Couldn't care less if Thread has a billion users and Blue Sky has 1000. I just need a steam vent where I can release whatever dumb jokes and observations enter my brain without contributing to the financial success of Musk or Zuck. Give me 2-34 likes on every one of these and I'm good.

Ballad of Birmingham By Dudley Randall (On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)

Help this sweet kitty if you can!

The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders. There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.

“You’re at the wrong parade”

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

Colorado-based NORAD issues this warning that aircraft are headed for Greenland for a planned exercise, lest anyone mistake it for an American invasion of a NATO ally

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Switched to norm of no devices in undergrad lecture class with automatic allowance for any student who requested accommodation and back of the room allowance for students who just wanted to continue surfing and ignoring class. Was a huge improvement in student engagement, also improved lectures.

The forum will happen on Thursday evening at Goddard Riverside on Columbus Avenue, between West 88th and 89th streets. www.westsiderag.com/2026/01/19/f...

I will not tolerate any squirrel shaming!

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

Greenland embraces a new MAGA hat: 'Make America Go Away.' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Russia has been invited to join Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board”.

Not now, sex botz.

The United States Military's 11th Airborne Division is famous for its grueling jungle warfare on Leyte and the liberation of Luzon, Philippines during WW2 and served as the first occupation forces in Japan after the war. Donald Trump is preparing to send them to Minnesota against Americans.

"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that Capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of Black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Wow

He is right to call us out. We have to stop Trump and MAGA. The whole world is watching.

Goodnight kids, see you tomorrow. Same insanity, same dystopia.

I’ve seen a lot going around about these cells reserved for US citizens, and it’s worth reminding people that ICE officers (and immigration officers in general) do in fact have legal authority to arrest US citizens for any felonies or “offenses against the United States” witnessed by an officer.

Minneapolis activists disrupted a church service where David Easterwood serves as a pastor, according to lawyer and activist @nekimal - Easterwood is also the acting field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in St. Paul, Minnesota. I'm LIVE from Minneapolis right now 🤝🏾

Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.

We found three cars full of masked ICE agents in a residential car park. Our guide asked them if they had a warrant, they refused to answer. I asked them several questions about what they were doing. They then made obscene gestures at us. Shortly afterwards, a drone appeared circling our car.

Tell me more…. Go on…

“A pastor here is also director of the field office for ICE… so someone teaching people about God is out there overseeing ICE agents. How dare you.” Twin cities protestors disrupt a church service at an ICE field office director’s church. (H/T @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social )

"i think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. if we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time." ~winnie-the-pooh

Abigail Spanberger did not end Virginia’s 287(g) partnership with ICE yesterday, despite reports to the contrary. What Spanberger did do is rescind Glenn Youngkin’s order that required the state police + DOC to sign ICE contracts. She terminated the requirement, but not the contracts themselves.

Good clarification.

A note from reality: Trump says that he is imposing tariffs on 8 EU countries, but that's not doable. The EU is a single trading block and customs union. Things made in the EU are simply "made in EU." Many products such as autos or machinery are made with components from multiple EU countries.

Feels like this is not getting enough attention. What is going on in Mexican airspace? 😳✈️

Dear American friends on this platform, we know you have a lot on your plate. But your government is threatening the sovereignty of our neighbor Denmark, jeopardizing NATO and trying to cow us into submission with tariffs meant to ruin our economy. Will you stand by or speak out?

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com

There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.

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"...  the police state's goal is to overwhelm opponents mentally before they ever even take action." Watch and repost this week's episode on TikTok.

You’ll need a cigarette after this.

Hilton just told me in an email that their policy was to be "welcoming places for all." I asked yesterday for them to explain how their hotels could be welcoming to my Mexican family, whose skin color & accents are the things ICE agents - who might be at the hotel - use to arrest them. No response.

Here's CBS anchor Margaret Brennan telling the mayor of a city under a violent federal invasion that he's making too big a deal about it.

Why dafuq did I go to gd prison then

weekend broadcast news is bloody horrible. tried to watch "msnow" only to hear them asking fuckin' sarah mathews what grade to give trump for 2025. indys are great, but they're only doing "podcasts" or reporting on fucking substack... and it's all opinions. where the fuck are all the journalists?

NYC students: time to take up the baton and walkout to free NYC and free America. We refuse to be silenced, we refuse to repeat history. Join the walkout this Friday at 11: bit.ly/nycstudentwalkout

📌This photo was taken just moments after Trump got his marching orders from Putin to wreck America from the inside, or else ...

Filming the police isn't a crime.

I’d say this is the future of the Republican party, but Trump has met with one of these dudes privately at least once and helped another escape rape charges in Romania. So really, this is just the Republican base in their element.

This photo tho 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

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