To See Afar

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Milkshake puck

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

I genuinely hope that you do, I would absolutely read that

Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I'm sorry, the libs are getting CARDINAL DOLAN in the national divorce?

Image of a Virginia Democrats' proposed congressional map that is drawn to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. The district lines are displayed over top of a basemap with major roads and cities labeled. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin of victory, with Kamala Harris districts in blue and Donald Trump districts in red. Darker shades represent larger margins of victory. An embedded chart shows the 2024 presidential election results and the adult population racial demographics in each district. Kamala Harris won 10 of the 11 districts, while Black voters would retain their ability to elect their preferred candidates in Districts 3 and 4, which remain safely Democratic.

NEW: Virginia Dem legislators have passed their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans. Gov. Spanberger will likely sign it soon.

It would take effect for 2026 if voters pass it in an April 21 referendum (litigation pending).

Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/8560023...

Trump’s Commerce Secretary’s son has been buying people’s legal claims to tariff refunds, paying them a little up front to essentially soften the blow of the tariffs, and now he gets to cash in and collect all those tariff refunds. He’s connected to the administration!

Effective outrage Defusing and redirecting threats of “ICE at the polls!”

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.

katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...

Tbh I think our side perpetuating the myth that they could actually pull this off is more of a voter suppression risk than anything they actually could pull off

I have never been the biggest Fanberger but I absolutely would not want to be on her bad side.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

I do not regret to inform you that we - not the White House - are going to win

Trying not to put on my tin foil hat here, but if your strategy was to get the media to think you’d toned it down while actually going harder against the observers, a tactic you’d deploy would be to use a fifth column to divide the observers and box out the press, under a left-coded pretext.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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this baby is about to order the most complicated drink at starbucks you've ever seen in your life

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

Incredibly funny

Congressional Dems should be pushing for changes to venue rules (among other procedural/remedial changes, like Bivens) to prevent the Trump admin from evading bona fide judicial review by warehousing everyone in the Fifth Circuit.

10-1

Virginia Dems banking on 10-1 for 2026 and 2028

Could lose seats in 2030 if Dem President and red wave

But House probably lost either way at that point

Then maps are redrawn anyway due to census

Goal is to last through the Trump years

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

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Howard County revokes permit for ICE detention facility in Elkridge Howard County has revoked a building permit for a private immigrant detention facility proposed in Elkridge that authorities say is intended for use by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Howard County revokes permit for ICE detention facility in Elkridge

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