This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

Today ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. Horrific. Trump's reckless mass deportation policies are terrorizing American cities and endangering everyone -- immigrants and U.S. Citizens alike. The chaos and terror must end.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

As you evaluate this from Kristi Noem, remember that when a federal agent shot a woman in Chicago last year, DHS's initial version of events was full of lies that fell apart under subsequent scrutiny: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

my heart is just completely broken for this woman, killed trying to protect her community and her friends, and for all the people of Minneapolis, who always seems to unfairly caught in the crosshairs of our national malaise

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

i really think people are ready for a perspective that rejects anti-immigrant politics *root & branch* www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile. ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.

Every statement DHS has put out about incidents like these under this administration have turned out to have been mostly false.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.

I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

"There’s no moral arc of the universe that bends towards greater freedom, but nor is there some natural nativism that rules it out," writes @polphilpod.bsky.social. A compelling call for liberals to lean into being pro-immigration. A must-read. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

You have to go some to beat the time Stephen Bush had to gently explain to her that people were more angry about the IDF shooting hundreds of protestors than they were about the genocide of the Native Americans not because they were hypocrites, but because only one of them happened *three days ago*.

The far right aren't trying to tell the truth. Instead, they say these things to demarcate their tribe of believers from the rest of us. It's a category error to argue about facts with them.

reconstructed Scythian looking a bit like a guy tending an impromptu bar at an outdoor cabaret punk event

every right-wing complaint about mamdani

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

Trump is approaching his sixth year as president and still doesn’t know what the Department of Energy does.

Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

The cities that built the most new housing consistently saw the biggest price drops in older rental units. What can it mean?!?1? www.statesforum.org/january-book...

Good day to share one of my finer moments online.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Stephen Miller also very plainly believes he's awakening Kipling's Saxons from their Jewish hypnosis. He's just figured out a slightly more disguised way of saying it newrepublic.com/article/2041...

One thing savvy media/political consultants have not yet figured out is that a checkmark on X indicates that a person makes a monthly donation to a CSAM site. "But but X gave us the checkmark because—" bzzt wrong, no way for anyone to know that. What they know is you subsidize CSAM.

With friends like these (or, how not to sell a new ICBM)… “’I don’t want to see Montana get nuked,’ said Bob Peters of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. ’But if I had a choice between a bunch of cows and a handful of ranching families and Dover, Delaware, it’s kind of a no-brainer.’”

Republicans made welfare fraud in Minnesota the most important story in the country. Schumer turned a war for oil into a question about national security briefings.

Today as it did five years ago, the Constitution disqualifies Donald Trump from holding office.

Thucydides has entered the chat. (Finally!)

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

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

This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.

A big part of why we find ourselves in this predicament is that the Biden administration was so terrified of anything that might be *perceived* as political retribution that they treated obvious criminals with kid gloves and slow-walked the process to the point that Trump was able to run the clock.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

language note: don't say 'congress' when you mean 'congressional republicans'

Amazing wrongness here. 1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech. 2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn. 3. You can't debate with fascists. 4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

i honestly wonder if the sycophantic nature of llms echos the sycophantic nature of the people the wealthy and powerful surround them with, and thats actually the operative toxin

Just a reminder that the Confederacy had big plans to expand into Central and South America. Some of its traitors fled to Cuba and elsewhere after losing. White supremacy has always been transnational

The idea that Rubio is in it to take down Cuba, Miller is in it for the aspects of war that would allow him more latitude to terrorize citizens at home, and Hegseth is in it for the masculinity bonus, while persuading Trump with oil, appeals to me and accounts for most of this. Also Trump's pique.

See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.

There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

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Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."