If you’re not following @musicologyduck.bsky.social you’re missing the wildest live thread I’ve seen in ages

Using a photo of the guy open carrying from a completely different neighborhood in the city to represent protestors and supposedly congregants who got angry at a pastor who is working as the field director of ICE is just fucking egregious.

i am a middle aged white mom with a minivan. i live in a brick ranch and vote democrat in every election. i am the electoral equivalent of a free space in bingo. I PROMISE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE

2/ But did you know the same paragraph addresses the 'outside agitator' label now back in vogue: "Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

I was talking with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social about this the other day, and I think the time has come for the state and local authorities to get judicial warrants for every piece of evidence about the shooting and make DOJ and FBI argue to a judge that they don't have to turn it over.

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

The 25th Amendment must be invoked by the cabinet. I’m all for pressuring them. Congressional Dems should lead the charge. Not on Bluesky or Threads. Let’s do it.

A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. trib.al/Bmjqdsv

This is correct. Every future election cannot be democracy vs. fascism on the ballot. Preventing that moving forward will require a massive, detailed rewrite of how the United States is governed. Elected leaders who aren't prepared for dramatic change need to get out of the way.

"Got a miracle, lost anyway" feels very Catholic-coded huh

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If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

i feel like we would have grilled a potential VP candidate over their vocal Serbian nationalism if US assistance to Milosevic was a major issue in the 2000 election

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a century and a half of precedent this year and strip citizenship from millions of Americans, and the main response from legal academia has been shock and outrage that people have been insufficiently deferential to the people doing this.

Good God

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.

part of the endgame for People Who Don't Want Nazis In Charge Ever Again has to be the dissolution of both major US political parties and a start from scratch rewrite of the US constitution

Got this letter from my brokerage a couple of days ago. Their S&P 500 index funds are no longer "diversified" under the legal definition. Hold on to your butts...

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

A bus driver in Lviv let a stray dog ride with him to keep the doggie warm. The driver is a war veteran. A lot of businesses in Ukraine are letting stray animals stay with them during this freezing weather.

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

I struggle to understand why Minnesota's senators don't go nuclear and refuse unanimous consent on ALL MATTERS until the body demands answers—& withdrawal—from Minneapolis

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

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.

Man, Du Bois had some bangers, but for me, it doesn't get much better than his scathing indictment of the "Christianity" of the United States. Certainly this was all true of the nation in his lifetime. But in my lifetime, his criticisms have never felt so true of the nation right now.

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

i've launched a campaign to help a bunch of useless grifters send more text messages asking you to send them money to stand around and do nothing while blaming people for being on the streets when the fascists kill them.

“Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar” is a stone-cold CLASSIC of this genre

At a calendar call in Cook County Circuit Court, a party requested a continuance because a witness lives in Minneapolis and did not feel safe to travel. Continuance was granted without discussion.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

this was a brutal piece to write, haven't been this emotional while writing something since late 2024. Karma Police is both emotionally fitting and correct for the time period (1997). Please enjoy

I've said something similar before but as an organizer I've never experienced this sort of moment where you make an ask and folks are just like, yeah, of course. I have never had to do less wheedling, people are hungry for a way to plug in. This will bite them in the ass

Look at this absolute queen

American Century of Humiliation

The one totally meaningless thing that would completely rule would be if the pope excommunicated jd Vance. Low stakes, would change nothing, but would provoke a lot of really funny reactions from people I universally hate. It would be really great. He should do it.

A-fucking-men. Do not comply in advance.

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It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.

At least 2 Senators have said "All Powell has to do is talk to Pirro and tell her he's going to resign and Trump will drop the charges." So here we have 2 sitting US Senators admitting the President is illegally extorting the chairman of The Fed. Admitting crimes out loud, on TV. WTAF.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.