I have taken a couple of artistic liberty raptor orders in the past, but they all had a fantasy element to them, this is my first time taking a crack at making an "actual critter" of a dinosaur, how did I do?

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

im getting disturbing reports that donald trump is doing exactly what he said he would and the results are exactly as disastrous as everyone said they would be

I'm going to fucking lose it, this man was grown in a lab for me to support

Honestly one of my biggest worries (that isn't just "Republicans win 2028") is that Democrats win 2028 but in the same way they won 2020, or the same way UK Labour won 2024. They don't learn anything, don't change anything, don't prosecute anyone important, and engage in no self-reflection.

Uncomfortable truth: every Trump supporter sits somewhere on a single line that extends between ignorant and evil. In the case of ignorance, it's mostly willful, which is a form of evil. So really the line extends from lightly evil to heavily evil. They should all have to wear it forever.

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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

It took decades of not only violence but--and here I want to put most of my emphasis--*widespread moderate complacency and acceptance* for the violence and fraud to start tipping elections

Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”

If people have committed a crime, prosecute them. If you can’t prosecute, then this is just retaliation for protected speech and a denial of due process.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people. That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

He really is doing all of it.

ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.

He was at home, quickly packing up everything to leave town at the time he was supposedly at the hospital, per neighbors. Try again, C B.S.!

Your favorite content creator is allowed to publicly engage in and create kink/NSFW content. Your favorite NSFW kink artist is allowed to pursue sfw endeavors and content creation. The prospect of a creator having a SFW and NSFW side does not mean the two are correlated. At all.

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

we've sort of reached the platonic ideal of the paradox of tolerance here. they've repudiated the social contract, thus it definitionally no longer protects them or binds you vis-a-vis them

The thing about the Trump admin is that you can ask historians "who was the most crooked person to ever run [pick any federal dept/agency/office]" and nobody even has to debate it anymore, it's almost always the Trump pick. A whole genre of historic trivia Qs wiped out just like that.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

hard to see another country living your dream

Republicans everywhere should be understood to be people who are waging war on the United States of America and citizens

The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

it's crazy how all the leftists that liberals were really mad at and put all their energy into punishing in 2019-2022 were right about everything i wonder if there's gonna be a come to jesus moment about how consistently wrong the professional opinion-havers have always been nah promotions for all

abolish ice defund the police no private prisons no mandatory minimum sentencing medicare for all black lives matter trans rights forever is the milquetoast compromise position forever and always to disagree is to side with people who want to shoot you in the head in public on camera

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

This is a wonderful illustration of the many ways we rely upon a functioning, competent government every day. We might miss it when its gone.

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

Strange question, but do people not call it "internet" anymore? Had a 5 hour call with xfinity trying to get my internet online but the rep refused to call it internet. Kept referring to it as "wi-fi", which I don't have. All my stuff is wired.

ICE officers names, social media and more! She it with EVERYONE! wiki.icelist.is/index.php?ti...

Oh no...who would have thought our actions would have consequences!?

first they came for the... take a stand before you're the target is a good takeaway

I'm old enough to remember the Republicans feigning outrage that Obama attended a church with a pastor that said something controversial. Meanwhile they are following, agreeing with, and signal boosting pedophiles spewing easily debunked nonsense.

Yet again, Elon Musk is pushing the insanely racist Great Replacement Theory that has directly inspired several mass murders from his fellow white supremacists. The richest man in the world who controls a massive media platform is *repeatedly* pushing this garbage and it should be a global scandal.

right out of the nazi handbook

My second biggest fear is that Democrats take back power and believe they can ignore these problems into normalcy

One thing we have to recon with as a nation is despite the law, what politicians say, what judges have ruled, and generational affirmations/revaltions—there has never been a moment in U.S. history where people left of center could practice politics or protest without being surveilled.

Considering the opinion of conservatives in government decisions should be made illegal. You don’t get to participate until you are willing to live in shared reality.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Be loud and in their face if you are a big white man no more subtlety

ICE is a domestic terrorist group

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees