Mike Kadlec

On a bike ride, thinking about science.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE/Border Patrol agents were caught on camera committing a hit-and-run in Minneapolis.

In the video, an unmarked federal vehicle is stopped in the road. A legal observer is sitting in a car behind them, not violating the law, just observing.

Then, without warning, the agents start reversing the vehicle towards the observer…

But, they failed to notice a parked car sits directly behind them.

As the observer backs up, the federal vehicle slams into the parked car.

They stop… and pull forward.

You can see the moment they realized they just fucked up, and are debating what to do.

They realize no one is in it… so they drive away.

And this isn’t the first time…

ICE and Border Patrol agents are driving aggressively through communities across the country, using their vehicles as weapons, putting neighbors, families, and bystanders at risk.

And anytime they hit someone, instead of a parked car, they aggressively arrest the person they hit and say they were “rammed.”

For a department that constantly claims it’s hunting criminals, their agents sure seem to be the ones committing the crimes.

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

Quick 🧵 on an insane story:

Yesterday I reported that Lue Moua, a migrant DHS has been insisting is "at large" in Minneapolis--one of the guys they broke down ChongLy Thao's door supposedly looking for--has actually been in state prison since a felony conviction in 2024.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"What he hasn’t excluded from his tariffs is the very machinery and other inputs needed if you want to build a factory.... [F]itting out a new manufacturing plant in the US is significantly more expensive than it was when Trump took office and may become pricier still." 😮

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Why didn't anyone warn us, etc etc

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: Overcrowding at the Krome detention center in Miami is bad they're keeping women in the same cells as men, forcing them to use the bathroom.

This woman said some men in the cells would look over the divider and watch her use the bathroom. ICE was indifferent to all of that.

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Take thirteen minutes, or bookmark this for later. This is from @ezraklein, taken from The Ezra Klein Show podcast. It explains precisely what this administration is doing and why it is essential to keep focus and not play into it.
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1

[Mike Kadlec @kadlec10]

@atrupar All of this is distractive rubbish to move the Overton Window so there’s less pushback when Xi moves on Taiwan and cover for Putin in Ukraine. “Expansionism is totally normal.”

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

It’s game day. Let’s win this.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump says at the end that he doesn’t pay a bill unless he thinks someone did a good job. His own Comptroller testified in court that he was ordered by Trump NEVER to pay invoices in full, to offer everyone half of what he owed and dare them to sue him. That’s who Trump is.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

They want to repeal the CHIPS Act and kill thousands of manufacturing jobs.

They want to kill the Affordable Care Act and deny healthcare to 50 million+ Americans.

They want to gut Social Security and leave millions of seniors in financial jeopardy.

They promise "economic hardship" for non-billionaires.

They will nationalize a ban on reproductive freedom - because "women need protection whether they like it or not".

Who is voting for these lunatics?

[Kirsten Gillibrand @SenGillibrand]

The CHIPS Act is bringing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to upstate and central New York. Democrats will not let that happen. VOTE.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Huddle up, team. It’s the final quarter.

We’ve got the ball and we’re driving down field. And boy, do we have the team to win this.

Let’s make it happen: https://t.co/uyNRZrYcpq

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Poppy vs. Community Notes

🧵 A thread.

1. The beginning

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

😔 This piece by @PaulMattSutter is deeply wrong on the history of “planet”. This untrue history was invented sometime after the 1950s and first appears in print in the 1990s. Sadly, modern astronomers thought it was true history, which led them to vote on a planet definition. /1

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

@JDVance Lemme summarize JD's objections in one annotated chart.

[Mike Kadlec @kadlec10]

@RJTZ @ask_aubry Tammy in a week: "Nobody wants to work anymore."

[Minnesota Volleyball @GopherVBall]

PHOEBE. AWOLEYE. NOT HERE.

🖥️ @fs1

[David Rowe @mrdavidrowe]

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.'
Nick Cave.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

It might be a good idea for NASA to gutcheck everything with SpaceX, just in case

[Julia Tymoshenko 🇺🇦 @YuliaTymosha]

It was 11pm. I was cleaning my bathroom and hearing a distant chatter coming through my window from the outside - some kids were still playing on the playground. Suddenly, i heard a loud explosion. Those kids started screaming in panic. Ordinary russians are bombing Kyiv again.