorist while her young child didn’t even know mommy had been killed

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

By refusing to coordinate with local law enforcement, ICE is not making our community safe. It is making it less safe. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...