On at least 23 occasions, federal agents in Minnesota detained people solely on the basis of their race during Operation Metro Surge. That’s according to Federal Judge Eric Tostrud.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”
Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers
Me: "Why can't I access my web pages?"
Them: "Oh, we decided to turn off that server nine years ago. Didn't we tell you?"
(It was working eight months ago, by the way.)
@courtneyellis.bsky.social reminds me to look for #ABirdFromTheLord . I'm traveling at an academic conference, feeling rushed and discouraged....and the birds find me. Familiar birdsong from home reminding me that God is here even if I'm not looking. (There's a sermon in there somewhere.)
On this date in 1942, FDR signed the executive order enabling the internment and expulsion of Japanese-Americans in World War II. Census records were used to facilitate this atrocity.
This is one reason why data privacy matters.
My thoughts on Stephen A Smith potentially running for president are:
Could we please stop fucking electing celebrities and get back to the business of running the country with boring people who just want to do a good job.
Thanks
The midterm is next Tuesday. Two students dropped the course this week.
My students taught me a new word today: "radicand".
Much harder to do without an excuse like "the House is not in session".
Quiz 1 scheduled for 1/23. Classes cancelled at 6am due to icy roads. Fine, I'll postpone it a day; that's why I built a flex day into the schedule.
Quiz 2 rescheduled for today (2/10). Classes cancelled at 6am due to a water main break.
If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all ...
By the way ... the wedding in the middle of the Super Bowl halftime show was real.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/entert...
MAGA: we don’t watch the NFL, it’s too woke
Also MAGA: spends two weeks bitching about the Super Bowl halftime show and the Black National Anthem every year
My wife's annual tradition.
funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
At Ghent University, the rector gave a back-to-school speech with inspirational quotes. Months later, an analysis shows most of the quotes were fake. The rector confessed to using an AI tool that hallucinated the quotes.
www.coreprose.com/fr/kb-incide...
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.
That’s a weird way to say “blew out all the veins on his right hand so now he has to use the left for the injections that we refuse to admit he’s getting”
Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Texas is about to freeze again.
Has Ted Cruz made it to Cancun yet, or nah?
"These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."
--MLK, speaking at Grosse Pointe High School (Michigan), 14 March 1968. (2/2)
"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society." (1/2)
