Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

This is what embodying the American spirit looks like. Alex Pretti is America. Renee Good is America. Liam Ramos is America. We are all the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and despondent. They are us. H/t @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Buried in this article is the astonishing news that "Across the state Democrats have recruited candidates to run in all 150 state House districts, 16 state Senate districts and every other state and federal contest on the ballot". G-d bless Texas, get on their level.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

Part of the reason Alex Pretti is breaking through is similar to George Floyd & COVID. Half the country is snowed in and unable to distract themselves with business as usual

It’s not lost on me that both shooters of Good and Pretti were CBP

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Our country was literally founded on tarring and feathering law enforcement

*Save for future reference*

Might I raise you Sean Penn in one battle after another?

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

If anyone is looking for new ways to deter AI use in the classroom—I just made a ppt of all student responses and they will have to correctly identify their own post to get credit. Will update with how this goes.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

He’s our own Puxsutawney Ted, predicting ice and a possible grid collapse.

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

Europe is finally waking the F up to the fact that they have leverage too.

Europe, including France and Germany, have announced they are working on a plan in the event the United States follows through on its threat to attack Greenland. Denmark is withdrawing troops from other areas to redeploy in defence of Greenland, also requests allied troops.

He’s right: this is not a collapsed state. We still have civic power. Elections can’t just be canceled. Courts won’t close. Martial law isn’t coming. American democracy is wounded, not dead. Pressure is maintenance. Keep pushing relentlessly, without despair. Nihilism isn’t insight. It’s abdication.

Only two groups in American History have famously used masks to get away with violence. ICE & KKK

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

And yet two women are now dead…. 😔

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

Toddler considering leaving home after parents propose eating more vegetables.

I worry that CNN is getting out over its skis with this, tbh.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Fair use.

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.

I’m sorry… are ALL the prison cell angles in here?!?!

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

We won't shy away from showing the horrors of CECOT. Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's conversation with Andry on the abuse he faced there: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Y3Y9xI

Someone needs to post the segment to YouTube

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

Between moments like this and Nick Fuentes on Piers Morgan, it’s really clear that these men never had a genuine human connection and are now making it everyone else’s problem.

This is what is so important about Benicio del Toro’s character in One Battle After Another

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”

The fuck is this dumbass wearing?

The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.

James Talarico: I got elected by flipping a Trump district. I've been able to pass bills to help bring down the cost of childcare, bring down the cost of housing, bring down prescription drug costs, and pass the first-ever cap on insulin in Texas history