Happy "white people cherrypicking MLK quotes that support their own viewpoint" day to all who celebrate

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD." People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Jonathan Ross is a murderer.

maybe this makes me weird but when someone who irritates me goes out into the world and does a good thing, I find that to be a good thing if everyone i found annoying was standing up to fight this, the enemy would have no chance at all

They crucified Christ when he condemned the rich and called for the liberation of the stranger, of the outcast, of the poor. They murdered MLK Jr. when he started addressing poverty through socialism. They killed Fred Hampton when he envisioned a rainbow coalition of all working class people.

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

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location. Download, mirror, and reshare. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Grok is so much worse than you think.

It’s crazy how it’s suddenly “wow we live in a police state” when it happens to white people

a hug to whoever needs one. all this fucking sucks, man.

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

Over the weekend, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared posts with a song, "We'll Have Our Home Again." I dug into the group that performed and popularized it. Its cofounder said his goal was to create "the seed of an eventual government." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

it's the big day

fyi the point of videos like this is to encourage you to read books and think about them. if you wanna read this one, get it here and not from Bezos: bookshop.org/a/116177/978...

I made this video and I think it’s good: why "things to do instead of doomscrolling" never works youtu.be/7mI6nm8QlQo

participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

to any politicians out there: the only metric by which i am deciding my votes in any future Democratic primary is how far they're willing to go in punishing this administration and i am far from the only one

My kingdom for New York Times reporters that are not “fascinated” by the ramblings of a mad man

lmao

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

The part of you that believes non compliance is justification for murder … is addicted to the lies of liars

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

If most Liberals called stopped calling for more training and started demanding defunding that would be some progress.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

People are touch deprived... while at the same time incubated in a society that is intimacy avoidant

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

Here is real journalism about the US invasion of Venezuela: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

We can make jokes about the FIFIA Peace Prize but boycotting the World Cup seems like a pretty good start for a lot of countries

Ars is one of the few who got it right. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

One of the reasons I was on board with Mamdani from very early on was that he seemed to me, more than any other candidate, to be prepared to offer a roadmap for popular and institutional resistance to Trumpism on the municipal level. Today is validating my optimism.

This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls