Mark M. Evans

The Bible, like every religious text I am aware of, is a Rorschach test. It has been used to promote acceptance, caring for the disadvantaged, welcoming outcasts, and feeding the poor. It has also been used to justify bloody wars, conquests, torture, oppression, and slavery.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters.

Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle

The UK is trying really hard to follow suit. And Hungry. And Turkey.

Such a stupid take.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.

With deep fake AI literally putting lies into the mouths of journalists and historians the need for FOIA paywall free news has never been greater

Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"

The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

* Juke box. Sigh. My kingdom for an edit button.

1. I love this album.
2. The title track “Marquee Moon” is an excellent value on the June box.

That’s the Convention. I literally said *after* the convention. The convention was lovely, the policies were dandy - other than the whole “genocide, what genocide?” Schtick.

The convention gave me hope. The campaign did not. No defense of LGBTQ folk, no mention of the dehumanization.

I’m so sick of these giant codpieces. They block site lines of and for pedestrians, bicycles, and actual cars - leading to skyrocketing pedestrian and cyclist deaths. We keep making lanes and parking spaces bigger for these beasts.

All so someone feels “big” getting groceries.

The lesson I am taking from the Epstein files is that if you have a mutually supportive network of a certain size and power, you can indeed affect the culture at large.

Imagine if some folks who weren't among the worst that humanity has to offer did something similar?

Trump, Miller and Noem are seeking vengeance…

…On a five-year-old

This is what drives me nuts. People saying the Harris campaign was “too woke,” when I don’t recall any support for LGBTQ+ post convention. They just let the GOP set the narrative and now Newsom is doing the same thing. Validating transphobia and misogynists for a mythical swing voter.

AIPAC Is Back, Just Under A New Name | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld81MT…

Why are the men’s names redacted and the victims names exposed?

Someone explain to me why the men’s names are redacted?

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

xkcd.com/3202/

“Our expert ethical analysis does not support withholding gender-affirming care from minors.”

As pediatric bioethicists, we wrote this analysis of the ethical shortcomings and flawed conclusions driving the two proposed bans on gender-affirming care.

www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/g...

This isn’t a training issue. This is a mission issue. Abolish ICE & DHS.

During the 2021 hard freeze in Texas, gas generation failed at 5x the rate wind power. By your logic gas turbines are a massive failure.

Do you have an actual argument?

“I’m not a puppet, I’m the puppet master!”