As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou

Read the thread. Especially if you don't understand that ICE/police are the same when viewed by their targets, which are the same groups of people. Same people getting hired, same quota system.

Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen, who were arrested and charged after a demonstration at a Minnesota church, have been released www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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.

I used to say that PJ Harvey made me feel like I could kill things with my vagina and ask who was bringing that energy currently. So glad to find new contestants.

The lesson that the systemically oppressed already know: if embodying excellence, goodness, and light were enough to grant you full humanity and equality under the law you'd be free already.

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

The Trump administration has removed an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, calling it “corrosive ideology.”

Almost cancelled this repost, because what the fuck can I say. On a positive note, autocorrect offered to correct fuck from fuck to fuuuuck.

Some of us old white people never forget this fact.

If you are Latino and in the Richmond VA area, I HIGHLY suggest you don't spend any time near the Home Depot in Ashland. Black folks shopping at the Publix/Target shopping center, be on alert as well. I feel like ICE is about to storm eastern Henrico real soon. Be on alert! 🚨

Notch up the Bechdel test. 4. Who has a conversation with another native person that's not about white people?

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Note to my representatives: Be like Ilhan.

Listen to Takei.

Western Oregon. No rain when we should be getting soaked regularly. Depressingly, we are in a valley where the air is stagnant and it's foggy and cold all day and night. Freezing fog, or nearly. And our central heat is only working when temps are above 40f. Wood heat adding to the smog. Bah.

Sometimes when I scan the AP News and Reuters headlines in the morning, I wonder if the editors who wrote them really think the regime won't kill them too

Do you really think you are an ally? A resister? Part of the “Blue Wave”? Then you need to watch this. A little late—but still important!

Anne Frank didn't die in a gas chamber, she died because of a TYPHUS OUTBREAK.

Disgusting report on incarcerated children and youth kept in conditions including extended solitary confinement; housing without toilets and other basic sanitation; limited access to food, water, and sunlight; and deprivation of educational opportunities.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

This is why I told y'all that messaging that centers training is/was a mistake. You cannot train away the mission, the racism, or the impunity. This shit just makes the violence more expensive. Also, if this is true, it's a bitch ass move by Senate Dems, and people should be harsh af about it.

@marisakabas.bsky.social proof, once again that Tom Homan is a bitch.

She is pleading with them: “I’m disabled! I have a brain injury! Put me down!” She was on her way to a traumatic brain injury Center when they grabbed her and threw her in detention. She requested a doctor, was denied and lost consciousness. Utterly inhumane.

When a wildlife agency starts asking which refuges “no longer align with the mission,” it’s preparing to liquidate. Habitat doesn’t fail a mission. Missions fail habitat. www.cpr.org/2026/01/11/u...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Frances Perkins was a real one

You don't know you need this. You probably do, though.

Vaccines made once-deadly diseases rare, so medical training moved on. I’ve treated these diseases & seen the harm. Now as vaccines are undermined we must prepare doctors for diseases of yesterday—before they become today’s crises. My latest for @statnews.com 👇 www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

“FDA staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,” said one of the study’s co-authors. www.jezebel.com/new-study-ju...

I think this is why police refuse to loudly and publicly toss ICE under the bus--even though they would be heralded as heroes. Because the next step after ICE is gone is setting firm boundaries so that cops can no longer do in "private" what ICE did publicly. Private = not in white neighborhoods

One thing I never thought about until we had kids dealing with gas penetrating houses here in 2020: Tear gas is profoundly disorienting, and small kids literally do not comprehend what is going on. One kid in my neighborhood thought they'd been permanently blinded and would never see again

If you are still shopping at Target I kinda don’t want to know you anymore.

Denial of medical care (or slow walking the response) is pretty much procedure for law enforcement after they shoot someone. I keep thinking of this case. Cops shot a Black man through the door. His mom, a nurse, was assisting him and cops arrested her. sheriffs.substack.com/p/ebrso-kill...

Same.

Hey y'all ACA subsidies are NOT saved, the Senate still needs to vote on the latest version of the bill; just want to note that the House vote happened at 5:13p and the Senate adjourned at 4:29p. The Senate vote I see some people referencing regards a prior bill. Please do call your senator!

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

Make it viral.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

If you tell me that this is a distraction from the Epstein files I will block you into last week. For fuck's sake, people in other countries are actual human beings who do not deserve to be murdered. They are deserving of our attention and care. Their violent deaths should not be on our hands.

Please!

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Ah, another way to disenfranchise voters. WTF?

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

So cute!

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

“The Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of white workers.” !!!

Wow! This is worth reading all the way through. Thanks.