It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

Inevitability: Epstein Files → Epic Fury → Epic Fail

@rith.au Hank started a science, thought you'd want to update the days.

Hawthorn says I should take breaks from reviewing @buttonevents.bsky.social talk submissions... But they're so good, y'all. This community is full of STARS.

Go see this talk, and you'll be equipped to push back on "engagement" as a metric—AND SAVE US ALL.

This in Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio by the way. Could not love this any more :)

As backronyms go, this is an excellent one. And it's real: www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...

I am bouncing up and down in my chair like a little kid as I wait to look at talk submissions for Button 2026. But I don't get to see them if YOU don't pitch them. Submit by 11:59pm CT (that's UTC -5) tonight, February 20! www.buttonevents.com/2026-confere...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

NOBODY wants this, Google.

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

Meta banking on people willing to be pay to be haunted is end-times kitsch

Happy New Year to you and especially to the horses at Toni's Ponies rescue in Kingston, WA. Donate here to invest in their good fortune: www.tonisponies.org/donate

Thank you to Rev. Jackson for his lifelong service to freedom.

In this week's Chirp newsletter, I share a "gut check" method for gaining alignment, and about how vital it is to practice any skill—mental, physical, emotional—that I want to keep. www.catbirdcontent.com/chirp #UX #AI #ContentDesign

This used to be the quiet part. Is it better now that it's out-loud?

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country. They didn't think we would. We do.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Absolutely. Not only a fake problem but a verified strength — morally, culturally, financially, and on and on.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Proud of my rep.

I was sent here a year ago by the people of WA's 6th. I am accountable to them — not party leadership. My neighbors are seeing Trump, JD Vance, and Pam Bondi go back on their promise to release the full, unredacted Epstein files.

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

WHAT THE F*CK? Trump is making explicit threats against all leaders of Latin America!

The rambling address just underscores how incompetent this man is at leading this country.

"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition." This is regime change.

The US has no right to be "running" Venezuela.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The Empire by Mary Oliver

My country's military attack on Venezuela was illegal, according to our own constitution. I am horrified.

This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

A person near me at the coffeeshop is making unconscious yummy sounds with his first bites of breakfast sandwich. So sincere, so wholesome.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Genius

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations. knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/

They’re bringing limes, they’re bringing grapes… and some, I assume, are gourd people.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.