The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

An absolutely remarkable order! "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious list for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

Polgreen delivered another compelling op-ed today. 🎁

"We were not sent to Washington to compromise fundamental values. The methods of execution at the death camps must comply with the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel or unusual punishment or we will filibuster the American Carnage & Death Camp (AC/DC) Act of 2027. The American people deserve no less!"

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

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Temu Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (the writers have gotten so lazy lately, they didn't really even bother to change the first name)

This is grim.

GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this. “This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”

Celebrating Bovino's scalp also strikes me as naively premature. 🧵

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

This is particularly ironic because I think that a lot of the post-Oct 7 attack on TikTok was driven by people wanting to prevent western audiences from seeing the Gaza genocide with their own eyes. So now we are facing the prospect of a crackdown on TikTok-documented state violence at home.

The Resistance Louisiana.

TikTok is now censoring Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck

An astute and chilling observation.

Dastardly

Don't let any Blue MAGA apologist tell you there's nothing Dems can do. 🧵

Say a prayer for the wife, if saying prayers is something you do. It's all just too much.

To not destroy the city? WE are not destroying the city. WE ARE PROTECTING THE CITY. WE ARE DOING YOUR JOB.

The linked analysis may seem compelling, but I simply can't trust the judgement of anyone who believes this: "the most promising source of renewed economic dynamism — AI — is likely to worsen inequality and increase societal instability ...."

I think we underestimate the impact this is going to have. The kids aren't leaving TikTok, and their brains are about to be cooked.

Hey #NOLASky #NOLA #NewOrleans, are we doing a local Ice Out demonstration tomorrow?

I'm reskeeting this thread because I plan to spend some more time reading all the linked pieces and replies after work. (UFO shit, if that's of interest to you.)

I have *genuinely* become more open to the possibility that Christianity is legitimate due to how strong the parallels are between Trump and the Antichrist. 🧵

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

Two points are made in this essay that most people do not wish to accept: (1) Trumpism will outlast Trump. (2) Elections will not stop Trumpism.

Revenge of the white trash.

A hopeful (if infuriating) dispatch from the front lines. A better world is possible. 🧵

According to the regime jurists on the Eighth Circuit, the regime suffers greater harm in having to comply with the Constitution than do citizens having chemical weapons emptied directly into their eye sockets.

"You're not ready for how much the rest of the world hates Americans" I live here man I'm extremely used to the concept of hating Americans

Straight 🔥

Put in my notice ✅

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO STOP TRUMP FROM ACTIVELY DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THEN AT THE VERY LEAST PLEASE LET US SEE YOU TRY.

Some of you are telling “Go Miami!” Or “Go Indiana!” but I’m yelling “Go to Union Station with the bus full of passengers or lose your job!”

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

1941

Trump's coalition was quite diverse: Women for Rapists Vets for Draft Dodgers Immigrants for Deportations Doctors for Antivaxxers Cops for Cop-Killers Unions for Union-Busters Communists for Fascism Christians for the Anti-Christ

If he'd been savvy and not a moral coward, Bill Cassidy would be celebrated tonight as the guy who stood up to Trump and saved public health, and sacrificed his Senate seat to do the right thing. But, instead, he'll just be remembered as a cowardly loser with a lot of blood on his hands.

This isn't the law—it's fascist judicial activism—and the fact that we didn't get more pissed off and make a bigger stink about it pre-MAGA is partly responsible for our current predicament.

I hadn't realized there was "drama" behind the scenes at Scream 7. The lead actress was fired by the production company for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza! I definitely will no longer be patronizing the series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa...

The first in a three-part series of posts written by a Sri Lankan living in America and commenting on societal collapse *during COVID.* It's disorienting to read these words and realize they were written five years ago—it very much sounds like the present day (less the COVID-specific stuff).

Random hotness to bless your skyline.

Baby orcs wildin.'

This is a joke, but it's not at all funny. "Trump would serve as its inaugural chairman and would decide on who is invited to be members ... Decisions would be taken by a majority ... subject to the chairman’s approval" "Trump himself would control the money"

I just saw this video (for one of my favorite songs) for the first time, and I am SHOOK (derogatory). This weird children of the corn theme does not reflect the vibe of the song!

Making it real by posting it on BlueSky: I'm moving back to California.