Someone made a 4 minute song about why you should hate Curtis Yarvin. I had to post it in two parts. /

Once again

It's Feb 2026, and 49% of white people in the US approve of the way Trump is handling immigration. In case you're thinking that means that a majority disapprove? Nope! 4% are "Not sure"🤡 Some of y'all really believed that the percent of white people that support ethnic cleansing would drop lower.🤷🏿‍♂️

"Jesse Jackson Made It Possible for Democrats to Speak About Palestine" Activist James Zogby pays tribute to his late friend, who was the first politician to welcome Arab Americans into the Democratic Party - and even met with Yasser Arafat when others wouldn't.

evergreen (unfortunately)

Christian Nationalists love love love internment/concentration camps for immigrants.

I think people usually call this going back to normal, you know, when they kill and kidnap nonwhite people and no one writes pop songs about it.

Keep the pressure on - and check out campaigns against flock surveillance that are racking up wins in their communities. deflockoly.noblogs.org

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

The Mexican grocery store in my neighborhood keeps their doors locked. You have to ring the doorbell to be let in. They do this so their employees & customers don't get kidnapped by ICE. People were already abducted from their parking lot just trying to feed their families. Abhorrent.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said. (Published Dec. 2025)

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

City and state police mass arresting peaceful protestors in Minneapolis tonight

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Help your neighbors & share the new checklist in the chats activistchecklist.org/ice

Shakespeare’s not relevant anym—

Shaun King aka Talcum X aka (insert your favorite moniker here) is Shaun Kinging again, on Substack, writing ICE-related stories. Please do not support him. He's a serial grifter. He promises he's 'working hard behind the scenes'. He's not. He's just taking your money.

The Dems showing up to a gunfight with a deck of magic the gathering cards

again, if you are hearing about an empathetic, soulful, new-tone trump pivot calming things down in Minnesota, the people who are telling you this are trying to trap your mind inside a false, alternate reality. please consider why exactly they are doing this.

From PPI's useful analysis: state and local entities that seek to block immigration authorities' access to jails have lower rates of ICE arrests

From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.

Meanwhile, JRR Tolkien is rolling over in his grave

People with disabilities are funneled into the system starting at a young age: ➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement. ➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.

It be people who have never applied for a single government service bemoaning the idea of people "who don't need it," getting access to it. And like, that is not a problem we have. Our problem is that these systems are so Byzantine that many people who need them cannot access them.

I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

A threadful of love for Alice Wong ❤️

Relatable.

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Every morning when waking up.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

To also cite a book from my younger days, Richard Wright’s Native Son, when I was 16. Older me appreciated James Baldwin’s critique of the book, but younger me was forever changed (for the better) through this story so drastically different from the world I grew up in, and was presented with

no money for politicians

Too Good To Go is a great app for local grub on the cheap. We got 3 baker’s dozen of fresh bagels for $10

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

If you haven't read this yet and study education, I would strongly recommend that you do. The treatment of students is appalling and I need to see these test scores (and information on the sample that took them) before I believe any of their claims. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

I often tell my students this. Paper is a technology.

SNAP benefits are going to be paused on November 1. If you are able, now is a good time to give to food banks, food pantries, or local mutual aid groups.

White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

<stares in mirror>

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.