Periodic reminder that your state can pass a law allowing civil suits against federal employees. No need to wait on the feds to adopt a Bivens clause. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

What happens when you create a domestic paramilitary force with dopes who failed high school civics (also why are “fighting words” not protected? What are “fighting words,” exactly? Would “fucking bitch” be “fighting words”? just asking)

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.

So abolish ICE.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Got a bruise from all his buddies slapping him on the back so hard.

This is exactly what @sethcotlar.bsky.social & @badtoss.bsky.social were talking about yesterday. Christians, especially evangelicals, can assert their beliefs that their religious beliefs should be the law of the land, while also being treated as not “political,” in ways no other group is allowed.

Yes and… The media decided long ago that white (conservative Southern) evangelical Christianity is the only authentic form of Christianity, and more or less of religion, and that Jews don’t really exist, nor do Anglicans or Catholics. It’s an odd stance, but once you see it you won’t unsee it.

Trump on Iran: “Iranian Patriots, keep protesting and take over your institutions if you can. Save the names of the killers and abusers that are abusing you. You are being very badly abused.”

Legislative session is here! Lawmakers in Olympia are weighing hundreds of bills — follow our top priorities through our new bill tracker: homes4wa.org/bill-tracker

Oh and a middle finger toooooo

Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

27% crazification factor never fails.

From eugenics to eww-genics.

“His genics are truly *eu*,” Platner’s wife added.

Sure there are pogroms in major cities and museums are being censored for “improper ideology” and Dear Leader’s name is being grafted onto anything with room, but calling it fascism is so…*divisive*.

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f

“You’re a pizza maker whose pies are hated by meat eaters and vegetarians alike. You must be doing something right.” I despise this style of analysis. “I’m negatively polarized against everyone” is not savvy!

gen x is the only pro-ice age demographic. sorry about the second image i don't think its related i'm trying to remove it

#HB2157 is, I think, the strongest generative AI bill under consideration, because it sets forth clear operating standards and risk management compliance requirements. It also creates a "duty of care," with a private right of action. Read the bill: app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?... Bill summary:

There are a number of bills in #waleg this year that would regulate generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Here's what they'd do:

If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

Really important points here. This is a military occupation now in all but overt name. This is the test. We might yet get a SCOTUS case about 3A. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

A good reminder here: they did not take her to the car, as threatened. While they probably used facial recognition on the street and left when the results came back, she gave them nothing. She didn’t let them bait her into a discussion, or argue with them. She just stood firm. “Fuck you, make me.”

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

This administration has made clear every way possible that they don’t consider our lives to be worth anything.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

This DHS post on X about their new drone program, touting "American Air Superiority," prominently features a Chinese-made DJI drone. Which are the exact same drones that the Trump administration recently banned from import into the United States.

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

As always, nothing in right wing politics makes sense except in the light of creationism. The quasi-post-modern relativist impulse among conservatives holds that there is no true or false, and every issue must simply be subject to public debate by nonspecialists, and the applausemeter governs.

instagram is like 60% the "mock Charlie Kirk" app now and it rules

Write to your city council and state government and demand to know what directives your local PD/sheriff/state police have received directing them to affirmatively intervene when masked armed men without warrants are forcing their way into people’s homes.

Mayor Katie Wilson faced scrutiny during her campaign over reports that her parents had helped cover her child care costs. What the backlash revealed, Wilson argues, is a broader unwillingness to take the child care crisis seriously. Read more in Gennette Cordova's column:

ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

You'd be forgiven for assuming this was AI-generated in order to embarrass the president, but it is not.

I know the doctor who ICE blocked from helping Renee Good. (I won’t identify him since he hasn’t chosen to identify himself.) I’m glad to see this part of ICE’s crime get more attention.

i support "organized gangs of wine moms"

You did not see this kind of statement from the Turkish central bank before Erdogan staffed it with sycophants because he had carefully laid the groundwork to do so without resistance over the course of 15 or so years. And then once he did do it, inflation went from 10% to 86% in two years.

Can members of Congress request US Marshall escorts into ICE facilities? Or is this another one of those situations where the answer is "only if the Senate convicts POTUS on articles of impeachment," like every other "law" in the United States.

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks: - Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela - ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota - Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally - Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

Excited for Congressional Dems to send a stern letter threatening hearings after the 2026 election in a week when Trump has Jerome Powell thrown out of a helicopter.

Holy fucking shit. Posted on the Fed’s official YouTube channel, no less.

when women participate in non-violent protest movements (particularly those who fulfill archetypes of grandmothers or caregivers), those movements are more successful! new research in the APSR from Martin Naunov for example: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ice says “Abolish ICE.” And probably vice versa.

ICE doesn’t need better training or more thorough background checks, it needs abolition, investigation, and criminal trials.

People aren't leaving; looks like more have arrived since we have. Someone just shouted "suck my dick" and the crowd joined in with a spontaneous "suck his dick!" chant.