The Trump administration is bulldozing environmental review laws to rush the conversion of warehouses into mass immigrant detention centers and courts are starting to fight back. They’ve already purchased warehouses in at least 10 locations across the country.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: no Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

In a 1991 documentary that Trump suppressed, Christopher Reeve comments on Donald Trump: "𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥."

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

A next-level way to say "haters, fuck off."

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

New Star Wars film that’s just the Emperor feuding so much with Death Star suppliers that he decides to blow up his own Death Star as punishment.

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

After we saw the trailer last weekend for the upcoming Masters of the Universe film (before Mario Galaxy), I thought my kid should see what the old 1980s He-Man cartoon looked like. Boy, that shit does not hold up. But it does make 80s D&D cartoon series look awesome by comparison.

Amazing to realize that every single one of us, save four, are in this photo.

Makes sense that Trump would try to do to medical research in Iran the same thing he's tried to do to medical research in the US. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

Need to start using this one.

"If you're on the left, in particular, this is your political project because we will not be able to build the society and the culture that we want without this kind of institution" I found this conversation about the library as a primary site for political and social change to be deeply inspiring

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. (Yes, I know this one is a cheat.)

youtu.be/mSrDkRm7_78?... #music #punk #dropkickmurphys

Worth forever reiterating that most of the "long" novels of the 19th century were not received as long at the time, but generally as subdivided shorter works, sometimes something we would consider more like a comic book than a terrifying doorstop.

Magic Mushroom

"Who gives a shit about foreign countries targeting American soldiers in the reckless war we started?" is just a hell of a take for a White House press secretary

How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far: 🤣 🖕 👌 👎

Need something to rejoice about today? Well, for one thing, there's new Rabbit Junk. rabbitjunk.bandcamp.com/track/you-go... #music #industrial #synth

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

This should be the largest opening headline of every news publication in the world right now.

🔭🧪🌏👇

At this rate making a list of Republican politicians who aren't pedophiles would be faster

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I wonder what will happen if/when a critical mass realize it isn't the immigrants stealing everyone’s cookies. Historically, that looked like pitchforks. But Fox “News” has done a very good job keeping that at bay. At least for now.

I think Ghost just released the perfect #music video for Valentine's Day. youtu.be/0RkJrO4kvHU?...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Explore Rooms isn't just a good #TTRPG for kids. (Though I can attest it is because I've used it to play games with my kids.) It's also a useful framework for running RPGs in general. Looking forward using these expansions with my youngest.

Rep Raskin reports he reviewed the full unredacted Epstein Files & Trump's name appears MORE THAN A MILLION TIMES. We knew of 38K times—meaning we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser & sex trafficker. Anyone still unwilling to impeach & remove is complicit.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I suppose the standard thought process for planning the opening ceremonies for any Olympic Games is to start by asking "how do I take something that my country is known for and make it look really cool to a person who's high as fuck?"

New #music from Rabbit Junk today! A bit different sounding from their usual stuff, but still very rabbit-junky. rabbitjunk.bandcamp.com/track/blackl...

This is a whole lot of good #music for fans of #TTRPG s and people who enjoy psychedelic rock alike.

Portland today.

Some heroes do wear capes afterall...

Found this in the wilds (our local library) today. Copyright 2023 on the title page. I've got mixed feelings about this. (Also, Eric the Cavalier is conspicuously missing from the cover.)

If my country needs me, I shall answer the call

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend