How to handle the fear, EPA to stop animal testing, Palestinians go on general strike, and your cat thinks you’re a klutz.: EC: One of the things I heard you say [is that] sometimes it can feel...
Secret fear of the morally depraved
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong: If the agents detain someone, the observers will try to get that person’s name so they can inform the family. But ICE prefers to make arrests—which the ICE Watchers call...
Fascist criminals who deserve to be introduced to an Italian Esso station canopy
Cup of Coffee: January 27, 2026: I guess this means that being an unpleasant and aggressive dipshit is all well and good until it starts costing the bigger fascists politically... None of this earns...
Defector on the NFL Conference Championships
Patriots And Broncos Stink On Ice: Denver quarterback Jarrett Stidham, thrust into action by Bo Nix's season-ending ankle injury last weekend, connected on a deep ball on Denver's second drive,...
Violent men will show their cowardice
From Ed Burmila's Patreon on the Alex Pretti killing: ...there is an off-ramp in these situations that we've seen countless elected officials take but that is unavailable to Donald Trump. They threw...
Mousy Trump stooge
Bari Weiss suuuuuuuuuuuuucks: I cherish your ignorance of this woman, and it pains me to disabuse you of it. It really, truly does. I hate that you have to know who Bari Weiss is, because your life...
Classic Nazi mistake
From Minneapolis: I've Never Seen Unity Like This Before I decided to come up to cover the anti-ICE resistance up there, I reached out to a friend who lived there. “It’s going to be really, really...
Cruelty for its own sake
Again, Calcaterra says it much better than I can. Cup of Coffee: January 22, 2026 There have been scenes and stories like this every day, but yesterday something broke in me and I was filled with a...
Trump's madness will end one day
Craig Calcaterra and Paul Krugman calling it like it is. Cup of Coffee: January 21, 2026: > And what can we say about the cowardly Republicans in Congress, who are still sustaining Trump even though...
ICE is running an extremely leaky ship
The government is not doing any level of due diligence on who they're hiring for ICE. I thought it was bad, but this articles confirms it's much more slipshod than any of us thought possible. ICE...
JD Vance Is A Hog That’ll Eat Any Slop
JD Vance Is A Hog That'll Eat Any Slop: The operating principle of JD Vance's life in politics seems to be as follows: How can I serve every powerful person while appealing to literally no normal...
A specific and repellent type of American Guy
Fascists Are Pathetic: It is maybe more accurate to say that the public-facing part of the federal government is identifiable at this moment as a specific and repellent type of American Guy. Instinct...
Mexican secrets
I made up this story based on this tweet from Josh Gondelman: Here it is: Listen, there’s something I have to tell you. I was sworn to secrecy while still within the borders of the great nation of...
Withdraw consent
One of the best things I've done is subscribe to the Today's Edition newsletter from Robert Hubbell. He posted this excerpt from one of his readers' letter to an editor at the reader's local paper....
Orwell quote for ICE
George Orwell wrote the following in 1984. It definitely captures ICE's essence: He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms--one of those completely...