MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

She's depraved but she's not wrong.

Damn where have I heard that phrasing before?

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

We have become so used to sentence first, trial after, that we forget that this is not normal. LEO shoots are investigated to determine the facts. Officials do not comment until the facts are established (and usually do not comment even then). It should be about truth, not taking “sides”

Just say slush fund, Jack, this is taking all day

Quisling House Speaker Mike Johnson is complicit in making his own chamber irrelevant by proactively ceding Congressional authority to Trump

It does seem like we’d be better off if we could set aside normal debates about government spending and focus on the very dangerous things the current government is doing. Then, there might be space for a return to the normal, healthy policy debates we used to have.

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The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, but its capacity is not. Tying up the regime's limited resources means less capacity for malfeasance elsewhere. Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.

In an early South Park episode Stan's Uncle Jimbo wanted to hunt endangered animals, so he yelled "It's coming right for us!" right before he shot so he could claim self defense. ICE is doing that to people.

We have a new best-ever use case for the hot dog guy meme.

IMO there is social value in distributing videos of state agents acting maliciously, even (and perhaps even especially) in the case of murder. That information needs to be disseminated and our current government - along with several media outlets - can't be trusted

One year ago today. It's always been right out in the open.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Very much longing for precedented times.

Trump: "I single-handedly ENDED 8 WARS, and Norway, a NATO Member, foolishly chose not to give me the Noble Peace Prize. But that doesn’t matter! What does matter is that I saved Millions of Lives ... I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM."

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

Shorter Rick Scott:

And it was Mitch McConnell who made it possible by letting Trump off the hook on impeachment, and Kevin McCarthy who proactively brought Trump back into the GOP fold. Let their shame never be forgotten.

I watched a news segment of J6ers “retracing their steps” and placing flowers “in honor of” Ashli Babbit at the Capitol. Reminded of how the Nazis mythologized the Beer Hall Putsch and turned the 16 people who died into martyrs who were ritually honored on the attempted coup’s anniversary each year

They're doing this so they can call any government program that isn't ICE or the military "rife with fraud" and thus illegitimate. They are trying to manufacture consent to say any entitlement — from Medicare to social security — must be canceled because of extreme edge cases. Don't fall for it.

Six Feet Under is the GOAT in this department. But Cheers also stuck the landing perfectly and never really gets talked about in these conversations.

Trump’s done half a dozen things that should’ve gotten him impeached just this week.

It’s unconscionable that Republican members of Congress are going to let Trump get away with this blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’ Article 1 spending power. But they will.

James Madison is vomiting in his grave.

Danish guy gets it

I married a lawyer. Best decision I ever made. (Not *because* she’s a lawyer. But honestly sometimes it does come in handy to be married to a lawyer.)

Pravda by Paramount update

Despite everything that's going on around us, we can all take a moment to celebrate someone - even the US Patent and Trademark Office - telling John Fisher to go fuck himself.

It's a moral stain on the country and an indictment of Congressional Republicans that Trump is still our president.

It’s great that the champions and defenders of Western Culture are censoring Plato. The moral panic over accurately teaching about American racism was always about disciplining professors in general. We’re a check on propaganda, which propagandists hate.

This would be a problem if we had a functioning Congress.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Before Bob Myers built the Warriors dynasty he was a walk-on on at UCLA, and played his way into a scholarship as the last guy off the bench for the the 1994-5 team that won the national championship. We yelled our asses off every time he got in a game.

I know it's said ad nauseum but pretend Biden said these words into a mic and how fast the headlines would start flying about dementia and 25th. Just wild that the media is letting this go and sucking him off for killing people in Venezuela and stealing their oil

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

should probably be a bigger deal that the vice president's favorite intellectual is a dull nazi bsky.app/profile/leah...

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.

Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies

Thank you for the reminder that no matter how dumb things get they can always get dumber.

🚨BREAKING: DOJ admits it has only released 12,285 documents required by Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 2 million documents still need to be reviewed/released. DOJ is in violation of federal law that required release by Dec. 19. More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com

Paying college athletes is the morally correct thing to do and at the same time it has also killed any interest I have in watching college football & basketball.

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

In 2016 if you had asked me what’s the stupidest possible thing I see the U.S. doing in ten years, there’s no way I would’ve come up with anything nearly as dumb as saber rattling a NATO ally over military control of Greenland. Not even close.