Pterognar

You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other humans. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to.

Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.

We should be building a dozen new Minneapolises (Minneapoleis?) in California. I don't care if it means the state never grows another pound of alfalfa

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

We had a story *yesterday* of them *threatening to invade the Vatican because they were mad at the Pope* and people are still going "oh man I wonder what's going on behind the scenes"

Donald Trump is an act of war against the entire world committed by Russia.

Why are any world leaders still pretending shit is normal over here? Stop coming. Stop giving him YOUR platform.

Boycott the World Cup

I love this. Bar these Nazis from public service employment forever. thelalocal.org/immigration/...

The only settlements of repeated systemic violence I am familiar with (Ulster, Guatemala) ultimately required amnesty along witb the laying down of arms. It's a tough, but necessary, pill to swallow.

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

maybe this makes me weird but when someone who irritates me goes out into the world and does a good thing, I find that to be a good thing if everyone i found annoying was standing up to fight this, the enemy would have no chance at all

These guys are CLEARLY being trained that 18 USC 111 is violated when anyone follows an ICE agent, makes noise, or otherwise documents what they are doing in a way that can alert others in the area that they are around. They are VERY confident of this interpretation of the law.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

#Indiana! #Ohio!

Life during war time.

Discovered near the ICE facility in Portland this morning.

This is Portland!

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Slack-jawed, I believe.

TPM: [Pulte] sifts through everyone’s mortgage records, finds something that he claims is evidence of fraud, makes a referral to the DOJ; Now it’s a “federal investigation” ... heads on to Twitter and announces that James or Cook or Schiff is guilty of mortgage fraud and is under investigation.

i think about them a lot

Whatthefuck for the 8000th time this year…

Here, Bob Odenkirk (in a pod with Mike Birbiglia) says something I have been thinking about *so much* the last few years but I never, ever hear expressed in public. Lord, hearing it said aloud just made me burst into tears. (Yes I'm fine why do you ask.) Starts at 39:00.

W. T. F…..?

Not going to pls many with this. But I think a much better way to express this is to say: “I would hope he can appreciate that there are many members of the Jewish community who find that phrase menacing or threatening. Speak to some of those people. Understand that experience …

bro chill my attack was symbolic

You wouldn’t have a single house built without Mexicanos. You wouldn’t have strawberries or tomatoes or cantaloupe or cabbage or lettuce or the grapes to make your Chardonnay or Merlot without the backbreaking work of Mexicanos. White ppl demonize the very ppl who literally put food on your plate.

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

Federal prosecutor Ben Schrader resigns instead of pursuing phony charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In stark contrast to the fragile, petty, egomaniacal babies yelling at each other this week, we should all aspire to this kind of patriotism and courage 🇺🇸

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

Hell yes! This is the way.

"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

Remember: We don't have to be 100% in agreement about everything to all work for a better world.

Bonds are the active front. Move toward the sound of the guns.

This is exactly the way: new structures, new partnerships. Rally to this, jointly guarantee a new bond pool backed by the research capacity of the elite schools. Be powerful!