New- A new website exposes Oregon businesses who have official government contracts with ICE and CBP

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Didn’t manage to get cauldrons fired for the new moon, but got other things taken care of, so success in some ways

Oh my god. It just gets weirder and weirder

Meta is pure evil.

This is so cool

NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is the funniest shit I've seen in years.

if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return

"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad. "But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.” My latest for Slate

Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Your reminder that Starbucks baristas are still ON STRIKE. So our call to action is simple: Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

I like your style. I like the way you move through the world with raggedy Muppet hair, smelling of stale coffee & dusty bookstores, and leaving a trail of confusion and small disappointments in your wake.

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

this shit pisses me off so much . burn it all down

Poems sneak up on you Cosmic jump scares from nowhere Defibrillated

“It is a time for action, and what matters most is that that action, whatever what we call it, is effective.” Important from @kimkelly.bsky.social this morning. lithub.com/kim-kelly-on...

Just sitting here and waiting until my seed order comes in. I just want to plant my poison garden

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

my cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is y'all need to be declining and conjugating your spells you're using the nominative case and not the vocative, jackass

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is broken down trucks are a terrible way to transport nitroglycerin across narrow, curving ravines

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that summoning a daemon directly from the abyssal plane, binding it in a magic triangle, rendering it fleshbound with words of subjugation, and casting banes with its tortured howls is STILL more ethical than using ChatGPT to assist with your spellcraft.

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that folks need to consider the local ecosystem before they curse people into animal forms. I get it - toad is a classic! But as Australia shows, YOU CAN'T JUST LET THEM LOOSE EVERYWHERE. Most places need more beavers! ALMOST NO PLACES NEED MORE WILD HOGS.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

People who think we should wait until we win everything think we should win forever. Celebrate interim victories, partial victories, imperfect victories, small victories, because celebrating strengthens the resolve to keep on, reminds us of our power, and also is fun.

This whole thread

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

RACHEL MADDOW SHARED CRIMETHINC

"it's true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It's also true that there's no statute of limitations on murder." This shithole country exists because a crowd showed up to scream & throw shit at armed, nervous agents of the state. Because fuck 'em. And their king.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

I got a lot to say about this study and no time to say it, but any time someone thinks using AI is helping students learn writing it is likely to be the opposite and rooted in a view of what learning writing is like that must be challenged and revised. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Today I made things. Take a break from the doom and enjoy this gigantic pirate stein

Fascism is like if you gave hungry ghosts a political movement. Nothing ever fills the void.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Happy solstice

If you've prepared your Christmas tree properly, by now it should be: - humming softly - vibrating slightly - levitating a little - wreathed in Eldritch flame - whispering dark incantations to summon ancient elves

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

There are pickets in the Portland area as well! Don't be a scab, drink local coffee until Starbucks comes to the table in good faith to negotiate a contract with their "partners". 🚫🐀🐀🐀🚫

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Pam Bondi's new memorandum spells out exactly how the government intends to go after its enemies under NSPM-7: by broadening the definition of "antifa" to include anyone who shares "common characteristics" of antifascism, by opening investigations into activities going back five years…

Adults shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy in order to watch porn, R-rated movies, or anything else the government might deem offensive to kids. Keeping kids safe can't come at the expense of our free speech rights.

Teapots are my favorite thing I rarely make. I was introduced to teapots as the pinnacle of functional pottery. From the lip, lid, spout, angles so it pours well with no drips, cohesive design- the whole process becomes daunting. So usually I think about making a teapot then throw 20 mugs instead.

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

"how are we going to reach all these disaffected young men turning towards radical right-wing politics in america?"