Why do all these ICE guys look like cosplay Bruce Willis impersonators? I suppose that’s just the kind of person who becomes a Proud Boy / bounty hunter / mercenary paid by the authoriarian ruling class to put down their own citizens.

If you had told me two decades ago that I day would come when I'd often be nodding in agreement with *Bill Fucking Kristol*, I would have said you were insane.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Christina Leidel of The Band Who Fell to Earth.

so ICE is a jobs program for men who like to hit women and get away with it

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

What kind of lizard is this? It was hanging out in the Van Leer building at Georgia Tech being cute.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

How mass deportations lead to Americans losing jobs.

Is Pete Hegseth planning a variation of the Night of the Long Knives?

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

Autism is not a "disease" or "epidemic". Autism has a strong genetic component. There is no evidence that vaccinees or Tylenol cause autism. Access to autism diagnostics have dramatically increased as reported rates increased. Neither Trump nor RFK Jr are scientists or medical professionals.

Setting aside the bad science, the message here is that pregnant women should suffer--and risk harming their fetus with untreated fever--to reduce their chance of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Which makes clear his disdain for women *and* people with ASD. www.bbc.com/news/article...

RFK Jr.'s daily routine.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

The Blue Donkey Cafe in the Georgia Tech Library is open until 10 on weekdays, and this is truly glorious!

I've often seen administrators sense a potential controversy brewing and try to get ahead of it and stave it off, but they do so in such a ham-handed fashion that they just make everything worse. That's what ABC's handling of Jimmy Kimmel reminds me of.

Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered for using his words to spread hate and bigotry and divide this country. In death he should not be sanctified for a life used to inspire people's worst demons to target the marginalized.

This is going to devastate American universities, especially ones like Georgia Tech. That sound you hear in the background is Xi Jinping laughing his ass off.

Absolutely disgusting behavior by ICE. This is inexcusable.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Ansley Stewart at The Reading Room in Decatur, covering Radiohead, Chris Issac, and Fleetwood Mac.

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

"...these law firms are the exact set of people who are most capable of winning against Trump — and yet they chose to give up without a fight." (2/2)

"This is, plainly put, an affront to the rule of law. By attacking not only the people he doesn’t like, but the lawyers who represent them, Trump has made crystal clear that he does not think his opponents deserve the same legal rights as his allies." (1/2)

You could make the argument that The Professor Watchlist was a gimmick that the young Kirk could use to raise his profile and money. But he never disbanded it, even as it was clearly used to harass and intimidate.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.”

I would bet all my 25 years in politics that if you polled “do you support or oppose the President cancelling late night talk shows bc a comedian disagrees with him” that the oppose numbers will be off the charts everywhere. There I saved everyone $60k and any excuse for not speaking up right now.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

I think a lot of this “fear” is more about bargaining—how to protect their capital and standing under authoritarianism. It’s less about the prospect of losing everything and more about the unwillingness to risk anything at all

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Earlier I was thinking "go Thomas Massie! Keep at it! Keep pushing Patel!" and then later I thought "I'm really glad Karl Rove wrote that editorial" and then I thought WAIT WHAT SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING TO REALITY, REALITY IS BROKEN HELP

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

This. I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets. Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

We keep hearing that "the left" as whole is responsible for Kirk's murder. It's ludicrous on its own but even more so when you recall that we've had mass shooters who explicitly cited specific individuals on the right -- even Trump! -- as motivation but the right insisted no one was to blame.

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

It's a topsy-turvy world in which *Bill Kristol* of all people is a more ardent and eloquent defender of the dignity and rights of transgender people than some Democratic politicians.