The only comfort in these cold times is just how unwell this man looks. That bottle of Walker Blue is waiting patiently for when it's finally time.

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Good. I want fire and brimstone from those responsible for prosecutions.

Hey everyone. Doomer voice is loud within me today so I'm trying my best to keep myself to myself. 217, 77 lbs down, extra shift this evening, editor is working with me on the current project, personal life is going pretty alright. Be good, all my love.

absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator

I am literally unable to articulate the depth of contempt I hold the global elite in. They should be pulled from their private jets and paraded through the streets in the clown attire they so richly deserve. We live in an absolute hell world.

Shit like this is why it’s been fuck AI from day one. Always where it was heading.

This is the kind of American and America I am proud of. We are better because of just how incredibly diverse we are, not worse, and the ideal of America is something worth fighting for.

I am the descendant of African Slaves and Irish peasants who is studying to become an academic in one of the hubs of the world. That happened because people fought for and one the impossible one fucking step at a time. Do not tell me there is not a better world to be made.

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

Child1's GP said there's a perfect correlation between the decline in smoking and the rise in ADHD meds - many people were unknowingly self-medicating with nicotine. I don't think he was suggesting child1 start smoking, at least I hope not. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

This should be boosted regardless if you're anywhere near Minnesota. Since organizing general strikes is something that should already be on the minds of Americans across the entire country, might as well talk about and support any where they may be popping up.

This. When folks from all walks of life are bravely resisting oppression, they are *living* the aspirational vision of America. Honor that. This isn't inconsistent with recognizing America's deeply rooted history of violence. Many on the front lines are chewing this gum and walking at the same time!

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

i am, i think, generally a pretty congenial center-left voter. i’m not a radical. i’m not a reactionary. but i have spent the last ten years watching the fed government be taken over by right wing reactionaries and i am increasingly convinced we should use the tools they are building against them

There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I don't know how to process living in an occupied city, where the occupiers are in theory my government, so there can be no hope of rescue from my government. Seeing a friend at fencing practice as he's on the phone alerting his neighbors to an ICE car making the rounds was the one today.

We stand outside our children’s schools united in trying to keep lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries from disappearing our kids classmates or their parents and teachers. They are brutalizing constitutional observers. Anyone who is not white is threatened. This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

This has to be one of the most tone-deaf posts ever posted by a politician. It would be bad if this was a Democrat posting this from a different state not under siege by ICE Gestapo. But from a senator from Minnesota, it's totally bonkers.

Maybe now the media has permission to treat it as a scandal, since they tried to cover it up

There is one word in the English language that explains what Minneapolis is experiencing right now: tyranny. We are under assault by a tyrannical government and its little jackbooted commandant. We are going to keep fighting, and we will win, stand with us.

I'm more amazed that they are surprised at all. Especially after all the incredible harms that their stupid fucking technology has caused. And it's being shoved into every aspect of our lives whether we want it or not.

i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses

Hey everyone. 217 this morning. Like nearly a full pound down today and I ate dinner last night and not a small amount of it. Beginning to worry that my illness is actually sapping me of weight now. Worrying development. Be good, all my love.

This has legit been my comics strategy for 15 years and it *really* works. The people who were never going to like it hate it, but the folks who are into it love it.

Late to the game but he got there. Pressure works, people. Keep calling your reps and senators. Not another dime for these goons.

samuel moyn called people who were right about Trump before him 'the boy who cried wolf' the other day. reality will never be allowed to disturb the complacency of the anti-anti-Trumpers.

another update: bsky.app/profile/paul...

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Conservatives, after all, consistently win elections with their disciplined focus on dull kitchen-table concerns and scrupulous avoidance of distracting rhetoric about atrocities, scandals, and malfeasance.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Trump v Anderson was every bit as wrong as Plessy or Korematsu.

I have reached the 'make Arnold noises' phase of my day. Here soon, my boredom transition will be complete and I will openly start singing my answers in operatic style at anyone who asks me a question.

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

I hate my brain. I have had allergy sniffles ALL DAY and guess where the allergy med was? That's right, untaken in my pocket. Just kill me.

See, stuff like this just makes me want to actually post all of my weight loss journey pictures, shirtless and all, just to weed out the weak-willed.

I am sick to death of the worst humanity has to offer trying to use the awesome power of the state to kill my neighbors.

This needs to be said louder and more frequently (and preferably in Republicans faces)

republicans hate america and they spit on the graves of the dead bsky.app/profile/laja...

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.