Tuned into the House live feed and, after starting at 9am, they have already moved to end of day business. Robin Kelly's articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem have not been introduced, but the text (H Res 996) was submitted yesterday & uploaded this morning. It has 80 Dem co-sponsors.

For those if you not from MN, get organized locally ASAP! Whether it's a local mutual aid group, DSA, an immigrant defense network, or even starting with a group chat of trusted neighbors. You need to be ready if and when DHS decides to invade your city

It's really clear to me the federal government is at war with Minnesota. They're not only sending armed forces in to terrorize, but withholding funding.

the neutrality and casual business-as-usual tone that reuters uses and just drops that at the end of the article is fucking wild tho

Literally every single study performed about universal basic income has arrived at similar conclusions: that it is good for everyone involved, and an excellent investment of public resources. Our two capitalist, authoritarian parties: "OH ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT!"

it's kinda weird that the people that love to yell at leftists for 'poisoning the well' against kamala are the same exact people that are STILL trying to poison the well against 'defund the police'

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

Schools are closed because it’s unsafe to send kids to school while the expensive goon brigade is out terrorizing Americans and driving up prices. And childcare is devastatingly expensive.

They stole our money from us - out of our healthcare - and they’re using it to shoot Americans in the face. They’ve stopped farms from being able to harvest and sell food, and they’re ignoring bird flu and creating supply chain issues that regulation had already previously solved. That’s the crisis.

Once again: a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

This guy is so fucking washed

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Security folklore of the morning is that no one should share URLs on Signal because it exposes IP addresses and people should use QR codes instead. Please don’t do this! QR codes are much less secure. If you’re concerned about link security, turn off link previews which you can do in Signal settings

Good bit.

this also applies to Israel, though I think at least a few more Dems are starting to recognize that fact - the primary electorate has already turned on Israel for what they’ve done in Gaza and that position is only going to harden as they directly ally themselves with Trump

do you think ICE is going to rein its behavior in? or are these abuses going to continue to escalate for the next three years? you’re going to look a whole lot better if you stake out a position that’s less mealy-mouthed than “they need better training”, that’s for sure

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

Also, seriously, do you think the American Nazis who've black bagged innocent people and sent them to foreign concentration camps are being held back by the fact that average people didn't do a J6? That they're just itching to do martial law, but damnit, those dirty hippies won't riot?

we know about the green gas because they used it in portland

Hi, if you're Canadian and all you can manage with your time is this stupid fucking bullshit, please delete your account or shut the fuck up. We get it, you're the new main character of the world and you really want to dunk on the marginalized people who can see your Bluesky posts.

like the whole thing of civilization is supposed to be that we don’t have to do this shit every minute of the day, we get to send our kids to school, go to the park, take in a movie now and then, suddenly here comes the ancient imperative to protect from this MADDENINGLY UNNECESSARY scourge

Holy shit - anyone with "officer" in their résumé to ICE was immediately flagged by AI as "LEO experience", given a badge and gun and sent to the frontlines, even if it was, like, "administrative officer" or "human resources officer"

Not that this isn’t any different than what they’ve been doing abroad during every regime

And zinc chloride gas yikes if it wasn’t already obvious the US government is committing crimes against humanity in the US, it’s hard to see this as anything else

Lewiston, ME is also an interesting choice because this is where Blood Tribe leader Chris Pohlhaus and members of other neo-Nazi groups went to harass brown and Black people they assumed were migrants. Now essentially, DHS agents are going to do the same thing but with state power.

Makes sense if you just swap out the word "opposition" for "junior party in the governing coalition"

I finally have an excuse to dig this out of my shitpost folder

this is genuinely incredible

For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled. n.pr/4qnjZIS

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

i am not unfamiliar with how law enforcement operates but man it is really something to see regular people digging through what very much looks like the gear of an organized crime syndicate

it's kind of gorgeous and unnerving to me... this man who died 2,000 years ago causing this conversation in Oklahoma... they're now going around and each telling ChatGPT one thing they each struggle with... it's all blowing my mind omg

in a different coffee shop now because the one I was going to closed for good. this one has strong youth pastor vibes. there's a cluster of college girls near me doing Bible study and viciously gossiping about some other girl's struggle with Catholicism. they're consulting ChatGPT like an oracle

X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the first place.

On the surface this anecdote does make Gemini seem kind of useful, but it also lays bare for me the false premise of big data and this "personal assistant" implementation of AI, which is that remembering things about my life is actually something I do want to do.

If you encounter this gas go to a doctor to get your zinc levels checked and ask about chelation ASAP.

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

Tiktok service worker guy as the beat drops: then don’t

2014: *sarcastically* President Xi please liberate us! 2026: *exhausted deadpan* President Xi please liberate us

Rubio branded Ahmed part of the "Global Censorship-Industrial Complex" for criticizing Big Tech decisions through speech and advocacy. Then, Rubio used the power of the state to silence Ahmed and try to break apart his family. More at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/rubio-imra...

Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

I feel like people are underrating how insane this is. ICE is not supposed to have a policing function. As Donald Trump turns ICE into paramilitary police, the leading Democrat in the country is saying they need to police more effectively.

Oh neat. They're using chemical weapons on American civilians that we condemn when other governments do the same on their own citizens.

Has Cory Doctorow been informed? Has Liz apologized? Is the Blacksky Wikipedia page published yet? Have the Mastadonians been made aware? Will there be a Techcrunch article?

just look at the massive institutional push behind Gavin fuckin Newsome, who is on this very day hosting Ben Shapiro on his talk show lol

i feel like the next US presidency is up for grabs for any democratic politician with enough of a spine to push consistently for abolishing ICE. they select well for cowards though so don't bet on it

With the threat of the Insurrection Act looming, I just want to note that it was never going to matter how peaceful and correct the protestors here are. All the "don't give him pretext" concern trolling misses the point: He will intentionally manufacture chaos and was always going to make an excuse.