A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

Stop calling the department of defense by the fake tough unofficial name the fake tough babies gave it. By statute & still by statute, it’s the department of defense. Stop accepting this juvenile garbage masquerading as accomplishments. Be an adult. Demand our officials be adults

At this rate making a list of Republican politicians who aren't pedophiles would be faster

what the fuck is going on at the scholastic book fair circa 2026

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Murder charges for whoever did this.

“There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up,” says Rahman. “I was arrested for standing up.”

a lot of people think their conscious mind is the only entity in their body apparently

A whole lot of people who write fundy marriage manuals are really obviously reading their kinks into the Bible and won't admit it

what?

I can’t even process how upset this makes me

Without the paywall:

Once again, it's up to the normie lib wine moms to keep the torch of liberty aflame

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Experts have described Dilley as “a hellhole” and decried the lack of proper medical care. Court records claim food is filled with worms, and the water is undrinkable. As a result, reports have spread of children are hitting themselves in the face and wetting themselves long after potty-training.

I don't know why so many people keep pretending Republicans have any valuable thoughts. They're fucking freaks, man. They're a bunch of people who would have been rejected by society if we hadn't confused tolerance for acceptance.

I don't actually fully believe that it's wrong to criticize Dems for literally any reason I just don't know how to argue "I think people need to cut Dems more slack" without being pushed into having to defend literally every decision any Dems makes ever

Yes, because people who couldn't grasp "Nazis" as a threat will surely recoil from "Racial authoritarians." "Ethno-nationalists" is far more accessible language.

Here we go again. Republicans don’t have the votes to pass their budget bills. All they need to do is stop the harsh and illegal ICE practices that a large majority of Americans are demanding. So if the government shuts down again . . . It’s because Republicans won’t listen to you.

fundamentally i think the big shift from woke 1 to woke 2 is precisely this: getting comfortable about gaining and exercising state power everything else is downstream of that bsky.app/profile/dako...

Generally the case seems to be that folks like this view "fighting" as a moral good on its own. They want "leaders who will fight". It's not about being effective, it's about proving you can be aggressive and confrontational. This too is Gender.

Why wont Democrats put on their hairshirts and get into The Contraption

The nurses are pissed

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

yeah this is something i've seen a lot of in elite liberal circles: a kind of collapse of internal morale in the face of electoral losses. klein's interview with coates is probably the exemplar here. but it's a sign i think of how (elite) liberals assumed history had ended and lost their way

"we've always been fascist" also gifts the fash the mantle of historical legitimacy

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

“and then our goons will kidnap that life and send it to a concentration camp if we deem them the wrong color”

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

It’s also a fabulous way to legitimize what’s happening. Why? Because it tells the listener, you think this is bad? Listen to this worse stuff!!! Which normalizes this as, ah, well, that’s just America. Business as usual. I genuinely don’t understand why you wouldn’t just Five Alarm Fire THIS!!!

calvinism rebranded for lefties if america is *already* damned and irreversibly so, that's an argument for apathy and inaction sometimes you gotta call to the higher angel and hope it's still there, y'know?

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

When you steal money from grandma and wreck the car while sniffing glue and your dad says "you're better than this" he definitely doesn't mean that he believes you when you say you didn't do it, heh. He's still PISSED.

by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally

My guess is midterms will happen but there’s gonna be a lot of voter suppression. Targeted terrorizing of voters for sure. Lotta brown people staying home. There’s gonna be the appearance of elections but it’s gonna be even more of a sham than it usually is. That’s my assessment.

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

I'm leaning fully into the bluesky liberal wine-mom thing, bc tbh, we've been right about fucking everything

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

state-sponsored child trafficking

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

anyways check out robert black over at liberal currents on precisely this subject www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

I’ll never get over this. Trump unfairly pardoned someone, they turned around and committed a new crime, and Trump pardoned them again. You can commit any any crime you want as long as you have the money, power, and connections to get yourself a pardon. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/17/p...

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

I would like to underscore this part: "People are in the streets in greater numbers than the first Trump term." Elite pundits and opinion are extremely resistant to this fact and it has trickled down to regular people. But it is demonstrably TRUE. Ask why they are so resistant? Who does it serve?