His name is Nazgul :)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"I think ultimately we’re a subculture, but instead of being centered around a style of clothing or music, we’re centered on anti-ableism, and it makes our commitment more powerful" -- Camille Mai, Rebirth Canal

Farm workers pruning apple trees in WA state tell us, "The fog makes everything wet. This makes the work more difficult and dangerous. It also means we can't meet our minimum quota. They pay 45 cents per tree." #WeFeedYou

"Ariana" shares, "After a day of picking lemons, I come home super tired with back pain and bruises around my neck from carrying a full bag. I go up and down a ladder all day long. I earned $35 per 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou

I asked my friend who avoids getting sick why she does it, and she said: because I believe humans are worth protecting. And I asked my friend who avoids artificial intelligence why she does it, and she said: because I believe humanity is worth protecting.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

An ongoing pattern of violating human rights, including children. It seems doubtful the government will obey the judicial order, considering so many others it continues to defy.

I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities lataco.com/lapd-arrests...

Add ableism to this list. Words matter

“You can dispute Newman’s interpretations or tone. But the move she makes is decisive: she shifts the debate from emotion to ownership, from attitudes to command structures, from guilt to institutional inheritance.That is why the response has been so fierce.” medium.com/@evansd66/ki...

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Happening today: "WE WANT TO BRING THE WORLD’S ATTENTION TO HOW THE FRIVOLOUS USE OF AI PROMPTS HAS A DIRECT EFFECT ON OUR WATER RESOURCES. SO, FOR ONE DAY, WE ASK YOU TO NOT USE AI, AND INSTEAD USE US. A GROUP OF LOCAL QUILICURA RESIDENTS WHO’VE COME TOGETHER TO SERVE AS YOUR AI." www.quili.ai/info

"The conditions in this facility are absolutely abysmal. They mix baby formula with water that is putrid. The food has bugs in it. One of my clients had appendicitis, collapsed in the hallway, was vomiting from pain, and the officials told him, take a Tylenol"

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.

This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale. These are mostly children. This is where Liam Ramos is being held. They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions. These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

*Clears throat* This is what you all endorsed when you agreed that the value of a life was less than brunch, and didn’t care if high risk people bore the brunt of “profit over people” policies (many from 'Left' gov'ts). The pandemic broke a leaky dam. And most chose selfishness over solidarity.

discussions abt raising birth rates always seem to boil down to promoting heterosexual marriage and like sorry yall but i think that ship has sailed. women have had a taste of life outside coerced marriage and too few men seem willing to become proper adults who pull their weight as equal partners

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

404 Media: 100s "of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras paid for by Lowe’s and Home Depot and stationed in the hardware stores’ parking lots are being fed into a massive surveillance system that law enforcement can access" Shame on #HomeDepot & #Lowes. www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

Last night, the CBA between @thewnbpa and the WNBA expired. We stand with the players. Without the players, there is no @wnba. Pay equity is not optional. It is earned.
It is deserved.
It is overdue.

"What is now overt, in a way that it hadn’t been Wednesday morning, is that these agents are at war with the public, and have been for some time." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova. **This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID** www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...

I’ve spent the last month interviewing people expelled to Costa Rica under the “invasion” proclamation. The treatment they were accorded at the border by CBP is some of the worst I have heard in 6.5 years of interviewing asylum seekers. Reports to come— some of the hardest I’ve worked on.

No ICE agents have been killed by immigrants. Yet this year alone more than 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody. At least two US citizens have been shot and killed by ICE (Keith Porter and Renee Good) ICE is the threat, not immigrants.

"The idea that Democrats benefit electorally by bending rightward on key moral issues like trans rights and immigration has by now been thoroughly debunked." theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t...

"...xAI built a product that generated [CSAM], and when journalists called for comment, the company refused to engage... Instead, we get headlines that treat the chatbot as a self-aware actor taking responsibility, which lets the actual humans who made actual decisions completely off the hook."

When a family member (or friend) tells you “I can’t” or “I need X for safety & accessibility” or “I need you to wear a mask”, you should believe them and validate their experiences They’re the expert on their own safety, accommodations & disability / medical condition 🧵 1/2

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

how much does it matter that there are people who got what they were sold as mass deportations (whether they didn’t get them, or did get them and worse) if we accept first that mass deportations are wrong no matter how popular they are

Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.

Care for disabled folx means: - Wearing a mask, & encouraging others to mask too - Describing alt text for images - Making in-person events hybrid by offering virtual options - Not expecting folx to be on camera for video-conferencing - Offering ASL interpretation #DisabilityJustice #FreePalestine 🫂

This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.

"We have to learn to live with covid" always meant we have to get used to taking precautions. It never meant, as so many people believe it did, that we have to get used to being sick. #MaskUp The life you save could be your own.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5