It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

A new Pew poll finds that Trump's job approval rating stands at 37%, only 27% support all or most of his policies, and 50% feel the administration's actions have been worse than expected. Also, only 21% are very confident Trump acts ethically in office. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

This is my Senator

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

OK, this amused me. I gave Claude a copy of this classic XKCD comic and the prompt: "solve this. do a great job. ask no questions." And it gave me this in one shot 3 minutes later, including the style (and the note that it thought it was 2024?): xkcd-1425-bird.netlify.app

A real national "the beatings will continue until morale improves" moment

This is literally all so stupid, but especially point three. The man who killed Renee Good videoed it himself and we know who he was. This cannot be reformed. It must be abolished.

lol "if someone had predicted"

It's bad enough that the billionaires buy reputable news outlets like CBS and WaPo, as quick ways to purchase credibility. But then they pivot to cost-cutting and destroy the credibility of the org they just spent a fortune buying. It's almost like billionaires aren't that bright.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Snow storm a few hours in

“Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.”

The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

USA: "Hey, Guinea-Bissau! We're friends, right? I have an idea: Let's test what happens if we withhold a life-saving treatment from some of *your* babies for *just* a few weeks, to find out if they get sick and/or die. You in?" Guinnea-Bissau: "Wait what?"

This is fire 🔥🔥🔥 www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/m...

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Need to call this guy a waambulance

A group of masked men jump out of a vehicle, abduct a teenage girl, and no one does anything.

How could a FIFA Peace Prize laureate turn toward violence

this is, literally, a wild ride

Sings, to the tune of Yellow Submarine 🎵🎶"We all live in a big panopticon A big panopticon A big panopticon..."🎵🎶

He's clearly not asking the people of Greenland. This is so embarrassing for him.

Is everyone in MN a hero?

SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

It's the headline, so the reporter in the byline didn't even choose to use the word "disgraced." I feel like the article's tone was pretty generous, tbh.

Looks like Scott Adams is dead. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... I'm feeling the urge both to piss on his grave and to share one of his comics. Dude was beloved by nerds of all types until his misogyny, fascist cheerleading, and racism (not necessarily in that order) became too much to ignore.

The man has a track record of being wrong about everything

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity

Just read Bloodchild by Octavia Butler for the first time last night and wow

How could police possibly know that these were actually ICE agents? How long until there's armed conflict between local police & ICE? And then what happens?

Make it viral.

He wasn't going to get it even if the committee moved on to their second choice

I think burritos are healthier than pizza, so this is a net good

Really thinking a random lottery is a better idea than electing representatives. We'd know we will occasionally get someone unfit for office, and we'd build systems around that assumption. And our representatives wouldn't be worried about losing elections.

"People close to the White House" conflating sin with disappointing Trump. Cool, cool...

"Mistakes were made..."

I’ve seen people try to argue along these lines and I think it’s important to note just how far away the present situation is from that hypothetical. X users are not generating these materials. xAI is generating them using their proprietary software system and X is disseminating them widely.

I'm not sure what the US military's opinion has to do with it, but I'm pretty sure our President doesn't care, and it doesn't change how we should care about it: it doesn't make our invasion/operation/whatever legitimate, and our President shouldn't do illegitimate violent things.

We can't even find evidence that they ever disbanded. They just... kept meeting, even as the empire dissolved around them.

This says it pretty well

everyone is waiting for some responsible authority to pull the lever and make this end. they do not wish to believe that such a lever does not exist. you give one totally deranged party control of the entire government, this is what happens

It may feel like this happens all the time because Republicans have been trying to do this forever. But nope. This is new.