Headline: Sam Altman Condemns Kindergarten, Little League, Pee Wee Football, Children's Plays and Recitals, Sunday School, Bar Mitzvahs, Confirmations, and Graduations as Waste of Energy

How much more of all this are we supposed to take, genuinely?

Another great piece from Brian Beutler. I asked David Shor in '22 why Dems couldn't raise the salience of reproductive rights before Dobbs. He told me, "it wasn't something voters cared about much for most of the decade [!]" But salience is about possibility: it's a deliberative thing, not forensic.

John Roberts owns this.

David Shor said to me in 2022, "The issue with abortion is that it wasn't something voters cared about much for most of the decade." Just think about that: a man thought a ranked-issue poll was telling him voters didn't value their reproductive rights enough to be worth defending.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Yeah, it's disgusting and unconscionable that Trump tried to indict six Democrats in Congress for making a video that reminds service members to not follow illegal orders. May I make a suggestion? Stop voting to confirm his political and judicial nominees. Demand he resign.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.

The Jones Act raises costs and distorts maritime markets without delivering the shipbuilding it promised. For Maryland, repealing it would mean more port activity and real opportunities for new maritime jobs. Thank you, Bad Bunny, for highlighting the impacts of this harmful, obsolete law.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Most people won’t do this. The Epstein class is the Epstein class because they are selfish assholes who will do unlimited crime and fuck untold others to get ahead in life. Literally in the Epstein case

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

One anecdote: so much cash has been withdrawn from Minneapolis banks to help families in hiding meet February rent that there is no hard cash left in the system. The city banks are out of dollars

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

I know there is a lot of legit wisdom out there ready to be shared with Minneapolis—wisdom about tactics, strategy, logistics, social justice within movement politics, &c. But one's right to make all-caps demands of anyone in that city probably lies in inverse proportion to one's distance from them.

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

Data is useful and can inform strategy. But the “popularism” approach, relying on a grab bag of issues that poll well to set strategy, is fundamentally flawed because people’s brains are not linear sums of issue reactions.

Darin's claim that "Parties are pulled the direction [sic] by the most active groups in their foundations" is A CHARMING THEORY. The party ALWAYS listen to crypto, billionaires, Abundance, Matt Yglesias, Geoff Garin, Tony West, Blue Rose… when tf did those entities put in their time volunteering?

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ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Jeffries is the LEADER of the House Democrats, but he doesn't know basic facts about existing law. So what then does he stand for? What is he fighting for? What is he doing to wield the power that has been given to him by martyrs who lost their lives defending US democracy?? Anyone's guess. /5

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

That is correct. Trump has set a date to revoke Haitian protected status, and then set a date for the anti-Haitian pogrom to begin the next day. ICE must go. Miller must go. Noem must go. Even Vance must go. Their ethnonationalist mania gets more violent every day and is going to destroy America.

This is Brad Lander doing pulltabs in the Uptown VFW. He’s one of us now

After negotiating themselves down to a weak opening ask they've negotiated themselves down from that (jettisoning 1. DHS complies with state investigations, 2. CBP restricted to border, 3. No ICE in schools) Like a marzipan dildo, that's how useful these people are.

The Dem party has been patently useless in this historic moment, and it will remain that way forever unless we come to understand whose interests it serves. The party is undermined by a whole ecosystem of grifting, amoral dipshits from the Searchlight Institute to Mothership Strategies to Blue Rose.

I don't think you understand how morally obtuse you and the Searchlight Institutie are coming across in this moment. (And that's the clincher for me: what good are you, given how disastrously wrong, myopic, unstrategic you've been, and how UTTERLY UNCARING you seem, just these past few weeks?)

Nah. Searchlight just f-ed up in a big way with strategy and message because they're not thinking about how to govern—they profit from ICE activities and they'll defend it to the end. Searchlight is a bunch of cynical, pro-ICE grifters. This coterie of amoral dimwits needs to be yeeted into the sun.

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

But if you’re not going to arrest me, Border Czar Tom “Cava” Homan of @icegov.bsky.social, STOP THREATENING MY NEIGHBORS FOR EXERCISING THEIR BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. They have a right to observe the police that are supposedly protecting them, to know what those police are doing.

Dear Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, If you think you are just going to “restrain, reform and restrict" this. You need to find new jobs.

No time like the present, but to the end of my days I will never forgive Democrats for failing to make a public villain out of Stephen Miller. In addition to being obvious was such an easy layup.

The idea that we're drawing our resolve from each other, that we are willing to put ourselves in harm's way to protect our neighbors, even ones we do not know, it's unthinkable to them. They don't understand that real strength doesn't come from HURTING PEOPLE but from PROTECTING THEM.

This is what Democrats in the Senate and the House can be doing right now: running defacto impeachment hearings. Every Wed night, at Union Station, get people from Minneapolis on TV testifying about how Kristi Noem’s criminal and impeachable acts. Say “impeachment.” Have a TV producer run it.

Pretti stepped up for a woman who’d been assaulted. He exercised his rights in the face of actual tyranny, not from a podcast booth. He seemed moral and decent. His valor reminds pus stains like Patel, Berry, & Watters that their macho shtick is sad and hollow. *Of course* they celebrate his murder.

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

In general, there's a huge overlap between "sponsor of local baseball team" and "small business run by one of the loudest and dumbest chuds in your metro area"