This is not what "we're supposed to do." You don't need a concealed carry permit in Texas. Texans do not have to show our IDs to police unless we are lawfully detained (reasonable suspicion) or arrested (probable cause). This guy would rather sacrifice his own rights than break the party line.

It is a horrible thing but one of the *points* of non-violence is that state violence in response causes outrage to spread.

they don’t even have the “she was driving a car” horseshit they used to smear Renee Good, they just wrestled this guy to the ground and shot him and it’s all right there for anyone to see

Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me. It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.

The forced divestiture has always been "how dare you, only WE are allowed to spy on users like this" Sinophobia, but that doesn't make TikTok any less spyware. If you've been okay using the spyware app for this long, well, now you know more about why so many of us call it spyware.

You do NOT need to watch it. At all. It's instant PTSD. You watching does nothing. Save your mental heath.

As the son of a man who as a teenager had to hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis: Every word of this thread. Every word. And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.

Due to Fire Department Activity the CityLink Orange will detour between Fayette St and Highland Avenue until 2 am. https://mta.maryland.gov/service-alerts/25594

I think I've heard about 8 emergency vehicles go by in the past 15 minutes or so, so I'm starting to wonder if southeast Baltimore is aflame or something.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THIS END WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF LARRY ELLISON MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

Okay sorry one more shot:

Damnit. Fuck Substack, but this is good to know.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Everybody shut the fuck up and pay attention to the most important thing happening at this moment.

This is how people feel about the bones of their ancestors in museums around the world, that they should be returned to the community they were a part of, to be honored in the ways of that particular culture. Bring them home

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

You got it: deflation is the process of nominal prices of goods and services going down over time. Intuitively it might seem good: things get cheaper for consumers, hooray! In actuality this is one of the worst possible things that can happen to an economy. It's "people will starve to death" bad 1/x

This is a good analogy for AI. The fat pen is more expensive; awkward to use; you never really use more than three, maybe four, colors; your work product usually looks worse; it's chronically unreliable; and, in the end, it gathers dust in the drawer when you give up and use reliable tools instead.

ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds. Deporting children with cancer. Shooting moms. And now, using a 5 year-old as “bait” to detain his family. It’s far past clear: ICE must be abolished. Congress should not give it any additional funding. And the people responsible for its crimes should face charges.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I like this advice.

Copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in their hand (\_/) (°-°) />🎮< Bunny says, “Do you want to be Player 1 or 2?”

The modern republican party is not just unamerican, it is anti-American. Its politics and policies are not just unconstitutional, they are anti-constitutional. They need to be torn out root and branch, their leaders and operatives tried, convicted, and punished for their literal crimes, and

why do you even want to serve in office if not to protect people from this what possible better calling could there be

There is no way ICE is reformed. The whole thing, top to bottom, is corrupt. It needs to go.

Holy shit

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Excellent.

*Hits head on desk* PUTTING ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS ASIDE... it would be so, so easy for Dem leadership to say what's happening right now is making it harder for actual law enforcement to do their job. It's removing trust and safety from the community! Etc! They could spin this SO easily.

When Trump dies we get Vance. Thiel’s pet. They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism. We must prept for this now & organize accordingly. Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes. Every angle.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

Corrected caption lovingly lifted from George Carlin. #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekDS9

Hey Marylanders: Van Hollen and Alsobrooks are on the list of co-sponsors. Time for us to give them a call and tell them to drop this shit.

Yeah, that is NOT what the law says.

Overheard a nurse at the Children’s Hospital say this to a patient as I was walking by the room tonight: “I know you were scared but you tried anyway and that’s really brave.” DEAR REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS: I KNOW YOU ARE SCARED BUT YOU SHOULD TRY ANYWAY AND THAT WOULD BE REALLY BRAVE.🇺🇸

I.C.E. out of Highlandtown!!

if your ID is on your phone then you have to hand over your phone to the authorities. you don't ever want to do that.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

i am a middle aged white mom with a minivan. i live in a brick ranch and vote democrat in every election. i am the electoral equivalent of a free space in bingo. I PROMISE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE

Anyone else, when changing lanes through a curve, think, "Shifting to higher/lower orbit?"

[person in Minneapolis beaten half to death and dragged off to a concentration camp] You’re right Senator, sorry I got distracted sir! Egg prices are really - [kicked unconscious by ICE thugs]

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

So, let me get it straight... The new rule would require DOJ lawyers to violate rules of professional conduct?

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

This IS indeed very much worth reading. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

He truly thinks he's the king and can just order society to do what he wants

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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.