dot (snapdragon830 on twitter)
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This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
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Death squads.
ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.
January 11, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Death squads.
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BREAKING: The Senate confirmed the first lifetime judge of 2026. Seven Democrats inexplicably voted to confirm Alexander Van Hook to the Western District of Louisiana.
If all Dems/Independents voted no, given absent Republicans, the vote would've failed. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/with-democ...
If all Dems/Independents voted no, given absent Republicans, the vote would've failed. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/with-democ...
With Democratic Support, Senate Confirms Trump’s Tenth Louisiana District Court Judge
Amidst all that is happening, why are Senate Democrats still supporting Trump’s judges?
nominationnotes.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.
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ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs https://theonion.com/ice-agent-panics-after-realizing-there-more-children-than-he-has-flash-bangs/
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs https://theonion.com/ice-agent-panics-after-realizing-there-more-children-than-he-has-flash-bangs/
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It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
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They will murder unarmed citizens and then accuse them of wrongdoing. Zero sense of accountability or shame.
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
They will murder unarmed citizens and then accuse them of wrongdoing. Zero sense of accountability or shame.
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Mamdani : you trust fund bitches been whitewashing nazis too much
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Mamdani : you trust fund bitches been whitewashing nazis too much
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Permanent ban then, wonderful
Moratorium on ChatGPT until guard rails can be put in place to stop it from killing people
As someone that struggles with a delusional disorder, and spent a few years in a psychosis hell-hole, I am fairly convinced that I would have been manipulated into being a genuine threat to myself and others were ChatGPT a thing I could have interacted with pre-Therapy.
It is a murder machine.
It is a murder machine.
January 1, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Permanent ban then, wonderful
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Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.
December 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.
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This is a helluva piece by local news reporters about the nightmare our city endured. Read every word about the violence & overreach, non-stop DHS lies, disgusting ICE/CPB photo ops, horrible impacts on families & communities & how local Chicago residents fought back.
December 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is a helluva piece by local news reporters about the nightmare our city endured. Read every word about the violence & overreach, non-stop DHS lies, disgusting ICE/CPB photo ops, horrible impacts on families & communities & how local Chicago residents fought back.
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"There were many, many beatings, Quintero said: 'If we talked, they would beat us.'...
Routinely, the guards isolated detainees in a dark room known as 'La Isla, he recalled. At one point, Hernandéz Romero has said, he was dragged there and sexually abused..."
Routinely, the guards isolated detainees in a dark room known as 'La Isla, he recalled. At one point, Hernandéz Romero has said, he was dragged there and sexually abused..."
"‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life: After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela"
‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life
After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"There were many, many beatings, Quintero said: 'If we talked, they would beat us.'...
Routinely, the guards isolated detainees in a dark room known as 'La Isla, he recalled. At one point, Hernandéz Romero has said, he was dragged there and sexually abused..."
Routinely, the guards isolated detainees in a dark room known as 'La Isla, he recalled. At one point, Hernandéz Romero has said, he was dragged there and sexually abused..."
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They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
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My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail.
They sat there, feeling happy together.
They sat there, feeling happy together.
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
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perfect metaphors don’t exis—
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
perfect metaphors don’t exis—
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What kind of corrupt bastard government would deliberately hollow out their country to enrich and empower their own class of wealthy swine, at the public’s expense, meaning they no longer have the capacity to build and maintain essential products and services
December 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What kind of corrupt bastard government would deliberately hollow out their country to enrich and empower their own class of wealthy swine, at the public’s expense, meaning they no longer have the capacity to build and maintain essential products and services
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The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
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Children used to worry they’d get a lump of coal in their stocking. But in this deep red Pennsylvania town, coal is exactly what the children are hoping to get
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Children used to worry they’d get a lump of coal in their stocking. But in this deep red Pennsylvania town, coal is exactly what the children are hoping to get
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Say what you will about Hitler, but he was the guy who killed Hitler.
December 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Say what you will about Hitler, but he was the guy who killed Hitler.
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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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In the grand tradition of American journalism, both sides must always be expressed. On the one side, there might be the moral courage of CECOT survivors who told us their story. On the other side, there might might be my service to oligarchical fascism in killing their story.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
In the grand tradition of American journalism, both sides must always be expressed. On the one side, there might be the moral courage of CECOT survivors who told us their story. On the other side, there might might be my service to oligarchical fascism in killing their story.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss