When I learned to shoot, the man helping me select a firearm asked me to point it at his face so I could "feel the power". I've always remembered signing something that said "don't point your weapon at anyone" and then immediately being pressured to do the opposite by an employee of a gun range.

Really think about what you saw in those files over the last day. The horror, the shocking depravity. Then think about the fact that they're still holding back the other half of them. We have a deep and festering global wound here.

*frantically googling "what are the rules of handball"* Áfram Ísland!!! 🇮🇸

Today’s Senate vote is an important first step toward unifying Democrats against the escalating violence carried out by ICE and Border Patrol in our communities. Republicans don’t have the votes to jam through this toxic DHS bill.

I have been waiting for this signal from Senator Rand Paul. Senator Paul, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security Committee follows House committee. Sends letters to heads of ICE, CBP, USCIS to testify in public hearing.

Every qualified professional organization should do the same. And name why. Contradict these fuckers on their golden hill.

They.don't.have.the.people. If they did, they'd be in multiple cities getting humiliated instead of one

Us in Iceland checking out what's going on over at Davos

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One thing about Spanberger, she's gonna do what she's gonna do according to her values. I charge every other governor - and member of Congress - to do the same.

Maybe instead of making this embarrassing statement Tricia can work on a less ironically humiliating name for a group of dork ass losers who think they can go to MN in January and not see actual frozen water

Americans for Donald Trump fucking off and shutting the hell up

Spanberger's hitting those democratic values hard. Sic semper tyrannis.

🚨block immediately🚨

Unsurprising that ICE is suddenly showing up in Henrico County this weekend too. I don't blame Spanberger for coming in hot on UVA. Gotta set the temperature.

A group of tourists were outside my apartment literally screaming with delight at a good aurora this evening, and it was so soul filling that I didn't even need my usual second dessert. Good things still happen, and they're usually simple.

The Newsom discussion is hot to the touch and I understand why. But it's 16 January 2026 and therefore a good time to consider how much the candidate landscape can change in a short time.

It's really essential that we remember why the crybaby gestapo is only attacking one city at a time. They don't have the people. And the people they do have don't have any actual skills.

Just tripped on a crack in the sidewalk now I have internal bleeding

Reuters logo looks like a cycle tracking app

We need better narrative discipline. Don't adopt the fascists' terms.

I know this isn't front of mind right now but we should change the US national anthem to America the Beautiful.

I'm in Iceland. We saw the videos. We now the truth. We know it was murder.

Deliberate. A report by experts studied incidents from Jan 2010 to Oct 2012 and found US Border Patrol agents stepped in front of vehicles 67 times to justify shooting drivers. Results were 19 deaths. Jonathan Ross worked for US Border Patrol from 2005 until 2015. www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...

Shout out to everyone who insisted I was overreacting when I took my own wife and ran from the US

YES GOOD. We need No Kings numbers outside every district office in the US. Regardless of party.

The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens. The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens. There are more of us.

ICE only has about 20-30,000 employees nationwide. Including desk jobs so there's even fewer armed. It's smaller than the NYPD. There's a reason they do their mega raids on one or two cities at a time, and it's not optics. It's because that's all the dudes they've got. Something to keep in mind.

Are these ICE criminals actually being trained to shoot people in the face? It is a consistent pattern in quite a few incidents.

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The fire of Congress is snuffed. We need to take No Kings numbers to district offices. Now.

Tips from a gay: If you want justice, you're going to have to relentlessly demand it.

@50501movement.bsky.social @50501 What do you think about a plan to bring our numbers directly to the front door of every district office in the US? The entire Congress needs to feel way less comfortable. We have the people, and we can do it peacefully.

there's an emergency anti-war protest in Times Square: pix11.com/news/local-n...

We have to remove him. Illegal acts of war will pitch the entire world into conflict.

I'm only 30 minutes into the Stranger Things finale and like. Holy fucking shit

Great advice to any number of countries. Not least of which are my home nation and current country of residence.

My friend in NYC texted to say all the Bibles in her hotel were switched for Qurans just after midnight? And every woman she saw on the street suddenly had manic panic hair as of this morning? Also something about gay polycules, and she can't find any bacon. The conservatives were right oh no

Religion doesn't tempt me into believing in any sort of diety but Diana Ross performing in freezing temperatures in Times Square at 81 years old sure as hell does

I assume all four ghostbusters and all four ninja turtles will be in attendance

The delightful irony that they give him up in this scene

Americans lined the bridge to Mar-a-Lago waving Ukrainian flags in a show of support for Ukraine and President Zelensky, who is heading there for talks with Trump.

This holiday season, thousands of shoppers are boycotting Trump-aligned businesses and pledging to spend more consciously. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Longer than a decade. I remember hearing from adults in like 1997 that my chosen track (English and psychology double major) wasn't going to "be as good" as my peers going for STEM careers. Now no one seems able to express or interpret complex thought in writing, or distinguish real users from bots.

Mitt Romney is in the New York Times hoping the fallout won't fall onto him personally. Bet.

I'm living for the ICE voodoo doll. Pin them all bb

Elect Democrats. Republicans are unable and unwilling to govern. They're long lost to people of moral seriousness. Fuck these people.

Wow. Immigrants are the heroes. Guns are the enemy.

Speaking as a landlord, I really wish landlords would stop being such a bunch of dicks