I would like to invite you to a very practical and frequently unappreciated form of abstinence: that of refraining from words that offend and hurt our neighbor. Let us begin by disarming our language, avoiding harsh words and rash judgement, refraining from slander and speaking ill of those who /1

I'm not shocked at all.

Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer of Green Day, appears to have worn an Our Lady of Guadalupe medal during their Super Bowl opening ceremony performance today. Very interesting times…

SERIOUSLY!

“Piles of Shame” isn’t just unpainted minis, pals..,

#OtD 8 Feb 1938 veteran metalworker and anarchist, Olga Taratuta, was executed in the USSR for organising rail workers. She had been arrested and imprisoned many times by the regime and by the Tsar, but never gave up the fight for the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat The bomb threat was emailed to several schools in the Columbia Heights Public School district after Liam Conejo Ramos returned home from Texas on Sunday night.

The Minneapolis school district attended by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos shut down today after receiving a bomb threat. www.ms.now/news/school-...

Liam is now home.

YouTube video by MS NOW Snyder: Trump administration using words like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ is what tyrants do

"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere."
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Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

Minutes after getting praised by corporate media for claiming—without evidence—that he'd deescalate his attacks on Minnesota, Trump libeled Congresswoman Omar, she was attacked in public by an assailant spraying an unknown substance, and the stochastic terrorist-in-chief responded to that with this:

Pope's top US cardinal describes ICE as 'machinery of death' and 'lawless organization'.
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Body cams for government thugs are a joke obviously but here's my compromise idea: shock collars for government thugs

The image features the American flag in the background, with a prominent bald eagle, which is a national symbol of the United States, superimposed in the foreground. The text at the top reads "LAND OF THE FREE," and the text at the bottom reads "HOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON POPULATION." This juxtaposition of imagery and text seems to convey a critical commentary on the notion of freedom in the United States, highlighting the paradox of having a large prison population.

If there are alternate timelines, then there might be one dumber than our own. I wouldn't want to be the losers living there.

Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
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4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

The crisis is urgent.
We know that we can do little, but we must resolve to do all.
If we are afraid, we must pray not to be afraid, to be fools for Christ. Love includes justice.

Dorothy Day

The hostility of Canada geese is now justified.

Seen people wondering why so many major institutions are prostrating themselves before Trump and maybe this is obvious but it's because the incentives for cowardice are immediate and obvious while the disincentives aren't. All they lose is their dignity and you can't pay the bills with that anyway

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.