The California State flag waving against a blue sky. The flag is white with a wide red strip along the bottom. There is a red star in the upper left corner and a California grizzly bear facing left (toward the hoist) in the center, walking on a patch of green grass. The size of the bear is two-thirds the size of the hoist width and has a ratio of 2 by 1. The grass plot has a ratio of 11 to 1. The five-point star is taken from the California Lone Star Flag of 1836. This description is from the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_California oh my fucking god can we agree that being a rapist or doing Nazi shit is disqualifying. None of these dudes who've done bad shit or harmed vulnerable people are specially irreplaceable.

Choose Bear.

photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

It’s been one year since the elimination of 18F. 🧵

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

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I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

It's official: the Trump admin is making American government dumber.
*11 times more STEM PhDs were lost than gained in 2025
*3 times the rate of STEM PhDs left in 2025 compared to 2024
*-17% decrease in STEM PhDs across 14 agencies
www.science.org/content/arti...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Horrifying.

I always like to consider what kind of horrible accident led to a certain rule. Because there are quite a lot of ways that people (or things that people use) could accidentally kill other people.

Yes, I’ve been working on permitting, why do you ask. 😬

This is a good question. Let's talk about it!

Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵

Pretty telling that the inevitable attempt to smear her boils down to "she wasn't rolling over and cowering in fear as we invaded her community"

I've seen refugee aid efforts defeat multi-year occupations by regional / national police forces who deployed 30x the amount of resources. Hell I've been part of that.

It is *very* possible.

ICE's budget has a limit.
Make them use it.

ICE's morale has a limit.
Make them lose it.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

This breakdown confirms what anyone who looked at the video could see: that the DHS account was an obvious lie.
*The agent put was not in her path, was not in danger.
*He also fires *after* the car is moving away from him.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Today in Oh Hell No

ICE isn’t welcome here. ICE shouldn’t exist. Every elected official must be clear-eyed about the fact that ICE is a threat to our entire country and must be abolished. As we in the Twin Cities know too well, our taxes are going to fund an entity that is attacking our neighbors; this has to end.

It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision.

It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.

2026 needs to be the year of Fuck You, Make Me as a lifestyle and a philosophy.

my 2025 year in review

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

This administration is going to crash, and we are going to get ONE CHANCE to fix things with massive structural reform. We have to start building support for that now. If we miss this moment more competent fascists will take power in the election after Dems win, and there will be no coming back.

PODCAST JAY

A tweet from Big Balls, linking to techforce.gov reads: Our first website using the new America Design System! Building a framework for beautiful, performant, secure and inexpensive websites to be very easy to build in Government.

This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

How about uh, talking to other parents (or a pediatrician??) about this whole parenting thing? Even my super introverted hermit dev husband realized he needs a village to do this parenting thing properly, especially with a social kid.

I swear, these AI tech bros hate people so much.

Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

The ICE secret police have kidnapped and disappeared this child. It's unconscionable what these sadistic racists are doing to children and their families.