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Minnesotans! Make sure these people know that their entire job right now is to oppose everything Trump is doing to our country - mn.gov/portal/gover...

Days like today I need an emotional support rattlesnake

I give my kiddos a list of treats they can vote for each week for their Friday celebration. Usually one's a joke. This week the joke option was 'vial of anthrax'. How concerned should I be that it's the only one with votes? These boogers are getting takis. Close enough.

I don't get it. when the folks who routinely get the most excited about new innovations in tech are all looking at a thing and going 'this is a bad thing', why are we all taking the opinions of people that don't know what words mean?

Why are all history teachers left-wing? Because they studied history.

Some buffoons are upset because I changed the ice cream making activity time from 5 to 6 to accommodate Ramadan and to them I say... Fuck all the way off, no ice cream for you

Fuck this bullshit. newrepublic.com/post/206765/...

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

Rep Raskin reports he reviewed the full unredacted Epstein Files & Trump's name appears MORE THAN A MILLION TIMES. We knew of 38K times—meaning we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser & sex trafficker. Anyone still unwilling to impeach & remove is complicit.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

MN Judge: "ICE has violated ~100 court orders." ICE: "We're acting on orders of Kristy Noem" Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of Trump & Miller" Nuremberg Trials: "I was just following orders is not a valid defense to criminal behavior" Abolish. Impeach. Prosecute.

Don’t look away.

ICE actively murdered someone again today.

I’m a human rights lawyer. I’ve dealt with ICE Fascists. I wrote this on how to protect your community, assert your rights, and how we fight back against ICE Fascism, together. No paywall. Share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune “There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Thank. You.

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

You let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends, they brought a hunger for blood and flesh and bone and skin

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

My analysis as a human rights lawyer where I cite: •The international & constitutional laws Trump violated •His absurd justification for this attack & why it will absolutely fail in any court of justice •The horrifying global implications that Trump just unleashed www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ill...

Most of the villains we loathe in media are significantly less evil than Elon Musk and the Pedo in Chief + minions/handlers.

"why don't they teach ____ in school?" we do. You were on your phone the entire time and never turned in the assignment, or just cheated and had your parents threatened to get the teacher fired when there were consequences. *balance checkbook, read a recipe, fill out a resume, etc...

“She thinks this is an appropriate place to get married?” Brian frowned. “May I kill her?” “No.” Sugar shook her head. Brian paused, then leaned in toward her. “Is that a not at all no, or a not in public no?” “Let me get back to you on that one.”

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

“Why doesn’t Bluesky leadership ban this known person” because they like that person’s views and work. That’s all. It’s the same reason Democrats cede rhetorical ground to fascists. They like it

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

I meant this literally then, I still mean it literally now, and if you've found a similar sentiment phrased more effectively, use that one instead. Even if they notice complaints are being copy-pasted, better they be flooded with those than receive even one complaint fewer. bsky.app/profile/just...

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Just saying, if a superhero ever throws my vehicle at a villain, they better not fucking miss

The only article on AI you need to read this week. TL;DR: "If LLMs as a technology are viable, they’ll still be around when and if I decide they’re useful for me. If not, I’ll have missed out on losing my life’s savings in Beanie Babies, The DotCom bubble, or NFTs."

After twelve years upon this wretched earth, a dog has discovered the joy of crunching on an ice cube on a hot day. We can no longer enter the kitchen without her sitting by the freezer and screaming for us to make the cold snacks. Bitch, it's 72F outside. You're not suffering.

That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.