Marina Endicott

Every last one of these ICE officers belongs in prison for this. Hold them accountable!

In 1932, the Soviet Union utilized food shortages as a means of coercion against the Soviet Ukrainian population. Called the Holodomor, it was a man-made famine used for political purposes, much like what Republicans in Congress are getting ready to do to fellow Americans.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

every day I am forced to see the dumbest thing I have ever seen

Not….quite…. (but secretly practically interchangeable)

Synechdoche? In this metonymy?

Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

The future of AI

She’s the best.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

Judge Young is (rightly) horrified by masked ICE agents - but he also finds them cowardly:

You know, Toni Morrison said, “Absorbing the lies, untruths, both transparent and nuanced, of governments, their hypocrisy so polished it does not even care if it is revealed, can lead to a wearied and raveled mind.”

Climate-stressed fault system to join struggle in war-torn PDX?

> @macfarlanenews.bsky.social

Hahaha! I already can’t imagine a world in which I ever sign up for Disney again

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It's not the corruption. it's the low sum. 50k? russian street level punk money. So? Racist, corrupt and stupid, classic Trump team

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell just told the FCC chairman to hire a lawyer and preserve records because they will be held accountable in 2027 when democrats take the House.

Oh and he’s wearing a Jimmy Kimmel hat.

Let’s hope that helps.

Horrible but useful distillation of blackpoll/groyper ideology

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

(And misattribute quotes)

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Or in theatre: