i suppose it's appropriate for an academic whose background is cheering the russian imperial state to go to a paper known for cheerleading the british imperial state with an op-ed cheerleading an american imperial state

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Wusstet ihr des? Die Unterschiede zwischen Badischen, Bayerischen und Schwäbischen Brezeln ...

Frankie Laine 'Champion, The Wonder Horse' 1956 78 rpm

My favorite tower defense game is free on the Epic store :) @ninjakiwigames.bsky.social 's Bloons TD6! #themorethemerrier

What a whiny man-child 🤣 Park Service says passes are void if Trump's photo is covered www.npr.org/2026/01/09/n...

More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people. /1

the ice shooter will be on a right-wing talk show in a few weeks talking about the mental toll public vilification has taken on him

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Trumpists will be giving the ICE murderer awards and recognitions and honors. That’s because (1) killing someone who thinks differently than they do is their fantasy (2) most of them are too spineless to do it but (3) by praising the murderer they can murder in a fantasy-league way

For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people. It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control. It must stop. Kristi Noem must go. Now.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

In regards to shooting in Minneapolis: Witnesses say a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but ICE agents refused to let him through. Around 10–15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles occupying the street.-FOX 9 Minnesota

Gov Walz vows justice

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment. It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.

putting on my Consultant Hat for a moment (a random piece of paper I folded into a hat, because I am just some dude on the internet), this is an extremely well produced campaign ad and in a world where messaging is driven by Online, putting someone who is Good At Internet in Congress is a good idea

“It's not that Dell doesn't care about AI or AI PCs anymore, it's just that over the past year or so it's come to realise that the consumer doesn't.”

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

The funniest thing about this actually is that he announced this on his podcast on Dec. 31st but no one except KUOW noticed until the late yesterday, Jan. 5. 😂 Lots of news outlets were still saying Monday this is the beginning of Mayor Wilson and him facing off for the next 4 years.

For all that is holy, @bsky.app please make comment threads collapsible! #bluesky #collapsiblethreads Somebody even did a PR for this already 🙏

CNN: The leadership of the House Armed Services Committee is set to be briefed tonight by Trump administration officials. What questions do you have? GOP REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: The questions I would have is how brilliantly they carried out the operation

the goal is killing kids and we should say so

I absolutely HATE it when Marjorie Taylor Greene makes sense.

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

An attack on Greenland would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty requiring them to respond to US aggression.

A noted British baker has provoked a furore in Mexico by saying on a podcast the country does not “really have much of a bread culture”. [..] and its sandwiches – tortas – were made “on these white ugly rolls that are pretty cheap and industrially made”.

Go, Team America World Police!

Person on Reddit replied to me earlier: "How’s it relevant he wasn’t in the U.S.? We arrest people in other countries frequently." 🤯

We will be greeted as liberators

On the 5th anniversary of #Jan6 the Republican Administration is whitewashing the evidence of the violent insurrection and Trump pardoned every one of the violent criminals who planned the whole thing. A visual archive of the Capitol Attack by @npr.org apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

I should move to Maine and do more drugs. #NewYearsResolutions

"Chancellor Hitler’s actions today with Poland raise more questions than answers. Is Germany going to be involved in running and stabilizing Poland? Today's actions raise many questions about the stability of the region and our policy towards Europe."

Furious Mayor Wilson Pounds Fist On Table Demanding Chalice Of NIMBY Blood: tinyurl.com/mr7kpkrk

“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators”

When they do it it’s called “regime change” and “nation building” but when I do it’s it’s called a “home invasion” and “kidnapping.” But they don’t understand. It’s different. I wanted a mansion. But someone was living in it.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Trump ran on not doing US interventions anymore. Don't forget "An unpopular president" being implicated in the Epstein files despite having the FBI scrub them ...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

As always I also have to remind people that Venezuela in particular is an extremely polarised society where family members have often stopped talking to each other over their politics so I urge some caution before you take any individual Venezuelan's take on this as the settled will of the people

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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.