Tahir Duckett

These are the real battles of our time.

(What's worse is, yes, that's one of the topics that is stupid right now but there are like four others too)

This is probably right. Most other bad fruits at least have some good use. Banana (bread), blueberry (muffin). I don't know that dragonfruit has any value at all.

For the last week people have been coming in at like Mach 10 for stuff that you honestly shouldn't get out of bed for in the morning. Y'all gotta chill.

Bluesky is generally good, but I like it a lot less when we have fights to the death about shit that is mostly pretty inconsequential.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yeah I'm traveling tomorrow (fingers crossed) and if the Dems fund ICE so I don't have to take off my shoes I will be incandescent

It seems bad that the government can issue a policy that hurts people and lie about whose fault it is with no repercussions. Exhibit 274318.

I gave up cable news after Kerry/Edwards and I have never once regretted it.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

If they really want to see some powerful antibodies they should study daycare teachers

Army veteran sues federal government after ICE detains him for three days US citizen George Retes was held without access to family, an attorney, or information about the charges against him

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

smh this won’t do anything about the price of eggs

Hate this cycle by which everyone warning this is going to be used for awful things has to be called hysterical right now, only to be proven right in a couple years when Ring cameras help ICE find a six year old they can traffick to El Salvador.

Hate this cycle by which everyone warning this is going to be used for awful things has to be called hysterical right now, only to be proven right in a couple years when Ring cameras help ICE find a six year old they can traffick to El Salvador.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Or humor.

I don't think anyone will ever convince me that the entire right isn't just a giant piece of performance art.

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Keep your head up, bro. The right fit is coming!!

As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise.

I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.

Really important point about the way RFK and his pals have implemented anti-vax ideology at the FDA.

This is horrific

Instead we get a bunch of “why not let it go?”

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.