This is practical help for Minneapolis. I'm doing it.

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

I think we may be calling too many things “mutual aid” and it could use some clarity.

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

all they have are their sad little AI photos. other people smarter than me have said this but seeing people do autonomous action and form mutual aid networks breaks the conservative brain. conservatives don't understand solidarity. they understand transactional relationships and wielding power.

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

Organizers are calling for Governor Tim Walz to issue a statewide eviction moratorium to protect people who are unable to work due to ICE‘s terror campaign more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DT5qBPN...

Nekima Armstrong's gofundme for her legal defense only got $2646 so far, so please spread the word: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

Poster: When the Police Knock on Your Door (h/t @crimethinc.com) crimethinc.com/posters/when...

Commit it to memory

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

Look at those big smiles! They voted for this.

Call this morning. The vote is today.

"All told, Mr. Trump has profited from his return to the presidency by an amount of money equal to 16,822 times the median U.S. household income."

I've said repeatedly that I will not support one dime of funding for Trump's lawless ICE operations. The funding bill released today fails to sufficiently rein them in or ensure people's rights are protected. I'm voting NO.

“Yet even with all this bluster and rancor, it was the rage at a small African nation and the unabashed racism that was truly extraordinary. After speaking for over an hour, Trump took questions from the White House press corps. None of them pressed him on the comments about Somalia or its people”

Baltimore friends, please share… the Princess Bride litter (RIP Rob Reiner) is ready for adoption! Westley (gray tabby M), Buttercup (brown tabby M), Fezzik (gray tabby F) and Montoya (b/w F) were rescued from a vacant house in early Dec. They’re about 14 weeks old.

For my out-of-state friends wanting to help Minneapolis, Sanctuary Supply Depot is a grassroots mutual aid effort to support unhoused folks here. They take cash as well as in-kind donations: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Democrats message on ICE should be very simple: they will not fund Trump’s war on the American people. They will not fund a lawless assault on our cities, our neighbors or our rights. They will not fund the murder of legal observers. Instead, we get this horseshit.

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

Linktree of places you can donate money directly, purchase from an amazon list or walmart registry, or places you can drop items off if within the area. This group does a LOT of great work, and this is the worst time of year to be homeless.

If you're still able to help Minnesota, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social is always accepting donations. $10 buys a pack of handwarmers. If you were given Amazon gift cards this year for Christmas, you can shop their Amazon wishlist: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

Left a message for Schumer, but Gillibrand's number rang and rang and rang before announcing "Memory full." So I'll send an e-mail at least. Keep calling! Please and thank you.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!

it's not that the moral arc of the universe naturally bends towards justice, it's that the conditions that create and enable such evil do eventually cannibalize themselves, and in there, new opportunities arise. nothing is permanent, including these horrible pieces of shit.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

NYC, PLEASE call your New York City Council member and DEMAND they vote to censure Vicky Paladino immediately. Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/ Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.

So, he's not just doing it to feel important and make his preferences the norm, he's actually doing it to hurt people. I apologize for saying it was "dumb bitch behavior." It's actually evil bitch behavior.

Not only are 99+% of humans raising babies without AI today; everyone who raised a child before 2022 did it without AI. This is sort of like pretending ChatGPT is a thousand times more necessary than every vaccine and health intervention ever.

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

I love this take because institutions that feel dysfunctional for users are most likely agonizing for the workers who keep it running.

OpenAI knows this is a problem. it knows hundreds of thousands of people are using their product to dig deeper into delusion and make the people around them miserable and unsafe. and it does not care www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It didn’t even take 6 hours.