I know a lot of people who are big mad about the current political and economic situation but still have Prime, shop Amazon, etc. Maybe they’ll figure it out someday.

Dementia is a beast. Some good days, lots of good moments, and a whole lot of surging bad. The good would be the quiet moments of humanity and shared interpersonal connections with the people nearest him. Not making the front page. What we see is the accumulated, escalating badness. So, yes.

Consider this is unironically the archaic foundation of post-medieval The West

Aka “what if Papa Doc was POTUS?”

Clausewitz mentioned

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

This really well written guide by Defend 612 explains what’s going on. They’ve really developed this to. drive.proton.me/urls/NQBEQE8...

They did, already exported to 2 regions. Note the Local and National guides and toolkits defend612.com/resources/

The level of organization here is impressive. I hope someone in this Minneapolis/St. Paul effort is writing down a field manual of best practices - what the military would call doctrine - so that when ICE moves on, other places can replicate the tactics that work and iterate on them.

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

Two of the charges at Nuremberg were "participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace" and "planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace."

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

🎧 Gonna start a slowly evolving thread for my folk-funk faves What’s folk-funk? The foundational tracks were mostly released in the 70s It’s jazz-adjacent, funk-inflected, & heavy on drum breaks, acoustic guitar, & groove We start with a “founder” of folk-funk 1/n youtu.be/HY2VfzBWKXM?...

Nice graph showing the effects of post-recession QE

Purging government and public institutions of radical extremists is good and necessary

People voted for unhinged, maniacal arbitrary rule. Everyone knew it. The policy details aren’t relevant to that point. This is what unhinged, maniacal, arbitrary rule looks. Ofc that does not mean we should allow it. That would be madness.

No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

People knew this would happen; this was expected. Seems the real goal isn’t to improve quality or efficiency or customer experience, it’s to cut costs. Yet here it isn’t even doing that. Is the real agenda to remove humans? Or are the people in charge vastly overestimating their own abilities too?

At a deep theoretical level, Stephen Miller and JD Vance think their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity is widely shared. But what's now happening is MAGA is driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants. Now Miller is trying to break that up w/coercion and violence.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

Here's the message: Trump is terrorizing our communities with a campaign of inhumane un-American ICE brutality - and he's paying for it by raising health premiums on 20 million Americans. Effective because it's 💯 true.

I imagine the pitch to form this *ahem* university went something like this: “Hey what if we all got together and made Hillsdale College look credible in comparison?”

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

This breakdown is an effective proxy for all American politics. There is a cancerous lump of irredeemable intransigents. We simply need to ensure they never get to wield the levers of power again, because doing so is to yield to arbitrary rule

What ICE is doing is literally the definition of terrorism. They are terrorizing cities and neighborhoods so immigrants will self-deport out of misery or fear. This shouldn’t be controversial. The Trump administration boasts about it.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!

Like the scene in Come and See, where the terrified villagers in Perekhody serve food to their invaders

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

Why else restrict public speech?

The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people. That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.

what a legend lmao

Holy hell, what an obituary

Also - is 1,000 simulations supposed to be a lot?

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

Are we?

Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful) or "Can I send money?" (not to me, please). But the best ones are like "I want to build what you guys have back in my home city." YES, DO THAT. DO IT NOW.

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

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Enemy of my enemy something something. Still not a good look

“So now you’d better stop And rebuild all your ruins Cause peace and trust can win the day In spite of all your losing”

"Let them eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing."

This is the new gig economy. People, let’s get it done

It’s the Weekend At Bernie’s presidency, and the corpse is starting to turn.

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I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country