ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough. Everyone responsible: Stephen Miller, Noem, Bovino, Lewandowski and more also need to be thrown in prison for murder, assault, kidnapping, trafficking children, etc.

Reports of another shooting in MSP from @whstancil.bsky.social

Star Tribune is reporting this as well now, multiple shots in the chest.

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

I generally disapprove of retro vaporwave but this has pleasant reminds me of 10 years ago vibes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3nB...

Yeah he’s right. What these bedfellows fundie ‘cultural Christians’ and people like Alice don’t get is that Christianity introduced universalism and humanism. That didn’t exist before, neither did ‘secular and atheist thought’ but belief in pagan, tribal deities & localised fertility rituals..

I think it would be a lot less horrific as Burnham has moved leftwards and has some good policies. All Keir Starmer has done is pave the way for Reform. Burnham is the last hope for Labour, and maybe even for the country - God help us if Trump mini-me and corrupt charlatan Nigel becomes PM!

The best case scenario is that Burnham wins and creates something a bit less horrific; the resulting hate campaigns against him from his own party - working hand in hand with the Mail, the Sun, the Times and the Telegraph - do not result in a big Farage/Tory majority. And that’s all very unlikely.

To quote Gang of Four: Our bodies make us worry Our bodies make us worry Our bodies make us worry Our bodies make us worry

The beauty of the interior of the Cathedral of Ávila.♥️

Always been a bit agnostic on The Fall. I only ever really liked their ‘poppier’ moments: the uncharacteristically sappy ‘Bill Is Dead’ and the gloriously infectious ‘Paintwork’ are favourites. In fact, This Nation’s Saving Grace’ (featuring the latter) is the only album I ever really liked.

Scene in different light: a couple of shots of the chancel at Salle, St Peter & St Paul, north Norfolk #norfolk #light #churches #architecture #history #heritage #medieval

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Men would rather critique therapy as a technology of power-knowledge and surveillance that serves as a secularised version of religious confession than go to therapy.

The party is expendable. It's the raw exercise of lobbyist power where the destruction of the party may be a feature rather than a bug. It's time mainstream journalists liberated themselves from normalcy bias. #r4today screedvault.neocities.org/post/2025082...

The McSweeney strategy was a total flop from the very beginning. All it has done is infuriate Labour voters (look at the polls), undermine what would always have been a difficult term in office & pretty much wrecked Starmer as PM & trashed his legacy as well. A disastrous strategy all round.

How Morgan McSweeney's '0% strategy' failed to win over Reform voters while haemorrhaging Labour's own support base to the Greens www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...

For those unfamiliar with -20 degrees, it can be sharp to breathe when you’re outside for too long, your body aches, the cold of the pavement will leech into shoes and make toes feel numb. Cold fingers numb on protest signs. Eyelashes stick together. This is a huge statement of protest. ✊

‘In his best moments, David Beckham is a reverse Dorothy Parker, curving another déclaration folle into the back of the net. “We’re definitely going to get Brooklyn christened,” he said, “but we don’t know into which religion.”’ Andrew O’Hagan in 2024: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I think she was just making an affectionate joke. Ffs.

What I’d consider blueskyism is highly conservative anti-Marxism posturing in Marxist lingo: the idea of an identitarian hierarchy rooted in biology that we’re powerless to change. Shit about white men sucking that reifies constructs of maleness and race by the back door. Surreptitious reaction.

All the worst people in Labour are ex-lawyers. They haven’t even done the standard PPE thing which at least gives them some conversancy with critical thinking. They’ve studied law — the ultimate non-discipline next to economic science. Should be barred from office.

I find the enduring cult of virginity bizarre. Afterwards I found I was the same person I'd always been. I wasn’t reborn. In fact I felt really depressed and got pissed. I’m down about never having had a relationship but as far as some anatomical act is concerned I couldn’t give a shit..

Going to write a self-help book with this as a title

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 23 - A song that feels like a warning Subway Sect — Nobody’s Scared m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIK...

im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell

Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social. I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview

This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Bluesky has a lot of Baal energy going for it. So anxious for results. Bullying moderates for no good reason but to feel more revolutionary. Meanwhile, Minnesota is deeply threatening to the administration purely for suggesting that its definition of justice is bullshit.

Compact magazine is a sewer of fascist filth.

The fact that the panicked Labour right Eye of Sauron has alighted on him tells you that there’s something good going on.

Hot take: Burnham’s a decent guy. Yeah he was a Blairite but he’s explained that this was when he was very young. It is very easy to be cynical about politicians having taken a ‘journey’ but I get the impression that in this case just for once he genuinely has.

Paradiso, Canto XIV. Dante and Beatrice move into the fifth heaven — an illustration from 1880 by Gustave Doré, who died three years later on this day in 1883. More Dante illustrations by Doré (and others) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dante-divine-comedy-in-art

Painted in 1899, Félix Vallotton’s portrait is of his wife Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques (née Bernheim as in the art gallery Bernheim-Jeune). The couple married in May of that year, triggering a complete shift in Vallotton's working, out went printmaking and in came painting.

This work 'Industrial Skyline at Night,' by Sylvia Gosse was made in 1909 the year she began attending Walter Sickert's evening classes at the Westminster School of Art. The following year she started teaching at the Sickert and Gosse School of Painting and Etching.

Born OTD in 1832, Edouard Manet, here portrayed by his friend Henri Fantin-Latour. This portrait, not his own work, represented Manet at the 1867 Salon. Sad! But now he's famous so that's OK.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 23. A song that feels hypnotic. Faust — Jennifer m.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zi...

He's the former Health Secretary, mayor of one of the UK's biggest cities and is currently the most popular Labour politician in the country. Whatever you think of Burnham, he pretty easily clears the hurdle for candidate for a winnable Labour seat.

What nobody talks about… By creating and prioritising A.I. capitalism is the author of its own destruction (as well as the rest of humanity) it will become the “Snake that eats Itself” youtu.be/tK7qIn6Y0K8?...

What is AI supposed to do? Is there a specific example of how it can be used that I’d feel I’m missing out on? It’s not like “There’s this great new thing with four wheels that gets you places fast!”, just “AI is great!”. Great how? Not sure any other tech has been sold as an abstraction like that.

wow the owner of the turd store says if people don't improve their attitudes about turds, in a few years there probably won't even be a stinky store that makes the whole town smell like turds anymore

I find it odd that right wingers on The Other Site get mad at Rawls for saying you don't morally deserve traits your born with, like that's not the kind of thing that could count for or against you in any morally significant way. Cos this seems... obvious to me? Like why would morality track that?

Oh boy they’re pushing the white male leftist bro button. They’re going nuclear!

The magazine editor Margaret C. Anderson was crucial to one of the U.S.’s first literary-obscenity trials, and introduced Americans to some of modernism’s most important writers. Why has she been forgotten? Sophia Stewart on a new biography of Anderson:

Here’s the final part of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special. I walk you through how ignoring the horrifying margins and practices of the AI industry sets VC and our markets up for catastrophe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Going to therapy has made me aware of how I was living in a straightjacket of shame. I read feminist literature and I relate strongly to a lot of talk about shame. I don't think women are aware of how much men deal with similar issues of being shamed for their appearance and their sexuality.

The White House is just outright admitting that it's posting fake and misleading information about a defendant who has been criminally charged by the feds.