Trump continuously gets some of what he wants with no personal downside when he fails. But it's the people feeding him their own limbs who are the rational actors.

Show's over, folks 🫩

This is unconscionable and a flagrant violation of the 5th and 14th amendments. Depriving imprisoned people of medical care and treatment violates out constitution and international law. It is state sanctioned murder without due process of law for those who die in custody as a result.

Have you ever been chewing on a snickerdoodle & thought, "This could really use more cinnamon"? Of course you have! It stands to reason you like cinnamon or you wouldn't eat a snickerdoodle; they almost never have more than a touch of the stuff. Well, did you realize most snickerdoodles are just...

Collar, shmollar. For Trump, "crime" is whatever someone gets punished after doing. (But also, when he uses the language rhetorically, he means by "crime" any violation of established rank, however his audience conceives of that.)

I've long said that the only motivation for android robots is an imagination of easy ethical slavery. But it did just occur to me that automation and mechanization of labor could cushion the occasional population shock. (This still doesn't argue for androids, or even conversational AI.)

Like I saw someone else say the other day: they literally do not have enough people to do this in more than one or two cities at a time They are hoping we won’t do the extremely simple math

Note on protesting: If you want to send a message far and wide, stage a mass protest in the center of town. If you want to create a real problem for DHS, protest at their facilities in industrial and/or rural areas. They have limited resources. Being forced to defend their buildings drains them.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

People (self included!) will delight in mocking this, but we should not make the mistake of finding it hypocritical. Trump & Co don't believe in chain of title at all, however much they may talk it up when they think it strengthens them. They believe in possession, pure and simple.

A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission. The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

Abolish ICE ➡️ Abolish DHS Abolish ICE ➡️ Abolish the Police, and the Prison Reconstruction Now!

hey, I’m sure you all know better, but just in case you need to hear it from a licensed and degree-holding healthcare professional - don’t fucking do this.

The United States loves dictators, and drug-dealers; absolutely adores drug-dealing dictators. What the US cannot abide is an adversary.

Even those of us who know this in general will benefit from having specific applications laid out like this.

This admission alone would be sufficient for a war crimes conviction. He’s just openly bragging about launching a war of aggression and plunder. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I don't know that it's not newsworthy, but the delicate challenge would be to cover it without amplifying or dignifying.

"I'm really good at making up this made up thing, so it must be real."

On the bright side, KCMO could redirect what it had been paying, for sports, to public transit. That would throw the regional distribution of transit funding further out of balance but... uh... maybe if KCMO could actually make other cities envious about it? Worth a try!

President Real Estate, everyone 🫴

This is not the image "nugget" always suggests to me, but it is MUCH funnier.

I'm with Lux on Team Both Apple Sauce and Sour Cream at Once (and also Team Crispy) but if you're looking to up your game I would suggest horseradish sauce and cranberry sauce. 😋

You know who's emotionally attached to Bill Clinton? (White boomer) Republicans, that's who. Projecting, of course, very on brand.

Rapporteur: "monsieur le President, the insurance premiums exceed their ability to pay!" Donald Marie-Antoinette Trump: "let them pay out of pocket"

Ne'er Attendin

🔥🧵 If your bodily autonomy or freedom of expression don't include trans rights and gender nonconformity, they're neither autonomous nor free. None of us is free while one of us is chained - even if I don't find a given chain an unwelcome confinement.

Both demonstrate the root problem with careless worship of "efficiency". A lot of what gets flagged as waste is actually vital ongoing maintenance - and not just material maintenance, but staffing and vibe maintenance. That stuff doesn't happen by itself; what does happen by itself is... not good.

Narrator: "In fact they will never shut the fuck up about Jews. As a body they will never even manage to speak primarily in good faith about Jews." Love yall, though 💖😂

Quoting this for my own near-future reference. Only one of these (Teller of Small Fortunes) had I already come across. I didn't make it that far this year before getting sidetracked by some series, but now I know to re-up it for next. The others sound fabulous too.

I know a radical joke about Genesis but, in the beginning, it's so formless and void that no one hovers long enough for the punch line.

This, but it's on all of us. "Maybe nobody explained this to you, slimepuddle, but _you_ work for _us_."

This is not actually hard. Any movie that I've seen, it's either once or more than 6. Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Brings Trees!™

Senator, you're late for your bagel-baking appointment in hell.

Conversely, the latter formulation ("The Bible says X.") can very effectively be refuted with "No, it doesn't. 😝"

Fun fact*: 80-90% of your favorite 20th century Christmas songs were written, composed or famously performed by Jews. They were re-writes of Chanukah songs and they were all angry, tired, or sad. (Some of the sadness crossed over.) This is why everyone thinks there are no Chanukah songs.

🎼Judah Macc is GOING to town! 🎶

Jeffries: SFNC! Me: STFU. The longer you go with no ceiling, the sooner and harder the topmost take an axe to the floor. Some of them even mean well when they do it. This is a law of social reproduction. btw, ACAB; BGDC; NGNM

Regarding Louis CK, whom apparently too many people don't agree should be consigned to public oblivion. It's good to be able to laugh at oneself, but it would be nice to think people would learn to spot proactively some ways things might be retroactively unfunny and shun them earlier.

I don't think this undermines Graeber's position, but some of us do resist work at least some of the time - more than just as a matter of rest. And that's ok! Marginal failure to contribute is sustainable, nothing like the social cost of ambitious exploitation for private gain.

I had the advantage of hating #RogueOne the first time I saw it, partly for reasons that are unfair. I still despise most of what should be important abt it but, after Andor (and Clone Wars), it's much easier to enjoy the fun incidentals: mainly, the Temple Guardians and Saw Guerrera.

People always admire my patience, but the truth is I'm just completely time-blind.

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Materially, a bear claw IS a croissant and an amaretto cinnamon roll. So the outer layer should be citrus cake doughnut.

He's checking it twice.

Trump: "At this point, thanks to me, the shock value's worn off, so we might as well all be honest about it. Fascism is good, actually. It just says whatever you can take away from someone was meant to be yours - what's more beautifully American than that?"