Brian Phillips

Phenomenal list, and can I also throw in Porco Rosso

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Like he’d have a 30 point increase if he dropped the ferret Nazi stuff and just did queeny there should be live productions of Evita on ABC stuff

(reading preachy BlueSky posts lecturing me about how I'm actually wrong to be happy that a sadist was removed from power) oh wow, my watch was a little fast

That was me! Wow good memory

ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.

The ankle-length drama-queen Waffen SS greatcoat tailoring industry once again wholly reliant on Steven Spielberg villains for its survival

A writer not minding that developing events scrapped hours and hours of work...sounds like a true American hero...

This Bovino news comes at the worst possible moment for the draft I've been working on, and oh my God, can all my work please be invalidated in so thoroughly delightful a manner

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is almost certainly true — the meeting will be a press release in leaked-transcript form — but the turnabout is funny even if she's trying to manipulate it. You only do a press release in leaked-transcript form if you know half your employees are dying to leak the transcript!

If this meeting isn't ruthlessly live-tweeted by at least 20 staffers, God has no style

Woolen getting absolutely shorn out there

There's something so funny and wrong about watching an NFL player—by definition an ultra-elite athlete—take a little tumble onto his back and flub a punt catch. It's like watching a rabbit crawl out of a lake. What were you even doing in there, little buddy

(with a deep, shuddering sigh) Bobo's in paradise

Everyone is making fun of this but I hope I look that good when I'm Fran Lebowitz's age

(weirdly nauseating music plays as the camera pans, strangely covered with Vaseline) make pasta

Oh, you want to learn to do a pull up? ($300 billion later) develop more upper body strength

What if I told you that a morning person who loves music should study in the morning, while listening to music

JD Vance's uncle worked at Nintendo

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

The cool thing about my sensibility nemesis Christopher Nolan adapting the Odyssey is that I've come to see the idea of wandering the earth for years lost and totally out of contact with your home culture in a new, more positive light

(when I'm flicking fleas) oh yeahhhhh

I consider myself a flea-flicker appreciator, and I'll tell it to you straight: That flea-flicker was all right

the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful

it’s that time again

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

The flip side of this is that in Philly last week I saw signs reading "ICE supports the Cowboys" and for a fleeting instant I felt worried for the Gestapo