That’s not how any of this works

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Maybe don’t assume that every brown boy is the one you saw on the news.

Part of the joy of the Bad Bunny performance at the Super Bowl is how much it normalized queer lives - I don’t think I’ve seen a single straight person make note of it.

What time is the Bad Bunny show?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Don’t Bring Your Fucking Guitar To the Protest March Last Friday I skipped work as part of the National Shutdown, in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. As part of the shutdown, there were protests scheduled all over the country, and I figured if...

The key to resistance is being part of a crowd, not always the center of attention. Sometimes your part is just showing up.

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

The regime has entered the “arrest the journalists” phase of its fascist evolution. Assume that any media outlet that does not cover this with full-throated outrage has chosen to be complicit.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Yes, it’s cold. Yes, you should protect yourself (and others, as you are able). No, I’m not looking forward to a foot or more of snow. But I’m from New England and chose to live in upstate New York. I’ll take the cold over the heat any day.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

This is the five-year-old who was kidnapped by ICE and transported to Texas for deportation. Because it is well known that you can identify dangerous felons by their blue hats with bunny ears and pompom strings.

I’ve forgotten - which seal in Revelation is broken to cause Sweden to send troops to Greenland as part of a NATO operation against US aggression?

Cover art of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). A chipped teacup spills tea against a green background with blue and gold vegetal scrollwork. A thin red ribbon snakes across the image. A gold seal reads, “National Book Award Winner.”

If you are looking for a good book to read that will stay with you, I recommend The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine. Deeply moving but also darkly funny, sometimes in ways that might not hit you until later.

At this point, any Democratic politician not calling for ICE and CBP to be disbanded and defunded, or at least completely restructured, is a collaborator.

I’m sure they can find a stable for the night

Less than a year into his presidency, Trump announced that, without congressional involvement, he had ordered and carried out the invasion of another country to abduct its president and their spouse and to plunder their resources. His sycophants praised him using openly fascistic language.

When the Magi informed King Herod that a new king had been born, he purportedly ordered the slaughter of all baby boys in the region to eliminate the competition. This caused Joseph to flee to Egypt with Jesus and Mary as refugees from the violence.

For clarity, Herod is not the hero of this story.

Two Christmas thoughts in dynamic tension: “Glory to God in the highest! And on Earth, peace to people of goodwill!” and “tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.” May we have more cause in the upcoming year to live out the former rather than the latter.

Every word the president spoke tonight was a lie, including “and” and “the.” I don’t know which prospect is more troubling: that he knows it’s a lie but ranted it out to the world like some demented dictator, or that his staff allows him to think that it’s true.

5. Developing, siting, and testing individual new reactors is within the purview of the DOE. Regulation of commercial reactors produced in larger numbers is by law the job of the NRC 3/3

3. The cost of development for new nuclear technologies is prohibitive for for-profit industry. Government investment in this area would aid progress

4. Speed cannot be the driving virtue when testing novel technologies 2/

Some thoughts:

1. Micro-sized nuclear reactors are an interesting idea that could solve some significant challenges

2. The DOE has a long history of developing experimental reactor designs. It is completely appropriate that they be involved in the development of micro-sized nuclear reactors 1/

Anyone else google a phone number they don't recognize instead of answering the phone?

Christmas in Albany looks a little different

The Democrats in the Senate want to subsidize the cost of healthcare. The Republicans don’t want these funds to go to the insurance companies. So it seems a single-payer system administered by the government is the perfect compromise.

Maybe we can convince him and Elise Stefanik that Trump wants a cage match to the death for the Republican primary

Afghans arrested by ICE in Albany amid crackdown after D.C. shooting After the shooting of two National Guard members, immigration officials are targeting Afghans for deportation. At least 10 were arrested this week in the Albany area.

ICE terrorists kidnapping Afghan refugees outside a mosque here in Albany. If they are sent back to Afghanistan, they will almost certainly be killed. How do we stop this?

Just got out of another “explanation of employee benefits” meeting. My cost per paycheck is going up by 67%, and it is easy to compare plans if you have a relevant PhD and decades of experience. I don’t understand how anybody can sit through that and not come out in favor of single-payer healthcare.

Our country is awash in guns. Until we recognize this as a crisis, we cannot continue to be surprised when people are shot. We need to grow up as a country and find a solution. 4/4