Joe

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

I know this is not the point but what the fuck are we even doing here "buying groceries for my neighbors in hiding" and we all understand it and are like "yeah, of course". What the fuck.

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT Magic Johnson, Rony Seikaly and a Hidden Act of Courage, Revealed | PTFO

The untold story of what Rony Seikaly did for Magic Johnson, behind closed doors, is incredible.

And the reason why Seikaly decided to do it — which he discusses on PTFO, with @foster.bsky.social, for the first time — is even more powerful.

Especially today: youtu.be/xdZvVMgSzTw?...

Text card: Thinking About... "Watching the Olympics from Ukraine" "We cannot be free without the memory of others who suffer, without recalling the people who are suffering now; in this night, in this place, during this air raid alert, I think of Ukraine, where I am: but it could be Sudan, or Gaza, or Iran, or concentration camps in Russia, or China, or America, and all of the history that we choose to forget, and how that forgetfulness helped bring us our present predicament. Do Americans remember, for example, how much hatred greeted Tommie Smith and John Carlos when they wore black gloves and raised their fists on the podium after winning sprinting medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?" Read more at Snyder.Substack.com

“Freedom of memory,” wrote the skiier Kateryna Kotsar on her glove. It also works the other way around: we need memory for freedom.

Drew Carey hosting whose line is it anyway

welcome to bluesky, where the discourse is made up and the likes don't matter

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

It appears we have reinvented the motivation for a majority of denunciations to the NKVD, 1933-36, from first principles.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Why? Why? Why? And a few more whys on top of those

I have questions.

open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

bread and circus

Over the last 36 years, I swore an oath to the US Constitution for 5 different careers. I’ve never sworn allegiance to a person. Or a party. And certainly not to ignorant greedy crooks. My next constitutional oath will be as a lawyer. And then I’ll see these ignorant greedy crooks again. Bet on it

“NEAR THIS SPOT CAPT. JAMES COOK MET HIS DEATH FEBRUARY 14, 1779” — A brick laid in the waters of Kealakekua Bay, Kona district, Hawaiʻi

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

This is the tape that changed my life forever! Recorded 56 years ago today at the Fillmore East in New York City.

Is there a piece of music that changed yours? :)

The Congress is treating child rape like it is another news cycle for them to all compete over winning.

This is the bad place.

Amy Klobuchar’s Record on Trump Is Shameful - Racket As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Whoever figures out how to sterilize milk will be so famous they’ll probably name the process after them.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I think your mom saw Rocky Horror Picture Show.

There are other worlds they have not told you of, They wish to speak to you.
(Sun Ra)

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Why the fuck do we have so many cops & so many FBI agents & so many sprawling law enforcement intelligence fusion networks if all they ever do is say "the victim didn't email us back so we never followed up on their accusations against Jeffery Epstein" or "she sounds crazy, allegations disregarded"

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Art by Topsy Spray paint graffiti art of Alex Pretti, dressed as a nurse, helping a woman to her feet, only the woman is Lady Liberty - sword, scales, blindfold and all.

Yep. Yep. This one hit me pretty fucking hard.

Snow Dan @StolenDans neil degrasse tyson listening to it's raining men, shaking his head: impossible

It’s funny that there was bipartisan consensus to do this.

Alan Page protesting in Minneapolis yesterday. Alan was a Minnesota Viking, is in the NFL Hall of Fame and is a retired Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Picture depicts a man in winter headwear, with only his eyes visible. There are ice particles present on hat and facial covering.

#Minneapolis #StPaul #Minnesota #Skol