Don’t look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American | @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

Welcome to Mothership. ✨ mothership.blog

guess what... i made a website www.mothership.blog

www.gq.com/story/walpol... It Was the Most Violent Prison in America. Then the Guards Went on Strike

perhaps now Saudi Arabia will divert resources towards a more realistic project: building an extremely tall, narrow glass city that stretches up to the atmosphere.

News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports. “The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

This whole thing is amazing but this part really sings.

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

last chance!!! i am gonna wake up early and flip a metaphorical large switch tomorrow for all of this 🙌🏻

On tonight’s White House agenda: Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports. Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

The AP reports that an ICE officer responded to those protesting the cold blood murder this morning by mockingly saying, “‘Boo hoo.’” “Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.” apnews.com/article/immi...

Can’t stop thinking about the fact that Jared Kushner this week said the US is expecting “catastrophic success” in Gaza. The scale of the brutality + hubris of American policy there are hard to fully grasp — and much of the devastation under Trump is because of the course set by the Biden admin.

The demonstrator added that federal agents began shooting pellet guns after "someone kicked a slab of ice" in their direction.

"They fire at his body after he’s already lying motionless.

ICE agents shot another person in Minneapolis at point-blank range just now.

My colleagues and I work hard to bring you the news. We deserve wages that match up with the cost of living and we deserve not to be cannibalized by AI!

We have nine days left until our current CBA expires. Here are our contract demands, straight from the voices that make the stories at @huffpost.com possible.

::loud whispering:: you can only get 15% off mothership.blog for a few more days... and it's a lifetime discount............. js

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

With ten days until our contract expires, our unit is not willing to settle for less. We're standing together until we reach a fair deal.

Dr. Oz: "If we can get the average person to work one more year in their whole lifetime -- just stay in your workplace for one more year -- that is worth about $3 trillion to the US GDP. That's the productivity we would unleash ... if you're sick, you can't work."

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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Randomly watching this guy talk about flipping PS2 games on YouTube and I audibly GASPED when I saw him just slide this disc into a bubble mailer with no support at alllll. Side note: Why the fuck is Gauntlet Dark Legacy worth over $60???

justin baldoni during iewu press: blake lively scabbed!!! she and ryan only wrote during the strike!!!!! justin baldoni under legal deposition: i have no problem being called a scab :) i worked through the strike, yeah, that was me :)

New: In the days following the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, ICE agents in one local office were called into a meeting. “We were briefed on avoiding standing in front of cars, wherever possible,” one agent present at the meeting told HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-of...

An Aftermath reader asked @midimyers.com of the newly founded @mothership.blog who the best mothers in games are. The lack of good options perhaps says something about who gets to make games

Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:

"Beyond this, the company announced that it will no longer have a centralized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI+) team, redistributing that work across the People team and leadership, and keeping Employee Resource Groups as simply Slack spaces without formal lead roles or any standalone budgets"

We can't believe it's only been a week since we announced Mothership on Post Games. All week, we've been watching our lives change before our eyes as we realize just how many people have been longing for a site like Mothership. We're so excited you found us! Only 10 more days til take-off...

Games journalism layoffs hit Inverse, The Verge aftermath.site/layoff-verge-i...

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

This week on MinnMax Show, Maddy guested so she could finally reveal which actual mother ship comes to mind when she thinks about Mothership

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wrote about Scott Adams, a once-brilliant and -incisive cartoonist whom I used to genuinely admire—and whose work and worldview, in retrospect, were always blinkered and constricted in ways that presaged his racist MAGA turn and second career: slate.com/business/202...

Morning ☕️ The Senate HELP committee is holding a hearing this AM on the "dangers" of mifepristone. Mife has been safely & effectively used by millions since the FDA approved it in 2000, but we likely won't hear about that today. Follow along for updates below.

This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.

sorry mom, I'm not having kids so I can afford to buy things like this instead

I’ll be in Minneapolis briefly, until Tuesday morning. I’m available at 646-397-4678 by cell or Signal, if anyone has tips or other things they think HuffPost readers ought to know. Ty!

Kudos to the Golden Globe producer who - immediately after a joke about famous people on the Epstein list - cuts to Bill Maher.

Thousands of people across the country came out Saturday to demonstrate against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.