I am not much of a sports nationalist, except when it comes to hockey. All because a certain game 46 years ago was a formative experience of my childhood. I remember it vividly, and probably watch the last 90 seconds at least once a year. A great start to the day! 🏒🇺🇸🥇

What this editorial doesn't say explicitly is that the archbishop (himself an immigrant) of the country's largest Catholic diocese, with a Latine majority and immigrant plurality, and site of ICE/CBP raids, has been conspicuously quiet and weak in his statements. www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Great to see a core group of people turn out early on a Friday to help transcribe documents related to the Colored Conventions for this year's Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon in the Marymount Institute at LMU. #DouglassDay (photo posted with permission of participants)

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Co-written by my friend and colleague Vanessa Diaz!

What can you do with a history degree?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

I don't want a second half of football. I want a second half of Bad Bunny!

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

That half-time show was phenomenal! I'm going to have to watch it again, many more times – not just for the music but for all the social and political critique in there. Just magnificent! A colleague teaches a Bad Bunny course, and I can't wait to hear her take.

There was a time when I rooted for the young upstarts in sports. But these days, I tend to root for the older athletes making a surprising push after their prime or still competing after their peers have retired or athletes coming back from injuries. Which is why… 1/3

My family used to watch the Muppet Show every week when I was young. Watching this reboot was like a reunion with old friends!

I've been singing this to myself all day

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

For a good chunk of my life, the Post was my hometown newspaper. I kept my subscription until recently, to support the news side even as the editorial side became so awful. Seeing the destruction of a once great paper (cheers to Katherine Graham) just make me sad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

"But I believe there are birds whose songs of love aren't heard by people who need to care." 🐇❤️‍🩹

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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas lost family in the Holocaust. He sees troubling similarities between then and now.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich — one of Pope Leo’s top allies in the U.S. — says the Trump–Vance White House lied about Alex Pretti’s death. And he’s clear: Pope Leo cannot confront injustice alone. It’s time for every American to stand up and join the fight.

NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

"The Holocaust didn't begin when they opened concentration camps. It began with words." Cardinal Blase Cupich joins @stephruhle.bsky.social to react to the ICE shootings in Minneapolis and warns about the danger of dehumanizing language, as part of the #11thHour's #KeepingTheFaith series

The only whistles allowed, it seems, are dog whistles.

An exceptional piece by my good friend @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social "The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

If you haven't seen this bit about Riz Ahmed as the possible next Bond, it's a funny couple of minutes. #HATM youtu.be/dVjqDNZeMx0?...

Gov. Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the street, or the side of a nurse for a VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?"

Greg Bovino lecturing people about choices is something. It's a choice to join CBP or ICE. It's a choice every day to remain an ICE or CBP employee. It's a choice to wear clothes where you cosplay as a Nazi, a choice to wear tactical gear to a press conference. www.spiegel.de/ausland/greg...

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

I am simultaneously horrified and inspired by what's happening in Minneapolis. In the face of ICE and CBP terrorizing Minneapolis, Minnesotans are giving us all a model of how of how to organize our communities to protect and support our neighbors.

I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.

WHO removing Us Flag

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

More on the Church's position v. the admin: "No longer can Catholics within the administration's apparatus or supporters of it twist reality to accommodate policies clearly at odds with Catholic social teaching and the heart of the Christian Scriptures." www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

Of note here, Broglio is a conservative, so it's a big deal that the Archbishop of the Military Services that's saying this but also that it's this particular individual.

“'ICE might not break into my house and try to take one of my family members, because we’re all white'” [17yo Jesse Fee told me. 'But I’m not gonna not care, just because it’s not gonna happen to me. That’s irresponsible, that’s disrespectful, and it’s sinful, honestly.'"

Wow, that was a great film! I was thinking for a good chunk of it that it’s a vampire film, but I think that I ended up on film with vampires, because there’s just so much more there. And the music – phenomenal! Thanks, #HATM!

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

Oh one more. At a nearby elementary school that has a lot of vulnerable families, parents have implemented a buddy system, pairing up with another family to bring over groceries, take their kids to the playground, and do their laundry. It is beyond heartening to see the ways people have stepped up.

Someone who is working with families at a local elementary school said that the volunteers have been helping families fill out Delegation of Parental Authority forms so that if both parents are taken by ICE, their kids have someone to take care of them. 4/n

I chatted (by email) w/ @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social of @chronicle.com about how I've tried to limit tech & enhance student engagement – esp. through the use of collaborative notes, an idea shamelessly stolen/adapted from my wonderful colleague Amanda A. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

I thought about going to see "Operation Mincemeat" when I was in NY but didn't (I know the history, had seen the film) and am now regretting not getting tickets after reading @taffyakner.bsky.social wonderful fan piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...