i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

I just read that brownies were invented in Chicago. I have to assume they first called them "deep dish cookies."

If you fill a room with 1,000 people who each earn one dollar a year and one person who earns a million dollars, the median income of that room is $500,000 and everyone in the third and fourth quintile is earning one dollar a year. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

People aren't wrong to compare the Trump era to the Nazis, but what worries me is how much it's like the Soviets: Pretending everything is working right and going great when it's all really falling apart, and marginalizing anyone who dares speaks the truth. When is our Chernobyl coming?

Make all sports betting like the OTB.

I feel like a lot of Americans haven't noticed yet, but Florida is just a full-on fascist state at this point.

I have to admit that I was not feeling much hope for Sonny Burton, so this is an amazing relief. We at @uscedp.bsky.social are still new as a public-facing organization, and seeing thousands and thousands of people join this effort was more than we hoped for. Thank you. www.waff.com/2026/03/10/g...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

Kristi Noem's career lasted about as long as Cricket did.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

For the record I think the notion that people should not yell at the President during the SOTU is antiquated and we should do away with it. Watch how Parliaments worldwide behave during question time.

As much as I honor the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, it's a HUGE problem that we don't see the same rage and awareness when Border Patrol murders a non-white, non-citizen. Whatever you think of undocumented immigration, it is not punishable by death. This is murder, plain and simple.

I'm trying to imagine what portion of the American population is NOT a second-, third-, or fourth-generation immigrant. I guarantee we've never had a President who met that standard.

Black History: Forty Years After Supreme Court Upheld ​“Death Qualification” of Juries, Data Consistently Shows Disproportionate Racial Exclusion #deathpenalty #racialjustice deathpenaltyinfo.org/black-histor...

There are a LOT of reasons why that "I think of horses" ai boosterism thing is bad. In part because it's entirely ignorant of history, horses, human's relationship with them, etc. And also it's entirely ignorant of the history of coaching, the electric engine, the combustion engine, and oil.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Two feet of snow on the ground and I have to dig a path to the back corner of the yard so this princess can poop.

We keep getting film adaptations of The Iliad. When will we get a Hollywood blockbuster adaptation of The Táin, Ireland's great epic where warrior queen Medb invades Ulster to steal a really great bull?

that’s right

Watching all the AI commercials during the Superbowl reminded me of history: In 2000, 20 percent of ads during the Superbowl were for dot-com companies. The dot-com bubble burst two months later, and the very next Superbowl (in 2001) featured an E-Trade commercial set in the dot com ghost town.

I spent a lot of last weekend playing MarioKart with a 6-year-old, which was exactly like dealing with MAGA: Every time he was ahead, he gloated and talked trash. Every time I was ahead, he told me I was being mean and it wasn't fair and I had to let him catch up.

Hang on. The County Executive is literally named "Calvin Ball?" In the Trump era? Talk about the writers getting lazy...

In yesterday's Orange County, NY legislative meeting, hundreds witnessed a unanimous resolution against an ICE warehouse in Chester. They have limited power so the fight continues, but a GREAT step. #AbolishICE @indivisible.org @hudsonvalleystrong.bsky.social midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/06/o...

This cruelty is a disease.

"We'll give you all the Murder Tools once you agree Murder is a Crime."

just choked on my beverage

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Time to post the classic of when New York was lost

Chester, NY is a tiny town in farm country where ICE has proposed converting a vacant warehouse into a concentration camp. Tonight hundreds of people turned out in 12-degree (F) weather to protest. Thanks to organizers and to Congressman Pat Ryan for braving the cold to stand in solidarity.

I've been thinking a lot recently about the Black and Tans and how the Irish people **never** forgot which of their neighbors had been a Black and Tan, and **never** let them return to a normal life within the community. They were outcasts and pariahs for the rest of their lives.

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

For years the Left said "You have free speech but your words still have consequences" and the Right freaked out. "Cancel culture," they screamed. We were talking about getting criticized, at very worst maybe losing your job. Now they say the same thing, but they mean they will kill us.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

People are right to point out the contradictions, but let's be very clear: There is no hypocrisy. It only looks like hypocrisy if you think MAGA shares American values. The MAGA vision is a nation that only protects white conservatives, and strips everyone else of rights, dignity, and life.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

This is a very good point.

I don't see what all the fuss is about. ICE is just a paid gang of ardent white nationalists with a history of violence who write their own warrants and investigate themselves. What's upsetting about that???

I need everyone to understand that treason is action against the laws and people of the United States, *NOT* against the current government. What Trump and ICE and DHS are doing is treason. It should be treated as such.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

At this point Trump is certainly going to invoke the Insurrection Act and send the military into Minneapolis. At that point it's up to our military to decide how to conduct themselves. If they want to serve their country, the military should remove ICE.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I respectfully disagree with people saying "Don't watch the video." This is our government, carrying out violence and terror and executing Americans in our names. We cannot turn away from it. If you choose not to watch, I won't judge you.