Say what you will about ol' Amy, but accepting an award from a guy who specifically said he will do nothing to oppose the ICE agents who are currently brutalizing your constituents is a brilliant move. Now no conservative can say you're not tough on crime!

Bouie is the best of a bad lot, but has the quintessential NYT opinion criterion of absolute credulity. The majority of these demands are already laws DHS/ICE are not following, and all of the new recommendations are so easily gamed/ignored as to be completely useless

A lot of libs ignore it for obvious reasons, but a central reason the civil rights movement won major concessions is the Soviet Union. In the fight to win allegiance of newly liberated nations of Africa and South America, the Soviets had an easy PR win just pointing to how POC were treated in the US

You have the enemy on the run! Would you like to: ->Press the advantage and attain total victory ->Reach out to them for a noble compromise

Wow, nothing more powerful than passing a bill that says "please follow the laws that already exist."

I generally despise "How to talk like x group!" videos because they're cheesy and stupid and don't actually reflect how that group talks. This video, however, remains the most accurate depiction of Minnesotans you will ever see.

Stop calling them "untrained." They are very much trained, and they are currently doing *exactly* what they were trained to do.

It is a hell of a thing to get online an hour after a man is murdered on video and say things are working

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Keep crying you dumb little bitch your salty tears fuel all of us

i feel like the next US presidency is up for grabs for any democratic politician with enough of a spine to push consistently for abolishing ICE. they select well for cowards though so don't bet on it

Elected officials can only say shit like this if they're actually doing some productive. Frey hasn't, isn't, and never will do anything of any use, so he can just go ahead and shut the fuck up.

This is the Gospel in action

there’s really no reason to think anyone who supported anything short of abolishing ice the past ten years isn’t going to go straight back to We Just Need Better Training when a dem is in office again. better to make that politically untenable before the campaigns even officially start

Guy famous for making copaganda says cops should have unlimited resources, fork found in kitchen

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

One of my beliefs is every public establishment should have a ping pong table. You should be able to drop in anywhere for a quick Pong

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

Please be mindful how you talk to the millennials in your life, you never know when they might be experiencing acid reflux ❤️

Once took a woman on a second date to see Funny Games. About halfway through she put in her earbuds and quit watching the movie, we had an incredibly awkward silent drive back to her place where I meekly apologized for not knowing what exactly that movie was. There was no third date.

This is an extremely silly argument as you cannot fix any problems or move forward at all unless you realize "capitalism is bad" is at the root of all social problem you want to fix or move forward from

an important thing to remember as The Cool Zone looms: the most egregious recent violent and militarized crackdown -- at places like UCLA and Columbia -- was done under democrats with the full support of democrats. they aint gonna help

LOTI pencil sharpening

Always important to remember that killer cops are nearly always people who have committed multiple abuses previously and would have already been drummed out of any occupation with even minimal standards

This rules

Naz fucking Reid

gonna just be the millionth person to say: we in the US should indeed be mad that our electoral choices have been narrowed down to "genocide abroad is fine" vs "don't settle for genocide abroad when we could also have internment camps here". but neither Palestinians nor their supporters put you here

Quite the opposite, I'd say this is yet another win for vulgar Marxism. While all the nuance fetishists have been insisting capital would never cut its own legs off just for such a short-sighted gain, us vulgarians have long noted they would do this if they could

People like Stancil like to comfort themselves with the idea that prisoners in the US are all bad people who deserve it while everyone in prison in China is an innocent. But what he’s written here is a literal description of our mass incarceration

Make-A-Reasonable-Request Foundation Provides Sick Child With Decent Seats To Minnesota Timberwolves Game theonion.com/make-a-...

My most controversial opinion is that Centerfield by John Fogerty is a genuinely good song

As Palestinian activists are extradited to black sites, it's good to know our city controller is focused on the real victims: Israeli businesses. Rachael Heisler is an embarrassment. www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

I know symbolic gestures do very little, but sitting here in this coffee shop two Jordanian guys came over and thanked me profusely for wearing a keffiyah. Anyway, we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes 🇵🇸

Absolutely begging liberals to understand how political change happens. Literally no political progress in this nation has ever happened without violence. It's fine to dislike violence (I'm not a huge fan myself), but this kind of hand wringing is just apolitical, ahistorical nonsense

Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

It's good to use language people know/understand, but it's also good to push people to learn knew things and expand the words they know/understand. Many of today's "common sense phrasings" were once the wildly leftist out-of-touch buzzwords condemned by exactly this sort of person.

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

It's weird the power people think academics have. We can't just give out student/work visas! We don't have any say in the process! Those decisions are made by admins who make 7x our salary and deeply hate each of us.

In which I and others explain how the feckless, sclerotic leadership of WVU has not principles or morals of any kind westvirginiawatch.com/2025/01/31/w...

So hard to figure out why so many see Dems as having no morals or spine at all. Spend 8 years calling a guy a fascist dictator only to immediately pivot to “we need to work together with him!”

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

"Google made a funny little doodle for inauguration day" is so incredibly low on the list of any problems that matter I almost think this is a far right psy op to make people look stupid

I'm certainly not watching any of this, but am happy to report our guy did the meme again

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.

Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.