I’d love to get every single Democrat on board with “abolish ICE and dismantle DHS” but you’re going to need some votes from folks who don’t want to embrace that particular rhetoric and good news “there’s just too much corruption we’ve got to dismantle it to solve the problem” is sitting right there

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Speaking of whistles... it's just a countdown now to see how many hours it takes us to cross 750,000 whistles. Shortly after that we'll cross 500,000 for February. When @courtneymilan.com told me we were going to ship half a million in February I was like "lol ok" but I should not have doubted her.

Untruth Coming Out Of Her Well (1896, Gérôme)

We are going to win.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

anyone who ACTUALLY gave a shit about making sure kids don’t get somehow confused into transitioning when really they’re just cis kids with some interests and aesthetics that contrast with gender norms would be telling parents to always ALLOW gender-bending clothes and play and pronoun experiments

I love what the Internet is doing for this moment.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

I’ve been thinking along similar lines—that for anyone who is set on a 2028 bid, saying so now, aggressively and definitively—holds a lot of upside. Normie Dems are desperate for a standard-bearer, not least because the median Dem hates Chuck Schumer. Give them one.

A true actor's-actor career. You can watch Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird and M*A*S*H and Open Range and Sling Blade and Network and Rambling Rose and True Confessions and The Seven Per Cent Solution, and you'll still have the seven performances for which he got Oscar nominations ahead of you.

Can’t you get me off the hook, Tom? For old time’s sake?

This thread is quite a demonstration of the worst kind of Bluesky bad faith reactionary politics. I’m inclined to disagree that there’s a sustainable First Amendment defense in this case, but Adam is absolutely right to observe that this is a close call and deserves scrutiny.

Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

We are going to win.

That orange bastard is still ordering the military to murder random fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, and the military is still doing it. So much for refusing to obey illegal orders.

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ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

I’m quite serious when I say we should start being bigoted to billionaires like society has historically been to racial minorities and women.

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen and oh god I love it so much

This is great, and I have only one caveat: I don’t think there can be a final overcoming of state authoritarianism and racial violence. We will have to keep fighting, forever.

We are going to have the house, senate, and presidency soon. It will be a generational opportunity to rein in tech companies, break up monopolies, throw Trump regime in prison, create strong social safety nets, get back to valuing education, science, the environment, etc We can’t fuck it up.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Anti-ICE protesters march on 2/14/26, openly exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

LLMs are reconfirming — in a novel way — why it is that mediocre men are consistently able to fail upward just by acting utterly and completely confident in themselves even when they are completely wrong.

this made me tear up a bit: "Later this week, colleagues wore robes to the office as a tribute to Sam and to the broader newsroom. It was a small, communal way to recognize something serious: the commitment to being present for Minnesota communities when it matters most."

We don’t need no education We don’t need to know the way home All we want is you to leave Those kids alone

this is a really important point. the district courts are trying to contain this administration. the circuits, by and large, are still working, with the occasional exception of the 5th, 8th, and DC circuits. the Supreme Court is on an island. lawless and completely rogue.

It's like that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer is pretending to be the movie phone guy—"if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press 1" "please enter the first 3 letters of the movie now"— and finally he's all "why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see?"

let’s go

You do not fight fascists because you will win. You fight fascists because they are fascists.

I'm sorry, is this real? Is there any way this could be a parody? I just don't know how you could even make this up if you tried.

wait WHAT

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Easy choice. The horniest couple in the history of television.

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You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

LLMs are reconfirming — in a novel way — why it is that mediocre men are consistently able to fail upward just by acting utterly and completely confident in themselves even when they are completely wrong.

Don't forget to dismount, folks #ValentinesDay

people will say we do not need you on the frog and toad wall. but we do actually need you on the frog and toad wall. some things are important. frog and toad are important.

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

We don’t need no education We don’t need to know the way home All we want is you to leave Those kids alone