Laura Slack 🪰

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti's stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

True. This is history that everyone connected to UVA should know. news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

Ah. Good morning to everyone but especially to my favourite Badly Drawn Wolf

I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

text block over a headline from them magazine with the headline “GOP Lawmakers, Including Nancy Mace, Say Trans People Should Be Institutionalized Following Charlie Kirk Death”: one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. fuck this. if you tend to agree with nancy here, chances are pretty astronomical that you know zero trans people. (or you do and don't know it because your righteous ignorance makes you an unsafe person to be honest with.) for the trans folks i know and love, their whole agenda is to be able to live their lives. in other words: they want to be themselves and go about their everyday damn business. that's it. how fucking dare you believe otherwise.

ICYMI, fuck this noise. 🏳️‍⚧️

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole. thing looks close and familiar Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for Hitler, some had thought. When he became chancellor nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual. Germany was a notoriously law-abiding as well as cultured land. How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people? German Jews were highly assimilated and patriotic. Many refused to leave their homeland, even as things got worse and worse. Tam German and am waiting for the Germans to come back; they have gone to ground somewhere," Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary-he was the son of a rabbi and a veteran of the First World War who chose to stay, and miraculously survived. Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastroph-ially wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.

This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.

FFS I got death threats about making Optimus Prime the wrong kind of truck when I wrote the TRANSFORMERS movie. Do the job or get out of the way.

Front pages of the LA Times, Wall St Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington Times. Three have pictures of the Trump/ Bukele meeting, none of the headlines mention Trump is defying the Supreme Court. Three focus on El Salvador refusing to release Garcia

Front pages of the Washington Post, Miami Herald, New York Times and Minnesota Star Tribune . Two have pictures of the Trump/ Bukele meeting, none of the headlines mention Trump is defying the Supreme Court. Two focus on El Salvador refusing to release Garcia

Trump is defying a Supreme Court judgement to return a man wrongfully deported to a foreign prison without any due process.

This. Is. A. Constitutional. Crisis.

Not that you would know from today’s front pages. Most suggest it’s all El Salvador’s fault.

A colossal failure of mainstream media.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

What I think was *really* beneficial about Hands Off is that people need to see (in real life) that they’re not alone.

In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question.

The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.

Donald Trump is literally running a Tesla ad in front of the White House to help Elon’s failing stock.

This entire administration is a scam.

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

i love that you love this! 🤗

This just made my freaking day! 🥹

UVA’s BOV encouraging families to go elsewhere for gender affirming care, apparently blissfully unaware that there is nowhere else to go

Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough

Friday morning. UVA Rotunda. See you there, Charlottesville.