Basically every time someone in jail dies, the initial report is "medical episode" even when the person has been literally beaten to death. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jails and prisons are so dangerous. People die in them regularly, and they die in all sorts of ways. Jail deaths aren't impacted by the political party of the local jailer or whether the facility is public or private. What we know is sending people to jail is simply sending them to likely death.

That's true. There is a book called The Moral Underground that I used to teach and highly recommend. There is a way workers can be very helpful in times like these.

Do Your Job Badly is the primary tool that people in administration have to combat fascism. Just...drag your feet. You dont even need to make a thing about it - the DMV can just not work right, like it does anytime u piss someone off. I'd love to see states take loud steps - but you can just fail

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

recruiter: “just bartleby out of the merit hiring questions”

I think the issue is that Dem leadership absolutely does not see it as a crisis, and is largely in favor of it - they are paid the most by the billionaires who see this is as either an economic seizure, or part of some insane christo-fascist prophecy shit.

God, it is so pretty outside, right now. I have missed snow, so, so much.

You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping

It is difficult to articulate the depth of contempt that I feel for this man

Always want to remind people that there are lots of non-White New England sports fans, who aren't hysterical, bigoted villains...but the White New Englander is for sure the most vile and racist fan base in sports. I had hoped failure would temper this, slightly. Alas.

Your regular reminder that they had concentration camps going in the last administration. (This, by me, from 2019, unpaywalled below). What they're doing now is an intensification.

There's no excuse for the Pats being successful after such a short reprieve, but refuse anyone to deny that it is extremely cute that our coach hustles to be the first guy in the tunnel so he can hand out 'good game' hugs to all the players. The vibes, at least, are very strong.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

I am so embarrassed. On a fundamental level.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

There's a guide I read at some point for writers about how to not use this shit, and one of the points it makes is that you can just use a word that describes the ACTUAL behavior. The actual description of what they do is never the developmental slur that you want to use.

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

The Texans RT false starts every fifth play, it's crazy - dude perpetually collapses his arm and sags back really quickly, Im not sure it has been called at all? Maybe it's just very hard to see on the field, bc the playoffs have been remarkably clean, refwise, but it FEELS bad.

Lunch break.

That was seriously overdue

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

2000-2025: facts over feelings, no safe spaces, be a fucking man 2026: your dismissive body language has left the fourth Minneapolis infantry with anxiety

Typical NPR bullshit, the dissenting voice is....a priest NPR managed to dig up in California, who has nothing to do with anything, except an opinion that NPR gives equal weight to multiple priests on the ground. This is just plain old heroism by the priests in NH.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

Getting tired of the Pats getting called for DPI, but not the Texans. First game this playoffs that has made me curious what the refs' fanduel account looks like.

Maye simply will not adjust his clock, and it is weird to watch.

MARCUS JONES IS EVERYWHERE

The killer of Renee Good proudly RECORDED THE KILLING. Body cams won't stop this. And "training" just gives ICE more money to train its agents to keep doing what they're doing. Abolish ICE. Defund it entirely. If @booker.senate.gov is your senator, please call him what you think. (202) 224-3224

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

Marcus Jones is everywhere.

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

Surely Rhamondre with one eye is better than Henderson at this point.

this is beautiful in so so many ways.

I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward

So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.

Why does Henderson get the ball, then point himself at the biggest pile of defenders he can find, before running in a straight line with his head down? In the rare event he sees daylight, he angles for contact - the talent to sense gap is among the widest this team has seen.

The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

In which DHS says a U.S. citizen can be detained for speaking in Mexican accented Spanish. How many people in the US would be subject to being detained on this basis?

So to review, when questioning dems trying to fundraise off of the turmoil in MN, the consultants and fundraisers have had a complete and utter meltdown. Really don't know how much more evidence is needed that the democrats aren't going to help anyone but themselves.

Patty, a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE for 9 hours. Her friend Brandon, also a citizen, was interrogated by agents as they attempted to bribe him to give them names of undocumented individuals or protest organizers. This is absolutely outrageous behavior.

I think this is more informative than one might want to admit: THEY saw the same movies, and wake up every day thinking 'how can I dress like I want to kill a bunch of dalmatians?'

The LUCE network has been *doing* protection work since the beginning and has a ton of trainings this weekend. If you are in MA save their number to your phone and consider getting trained. www.lucemass.org

Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...

the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

Bills O-linemen just...no interest in getting on the ground to secure that fumble. Kind of trotting over and then standing around looking helpless. Game is over.