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shutdown will end roughly 2 hours from now

The most sacred clause in the Constitution may be the war making clause. Our founding fathers are turning in their grave watching this Republican Congress allow one man lead us into a disastrous, incompetently run war.

Broadly: the danger of nuclear risk and escalation with AI is not concentrated in giving presidents a bad machine advisor urging escalation. Instead, that risk is in automating any Stanislav Petrovs out of the chain of launch, as you need *restrain* to respond to sensor error indicating odd launch.

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Worth every second

CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

Chuck Schumer: The Trump administration lied to me in three separate briefings about their plans for Venezuela. The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.

“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.” What are we doing?

RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.

Me to $TSLA

Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers

“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”

Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today

It's incredible these people are trying to set up a military dictatorship with 40% approval ratings in the oldest democracy in the world. Good luck, motherfuckers!

In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

If the Trump Admin was able to illegally abduct Kilmar Abrego Garcia and send him to El Salvador in 72 hours, then they can sure as hell bring him home in less than that. Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.

Vandalize a library? Take over a campus? Do all kinds of crazy things?

Immigrants allegedly getting disappeared by Trump based on accusations that they are gang members without any due process, under an act that hadn’t been used since Japanese internment camps. 👇🏽🧵 This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending. x.com/l_toczylowsk...

"Yesika Palma sobbed as she spoke about her brother Jose Daniel Simancas, a 30-year-old construction worker, and how it felt to think of him being treated like a terrorist when all he’d done was attempt to come to the United States in pursuit of a decent job." www.propublica.org/article/trum...