After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."

man the video is circulating so settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs

This appears to be the most recent DHS policy, and you are correct. www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

Trump is blatantly lying about the shooting now. We all saw the video.

They're so cute together.

Murdering somebody by shooting them in the face to discourage others from documenting your campaign of kidnapping people off the streets for political purposes sounds to me like a watertight definition of domestic terrorism. If you work for ICE, even as a janitor, you're complicit in this.

An ICE agent has fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. DHS claims the woman tried to run over agents, but security footage shows her trying to drive away from them.

There are still a few unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offers out there. Check the hashtag and don't be shy to ask for a book. I have offers to tell you about too!

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This is how you can be an ally. They need to feel the cost of what they've done.

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’

Donald Trump on Tim Walz: “No one is above the law.” Posting this on January 6.

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Scottish Labour MPs have been branded 'idiots' by their colleagues south of the Border as tensions between Holyrood and Westminster increase. Senior party sources in Westminster have also called the Scottish representatives 'hypocrites' after they were accused of plotting to oust Keir Starmer

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

He doesn't care that people live there. Indigenous people. People who should be choosing who "owns" their land through democratic elections and referendums. Taking people's homelands by force of wealth or arms shouldn't exist in the 21st century. He's a wannabe King Leopold II.

Random memory hit me earlier of the time in college when a tutor had us troop down to the college nursery and I was wearing my boyfriend's PERVERT t-shirt that I'd pinched the night before after sex. Obviously I toned things down & dressed appropriately on placement days but that was sprung on me.

Everything Miller said about seizing Greenland also applies to Trump's desire to 'acquire' Canada and impose fascist governments on the states of Western Europe. NATO was dead the moment Trump was re-elected.

One of the most annoyingly tedious human things is the urge that certain people have when something is really popular to go around shouting about how it's not actually very good actually. Let people have their fun.

The transphobes, who love X, wanting to inspect the genitals of kids sits a little different now, eh?

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Just saw a crow find what looked like half a Mars Bar on the kerb and its level of joy was enviable.

He's just a fancy, sleazy version of Starmer.

Thread of birbs 4 Just a li’l puffin #art #birds #puffin

Thread of birbs 5 Shoebill stork. Speaking of which, my wife has run up some pretty hefty ‘shoe bills’ in her time HEYYYOOOOOO #art #birds #Shoebill

Twitter should be destroyed. Nuked from orbit. Wiped out. Musk should be in prison and bankrupt.

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

In the UK add that possession of CSAM is a strict liability criminal offence, prison sentence 2-3 years. No proof that you sought the material is required. People can be and have been convicted after receiving unsolicited images. This is a serious risk, using X in the UK now.

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

And you know that’s a bad thing right? …you know that’s a bad thing right????

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Honestly, threatening him with anything causes him to back off. That's one of the frustrations I am feeling with members of Congress, law firms, some media companies and universities right now. Why is it so hard for them to stand up to this decrepit old bully?

Why are heavy metal fans so nice? #heavymetal #metalheads #musicpsychology #mentalhealth #neuroscience #sciencecommunication

This goes beyond reading. NEVER mock your child! Yes, you can playfully tease and rib and have a good time when everyone is feeling safe and stable, but to ridicule a child? Being cruel to them about something that makes them happy? Heartless.

If you missed it, series 11 of YOU’RE DEAD TO ME launched on Saturday with an episode about Roman Emperor Nero. Our guests are the superstar double-act of Professor Mary Beard & Patton Oswalt You can listen now in the UK on BBC SOUNDS, or it’ll be out on January 30th on all global podcast apps

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

Yeah, we became imperialists hundreds of years ago, we aren't trying to take new territory in the 21st century. Colonised countries fought for their freedom. After six & a half centuries, it should be up to Greenlanders if they want to split from Denmark. The US has no right to even float the idea.

This is a postdoc in Germany called a "rescue fellowship" for scholars "whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA" You used to see this kind of thing for scholars working in Myanmar, Turkmenistan, etc. This is how unfree US research is now. academicpositions.com/ad/early-car...

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If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.

I'm picturing Starmer steepling his hands, frowning very seriously and nodding in agreement. Shower of posing fuckwits.

My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:

Trump knows he is close to death, and has surrounded himself with death eaters. "becoming the annihilator" is a scarily realistic path.

Yes. From 2018: "If Trump senses he may have to make a personal sacrifice, he will sacrifice the world instead." www.fastcompany.com/40558314/don...