Philando Castile and Daniel Lewis were also legal and licensed and not suspected of any crime and did not brandish their weapons and were nevertheless gunned down by police. Gun rights groups were silent about them.

If the Second Amendment applies at the discretion of police with summary execution as an outcome, then it doesn’t exist.

When the government does exactly the same thing seventeen days later despite the global outcry

When they immediately label the victim an assassin

When they laud the actual killers as courageous victims

When they make claims that are obviously, clearly, and undisputably contradicted by video evidence

When they obstruct anybody but themselves from investigating the killing

When they have already stated their conclusions about the event without investigation

They're endorsing state murder.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-ice-immigration-protest-unions-faith-leaders-edc6c4884f8cc26be9ad34a28d82a7a5

When this is all over—and I hope I live to see it—it’s gonna take a fuckton of work to achieve a just and orderly society. (Not that we ever had one before but the arc bent that way).

The rule of law ain’t gonna reestablish itself.

Ayatollah calls on Washington to show protesters humanity amid reports of rising death toll in crackdown
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115890782719302929

Please set your Free Society Meter to the “national secret police shoot a woman in the head, then call her a terrorist” setting

@thomasfuchs but Marco Rubio got “our” oil so…

Something something invading and occupying a foreign country without congressional authorization something something

Two’s a good start
https://flipboard.com/@fortune/luxury-dg0birv8z/-/a-a5MJqGhoRY2Y2aOPGObBfQ%3Aa%3A3195428-%2F0

It doesn’t matter if the administration thinks solar and wind are failures. The people responsible—the ones who have to choose what to invest in that will generate the most power for the least money with high reliability—are using renewables for >80% of new power generation. Oil and coal are over (and gas is declining), because they’re not cost-effective.

Capitalism has no use for culture wars that go against profitability. The GOP will lose their business base.
https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/115720147942026032

Why did the governor of Rhode Island say of the Brown mass shooting “the unthinkable has happened?” A man with a gun shooting up a school is, like, one of the most thinkable things about America. It’s almost our core identity now.

@thomasfuchs it’s called MacWorks sweaty look it up

The problem with our current approach to global diplomacy is that peace is a philosophy, and treating it like a brand is not durable.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/donald-trump-difference-making-deal-and-making-peace

In jail, without indictment:
• day care center worker
• tamale vendor
• military spouse

Freed from jail despite trial and conviction:
• Drug-kingpin former foreign president
• Bribe-taking member of Congress
• Billion-dollar fraudster

Man, even Black Friday has gotten so damn commercial. Another great American holiday ruined.

If you weren’t following the James/Comey indictments, there’s a lot more to the saga than “wut the US Attorney wasn’t really the US Attorney” that was decided today.

• Both indictments came after Pam Bondi was scolded by her boss in public to bring them
• No actual, confirmed US Attorney would bring the bogus charges when directed to
• Halligan fired the attorneys who refused to bend the knee
• Both cases allege perjury, but in neither case is it clear what, if any, statements were false

There are three things to see in the Epstein papers, if journalists ever get them:

1) The names of the people who directly raped underage girls provided by Epstein

2) The names of the people who, and the means by which they protected those men

3) The names of the people who, and the means by which they extorted everyone connected with Epstein whether in group 1 or 2 or not

We’re also not sure whether the FBI and DOJ actually have all the materials the extortionists have.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social @dgoldsmith

Let’s make sure everybody understands he wasn’t jailed for and isn’t wanted for his religious beliefs. He wasn’t even sacked for them. He was sacked for violating his employment contract regarding respect for students, and he was arrested because he repeatedly violated court orders to stay away from the school and its students.

He’s not exercising his faith, he’s exercising his megalomania.

“The Epstein papers show how deeply venal, corrupt, and frankly stupid the entire plutocratic establishment is! When people really see all the self-dealing grift the whole house of cards will fall!”

(stares in Panama Papers)

Do the Republicans realize that people on SNAP DON’t actually eat the money, that every penny goes to supermarkets and grocery stores? And that keeping those billions out of the retail economy might have a systemic effect throughout it?