At least 100 law enforcement officers including local police, sheriffs and the FBI, stage less than a mile from the home of Minnesota DFL state Rep. Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park on June 14. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Too many law enforcement agencies are good at assembling cool tactical gear and and creating a daunting command post (📷👇🏽) and have little idea how to save lives. Get rid of the Call of Duty s*** and learn basic tactics.

So who is plugged in enough with the gossip to let me know if Jana and Kenny broke up? #loveislandUSA

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'

*More of this, please*"

Spring has sprung! Better to remove random flowers from the yard before the mowing begins!

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

TAX THE CHURCHES

TAX THE RICH

REMOVE THE CAP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS

HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP

AGREE? ✋

My heart goes out to colleagues in STEM, and to all of higher ed right now. This admin is Not Good for us.

Still, I can't help but wish folks had cared when it was the Rest of Us in the crosshairs. I can't get over the idea that many were OK with us being attacked by the far right because "DEI."

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims . . . but accomplices."
(George Orwell)

Creating a problem just to solve it is political theatre. CREATING a problem just to SOLVE it is political theatre.

CREATING A PROBLEM JUST TO SOLVE IT IS POLITICAL THEATRE.

To borrow from an Obi-Wan speech that was posted a lot, " Do not return to the temple, that time is past." #tiktokban . What went did not return unchanged.

I thought people were teasing ... mine is still down. But the message is gone

Sir !! 😂

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

People have such short memories.

Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

The Dark History of New Year's Day in American Slavery By Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.

As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden.

The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.

ibw21.org/reparations/...

Caribbean Modernism: Tropical Design Evolves for the 21st Century The evolution of Caribbean modernism for the 21st century is marked by a return to locally sourced materials, passive cooling techniques and designs that harmonize with the natural environment.

architizer.com/blog/inspira...

2025 countdown in publications:
1. “Everything Disappears,” a piece on how my mother was sold into slavery in 1968, was published by The Decolonial Passage, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publication’s “Best of the Net” Anthology
thedecolonialpassage.net/2024/04/05/e...

Black incarcerated lives matter. But that doesn't make a good bumper sticker, yard sign or T-shirt. "Allies" are too busy dismantling DEI to get involved. Robert Brooks' life mattered. He had the right to live, serve his sentence & determine how he'd live the rest of his life.

I was looking for this ! Like when they are doing it to 'not me' then it's righteous but when they get to 'me' then horror!

You are making it very obvious that you have not read a single page of crt. Maybe Twitter is a better place for you.

💯

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

Is this going to be actual history or the standard 'keep them comfortable' history?

An overturned stick is held upright in an autumn forest and covered in mature Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of their gills radiating above the next

Here are some nice mushrooms

this one easy trick will put a lot of black people into an early grave