It is Bandcamp Friday.

The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

look, telling people to break the law is irresponsible and unethical. But so is telling people not to break the law.

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*looks directly at camera*

Powerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.

Neil Gaiman has returned to the Internet to signal boost a Substack 'investigation' by an independent journalist known as "technopathology" which apparently proves his innocence the main thing it proves is technopathology needs an editor.

all of the students in this club should have their shit kicked in

The march wasn’t even antagonistic, just thousands of people behaving the way the political right always demands of us: politely showing discontent. And they fired on the crowd of nurses, teachers, and homecare workers anyway. #iveoutofportland #iceout #fuckice www.opb.org/article/2026...

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids. If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone. Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power

New for @teenvogue.com (!) The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026. www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...

As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?

Reminder! Deadline is Jan 31st, scholarships are available, and Bentota is a beach town.

Sheine Lende won an American Indian Youth Literature Award honor, and to mark the occasion, I donated 100 dollars to RAICES to help immigrants in Texas.

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Unless you are personally related to Schumer or Jeffries, THERE IS ZERO REASON for you to be in strangers' mentions getting into your feelings because they are being criticized. NO REASON. You need to regulate your feelings.

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

Ah yes, Mainers: a people never known for their stubbornness and insistence on doing things the hard, right way. I'm sure these strong-arm tactics will have their intended effect on a state with the motto of, last I checked, "Well that's your problem right there" said in a cutting Downeast accent.

Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

all these idiots are convinced as many people want to walk around with a chatbot hanging off their body as want to smartphones. more even! They're terrified of being the last to figure out the magic formula. but there's no evidence of any such demand. it's a fantasy.

We're forming cells. We're sheltering and feeding those at risk. We're setting up structures beyond the state. This isn't protest. It's not quite revolution. It feels like harm mitigation as we do it, but maybe it's building our capacity for some beauty we can't see from here.

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

Ah wow. Thanks to folks who nominated Uncertain Sons and Other Stories @undertow.bsky.social for the BSFA longlist. And congrats to all the longlist nominees. A lot of familiar names, too many to tag, but happy to be in your company! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

But sure, NAMM and SXSW, go ahead with having half your panel programming this year be about AI music

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

They're kidnapping kids and shipping them across state lines after using them as bait, and the Democrats want you to protest "peacefully"

Children of Owl is coming fall 2026, y'all.

I wrote a quick blog post in 2014 titled "police reforms you should always oppose." It went viral and became the basis of a chart created by Critical Resistance to evaluate abolitionist steps. Money for training and body cams were the first two on my list.

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

One positive thing is not having to hear Charlie Kirk's opinion on any of this

just a comprehensive failure to meet the moment

Logging on to Bluesky:

✨Asunder is out in the UK today!✨ Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.* *She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.

Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim

ahahaha they're doing it on purpose at this point

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

oh shitttt!!!