Kim

as a life-long Star Wars fan: the math checks out.

like could we have averted much of the last decade if someone with enough charisma had shown up with the right fake newspaper mockup?

I'll just be over here, staring into the void, whimpering

FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip During what his agency said was purely a business trip, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated with the U.S. men’s hockey team in Italy on Sunday.

"Eight former FBI and Justice Department officials sent MS NOW a copy of the video, which they said was drawing outrage as it rocketed around FBI and DOJ circles. " by @carolleonnig.bsky.social + @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social for @ms.now

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins A six-decade agreement governing Muslim and Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site has “collapsed” under pressure from Jewish extremists backed by the Israeli government, experts have warned. A series of arrests of Muslim caretaker staff, bans on access for hundreds of Muslims, and escalating incursions by radical Jewish groups culminated this week in the arrest of the imam of al-Aqsa mosque and an Israeli police raid during evening prayers on the first night of Ramadan. Continue reading...

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

Put it down. Walk away. Never mention it. Maybe we'll be lucky

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!

You can't put guardrails around terrorists, ma'am. ICE must be abolished and any senator supporting reform is simply supporting terrorism.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

What a wonderful show. An antidote to all the Trump’s and Noem’s bile.

Bad Bunny: So uplifting. And the words in English on the billboard: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” Right on.

Best bet is to presume anyone calling for us to just move on from the Epstein files absolutely knows why they are important and they want that truth suppressed.

Stylized Purple Finch with wings raised in a rebel alliance emblem silhouette

NH Purple Finch, Special Edition! My process has evolved considerably since I coughed up that first Finch, so I'm pullin' a Lucas on it. Again - all of these are inspired by the creative commons Minnesota Loon Rebel Bird which was NOT MY CREATION. I didn't light this torch, I'm just running with it.

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

Shipped this month: 59,870. Total shipped, 104,536.

Update from the Whistle Crew!

After adding in the huge batch @bibliogrrl.bsky.social & @lefttheprairie.bsky.social brought up to Minneapolis for the whistle packing event, we have crossed a milestone that makes me emotional! 💓😭

100k since December! And we're only accelerating!

We are quickly coming up on 50,000 whistles shipped so far in January, and I am just forever impressed by the passion of the folks who have joined forces with us!

A reminder that if you know anyone who needs whistles, they can email the address at the top of our linktree! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition.
Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Abolish Ice should be a centrist position

And here we are…👇

A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.

Dropped his loaded clip.

Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.

This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats.

Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.

💯

Well done, Fed Chair.

NEW: Statement of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Trump’s criminal investigation into him. He says they are seeking an indictment over his Congressional testimony, but calls it pretext to pressure him into lowering interest rates.