Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like a lot, dawg

X financially unsustainable xAI buys it to bail it out xAI now financially unsustainable SpaceX buys it to bail it out 📍YOU ARE HERE SpaceX now financially unsustainable Tesla buys it out to bail it out

If only the Democratic super majority in the Massachusetts Legislature could actually get shit done

there is absolutely nothing stopping dems from openly calling trump a pedophile. if he was stupid enough to file a defamation suit over it, you'd get a treasure trove of ammo in discovery. party of cowards and collaborationists fr

we have created a system that demands infinite growth, infinite improvement in skill and productivity, and chastises people for using every resource available to mold their imperfect selves to that system which demands perfection. this system is entirely unsustainable and downright abusive. 4/

my take, as someone with many friends & acquaintances "abusing" adderall, aka purchasing adderall illicitly from people with legitimate prescriptions: our society demands productivity at all costs. many young people who don't attend college enter a brutal job market with little mobility 1/

Frankly this makes it seem a lot like Amazon is intentionally trying to bury NCMEC's report response capability under as much time-consuming and non-actionable shit as possible

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure

"you need to learn AI tools or you'll be left behind not knowing how to!" is one of my least favorite AI-booster refrains. it literally does what you tell it to. there is nothing to learn. I already know how to write. If you forgot how to that's not my problem

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The internal polling that conservatives are seeing on this has to be insane

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

One of my favorite pop genres is songs where the singer is so horny for the object of their affection that they have to see a medical professional (e.g. "Good Lovin'" "Witch Doctor" "Nothing Compares 2 U")

out of all the demands progressives and leftists have made of establishment dems over the years, abolishing ICE has got to be the easiest layup of them all. they could literally do it and still be just as "tough on the border" as ever! ICE is not border patrol! jfc

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

ICE will only exist in 3 years if dems insist upon keeping it in the name of "leaving the divisive politics of yesterday behind" and "healing our nation". look how that strategy worked after January 6 ... wait

im on strike from answering the phone (indefinitely)

out of all the demands progressives and leftists have made of establishment dems over the years, abolishing ICE has got to be the easiest layup of them all. they could literally do it and still be just as "tough on the border" as ever! ICE is not border patrol! jfc

Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post. A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

I don't think it's helpful to deny the way that the right uses emotion, or to deny that they are sincerely and emotionally committed to evil. I don't think it helps to refuse to see the ways they convince themselves that evil is good.

ICYMI: Following Renee Good’s murder by ICE, her son’s Minneapolis charter school was forced to go fully online due to right-wing attacks sahanjournal.com/education/mi...

my hot take is even if the national guard is primarily there to prevent protests from getting out of control, it is probably safer for them to fulfill that role than local police. cops are markedly more MAGA/fascist and trigger-happy than national guardsmen (least hitlerite military branch)

Wow, the MAGA pigs really have lost even the Reddit conservative community now - the one that WAS on board with “well, killing Renee Good was justified because she was a lesbian bitch” www.reddit.com/r/Conservati...

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.

I just rewatched the video frame-by-frame. The guy in the gray jacket TAKES THE GUN before the first shot is fired. So no: the victim did not “pull a gun” on the ICE agents. This was murder.

the mood is not subtle

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

democrat leaders seem to think there is some peaceful and orderly way out of this situation if only they play their cards very cautiously. there is no such option. start arresting ICE agents, or citizens will start shooting them soon enough. If that happens, ICE will massacre entire crowds of people

there are no real "emergency powers" they could invoke that have teeth. the insurrection act sounds scary but it is NOT martial law. all it does is allows the military to conduct arrests. where would they put large numbers of arrestees? Federal detention is at capacity. Walz should deploy nat guard

Appears this is also true for fascism.

This weird thing where people are like “ICE is not the Gestapo, they’re slave patrols” and then others are like “ICE is not slave patrols, they’re CPS“ and it’s like ok the guy in charge of ICE is dressing himself like a Nazi so yeah Gestapo but also fascists can learn from more than one thing!!!!!!

For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick

Something I want to emphasize here Here’s a list of all the regime critics under investigation: Smith Comey Brennan Schiff James Taylor Krebs Walz Frey Powell Here’s all the ones who’ve gone to jail … Here’s all of those who WILL go to jail … Don’t forget that when you think about their power

Democrats love rules and shit, right? Perhaps they should look into ICE's failure to comply with DHS Appropriations Bill (2018) which requires them to make public all reports of in-custody deaths within 90 days. Seems they've not done that since September. www.ice.gov/detain/detai...

The Insurrection Act in no way whatsoever suspends, closes, or bypasses the courts. It is not a suspension of habeas corpus. It is not martial law. It does not authorize rule by decree. It allows using troops for law enforcement but that's it. It's not an instant dictatorship switch.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

“It’s terrifying to think of the upcoming fire season."

I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem. Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?

stancil is only hated so much on here (relative to other libs with similar takes) because he is addicted to directly arguing with people. the poster's folly. good on him for actually getting out there against ice!

This is the worst thing I’ve ever read

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

if politicians want protests to be as nonviolent as possible, getting on TV and just saying "You must be peaceful! I disavow all violent rioters!" is a fucking idiotic strategy built only to cover the politician's ass in the media. the right will say they encouraged violence anyway, no matter what.

I am the only person I know who read the LOTR books but never saw the movies