So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

Elon Musk will sit for a deposition regarding DOGE’s gutting of USAID. Multiple reports estimate that his dismantling of the foreign aid agency directly contributed to thousands of deaths around the world. And that’s just one piece of damage DOGE left behind. Watch.

You guys, check out these lovely Sandhill cranes!

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

MSNBC: Do you believe Donald Trump is a racist? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: If the guy is not a racist, he's certainly doing the best job that he can trying to convince us otherwise

"Certainly, it was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud" -- i was out and about last night, but want to note that Trump's defense of his blatantly racist Truth Social post is totally demented

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

"Trump for Europeans conjures up the pre-war era when what we now call populism but then was called fascism engulfed country after country and led to a continent-wide catastrophe that killed millions of people."

New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."

This is the future that (Texas) liberals want: taxpayer-funded goats clearing invasives from public parks & restoring the health of native prairie.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

I am so interested to see how the same press that lost its collective mind over a tan suit, eating ice cream, falling off a bike, the way a woman laughed, and other meaningless bullshit protects him, and normalizes this despicable, racist, disqualifying behavior that would end any other presidency.

But, you know, OBVIOUSLY it is the most likely explanation to this MYSTERIOUS event that will be forgotten by the end of the day, and memoryholed by tomorrow morning. 🙄

Wow it's so CRAZY that a staffer took his phone from him while he was in the middle of an overnight, sundowning, racist posting spree so they could SECRETLY post the precise kind of racist garbage this pedophile rapist spews every day. Then they gave the phone back so he could keep posting! CRAZY!

has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?

I was laughing really hard, in that schadenfreude-this-is-fine way

Amen, and thanks for this thread. I literally got tired of taking up post space so I just made a post that I link to whenever I mention Asimov.

I mean, we all know why. It's still a part of every conversation and every discussion of systemic sexism. But this keeps happening, in every industry, in every setting, and we keep siding with the men. "Oh she was too pretty, she was a temptation." "Oh she made him do it." "Oh she was at fault."

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Most of these "hot young things" never came back.

Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything. He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

I will happily accept this correction.

Clearly some Grand Masters of Science Fiction did not get punched enough

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Amen, good news for our economy and the earth !!

This makes me sick

Re: the discussions up and down my timeline today, let me resurface this essay I wrote up about 18 months ago, about the perils of idolizing creative people, up to and including me. Some of you may remember it, but many of you weren't following me then, so. whatever.scalzi.com/2024/08/15/p...

I recommend Public Notice highly. It was the second independent newsletter I signed up for. (ProPublica was #1). You can get it by email if you're avoiding SubStack.

There are a number of people who believe the Holocaust didn’t exit. Should we cater to them, too? At least that is what I would ask as a follow up question.

For those on west coast making their first pot of coffee, I have a new piece, “Guns for me, not for thee,” out today in Public Notice in which I explain the new, post-Pretti “Rittenhouse Rules” applied selectively to conservatives and liberals: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

"Republicans are more than mere hypocrites. They believe 2A rights are subject to Wilhoit’s maxim...laws are designed to protect some (conservatives) but bind others (everyone else)." Great @schaller67.bsky.social on Pretti and gun rights at @atrupar.com's place: www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-prett...

Fox 9 MN reporter Paul Blume: "SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, 'The system sucks, this job sucks' to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep"

Republicans not understanding the nature of linear time would explain a lot tbh

I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I missed the first of these when it happened and choose not to seek it out online but I appreciate the metaphor gods working overtime on this one

#bombus on #oenothera 💛🧡 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #ecoregion50ae

Monarch #danausplexippus on Joe #eutrochiummaculatum in late summer 2025🩷 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark

Perfect camo💛 Goldenrod crab spider #misumenavatia on false sunflower #heliopsishelianthoides from a few summers back. 🌻 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #spidersky #arachnid #Michigangardening 🌱 #ecoregion50ae #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard

Of all my native plants, false sunflowers #heliopsishelianthoides tend to attract the widest variety of native bees. This is a broad-handed leafcutter bee #Megachilelatimanus I saw back in summer '24. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

I wish that most of my political organizations would stop using ZuckMedia. Plus I have @scalzi.com’s issue: “As far as I see almost everyone is still on one flavor of ZuckMedia or another, if for no other reason than everyone’s elderly relatives are stuck to them like barnacles.” & yes I’m elderly

Why the fuck would I take a pay cut

In fact, yes

There are more Democrats in Texas than in New England. Many of those are minority voters who have been systematically disenfranchised.