just increasingly obvious that everything online Dems got excited about in casting Newsom as a “fighter” was simply the skilled efforts of a comms team who knows exactly what online Dems will fall for, while the man himself has a spine made of absolute tapioca pudding

I think this is specifically and very seriously wrong. The reforms following each of these crises were inadequate, and diminished progressively by the failure to adequately address the previous crisis. That curve continues to Trump, who was convicted of dozens of felonies and then reelected.

You have to hang Jefferson Davis. You have to put Bull Connor and Richard Nixon in their own prisons. Otherwise you get Connor, and then Nixon, and then Trump.

The narrative being pushed on X is that Jake Lang was dragged off the window ledge into a violent antifa mob and beaten. The dude who pulled him off the ledge protected him and escorted him through the crowd.

Just a little warning for anyone moving any time soon. www.yelp.com/biz/golden-g...

This is my regular reminded that if your clothes are full of tear gas and/or pepper spray, air them for a day if at all possible and then wash them twice ON COLD. If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3 #Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

it remains nuts to me that the argument for Newsom is that he's inevitable while he's not even the polling favorite

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

"We have checked our inventory thoroughly, and we no longer have any shits left to give. We only had a small amount of shits left at the end of last year, and now we’ve found that the most recent news cycles have completely emptied us out." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Our building has a handyman, an American citizen, who has been stopped by ICE so many times he isn't leaving his house anymore and the building of mostly senior citizens has started a fundraiser and sent out invite to a building wide meeting to discuss how to help him and others in community.

Congress shall make no* law

proposed bluesky feature: 48-hour mute for when someone you follow is currently having some kind of meltdown that you do not wish to be involved with, but you have faith they'll get over it

He seems awful lively for someone who was "literally LYNCHED". Among other issues with these white supremacist fuckwads is their utter lack of historical understanding. Lynching did not involve hosing people down with super soakers and scaring the bejesus out of em.

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

"No Borders, No Nations, No Capitalism" Seen in Chicago, Illinois

Sharing this again in light of the story people were sharing around on here of a trans activist who was apparently sent a threatening letter from the FBI that no journalist was able to verify and when the letter was finally shown it was a clearly AI generated image that nobody would believe is real

A Nazi (2026)

"Trans zealots" - it was one trans woman who'd worked without issue for 4 years until this lot came along

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

"They had an 'idiot' [baka] size so I ordered it and, true to word, received an idiotic serving of rice"

I hate these ghouls. They're ghouls from hell. Don't ever forget they'll come for your blood it doesn't matter

As Pratchett said:

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

It's wild, really, but he does seem to have actually thought Denmark would just sell him Greenland.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty: A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."

The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified

Team open borders! I'm not saying countries can't have rules about employment and taxes or whatever but everybody should be able to PHYSICALLY GO wherever. Like I was camping up north and walked into Canada a few times and nobody cared, or probably even KNEW.

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

If a Minnesotan says to you, "I don't plan to let you do that," run.

When someone does something illegal - say, generate CSAM for money - you con't call them before a parliamentary committee. You call the police.

it’d be pretty cool if any of the people elected into positions of power that could possibly stop something like this would actually try to stop something like this

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Hold onto your hardware for as long as possible unless you don’t care and want everything done on the cloud through fuck ass subscription models I guess

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

The rule is that if my mutual posts about their niche hobby that I know nothing about, I must like the post to let them know I encourage the enrichment that’s been put in their enclosure

Rumors have been circulating online that the FBI is targeting visibly trans public figures with threatening letters. A copy of the alleged letter provided to The Needle's reporting team is illegitimate. theneedlenews.com/al... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Whoa whoa whoa buddy who is this Jesus Christ you’re expecting me to emulate and what exactly did you say happened to him.

littlebigplanet is kind of an insane game under the hood actually. this is sackboy's actual "t-pose". The eyes are shrunken down at literally all times, and his arms and legs are modeled in this resting position

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

“There are many ways we could lose our democracy. But the most worrisome way is through political violence. Because the political violence is what would make the democratic backsliding you’re so used to hearing about irreversible.