I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Oh shit.

Amelia dragging a big ass ladder into the alley because the dishwashers asked if she wanted to get high with them mid-shift

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

Everyone needs to be super aware of the media we're consuming. Lots of AI images and deep fakes, and now most of the mainstream media is right wing slanted 😮‍💨 I'm trying to take a step back from social media altogether but also making intentional effort to confirm videos or pictures are real. 🫤

BREAKING: Son of the most powerful man on the planet who's name is on dozens of golf courses and buildings and shakes down every institution for payoffs and bribes is rich. HOW DID HE DO IT

Imagine not portraying this as a crime.

Judge Immergut in Oregon v Trump now:

"I grant plaintiffs second motion for a TRO."

Federalized Texas and California Guard to Portland is a "DIRECT CONTRAVENTION" of court's TRO from Saturday.

Both on 12406 statute and Tenth Amendment grounds.

2/ Your reminder that Judge Immergut was appointed to the bench by President Trump.

Literally what SS was founded for 😵

on a personal note, even though I am a Minnesota Star-Tribune subscriber, I am not the source for this story, but I *am* always discreetly knowing what is happening on peoples' phones around me, you meed to understand that these phones are the size of Hondas, it's a golden age for even casual snoops

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

The few times they are "useful"..."this person [with a hat pulled low over their face] stole a package from my porch!!!" ....and, we can do what with that info? (Exactly nothing)

They will learn soon enough trust me
I can't get my 9 yo to stop burping on command and farting at the table 😒

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

I'm actually surprised the summary doesn't describe skin color, estimated height or weight (given the racialized nature of surveillance)

So now we can set fire to the environment by not only capturing/uploading/hosting hours and hours of unnecessary "security" footage, but ALSO having LLM review all the footage to tell us..."today was another normal day at your house like 99% of other days"

.... WHY. JUST. WHY.

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.