It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP. ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

He's not wrong

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

I cannot overstate how profoundly influential Space Ghost Coast to Coast was on my being. When I was a sullen teenager, it was Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The X-Files that gave me a window into a weird world into which a weird kid like me would someday fit.

ACAB

Waffles, ackshoeally

That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.

Exactly one year ago today:

The Boston Globe just 3 years ago lobbied for & cheered passage of a $1B tax cut heavily tilted toward the wealthy Today it blames "austere times" on "splashy new programs like free community college & universal school meals"

People who are rich and/or college educated and/or democrats had disproportionately higher and faster gains in consumer sentiment after the COVID financial shock. Those collapsed after Trump was elected data.sca.isr.umich.edu

Bluesky Waffle House 🤝 can't serve customers because all the servers are smoking

This movie was SO GOOD

TRADER ZO'S!

"All I did was use my massive, national platform to repeatedly say these people are subhuman! You can hardly blame ME if a bunch of people felt encouraged to treat that same group of people as subhuman."

Amtrak announces opening of long-distance coach fleet procurement, an order of more than 800 cars with selection announcement expected by the end of 2027

[shocked pikachu.jpeg]

Where are my Roman Coin genius nerds? Have a friend who has a roman coin necklace as a family heirloom (dating back a long time) and wants to know its date etc. Thank you!

Maybe it's the same death ray that Chairface, a villain in The Tick whose head is literally a wooden chair, used in an attempt to carve his name on the Moon. He got to the first 'A' before being thwarted. Best part: For the rest of the series, when they showed the Moon, it still said "CHA" on it.

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Thread. You wouldn’t believe the number of wrongful convictions and manufactured evidence created to force a plea to a lower felony. Right now, we concentrate on the Death Penalty & Life w/o parole cases for overturning wrongfuls because those people are in peril. But lesser wrongfuls are common.

NYT:

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

Awoo is bad today guys

is.. is there a Kiki Fett?

Probably better to check @nasaupdates.bsky.social for the real stuff instead of this ai rubbish

Next time I argue inflation vs. costs of living I'm going to start by asking how people think inflation is actually calculated, and how they think that calculation interacts with income. SPOILER: No one ever pays you more if they don't have to, but anyone can raise prices any time they want.

I'm so glad my paycheck gets bigger every time the price of food goes up, awesome system we have here.

I guess we all just need to stop whining, folks.

They’re feeding fighter jets to the seas like they’re shelter cats but sure, the communication service that unites our nation is the problem.

if you’re a democrat who condemns a republican that is a sex pest to women and then bends over backwards to make excuses when a democrat has serious allegations come out about them, you don’t care about women, rape victims, or the future of your country. sorry.

This is just the truth.

Yeah that's pretty much how it's been going

"98% OF YOUR BODY ISN'T SHOT AT ALL!" I say to the man with three bullets in his back.

It's true, household income *is* at a record high! Now I'm just going to take a big sip of this water and look at how quickly household income is rising compared to the cost of housing, food, and health care...

My crim professor had to end class early the day we went over sexual assault bc the men in a large lecture hall which was mostly men kept asking the most horrific questions indicating they were just realizing they’d committed sexual assault under the law and deciding the problem was the law not them

Paris traffic not slowing down for a gunfight is the most realistic thing in John Wick 4

I have read so many of Ehrman's books, they're all great

A sweet & touching career retrospective of Bart Ehrman, — a living legend and certified giant of biblical studies & Christian history.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

To all who celebrate

Karen Hoyland, 35, who believes both vaccines and having friends cause autism, actively encourages her six-year-old son Finley to get potentially deadly measles for reasons too stupid to print.

the important extra context is that he was shitfaced on fermented blue milk when he did it

I do think some of these are people who, in a lot of ways, basically deny the fact that their dogs are actually their own animals, with agency and reactions to stimuli, as opposed to a kind of living stuffed animal that can be carted around

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day. April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

After three days, the most striking takeaway from talking with people here is how *angry* everyone is. Heartbroken, weary, yes, those things too. But above all else, they are furious, and not shy about it. When Minnesotans are volunteering their feelings to a stranger, you know it’s bad.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant