1)Democrats are obviously better than Republicans 2)Many, if not most, current Democratic office-holders are risk averse and cowardly careerists whose main priority is not to seek accountability or fix the issues that led to Trump, but hastily return to the status quo. Both these things are true!

It's the most magical time of the year: when the legislature of the ninth largest economy in the United States desperately tries to get as much stuff done as it can in only sixty days before dissolving until 2027. www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01...

To be fair, watching Blippi makes me furious. That’s why my wife has to talk me down from firebombing his nearby mansion every Saturday night after I’ve been in my cups. (NOTE: satire! Not serious!)

I would love to see Wayne and the rest of the SEEC get the boot. Time for new leadership there.

'Tell our state legislators to vote against taxes on Airbnb,' brought to you by Airbnb!

This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

Our Members of Congress can rein in ICE with the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill. Tell your senators that you demand ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... And contact your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous... #ICEOutForGood

I love nothing less than seeing the market my 83 year old mother shops at swarmed by a bunch of armed thugs threatening elected officials. Everyone in minneapolis is the absolute model of restraint and i don’t think these goons have any idea how lucky they are about that.

NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING YOU DENSE JACKASS ICE doesn’t have bad training! ICE has been sent here to incite violence against my community, and they’re obeying because the culture is irreparably twisted!! The agency must be reduced to rubble!

well this took a turn

Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

Operation Barbarossa

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

I'm thinking of all of the supposedly "not political" engineers who decided to go work at Anduril Industries and have spent the last nine years building drones that will now be used to attack and murder fellow Americans. Congrats guys, great job.

You scromit, i scromit, we all scromit for 2026.

👏 👏 NYC turning up, standing up and showing up to say No Kings No War No ICE 🚫👑🧊 @riseandresist.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @indivisible.org @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social

My loosely held conspiracy theory is that a literal deal with the devil gave us a Cubs World Series victory in exchange for Donald Trump in 2016, and maybe a Bears Super Bowl will break that deal.

My genuinely held theory is that a lot of these people absolutely cooked their brains watching snuff films of Palestinians in Gaza over the past two years and need therapy focused on PTSD and trauma, not a stern lecturing.

Bespoke: great brainworm/lead paint huffing man of history.

Stop being a coward Tim.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Cell phone footage shows that Renee Good tried to drive away from the ICE agent who shot her. But an AI video shows Good pledging allegiance to ISIS before plowing her car into a crowd of blonde Christian children. For busy presidents of the United States, it can be hard to know what to trust.

Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.

In 2005 I got the flu so bad I couldn’t fly to family for Christmas. Have faithfully gotten my shot as soon as available every year since—and never had it since. Even when shot isn’t as on target as they hoped—like this year—it greatly reduces symptoms and spread, including in your own household.

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Bunch of Call of Duty cosplay nazis.

A pretty good encapsulation of what's happening in software engineering today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Feels dangerously close to one of these idiots getting shot in their faces.

🤔 “somehow” 🤔

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Minnesota AG is teaming up with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office to investigate the killing of Rene Good by a reckless ICE agent. Thank goodness, because Patel's non-independent FBI can't be trusted to do it fairly. May justice prevail.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

We have a real chance to see balcony solar legalized in Washington state this year. Our legislature should absolutely pick this up and run with it: www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01...

I love how this guy is considered a leftist thought leader on X.

The anti-ICE protest and vigil for Renee Hood and all of the other known and unknown victims of ICE on the Seattle waterfront tonight.

A brilliant insight from Claude Code today. I'm not being sarcastic.

NEW // Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters Op-ed by Emily Moore via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/08/o...

This picture, from Karem Yucel, on instagram. Outside Roosevelt high school, At dismissal. AFTER Federal agents KILLED A WOMAN EARLIER IN THE DAY The parents.

Police budgets have been going up for years while clearance rates for violent crimes have been going down: • "Smarter Public Safety Spending" • "Invest in What Works" • "Better Results, Better Budgets" • "Public Safety That Delivers" • "If It's Not Working, Why Keep Paying More?" ...

Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.