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Kash Patel is insisting it’s illegal to carry a weapon at a protest, but I’m old enough to remember when every other state had mobs of heavily armed conservatives protesting in favor of open carry laws.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.” So will being deemed a domestic terrorist by your government so that it is absolutely fine for them to shoot you dead on live TV.

they surrounded him, beat him, disarmed him of the weapon he never reached for while he was kneeling, and then shot him in the back. They didn’t stop the bleeding or get him help. Then they shot him 3 more times in the back and then watched him die

“As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death.”

"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

aches to see my alma mater shutter many of the programs and offices that made an undergraduate education there special www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...

My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition

university admins were some of the first-movers in the new US regime of mass repression. so congratulations to various provosts and vice presidents for that.

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

It’s not lost on me that the only time this concern has been raised is when a U.S. military action could be taken against a white country

what did code geass know

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

This is psychotic. The BBB is already putting 170 billion over four years into the deportation enforcement machine. This political party is bankrupt and unviable. You can’t regulate your way out of a secret police on a racial purification crusade.

Every tech company, media conglomerate and Ivy League school: Ahhh nice Mr. President Trump sir, pweese don't hurt me Jerome Powell:

According to Podcast Jay, he can silence anyone or anything as long as he calls it “DEI.” It’s his magic censorship phrase.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals

I'm monitoring first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end.

Vnzla is now a place of incredible contradiction. The personnel in charge have largely not changed. Internal repression of opposition has increased. Verbally the govt denounces imperialism while taking actions consistent with the U.S. stated plans for the country

I used to think ‘Well thank god we all have cameras, at least we can maybe get ahead of the lies’ but if this is how the paper of record describes an event captured from like 4 different angles alongside dozens of eye witness accounts corroborating, I just don’t know anymore man

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

I will be depositing 50 million barrels of oil into my bank account and directly Venmoing the citizens of a foreign country I’ve been deporting to torture gulags in El Salvador and Libya shares in profits from their Sale.

“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America…”

You should be put in jail immediately if you suggest that any city on earth be even one tiny, imperceptible bit more like Dallas

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state,” the social psychologist Colette Capriles writes from Caracas. “Our society has been orphaned, ground down to its most basic capacities.”

Incredible stuff

peruvian shamans im gonna let y'all cook

It is isolating and insanity inducing to be a Venezuelan in the exterior opposed to US intervention in Venezuela. To be accused of being unable to celebrate a victory, effectively of being a traitor, or collaborator, too ensconced in ideology to feel anything but misery at imperial misadventure

I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms

going shopping

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Trump doesn't care how Venezuela is "run" and won't bother with it. US oil interests must be permitted to operate under mercenary-protection, and whoever ends up running the store knows the price of failure. Not much else matters, and little political price to pay for domestic problems in Venezuela.

Essential reading: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

She did! She is on the record offering to sell trillions in national assets to US corporations. Maduro offered the U.S. a dominant stake in the national oil and mining companies as was reported in the NYT 3 months ago. US rejected the offer bc they wanted him to exit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

this is going to be a trainwreck

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

Does Trump know it’s the official position of his government (and most western powers) that her party, through Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia, won the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election

I think this about seals the prospect that they will be specifically facilitating a transition to a government led by the purported winners of the 2024 election from the Venezuelan opposition despite MCMs profession to full open all of Vnzlas natural resources to US ownership

Not clear the US is actually "occupying" anything and I wouldn't be surprised if the children at the podium just blurted that out bc it sounded cool and are now trying to figure out what to do

I’ve been listening to the live feed of Venezuelan news channels and I can confirm there is no outward indication that VP Delcy Rodriguez is agreeing to the U.S. running the country. They are running cutaways to other countries denouncing the U.S., mostly, no clear indication of internal moves yet

trump is being asked by reporters how he plans to run venezuela and there is clearly no plan.

Having any kind of memory of US history will make you feel insane in this country.