Its time to get 10 of the most nut stomping independent journalists on bluesky together for crowdfunded gawker 2 fast 2 furious

While scientists were here on Heard Island, they finished testing the world’s STRONGEST suction cup. Unbelievable. We still don’t know how they pulled it off.

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

I keep hearing about how “defund the police” was a bad slogan and I can’t help but notice that everyone remembers it, and no amount of bodycams and training has stopped police brutality. ”OH SO YOU DON’T WANT ANY POLICE FORCE! WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET ROBBED!” man get out of mentions and read a book

Part of the issue is a bedrock refusal to accept the fact the people who wanted to defund the police were correct and political elites refused to address their claims. They want to make that a grassroots rather than elite failure which is why they point to Pelosi/Clinton/Biden as representative.

No point in explaining the same shit over and over again to people who enthusiastically supported the idea training facilities and extra funds for cop hires was the smart answer to police violence.

Just no longer engaging with people who can only imagine social progress through the lens of legislation. Y’all got it.

i hate how the curse of the tower of babbel is real but it's because everyone assumes everyone else will read the words in front of them in the same way they themselves do and the world burns because of it

Sometimes people say Democrats don’t ~want~ to win. That’s nonsense. Everybody wants to win. But they only want to win on their terms. If winning means disturbing the order, then of course they’ll opt to lose. Trump threatens all of us, but he doesn’t threaten the country club.

I think the more illuminating question is "who are the people claiming this is *not* a right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime?" Because it so very obviously is one that it's completely absurd to pretend otherwise. What's that quote about absurdities and atrocities? I can't quite recall.

you shouldn't be doing that to people in Afghanistan either

I need to try and stay in the real world today anyway, and I'm not exactly a naive about elite misbehavior, but some of the new Epstein file stuff is just...

LolSob that I'm familiar with one of the lesser-known academics in the Epstein files because he's in an adjacent field, and he's the person about whom I first used the expression "big ick energy" because I could never quite articulate what made me uncomfortable about him

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

they also want to kill all of the brown people to be clear It’s just that they are murderers AND stupid assholes. RFK I think actually believes his own bullshit, mostly, but is also fine with killing people

We are killing children all around the world because a handful of rich people who don’t understand the science think it is worse to be neurodivergent than it is to be dead.

🤯 Can't believe it didn't occur to me until now, but this is the exact same power dynamic that leads VBNMW folks to focus their anger on protest voters who don't make any electoral difference, instead of on millions of non-voting eligibles who don't vote because they think the game is rigged

What, the actual, fuck.

The whole time Qanon was a thing, we kept trying to explain to cooked normies that nobody dedicated to fighting child sexual abuse would choose 4chan as their operation's HQ, because it is arguably the most well-known gathering place for CSAM enthusiasts on the internet.

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

Qanon never stopped any CSAM production, never saved any kids, but did help keep a guy in power who probably raped kids with his best friend The World's Most Famous Pedophile. So, in the end, I guess the real Qanon was the friends they met along the way, on the CSAM enthusiast website.

So many Dems see policy and action as spending political capital earned through expensive elections. Mamdani understands that, in reality, policy and action is how you *earn* political capital after you have won an election.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

OMFG it's because people are still arguing about stencil?!? JHFC, he got kicked out of a private meeting when he insisted on bringing strangers! That's it. It doesn't even have to be about opsec, just think of it as a privacy issue! Nobody would think twice about it if it were a family discussion

When someone without opsec argues against opsec, they're not necessarily doing it in bad faith. Their lives and livelihoods are completely different than these nurses and teachers who don't do what's right for the attention but rather at great risk to their financial stability.

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

That would certainly be a strange coincidence wouldn't it?

The Republican Party’s largest donor was begging to party with Jeffery Epstein on his private island used for raping children. This won’t be the leading news today.

So weird how this got to 51 when it happened to need 60, but it can't get 40 to trigger a straight floor vote where 51 would be enough to pass it. So are there enough R votes to block this or aren't there? If so, why not force Rs to block it? If not, how did it manage to get 51 when it needed 60?

People keep saying this, and it's not wrong, but it's interesting how you never see anyone mention that moves like the appropriations split remove the leverage voters have over electeds This is why, if you want to play a long game, you should focus on power centers rather than procedural authority

Speaking of Ron Paul and the nice things people were saying about him recently, did you know the point of the Paul amendment (4272 below) is to remove funding for refugee welfare? No idea if it will pass (my guess is no) but that's what his priority here was

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It will undoubtedly end in humiliation for THIS administration If it's not aggressively reversed and followed up with deep structural reforms, it will be a huge boost to the authoritarian capacity of every FUTURE administration Choose your planning horizon and your leaders carefully ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign. You’re changing the world ✊🏽❤️

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

"But we cannot throw the whole baby out with the bathwater by refusing to fund the entirety of the government. That's why Democrats are reaching out to our colleagues across the aisle with a proposal to split the baby. So we can get back to delivering affordability for the American people."

We use "ICE" as shorthand but ICE and CBP sometimes aren't even the majority of these patrols and strikes forces. It's everyone — ICE, CBP, FBI, FPS, SS, BOP, DEA, ATF, IRS, even Postal Inspectors

It's not complicated at all Agencies and units that follow questionable orders get benefits and promotions, the ones who don't get frozen out. Task force funds are one way to do that, and there are others This is happening in the military as well, it's just not in the headlines right this minute

We told you before Biden was even nominated. Sit down, shut up, and fucking listen for the first fucking time in your god damn life.

(similar incentives and views of constituents is also why I think social media platforms don't bother to educate their users on content moderation processes - they benefit from the opacity and development of folk theories about 'the algorithm')

the incentive structure we can change, but rooting out all the crisis PR and comms consultants who want to write dumbass PR cruft instead of talking like normal humans will take a heroic lift

fun fact! we have a ton of research on how civic education makes people more effective democratic citizens and how best to do it. but most American politicians 1) face strong incentives to keep constituents uneducated and/or 2) communicate with constituents like they're stupid little babies

Obama could have done this too if he'd really wanted to It's a good play for outsiders but you have to start it early and do it non-stop. Otherwise the establishment mindset gets into your head and you start thinking you can change things from the inside

This is from Georgia Fort’s video. DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

I don't argue with y'all. I say what I say and I collect my receipts. 🔮🧙🏿‍♂️ I have 20+ years of ignoring the "But they can't do that!🤡" crowd. I also ignore the "Stop being a doomer and tell us what we need to do!🤡" crowd. I always tell you what we need to do. Always. You just don't like it.

I know that some of you don't agree with me when I say that ICE must be abolished, and that the proposed reforms are bad strategy. You disagree with me because you haven't accepted what they are. Just like with Trump. And Musk. And Miller. And Bannon. You are slow and late to realizing the danger.

You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport

Yeah well you just don't understand the big picture. The important thing right now is to give Lindsay Graham whatever he wants and end the shutdown [Whatever you think the problem is] is just a distraction by the groups