Couldn't sum up the mood in Minneapolis right now any better than that.

ohhhhh so none of them know yet that they’re not getting $50K after tax withholding, do they

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

I hope all these dickfucks get the scoots at an important event.

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

I laughed aloud.

if there’s a hamburglar then it stands to reason that there is [eyes narrow] a hotdoglar

What is the fascist state going to say about you when its Secret Police shoot you unprovoked in broad daylight? Mine’s easy: “he was a dangerous radical Marxist professor.”

Los Angeles, CA - Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.

as someone who actually has some of my ass on the line here, it is genuinely infuriating to me when a straight white man slides into my mentions to tell me everyone is doomed and we should give up now the utter audacity

For you youngsters out there just finding out about him, Jesse Ventura is not "some kind of lake wizard" but was at one time the governor of Minnesota and before that a professional wrestler

Some of the 130+ participants in the steady #rain and 53º at today’s New River Valley ICE Out for Good protest in #Christiansburg. ICE is attacking our country. We shall not be moved. #iceoutforgoodwoa @indivisible.org @pbsnews.org @cardinalnews.org #wdbj #wsls #roanoketimes @maddow.bsky.social

I am baffled daily by people's inability to grasp that there are gradients or degrees of bad. it's a practical mistake that contributes to hopelessness and inaction because someone who won't distinguish very bad, worse, or a bit less bad won't bother to do anything unless it fixes everything at once

He’s eating a hot dog do not trust this man

Found your mom at the aquarium today

It is funny that people hear “purity politics alienates regular people!” and think that means they should compromise on words or issues when maybe it means not expecting every dumbass to know the names of every esoteric state senator to be a part of conversations

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

A big thanks to every pundit who dismissed as hysterical the many people sounding the alarm bells in 2015

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

I wonder what people thought "the machine" was being raged against and why it was enraging

Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity

The lawsuits have been plentiful as well as the settlements wach.com/news/local/f...

American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

one does wonder what variety of slop was shown to Trump

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

Nothing is a distraction if you understand how everything is connected.

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

The Trail of Tears was famously long. That’s kind of what made it….bad?

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

FYI, on the Minneapolis shooting video: Bluesky hasn't taken it down. It's been labeled as "graphic media" so that people can avoid it if they choose. You can change your personal settings on whether you see media labeled as graphic (or whether it appears with a warning) here: bsky.app/moderation

It is fucking beautiful in the awfulness. I have all sorts of extra people volunteering to patrol *because of this.*

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Guys, with understanding that everyone is angry right now, I am honestly going to start blocking people who say things like, "Who cares? The law doesn't matter anymore," or "They can do whatever they want, they can't be stopped" etc. I mean, if you really feel that way, you're a part of the problem.

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Right but what if: I don’t wanna

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

Building my syllabi and considering just being like “don’t” in the AI section.

Half-informed, panicked, despairing, ironising, memeing to the point of desensitizing captial-P Posting... that's what really puts the doom in 'doomscroll.'

If you'd like to reduce your blood pressure and eliminate a lot of needless in-fighting, I'd recommend muting or blocking Axios, Politico and Semafor as they seem to specialize in promoting quotes from anonymous Democratic contrarians in hopes of generating rage and engagement.