I don't want tax cuts that give me a new pittance every month, I want the government to tackle affordability at the top with a wealth tax and more corporate oversight.

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

Me: *vomits*

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

Like I'm sorry that these events all read like a didactic feminist novel but that's not my fault

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

For future reference: If I am ever executed by agents of the state during a peaceful protest in which my only crimes are protecting my neighbor and cooperating with federal agents, politicize the hell out of my death.

Oh this is fantastic! Congratulations @dem8z.bsky.social!!!

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

In one headline, the essence of why political reporters are the worst placed to cover a moment like this. Foreign reporters know you can be objective and still judge truth yourself. Nobody would write: "A battle over truth erupts after Tiananmen Square violence" bsky.app/profile/poli...

I think the media want to find some secret to unlock here precisely BECAUSE the footage is so straightforward. It shows us clearly what DHS has become. And it leads them to a conclusion that they dare not take: there is only side of the story here in Minneapolis, and a monstrous, powerful villain

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

I think this thread is full of very good analysis and is well worth reading.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Our country was founded on independence — aspirational and clumsily attempted as it was — and has been sullied by this sort of servile, vapid Dick Wolfish law enforcement worship.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Goddamn.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

"abolish ICE is the moderate position" is no longer just bluesky wishcasting

Oh my God

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

I would treat any statement from a US government source at this point as about as trustworthy as the Russian government or any other modern authoritarian regime.

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

I would make a theater joke but they've already put it on the Kennedy Center's facade.

I’ve heard young women facing down threatening ICE officers on open dispatch channels in ways you wouldn’t believe. The officers announcing they’re going to be arresting and jailing the observer, and the observer, voice shaking, calmly reasserting their constitutional right over and over.

I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation

Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.

"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?" "Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

Register now! for the online event on Wednesday, January 21 from 6:30-7:30pm, on “Belonging in Charlottesville: Effective Strategies to Prevent Displacement.” Register here: events.humanitix.com/belonging-in...

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall. I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today. Next year I'll use this.

Critical attention to control of the media takes second chair to more popular (among elitists) doctrinal questions that can be litigated neatly ad infinitum in opinion columns.

maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

this is the crux of it i think. i'm naive for not cowering in fear. if my grandfather had tried to vote for the first ten years of his adult life he could have been killed. i think i can deal with an ICE chud at my polling place.

i actually live in a district that might be the kind of competitive that attracts attention, in a city that holds real significance for trump and his minions. there might be goons at my polling place and if i see them i'll give a smile and a wave and i'll cast my fucking ballot

“….they have misjudged the ground beneath their feet: a state full of ordinary people — real estate agents, high school students, solar energy consultants — who’ve decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Virginia, a state profoundly shaped by slavery and segregation — and by generations of resistance to both. Now being reshaped *and bettered in every way* by immigrants from all over the world and their descendants.

We did it Virginia!!! Our first female governor! Welcome Governor Spanberger! #spanberger #inauguration

I feel like people who are telling folks in Minnesota not to take the bait so Trump doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act have a lot more good faith in an aging cruel dipshit who is being feed a steady diet of AI slop by scheming viziers who dream of invoking the Insurrection Act than I do.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

It’s so funny that ICE was afraid of people doxing them via their faces and not employees.xlsx

Brilliant @abigailspanberger.com, already making Virginia a better place by overhauling the craven, corrupt, duplicitous, anti-intellectual leadership. Fantastic news for #UVA: www.wric.com/news/local-n...

ICE: "followed by will stancil"

this is helpful to see. everyone was in on it.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

"What do you think the Devil's gonna look like if he's around? He will be attractive. He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing. He'll just, bit by little bit, lower our standards where they're important."

"absolutely refuses to back down under any circumstances" is, it turns out, an extremely useful type of guy in our current environment