it really is amazing how well the “are you pro Ukraine and pro Palestine” thing works as a basic moral litmus test

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

You know that thing where the farther something is, the smaller it looks? That doesn’t quite work in an expanding universe. It’s true for a while but after a certain point, more distant things (of the same size) start to look BIGGER because their light has been traveling since the cosmos was small 🙃

A very emo looking ICE agent.

Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

yeah in case you weren’t aware, this is Wyden firing a shot across the bow

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

JKT is rocketing to the top of my gov rankings for a few reasons:

1. He's a good, kind Alaskan.
2. He has 10 years of legislative experience
3. He understands AK's problems & has a proven track record of bipartisanship
4. He's young (36) & gets what's at stake in a way older generations may not

Pollypocket to polymarket pipeline

Made in the USA: How American-Built Weapons Have Wrought Destruction in Gaza - bellingcat Bellingcat has identified scores of incidents where remnants from munitions made in the US have been found after Israeli strikes in Gaza.

New Bellingcat investigation: Made in the USA: How American-Built Weapons Have Wrought Destruction in Gaza.
The article examines how US-made weapons have been used in Israeli strikes and the civilian harm linked to their use.

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

"But capitalism is *efficient*"

NEVER THOUGHT I'D DIE FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE WITH A LIBERTARIAN TAXATION IS THEFT PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK JIP AND PUT YOUR GAS MASK ON

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

Dunno, looks like gravel to me 😂

US Conservatives moving from Judge Dredd to Judge Death vibes.

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

Look what pulled into Tacoma It's at pct with the green cranes now. For Renee Good. 2K少 D86 RaccoonWillich • 6h ago What's remarkable about this? Does it say something? Edit: Ah I figured this was a colorblindness test. I did not pass. Thanks everyone! • 0 349 ₴ • IncognitoMeanie • 6h ago Oh no! You're colorblind : ( 3 more replies v Handyandy58 • 6h ago The red containers spell "rEnEE" which is a reference to Renee Good, the woman who was murdered by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on January 7 2026. 42 153 a

Renee good containers

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).

www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

For those who missed it yesterday, this thread contains a detailed analysis of the Alex Pretti killing, clearly showing he was holding a phone when attacked by ICE, and had a gun removed from him shortly before being shot to death by ICE officers.

Following cuz I'd also like to know!

So good and weirdly so unlike a cheeseburger

I'm crying over patty melts. Thank you, Tal

A thread of one-liners, silly images and inexplicably popular posts that wouldn't otherwise be findable again

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

If you actually care about advancing AI in ways that will genuinely improve human lives, your number one priority right now should be figuring out how to slap a muzzle over the constantly gibbering mouths of these absurdly ass-brained AI company executives.

Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement Outdoor apparel company Patagonia on Wednesday sued drag queen and environmental activist Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement, claiming the play on its name could create consumer confusion.

Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement reut.rs/4bJCfaQ

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.