The only Verbal Assault better than the ones against ICE?

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

How it started/how it's going

😚👌

For the second time today I am being lied to about snow, for the second time today it is rain

So S4 ep 1 of Industry features two New Order songs, Beach House, and a Prodigy remix in the first 4 minutes, and ends with a strap on and implied pegging? Okaaaaaaaay.

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

I struggle to understand why Minnesota's senators don't go nuclear and refuse unanimous consent on ALL MATTERS until the body demands answers—& withdrawal—from Minneapolis

This dude rules

Rachel Cohen: “Greg, I hope you fucking eat shit, I hope this keeps you up at night for the rest of your life, and no one fucking wants you here” Greg Bovino: “Oh, fantastic language” Cohen: “ ‘Oh, fantastic language’—there’s children in here? In your fucking vehicles, assholes?”

Evelyn Normielib (D-MN) has arrived at the scene of the ICE shooting in northern Minneapolis

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

The idea that ICE agents have dangerous jobs is so ludicrous when you think about it. You’re dealing with immigrants (already a low crime population) who generally want to stay in the US (huge incentive to cooperate). It’s so much safer than being a real cop, much less doing food delivery

My dude, the Baileys are in the streets, protecting their neighbors.

White people using whiteness to combat white supremacy is key to defeating white supremacy.

A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.

Look at this absolute queen

moar pls

Someone tell their op-ed page!

This dude is intense and correct

This is really it. Every day, this is really it.

👇🎯 <taps mic> <John Facenda voice> “Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Alt text, because one would think folks would want news about a general strike to go as far as it can.

Had not even thought of this. Hell yeah.

Ok, this game bores me, let's talk about the t.A.T.u. needle drop(s) in Heated Rivalry. Just a tremendous scene.

ABSOLUTELY NOT THESE ARE HORSESHIT CALLS (fuck ICE)

Bluesky 2023: you're watching sportsball during a time of worldwide democratic decline? interesting. Bluesky 2026: GO BILLS KEEP POUNDING BEAR DOWN FUCK THE PACKERS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS ABOLISH ICE

Bump

Hey everyone, this is a good game!

Loaf of the week

tfw you get walked in the sleet

Rite of passage in DC for kid 2 today, a show at St. Stephen’s

Hamm’s you say?

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

Fucking ewww

New papal schism when?

Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

This is more felony murder appropriate than most so-called felony murders.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I actually think one reason why D.C. is FAIRLY well-run (at least in comparison to many American cities) is because we get to use our local tax dollars on ourselves. The revenue we generate isn't being redirected toward conservative rural voters who despise us. We reinvest it in our communities.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

Interesting: For all the hate D.C.'s traffic cameras get, there seems to be some evidence drivers are responding by not speeding, running red lights and so on. Below is data on traffic camera tickets from 12/2024 to 12/2025. There was a pretty steady decline for most of 2025.

To put this in clearer perspective, when Bowser took office in 2015, there were 26 road fatalities the previous year. Last year there were 25 fatalities. In ten years of holding office, Bowser hasn’t meaningfully improved the road fatality rate.

I don’t really care for this band, same as I don’t really care for Dave Matthews, but I gotta hand it to them both

Too real!

Absolutely terrifying. Maybe it’s time we use harsher, more reality-based language and grams to explain that Trump and Republicans want to kill Americans—for exercising our First Amendment right, sure, but also for existing.

Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.