the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

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Some day Trump’s reign will end. Some day, perhaps, there will be a reckoning for these crimes. But these families will never get their loved ones back.

While NYT sheepishly beats around the bush, the Germans call a spade a spade:

The Right before 2025: Facts don't care about your feelings lmao fuck your feelings The Right after 2025: Those feds who were kidnapping children were called some bad names and that is literal assault, those poor men have it very hard and you're a just bunch of big meanies, ergo you are terrorists

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

I have been very critical of both the "religious left" and protest politics over the years, but this is good: focused, supportive of a larger movement, and blessedly absent of the usual suspects big-footing it all over the place.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

ICE keeps abducting babies. www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Very useful context for the situation in Alberta right now. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

This whole "what if instead of kings and emperors we had wealthy people leading our society" experiment is done. Results are tallied. Turns out it super sucks because the worst people on the planet can easily become the richest and therefore the most powerful and then they learn about AI

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

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Content warning, kidnapping of a child

Finally made a fumetti! A photo comic! Been thinking about this for ages, and it was a blast to put together my work as both a photojournalist and a comics creator - particularly for an initiative as key as #ICEoutComics.

Sorry not sorry. Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍 *sound, on NSFW 🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski

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They want you to think that there is nothing in the past but shame so that people flinch away from examining history. If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them. Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.

Heck yeah

Who even uses it these days? But yes, please, stop, and tell them why.

there was a post going around awhile ago re. what a women’s sports version of “Heated Rivalry” might look like which enforces oppressive norms of femininity the way the men in Rachel Reid’s books feel trapped by oppressive norms of masculinity, and I have been thinking about this nonstop ever since

This is just a delightful blossom of nostalgia

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

He’s five. He’ll need snacks. Are they gonna have anything he recognizes or likes? He’s gonna need bathroom breaks. Who’s zipping him up tight when it’s cold? Who’s holding onto his winter clothes when it gets warm all way south? Who’s changing his socks? Who’s keeping him clean? Putting him to bed?

Unconscionable

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

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Ladies… pay attention! The SAVE Act would require voter ID to match your birth certificate. Almost 80% of married women take their spouses name and would be ineligible to vote. Trump knows this. It’s what he wants. He wants to stop women from voting.

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While I have several axes to grind with his internal policy shifts which hack at public goods, and any kind of true reconciliation, and which will harm the most vulnerable Canadians, I will admit Carney has risen to at least this moment. An excellent speech. Full text transcript:

This is very good. Depressing as shit but very good.

Trying very hard to hold to my usual "let's keep trying our best and hope that gets us through this" and "humanity is really ingenious when backed into a corner" mantras... More and more I'm afraid that while both may be true, a lot of us don't (and really already haven't) survive this...

We don't deserve otters...

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

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.

I found out today that one of the forces pushing Trump the hardest for this Greenland shit is… the owner of Estée Lauder. Sharing this here because they own SO MANY makeup brands and I bet a lot of you might like to join me in not repurchasing anything from this makeup brand family!

It’s the middle of the night and Trump has posted: An AI generated image of him placing a US flag on Greenland An image of people in the Oval Office with a map showing Canada as part of the US A private text message from Emmanuel Macron 25th. Now.

Wild

True, but there has never not been an off-ramp. I mean, lots of the people that oppose Trump today, supported him before. Seriously. It's not even an issue.🤷🏿‍♂️ The issue is when people still want to hold onto the hate that lead them to support him, but want sympathy because they got burned too.

@washingtonpost.com's history doesn't matter now. A billionaire bought it, skinned it, and is parading around wearing its face while betraying its legacy. And for @cbsnews.com? There's not even an attempt to fake honoring the legacy they bought. Just a sloughing dead skin worn by a monster.

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