i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

@jamellebouie.net Not sure I’m doing this right, but just want to say that you are more of a trusted voice to me than almost anyone. I appreciate your wisdom and hope you are doing ok.

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

McSweeney's shattering the "this is not who we are" rhetoric.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

New sentence just dropped

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

My 84 year old ma loved Bad Bunny, because she likes joy and also is not an asshole.

I just hope they all have a great experience! 🥹

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

So it was always just as simple as, we could have climate justice or a welfare program for a small network of pedophiles, healthcare or a welfare program for a small network of pedophiles, no nazi surveillance state or a welfare program for a small network of pedophiles, affordable housing or a welf

Pretty sure I’m part of the same generation and definitely a fan of both artists, but good music and good people didn’t stop in 1974. Neil & Bruce would be the first to tell you that. Listen to Kendrick Lamar, Rhiannon Giddens, heck - play Cowboy Carter on repeat.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

An extraordinary paragraph. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

It’s really important that as we go deeper into this abhorrent mess that you do not forget under any circumstances, this is what they voted for and this is what they wanted. People are going to do their best to rehabilitate the choices their family members, their friends, their loved ones made as economic. They’ll say that they were misled. They were not. He said from the beginning this is what he would do, and they voted for that because this is what they wanted. This is who they are.

Going to log off for a bit, but considering what all of this means. At a minimum, a lot of people decided that the very real and credible likelihood that these atrocities could happen (they saw January 6 and kids in cages before), didn’t matter as much as something else. It is what it is.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Thank you!

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Combat veteran William Vermie says he was denied access to a lawyer after being detained for filming ICE in Minneapolis.

A school picture of Liam Ramos, age 5, who was kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis.

I wrote about Liam Ramos. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...