"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

I am speaking generally and hypothetically, but the chief executive going to war with the central bank is the sort of thing that results in breadlines, coups, and worse.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

KO'ing everyone's 401k the week they started bragging about murdering citizens in the street on camera is the behavior of people who are on actual drugs. Not metaphorically, it's the behavior of people with underlying mental illness on uppers and steroids who are starting to feel cornered.

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

I think if the Federal government hides the ICE agent murderer from Minnesota authorities and withholds Medicaid because of the hallucinated fraud story then the union is no longer intact.

Film noir goddess. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Interesting.

i don't think this is tenable

amazingly long thread of predominantly unified opinion "keep AI out of Firefox" which @mozilla.org will ignore mastodon.social/@firefoxwebd...

weak, wonky protest she needs to call for Noem to be impeached and ICE to be abolished, then file impeachment articles for her & Trump or stand down from leadership the Dem leadership wringing their hands and not being willing to call out the crazy overreach & repression is getting people killed

there's more of us than there are of them

Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.

this guy being mute about the stuff the executive branch has pulled over the last 3 days but having the care to post this greeting card is really off putting, to say the least

it's like they did the torment nexus meme with all the stuff the king got read for filth for in the declaration of independence

people are looking at the dis statement in isolation. Telling people to distrust their eyes and their ears and only accept what the party tells them has been a project for more than a decade. People like to be wrong about Orwell, but this is what 2+2=5 was about.

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

"The Paramount bid brings it own set of concerns because it would place CNN under the control of the billionaire Ellisons," Rep. Nadler says during today's #HouseAntitrust hearing. "Presumably the Ellisons would similarly [to CBS News] seek to make CNN more Trump friendly."

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

Also, the NY Democratic Party should be liquidated and be rebuilt from its ashes

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

at least anyone in house leadership not actively involved with impeaching should get out of the way by resigning from their leadership role, & consider not re-running for their seat this is talking about YOU, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - maybe you don't want to run this? no shame in standing aside

specifically I am looking for an agent for a popular non-fiction book on where small drones came from and what they do today - intended to be both highly informative and a fun nerd read for the airplane. i believe i am well equipped to hit both marks!

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reiterating my advice he put together his own personal security force bc showing how easy it is to actually help people threatens the WHOLE political system of this country and none of them will be happy about it

force an impeachment vote every day the house is in session and make everyone vote yes, no, or present, *even if you don't have enough votes line up*. this is a pressure tactic to get defectors and convince the shirking Dem house leadership that they do have to deal with this

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

*Seriously, I'm reading arxiv papers now and I'm asking myself: are they on ketamine, are they from Stanford, or was this thing not even composed by a human being

As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.

huh! that's strange. wonder why an honest Dem partisan wouldn't want to talk about their posting style alienating allies? oh well, I'm sure it's nothing

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One of Trump's objectives in the assault on Venezuela was to post a photograph of Nicolás Maduro in chains—echoing the photographs of those abducted by ICE. Rather than offering improvements in anyone's economic conditions, he peddles the vicarious thrill of identifying with jailers and torturers.

If the Democrats had done their job in January 2021, we wouldn’t be having these issues right now, but because they capitulated and failed to do their job in holding Trump and the fascists who attempted a coup accountable, we are now subject to whims of fascist violence and global war.

is there not one standing representative who will put forward impeachment articles when the house meets on January 6th? are all of you going to let a candidate for this November be the only one who says this? do none of you have a sense of theatricality? Jan 6 is the most apropos day to do it. do it

the job of the sloptech CEO is to talk some bullshit, and satya nadella is nothing if not a wannabe slopfather

Microsoft offering training credits for a 200 seat order of a single product is near unprecedented. They are buying business to inflate the numbers.

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

I don’t give a fuck what party you’re in No Fucking Dynasties

Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

Sedentary liberals have a messianic faith in the power of information alone. But what matters is how we act on in response. The fact that Trump is an authoritarian—and that he has participated in violence against young women—will have little impact unless we set a precedent for acting on that fact.

I can’t stand when people say we need a tea party for the left. Maybe everyone should stop copying the other party’s tactics from 15+ years ago and start coming up with new ones that meet the moment.