What this poll really shows is how much the media and education system have completely failed us.

People in red areas need to know that they can access PBS and NPR online for free. The red areas are the ones that will be hardest hit with these changes. www.pbs.org www.npr.org/search/

Quite simply the best book about Johnny Carson I have ever read (and I have read them all). Mark Malkoff has published a mini-masterpiece. News to me: Peter Lawford was banned from the Tonight Show after he got Carson high on PCP!

For any revolutionary war history nerds looking for a break from doom scrolling, I highly recommend Katie Turner Getty's YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@AllRevoluti...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been sworn into office as Virginia’s first female governor.

This is a terrific archive, now digitized and searchable. Lots of great material on Mississippi segregationists. This description of the US Army rolling into Ole Miss in 1962 after a white riot left two dead is my favorite. The MSSC investigator writing this is *so* close to getting it.

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.

We have to get rid of Schumer and Jeffries. This is about saving our country now. They have to go.

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I will not vote for Newsom.

Auntie Louise feeling the same as the rest of us with some Democratic Senators

👀 Virginia senate president pro tempore calls for turning the 6D-5R House delegation into 10D-1R in redistricting. With some colorful language regarding the commonwealth’s two Democratic senators.

go.bsky.app/LcLkHHN From: @21sted.bsky.social

I made an ICE block counter ice.0x0.boo

What epic trolling looks like 😂

So with everything happening in Minnesota, I feel like some people need an explanation of what the Insurrection Act is and isn't, along with martial law (which isn't the same and is very nebulous) from someone who knows what they're talking about. Buckle up.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/t... #ChemSky 🧪

I hope no one loses sight of the fact that not a single democratic governor or mayor has done anything meaningful regarding ICE. We’re going to need new parties after this.

“It’s not just clashes between protesters and ICE; it’s an attack on basic rights that we’ve taken for granted,” says @mprnews.org reporter @jcollins.bsky.social.

I suppose not many of us are in the market, but this is just absurd. www.complex.com/style/a/jael...

Day 16 of emailing my Congressman, Tracey Mann, every single day until he changes his mind about uncapping the House. There are currently no bills to uncap the House. I sincerely wonder why? #projectnocap

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

DEAR DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS‼️ stop talking like there is any possibility of making ICE a better ICE. It’s not happening. ICE needs to go. Period. What are you saying? “Let’s make slave catchers nicer.” It’s moral nonsense.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Awesome 😂

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

New from me and @tristanl.ee with a bit of help from @wileydcope.bsky.social: We identified companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that are operated either by members of Patriot Front or individuals with multiple connections to Patriot Front www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou...

ICE car was raided in Minneapolis, documents were found that reveal their ENTIRE plan, those involved, judges, maps, their immigrant targets plan of attack (yes they call them targets), names, numbers, emails, hotels, hotel phone numbers & more ! #ICE #MN #Minneapolis

The Democratic Party desperately needs new leadership. The Republican Party is actively trying to dismantle the United States as we know it, and Schumer thinks we care about the cost of eggs.

i actually live in a district that might be the kind of competitive that attracts attention, in a city that holds real significance for trump and his minions. there might be goons at my polling place and if i see them i'll give a smile and a wave and i'll cast my fucking ballot

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP. That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

gofund.me/3ebaff78a Hey family, I’m going through a very tough time, sorry to ask but I don’t know what else to do. Thank you, and love you with all my heart. ❤️

This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats. Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.

I am just a pollster, standing in front of a bunch of elected Dems, asking them to lead on public opinion rather than hedge and tiptoe and moderate for fear an imaginary future backlash that will probably be manufactured by the right wing ecosystem anyway, regardless of what Dems do or don’t say.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

This will not end with law enforcement enforcing the law. This will end with millions of individual people standing up and saying no and ultimately defunding the fascists, both in government and business.

I feel attacked 😂

Why Democrats lose

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

We are not serious people.

Explain to me like I'm five what the 2nd Amendment is for if not for this. King George III never said anything this obnoxious or deliberately inflammatory.

If they're going to assault and kill American citizens without cause, we need to protect ourselves by any and all means necessary.