Trump is attacking the most social democratic state government in the US. It’s not about immigration. It’s about punishing Minnesota. Anyone who criticizes Trump or ICE “must” be a criminal by definition. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Arwa Mahdawi column. “Spare me the sanctimony from two people who worked overtime to justify (and deny) Israel’s genocide in Gaza …For the Clintons, however, the moral red line seems to be harm to their personal brand. They are not fighting for the country here, they are fighting for themselves”

ICE terror. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ha! “OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.” @knowentry.com www.wired.com/story/openai...

Making GOLD great again. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Falsely accused of eating pets, and worse, Haitians in Springfield have survived harassment, and now fear deportation.

ICE kills poets, but it cannot kill poetry. Write On! #poetry @poetrydaily.bsky.social poets.org/2020-on-lear...

The Fed is not the greatest friend of working class people, but the economy is in safer hands with the Fed than it is than with a Trump dominated Fed.

I also send my kid to a school that values social justice and teaches students about current events. Do I deserve to get shot in the face, too? bsky.app/profile/nypo...

Creative Columbian women, Jacarandas, promoting “Aborto Libre” @jessicavalenti.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you live in New York, contact the Governor and tell her. @governor.ny.gov

Has it come to this? WTF! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

45% of Texas respondents say “gone to far” and %48 say “about right” or “not far enough”. But the division is stark when you look at responses by race and ethnicity. #texaspoliticsproject texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/views-on...

This raging culture war, driven by the right wing racists is relentless. They clearly want to control thoughts.

I’ve never encountered #wipsnips before. It’s more fun for writers, but we readers can enjoy it too.

Nearly every industry lost jobs or flatlined in the past year

Excellent story on Wegmans and how it collects and uses our data. Erie County DA says facial recognition is NOT used in prosecution of shoplifters. Erie now considering disclosure law.

23. The difference between what happened to Renee Nicole Good and what administration officials say happened to her is so obvious that Trump is no longer taking any chances.

Minnesota Attorney General @ag.state.mn.us on calls ICE escalation in the state “Third Reich stuff” and encourages peaceful protest.

@governor.ny.gov please act on this!

Take a moment to read this comment, then share it widely. octoberk.com/2026/01/08/w...

The worst is yet to come. “A year ago, just 125 agencies had signed up to 287g programs. As of November 25 that number had skyrocketed to more than 1,200. ”They’re trying to treat it as miniature ICEs all across our communities,” Shah adds.” www.wired.com/story/expire...

Speak up for Palestine in Rochester

Article by me for @themoscowtimes.com. "Nothing in living memory compares with the scale and speed of the change to U.S.-Russia relations [under Trump]. His administration seems to be abandoning not just leadership of the West but membership of it, in favor of [...] alignment with the Kremlin."

“Together, these shifts trace a clear arc in US protest policing—from suppression, to management, to prevention, to performance—where authority is asserted as much through optics and narrative today as it is by force.” www.wired.com/story/expire...

💯Beautiful. I love Molly’s Bund histories—& Szmul Zygielbojm is name etched in memory—but here she melds past & present in marvelous hope fugue. Note homage to Vladeck name: scions in labor & law. (Note also one descendant of this tradition now in UK: Larry Sanders, Bernie’s older brother, a Green.)

The Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri died on December 24. He made films about occupation—through the eyes of the occupied. Read ⁦Rania Abouzeid's beautiful profile on him from 2024. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Use of the “shadow docket” allows the Court to subvert the constitution and undo the “checks and balances” meant to prevent tyrants from doing their worst. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I was born in 1945. I grew up in the 1950s. Trump's obsequence to Putin remains unimaginable to me. But it turns out that is one of the lesser of Trump's abhorrent actions.

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

RGH has been getting national attention for this work. Kudos to them for leading the way.

This is slavery.

@jakescottmd.bsky.social #medsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Judges from diverse demographic and professional backgrounds can reduce bias, improve decision-making, and build public trust. Read our latest State Supreme Court Diversity report: bit.ly/3JW6lN6

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

Passion comes in many forms. Wilson Bentley’s story is fascinating. @publicdomainrev.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sn...

Tell NYSDEC to Take Lead Agency Status for Monster Data Center at STAMP act.nyrenews.org/tell-nysdec-...

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

"The road goes on forever and the party never ends" Joe Ely RIP #westtexas #lubbock #austin #antones www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4wi...

Today I've been listening to "The Country Side of Ester Phillips" from 1966. Nashville's Anita Kerr Singers backing is so 1960s country, but Ester's voice is a timeless revelation. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...