ICE’s tactics have been terrifying and tragic, but Minneapolis is responding in incredible ways. Residents are organizing, feeding and housing their neighbors, and putting real social infrastructure in place. What’s taking shape isn’t just a reaction, it’s a blueprint for resistance.
Bad KAT is on full display tonight.
I have hardcore contrarian tendencies. But I have to agree with the conventional opinion that One Battle After Another is an absolute masterpiece.
Eight Men Out is a great film.
(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has *lots* of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
we're cooked
We are not going to abandon all of these folks out of spite.
Nellie’s Sports Bar is a great spot.
There is no remote chance that we get money out of politics during our lifetime. They own the Supreme Court and a slim majority of the American people are selfish, racist, misogynist cowards. We need to prepare to survive and fight the oligarchy that has owned us for a long ass time.
Fudgy the Whale?
Bridges has gotten off to a slow start while adjusting to a new team with many moving parts. He is already showing signs of being just fine.
This is to me is a significant add here.
The Associated Press is now posting on Bluesky:
@apnews.com
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
If he was going to do this he should have done them all at once and included the Hunter Biden pardon in the mix. He would have at least been able to argue that the pardon was part of a broader need to shield people from Trump's vengence.
and here's the thing: I have no doubt that desantis and rubio and bondi will be slavishly loyal to trump. but they are also *ambitious* and have an interest in their own careers as well as that of the republican party. this introduces a tension into the administration (that can be exploited)
Dude
this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively:
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Big game tonight!
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
The Medicare Advantage program is a stealth attempt to privatize Medicare and enrich the private insurance industry at the expense of seniors.
Multimillionaire CMS nominee Mehmet Oz, who owns stock in private insurers, is one of the biggest proponents of this scheme.
The incoming administration has nominated a gang of sexual predators, vindictive psychopaths and utter incompetents to be the presidential cabinet and the Washington Post has gone full-court-press on the Hunter Biden pardon.
Our political media is deeply, deeply broken.
It is certainly not going to change Trump’s behavior or the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. It does deliver a disingenuous but very effective talking point to the Trump cult. Perhaps that no longer matters either.
More than one thing can be true at the same time.
Well said man.
Classic. This is what Ann Richards said about GW Bush sue. He was running against her for TX Governor. It was true.
Todd Snyder has a great sale going right now. Also, I recently listened to your podcast on Crimson Tide. It was very enjoyable. Thanks.
So a reminder:
It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom.
It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president.
It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child.
For the record.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.
Come on now. I need a fountain coke, greasy food and a day with nothing to do but watch old movies.