ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

If you ever feel dumb, remember that billions of dollars' worth of propaganda did not work on you.

Post an image you can hear. This one is thanks to my kids

Post an image you can hear

Went to an ethnic dance performance on campus

Hitler: I’ve conquered France, I control Europe, you have no major allies, I’m going to bomb the crap out of you, and we are the master race. Winston Churchill:

Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

John Brown Hoodie

The last thing a copperhead sees before he leaves this earth

Fucking infuriating

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Listening to my album of the day project and today's is one of the happy discoveries I've made.

Creating a DnD barbarian or fighter and naming him "Randall Kobold"

Just amazing that this incoherent verbal diarrhea is coming from an actual president of the US. He’s losing his shit, folks, even more than usual. It reeks of desperation.

My kids have commented on this

the information environment is the thing that gives the most doomer type feelings, no one knows what the answer is

It would also be nice if trump weren’t trying to kill civilians in Cuba with an executive order that makes up a bunch of bullshit about Cuba being Hezbollah or some shit www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

What's this, a confession?

The real Middle Ages was complicated and messy and people like Dreher and Vance got crossbowed while "hunting" so, all I can tell you is that we can stop pretending they want to "return" to something an acknowledge that fascism DEMANDS a mythical Golden Age to return to.

Make America a Republic Again

The South really did rise again

This what RFK, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Robert Malone, Retsef Levi, Vinay Prasad, and all the rest of them want. This is what they WANT.

the great magic of liberal democracy, when it's working well, is precisely to find that unity in diversity--or, like it says on the money e pluribus, unum

the next Dem admin needs to take a real big swing at reform immediately because the window is going to be limited and while there's a chance voters will punish you for it you know for a stone cold fact that they will punish you for going small

"Cizeron made several mistakes, including a glaring one during his twizzle sequence, while Chock and Bates were nearly perfect. Yet the French judge favored the French skaters by nearly eight points..., while five of the nine judges favored the American team." -- apnews.com/article/mila...

Trump's tariffs are the single largest tax hike in the postwar and it was done unilaterally without consent of Congress. Its actually outrageous when you think about it, and conservatives and Republicans just like accept it because yadda yadda daddy Trump. Unreal.

[Abraham] “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.” —Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I call bullshit.

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The Canadian ice dance performance was gorgeous

This raid didn’t get much press at the time because it’s Idaho. But it’s truly shocking. And it shows that these policies work like we’ve alleged in Alabama. The scale just makes it so much harder to minimize the harm of a show-me-your papers regime. These people weren’t let go “promptly.”

It's even dumber than I expected

These people make me proud to be an American

When Pam Bondi is questioned about rich and powerful people raping children, she prefers to talk about rich and powerful people making money.

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

The next Dem presidency needs to wage a fucking holy war against elite corruption

Very late USSR in that incompetence leads to people thinking there's a conspiracy, which leads to an actual conspiracy to fix the problem because normal channels are broken.

40-50M a day to keep it closed, it'll be like half a billion by the time its up, pretty significant economic hit

re: the el paso thing, I will say as a defense nerd that the answer is probably very, very stupid and benign but given [gestures at world] there is of course always a chance it is very, very stupid and awful

If your framework for American policy in the age of Trump is domination, you’re going to get most things right. This is true abroad and at home.

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Truth and reparations. Great piece by @jamellebouie.net. (Gift link.)