Re sharing for you morning people!

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

Oh hey, Europe. I better be hearing a lot of shutting up from you until you fix this shit.

This is so spot on

Holy shit. This is in South Jersey?!

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

You need to temper and steel your hate just as much as you need to feed and grow your hope. To both sing Hallelujahs and shout their perfidious damnation. There is no moral arc of history but the one we bend with our own bare hands, together.

Another round! Hey, conservatives: Let’s see whether you can [audience shouts along] SPOT! THAT! VILLAIN! bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Agreed. Republicans put Trump the White House—even though they KNEW he was Putin’s puppet & accused of raping a child along w/Epstein. It was widely reported in 2016. This should be the biggest scandal in American history. The GOP needs to be voted out forever. www.politico.com/story/2016/1...

MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Jeffrey" i holler as i overturn a brazier at the billionaire party and turn this Eyes Wide Shut into Eyes Wide Shit

Unhelpful distortion and binary thinking. That book says no such thing. It’s more like, nonviolence was the public strategy that won the moral and legal war, armed self-defense was the private reality that kept the organizers alive long enough to win it.

I disagreed with Scalia about a lot of things but I remember being struck in some case where he wrote, basically "the government argues that being required to follow the Constitution would make law enforcement's job harder. They are correct. That is the point."

The idea that protesters get routinely assassinated is EXTREMELY hysterical and unhinged. It’s Qanon level conspiracism. I find it very disturbing that it’s apparently endemic in left spaces like Bluesky, given how much it distorts people’s ability to think about civic participation and dissent.

In between the protesters waving signs and chanting at ICE headquarters, groups of volunteers stand watch at Whipple. They never know when someone will be released, so they wait, with piles of donated coats in the back seats of their cars.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

It’s up to New Jersey’s incoming attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, to decide how to keep in place or modify a directive restricting local collaboration with federal immigration agents.

If you’re surprised that a couple of longtime CBP employees have names of Hispanic origin, I recommend you keep that surprise to yourself and not turn it into a take. It’s incredibly common and longstanding; it’s been written on insightfully (see press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...). Learn things!

As a trans woman, getting arrested by Trump's goons would probably be a death sentence for me. I still say that feckless tangerine bitch can bring it if he wants. I won't shut up.

Justice Frank Murphy's vehement dissent, condemning the Court for upholding FDR's Exec Order 9066 in resembling "the abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy" – is worth revisiting. 3/ #Korematsu Day

The paucity of this man's mind, a truly bereft and barren landscape of ideas. In the desert of his imagination, all things are a mirage, generated by the only spark inside him, which is pure unadulterated racism. If his mind was an engine it could only putter along on these phrenologic vapors.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...

Court filings describe agents boxing in vehicles, abruptly braking in front of them, then using the encounter to justify labeling observers as “domestic terrorists” for allegedly “weaponizing” their cars.

I do really appreciate that as Tolkien thinks up primeval entities from before Time and Space we get (1) Ungoliant the giant nightmare spider who eats the sun and moon and (2) Tom, who wears a yellow coat and is frenemies with a tree

Tech companies aren't planning to convince us AI is good; they're planning to rig it so we have no choice in the matter. And no amount of polling will convince a cop-loving Democrat to abolish ICE; that's not a choice we, the people, will be allowed to make.

I missed this one, Jesus Christ. Murphy's pardon, for the son of a Murphy fundraiser who killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run, was even communicated to the killer *before* the verdict came down yesterday morning.

Murphy also issued a bunch of pardons today, notably including: -Michael Sica, a corrections officers' union leader who unsuccessfully covered up the beating of inmates at the Union County Jail -Al Coutinho, a disgraced former assemblyman who resigned to plead guilty to stealing from a charity

Funny that there's two books out right now with strong Dante's Inferno influences. One by a hack and dilettante getting attention solely because it's a train wreck you can't look away from. And one by a superb, talented author who has actual insight into the flaws of an institution she loves.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Here's what it looks like if you put all the ICE shootings I know of from the last year on a map. For no particular reason other than that it was just handy, I used the 2024 Presidential election map.

For our Oscar issue, I wrote about the most famous question in the English language, and the one filmmakers just can’t resist. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/m...

Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Hot off the heels of hating my own body, Tressie McMillan Cottom posted about her article "Ugliness As Resistance," a concept I frequently think about, frequently insist upon, but am not entirely cured by. Still... seeing it after that moment was good for me and its good for us all that it exists.

We need to name and honor the victims of ICE violence. We need to keep their names, their stories, in the public consciousness. Plaques, statues, memorials. The tragedy of these times is in part that it all feels so ephemeral, footprints in the sands of hell. We need to carve them in stone.

the New Jersey lame duck gets worse: the Climate Superfund Act, a bill sponsored by most of the Democratic caucus which would force certain fossil fuel companies to pay for climate mitigation, got killed at the last minute by Speaker Craig Coughlin subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

the New Jersey Legislature, staring down a budget crisis from deep federal cuts and an increasingly expensive program of tax giveaways for senior homeowners, is...rushing through slush-fund appropriations in the dead of night for everything from World Cup promotion to rigged construction contracts

Live in hope, model hope, reject doom. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will!

Operation Mincemeat was finne, the jokes about America being a haven for fascists are correct if maybe too flippant given y'know the horrors but to immediately cut to "Britain modern day" and not make a similar joke....like the only gag is that James Bond is silly... Hmm okay.

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

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