Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

If you weren't tracking it, it's hard to explain how hyperventilated the NRA's rhetoric about looming government jackboots was while Barack Obama was president. It was their/LaPierre's central sales pitch.

I’ve been saying this for a while now. Most Black folks who lived under the Jim Crow regime didn’t see the end of it. Yet people kept on keeping on.

Friend and comrade, I hate to tell you my own family history, let alone that of millions... for my people, it was 99 long years from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Act. Entire generations lived and died. (I pray that the fire this time is kinder. I do pray.)

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.

thinking about Mr. Rogers "look for the helpers" quote and I see the helpers and the helpers are being shot in the fucking head

Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.

Here's the thing about the second amendment: Whether it's an excuse for you to have a thousand guns or an excuse to shoot someone simply for HAVING a gun even if there's no immediate danger is entirely up to how cops feel.

History is so educational

If you need a minor distraction from stuff, I wrote a rambling blog post about He-Man and gender. www.the-fos.net/2026/01/mast...

there is some level of gleeful participation in state-sponsored brutality at which i think people forfeit their humanity. this isn't banality of evil stuff, people "just doing their jobs." they enjoy it. they only understand and respect physical violence and terror

Walz: "We sill investigate this. We will not be stonewalled ... this will end when enough American say this will end. Do I have any confidence that Donald Trump will do the right thing? No ... quit referring to these people as law enforcement. They are not law enforcement."

Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me. It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Feeling depressed. Share the funniest thing you've ever seen. Mine is the Tiny Train World incident.

The man appears to have been trying to protect two women, at least one of whom a federal agent clearly shoves to the ground for no reason apparent in the video other than rage and arrogance

My heart of overflowing with love for you all. Thank you, heroes.

"If Walz fights this, Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act/send in the Marines!" And then they'll start shooting people. You know, like what's happening now. If you can't fight back against fascists because fascism will happen, the battle is already over and you lost.

This is pure violent escalation from ICE from step 1: They attack three observers who're directing traffic--in effect, making ICE's job *easier.* Each step victim tries to de-escalate, each step they immediately escalate. They murder him for *not* fighting. They murder him because they can.

Your call whether to watch. What I saw: Victim directs traffic. ICE rushes him & two women, violently knocking a woman down. Victim tries to shield her, *hands in air,* gets blasted with spray. As he tries to help her up, ICE pulls him off. One agent *holsters* a weapon right before another shoots.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

No one needs a strong border anywhere and any anxiety about immigrants - any concession to being anxious about immigration - is a victory for the most evil motherfuckers on the planet. The whole thing is wholly and entirely needless. It's a real tragedy.

If any Democrat in the Senate votes to fund ICE, they are voting for the summary execution of American citizens. It’s really that simple.

My dad had polio as a four year old and is currently suffering from post polio syndrome in his old age. This is madness, literal Mengele stuff. At their core, MAHA is about eugenics and who they view as deserving to live and who they view as unworthy.

It's a snitch app

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

This is, without qualification, the logic behind Judge Dredd. When you declare that an officer is 'judge and jury' combined, it stands to reason that 'executioner' follows.

pretty sure "real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles" is widely available in existing medical and historical literature??

[Movie theater pre-show] Me: [chanting] bowsette, bowsette- Other viewers: bowsette, BOWSETTE Usher: [pounding the screen] BOWSETTE, BOWSETTE, BOWSETTE!

I am assembling a team of teenagers with attitudes to fight the storm with a giant robot made of smaller giant robots.

how do you fuck a storm

At my prior institution, in response to direction from the state and University of Utah leadership, I had to scrub the website that is the world’s first online textbook from “DEI related content” like grant announcements for students, and resources for education.

I didn’t catch the He-Man pronouns gag the first time through because I’m such a Masters of the Universe nerd that I was distracted by the fact that they gave Adam his mother’s last name from the original cartoon series where we learned that she was actually an astronaut from Earth.

So I've taken up taking photos of my cursed apartment building. I decided to use them to make screenshots for a fake video game exploring it I plan to make more of these fake game artifacts with my cursed apartment tour photos 💾

deporting innocents into the hands of their executioners is murder and about one of the most cold blooded things the US government could do

You're wasting yout time being mad that He-Man has a name tag with his pronouns on it when you could just as easily be mad that they cast Jared Leto as Skeletor

God I hate this shit. What the fuck Jack Black? Any conservative who got in trouble for telling a joke this soft would be embraced by the right but of course the only change rich Hollywood liberals want is one that won’t interfere with their income streams

She apologized for ATTENDING THE GAME because ESPN put her on TV. What the fuck. No issue with how the viewers recognized her of course. No problem to be a man who watches porn but if you attend a college football game and some horny dicks recognize you then you must apologize.

America has had enough presidents who were the children of other presidents, it is time for a president who has tweeted "what if I chased you around with hedge clippers" to another president

Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that

imagine the moral black hole it takes to read this litany of stories and the takeaway from dem leadership is "we cant say abolish ice, people will say we're soft on crime, how about we just endorse retraining the brown shirts instead?"

same. im a big believer in occam's razor and "the democrats are sucking on purpose" makes more sense these days than "boy they fell for it for the 29,028,294th time"

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

The body bags of children dead from measles should be delivered straight to his office. Burying the dead is part of his business model in addition to allowing new cases to flourish. He should help all along the path of his great plan. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c... via @statnews.com