I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

(published here!)

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties

This was written by a friend of mine back in 2011; it's about the importance of jury duty. I feel like more people intuitively understand the power (and importance) of serving on juries now than in 2011, but it's still worth a read. dancingattherevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/t...

I have SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Minnesota summers: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Minnesota winters: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

In case anyone ever fears you’re not supporting the author by reading from a library, you absolutely are! And the more people request a book the more copies they buy!

The easy compromise is city plowed pedestrian snow emergency routes, but the mayor is incapable of compromise

I think a great rule of thumb for a writer's org to start with is: would this implementation of AI work if they hadn't stolen all of our authors' books? spell check should be good! we can all exhale!

It's definitely not the biggest issue created by ICE, but I had in fact been thinking about how they have routinely dragged people out of their cars and left the cars where they'd get towed by the city. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Everyone i know needs to know that an ambulatory wheelchair user has the best line in the entire new Knives Out movie 😂

Anyway back in high school I was in a magnet program that used to admit 50% boys and 50% girls. Right before my year, parents of boys complained and demanded strict merit-based admission. My year was like 80% girls so shoutout to the boymoms for making sure their sons didn't steal my slot.

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

I understand anthropic sees this as a win but I laughed at “ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared”

I didn't know whether to be more embarrassed if they're NYC locals or not. If they aren't, it's bonkers. If they are, it's also bonkers. Either way, shanda.

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

Contact your reps. Talk to your neighbors. If you're out there keeping other neighbors safe, you can show up for these ones, too. Mpls 💗

LAST CALL, YOU HAVE UNTIL 8 PM TO VOTE (if you live in Minnesota House district 64A in St. Paul, or I guess also if you live in MN House district 47A, they also have a special primary today!)

Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)

Polls are open until 8 pm, residents of 64A! Go vote!

Saint Paul, Minnesota people. Are you in District 64A? IF YOU ARE IN DISTRICT 64A YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TODAY! ***TODAY*** I KNOW YOU JUST VOTED, BUT YOUR HOUSE REP GOT ELECTED MAYOR AND NOW IT'S TIME TO PICK HER REPLACEMENT.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Just say women. This is taking forever.

97% OF PEOPLE: 'No Torment Nexus please.' 3% OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE PART OF TORMENT NEXUS PLC: 'Torment Nexus is good.' POLITICIAN: 'It's so difficult to know what people really want.'

Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.

Josh Goldstein @joshisimmigration.bsky.social

I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.

Saint Paul, Minnesota people. Are you in District 64A? IF YOU ARE IN DISTRICT 64A YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TODAY! ***TODAY*** I KNOW YOU JUST VOTED, BUT YOUR HOUSE REP GOT ELECTED MAYOR AND NOW IT'S TIME TO PICK HER REPLACEMENT.

Jon Collins is really providing top-notch coverage lately. My favorite detail: the ICE dude who got pepper sprayed by the other ICE dude.

thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit

"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇

My Facebook memories brought me this SNL sketch from 2019, all about the adorable outfits you're supposed to cram your children into for the cute family holiday portrait. Once again it made me laugh till I cried. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVXN...

Please read this Facebook post from Darnella Frazier about her sister Rekeya, who is in federal custody. For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.

We have received so many donations and we are still almost out of blankets AGAIN. If you have extras, if you can go to the Goodwill By the Pound locations, if you can find a bag sale, we give them out at the same rate as we are getting them in, it is dangerously cold out.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

The FB comments did not disappoint. “Who do you think coined “Tar-zhay?” Everyone up and down the threads going “Bring back DEI & Pride.” You know what you have to do, you just don’t want to.

Hey, St. Paul-and-Macalester folks from the 90s - The Italian restaurant on Grand Ave just west of campus, was it called Risimini's? Something like that? Help my aged memory out?

I refuse to let this era be defined by the sick villains and spineless cowards. We are surrounded by everyday heroes and they will keep emerging.

If you're looking for the proper anti-Zionist response to the mass murder in Australia, it's pretty simple at this stage You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice" Keep it simple, folks