This really is a theme of the administration: the ineptitude and obvious bias give everything the taint of illegitimacy.

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business

In Watergate, Nixon only resigned after it was clear he was going to be impeached. Before the tide reached him, his Vice -President had gone (later convicted), his AG had quit and 24 other staffers were eventually convicted. That was a result of a functioning independent Supreme Court & Congress.

Int’l students who invest their futures here are a taproot of talent in our economy. 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs in the US are immigrants who came as students, then stayed. Have they told the Vice President that his parents-in-law violated their “primary purpose” by staying here after graduation?

I love that they think that immigrants are the danger to liberal democracy when it’s the American born Trumpists who are actually propelling us into kleptocratic authoritarianism.

Mike Lindell, recovering crack cocaine addict and presumptive GOP nominee to be governor of Minnesota, turns out to be a citizen and resident of Texas, who registered to vote, and actually voted, there. Which means he has committed voter fraud. www.startribune.com/mike-lindell...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

“i’m demon free bitch” is one of the funniest things i have ever heard

Trump's big document release tonight, supposedly meant to prove China stole the 2020 election, includes this classified intel graphic making clear that Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems.

I beat this drum often but you need to vote in every election, particularly local ones. Vote in primaries. Vote in run-offs. Focusing on one election for one position once every four years is not how you make change, it starts with the little things and then they grow into bigger ones.

The lettuce supplied to taco bell by taylor farms is bad. No taylor farms products are safe until this gets sorted out. But it's taco bell they're focusing on, because taylor farms are major republican donors.

It’s important that we understand that this is not atypical of ICE agents. They are not law enforcement, they are Gestapo. If you have ever interacted with them at all, it becomes clear that they are not stable people.

Free headline for articles about the chuds pretending to be mad about The Odyssey casting: "The Whine Dark Sea."

… Remember when Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave a bunch of internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent? I was just thinking about that for some reason.

cooked, low energy, things of that nature in all seriousness: I’m not going to say we aren’t in trouble because we are obviously in trouble but whining about the SAVE Act is not the act of someone with a coherent plan to steal the elections and when he tries it’s going to be a haphazard shitshow

One of the many things that I think is rotting civic society into irrelevance these days is the constant willingness of public figures to assert that they believe things that should have revolutionary implications while clearly acting like they don't.

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

He looks and sounds ill, and he's complaining. Losers complain. If you're in control you keep your mouth shut and put the other side in their place.

Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.

Before the president gets on television tonight to peddle lies and conspiracy theories, here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen. We won, and he lost.

It is something that the most Christ-like politician in America is a Muslim.

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Man, Wurman ripped the mask right off completely. All of this is to be a white dominated nation. It's white nationalism.

A statement from WIRED leadership.

This is why it is imperative that none of these ICE thugs be allowed in civilized society again. We need a Nuremburg 2.0.

Yeah. This is exactly the type of guy they want. Someone who has child abuse on their record. They look for it. I'm not exaggerating. That means they will hurt absolutely anyone and have the stomach for it.

Raptor reliability has been a problem from the beginning. It was looking like those issues had been fixed, but V3 seems just as temperamental as the older versions. Without reliable engines the idea of rapid reuse is just not going to happen.

Tonight's Presidential address is so D.O.A. its sister's being named to the Senate.

Starship Flight 13 aborted at booster ignition at 2245:29 UTC. No launch occurred, scrub for today, safe engine shutdown.

Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.

6-6 vote on Skydio Drone Pilot Program in North Mpls so it didn’t pass. Way too close for comfort. Yes: Rainville, Vetaw, Warren, Shafer, Whiting, Palmisano No: Payne, Wonsley, Osman, Stevenson, Chavez, Chowdhury Thanks to all that showed up to testify, called and emailed.

The same company (Rhino Liner) that received a no-bid contract to “fix” the Reflecting Pool is the same company that provided the lining on the OceanGate Titan sub that imploded. newrepublic.com/post/213168/... www.reddit.com/r/oceangate/...

The entirety of American politics today: "You might want to potentially think about considering whether to maybe eat a vegetable." versus "FUCK YOU MOM YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

This is the future of climate change denial as it becomes more difficult to ignore, it'll just be endless scapegoating

ICE will keep murdering random people until Democrats stop criticizing them is... well... quite a take.

Seizing people’s ill gotten gains is entirely consistent with abolition and I do think it’s a bigger deterrent than the threat of prison. It also arguably accords more with justice as the scale & breadth of corruption-for-thievery taking place is almost unfathomable.

Clearly, the shrewd strategy to get these Trump supporters motivated to turn out in the midterms is to spend the next few months bitching and moaning about the 2020 election

US forces radioed a message to ships near the strait Tuesday saying ‘the southern route of the strait remains open’ “F— off,” one sailor is heard over marine radio, according to a recording reviewed by WSJ. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

This is a pretty useful little tool. jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarett...

What does being outside in Minnesota feel like today?

Ken Paxton’s billionaire handlers won’t let him answer questions in public. It’s why he hasn’t debated in over a decade. But I want him to prove me wrong. I’m challenging Ken Paxton to three televised debates.

This documentary, getting released on Monday, is a big deal - the team behind it put in a tremendous amount of effort and reporting. Here in Minnesota, yesterday’s ICE Air plane had the highest number of detainees we’ve seen loaded onto a flight since February 4th.

angie craig voted against the amendment to cut military aid to israel today. unconscionable to vote to continue funding this disappointing to see other minnesota dems betty mccollum and kelly morrison just mark themselves as present ilhan omar voted for it