“Signal … is a go-to resource for people concerned about privacy. It is perhaps best known as the app Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to share sensitive military information last year in a group chat that accidentally included a journalist.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

I wrote this piece in The Nation because what’s being framed as a “peace plan” for Gaza right now is being marketed as a development and investment opportunity—almost like a real‑estate project—while the reality on the ground is still a crime scene. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

This continues today. If you make a donation to any of the organizations here and show me proof, I’ll send you a free copy of any of my self-published ebooks, your choice. These include Little Paranoias, Without Condition, and others. Fuck ICE. www.standwithminnesota.com

Charities in screenshots: RAICES: www.raices.us/give-today National Immigration Project: secure.nipnlg.org/forms/donate Immigration Defense Project: www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/donate/ Legal Aid Justice Center: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/legal-a... Amica: amicacenter.org/donate/

Heads up: I linked a different (albeit accidentally still very good?) RAICES, if you want to support in specific to ANTI-ICE efforts use this one: donor.raicestexas.org/page/unite-a...

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If you support ICE or this fascist regime, I don’t want you here or as a listener. We are seeing the government execute people and lie about it. This is white supremacy at work. This is how this country has run for way too long. If you can’t see that, then you are part of the problem. #fuckice

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like ‘hundreds of children’ shouting, with voices he described as ‘high-pitched’ and ‘urgent.’ He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting ‘Libertad.’”

“A protest broke out Saturday at the South Texas family detention complex in Dilley … after guards abruptly ordered attorneys to leave while detainees—many of them children—poured into open areas of the facility chanting ‘Libertad,’ or ‘Freedom,’ according to an immigration attorney …”

His statement should end after the first two words.

It is totally fine for people who have been harmed to hear an apology and refuse to accept it. To acknowledge it and never trust the person saying it. To expect more than words. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable because the real world does not function like a sitcom.

it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not

This part exactly. EXACTLY

No one cares that they're "just catching up" we care that they think they can lead or that they are the only arbiters of truth simply because they landed on the correct side once. Sit, listen, learn, follow, or stfu.

If you change your mind on something and that change is conditional on the people who formerly disagreed with you’s attitude about it, then I sincerely doubt how legitimate you are

It's one thing to be wrong. It's another thing to be willfully wrong. And it's entirely another thing to wield your willful wrongness as a weapon against those who won't just sit down and agree with it. You don't get to just come in for a cuddle like nothing happened after that.

Counterpoint: a lot of people don't change their minds so much as slink back into the crowd once their opinion becomes socially untenable, and calling them out on this is a valuable social function.

This is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

So remember how I said that some people are not objecting to oppression, they just object to being one of the oppressed? Yeah so about that...

“What happened to me then is happening now to millions of women and girls in a new and more terrifying way. Before, someone had to betray your trust and steal something real. Now all it takes is a computer and a stranger’s imagination. Deepfake pornography has become an epidemic.”

The Trail of Tears was from 1830 to 1850. If you're going to be in denial at least do some math.

It’s time to wrap up this year’s Christian F*^%ing Bale month with a look at #FordvFerrari. @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and Sara join me to discuss Bale’s performance, the relationships, and the ending. Vroom Vroom! #ChristianBale #Podcast

He's not a Lamborghini but he IS a Hollywood Star: let's talk about #ChristianBale in #FordVFerrari!

When I tell you that I hate this motherfucker with the heat of a thousand suns, it's still not enough to even touch the level of how much I fuckin hate him. I have a friend in the Parks Department and he is so fed up.

On this week’s episode of Pop Culture and Fandom News, @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social, and Sara join me to discuss the novel #Carless People, #ThePitt, the issues with Alamo Drafthouse’s mobile ordering system, and the trailers for Crime 101 and Betty’s Revenge.

Returning Tolerables, Laura and @wisconsennach.bsky.social, join me in my bubble and we go on a quest of them explaining #DnD to me. We also talk about the movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Available on a podcast player near you! #dungeonsanddragons #momswhopodcast

Hey you wanna hear me rip a movie to shreds? As a Friday treat?

We are continuing our annual #ChristianBale celebration with a look at the 2017 film, #Hostiles. @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and Sara joined me for this really important discussion. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Another man who was detained with him “said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, ‘No puedo respirar’ - Spanish for ‘I can't breathe.’ Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away …”

On this week's episode of Pop Culture and Fandom News, @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and Sara join me to discuss #SongSungBlue, Andrea Yates, #Primate, #RegrettingYou, the trailer for #TheyWillKillYou, and fans crossing the line and why you're never too old for fandom.

ARE CATS MUSLIM? Written by Nusheen Ameenuddin @namdwrites Illustrated by Rizki Amalia Salsabila @rizkiamalias Why this picture book? It’s hilarious! And speaks to the practice and fruits of faith (around the globe) as well as social justice—all via CATS! 🐈🐈‍⬛ “Cats… http://dlvr.it/TNkpF4

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

There is a GFM for Juan Carlos the young man beaten, kidnapped and robbed by ICE We can support his healing efforts: gofund.me/6766048bc

The way America relies on Black activists to protect them from their own decisions should be studied. Not by me though.

In Minneapolis

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

In today's brand new episode, @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social is back to talk about typewriters and feminism, fans taking things too far, and more as we obsessively discuss the film #Misery. Available on a podcast player near you! #newepisode #liberace #robreiner #hobbling

Laurel Canyon is...a movie. That I watched. And, yeah 😂. Hey I'm a lot less cryptic on the podcast episode so listen and find out how I felt about this...movie. That I watched

We continue our Christian F**king Bale Month celebration with a look at the 2002 film, Laurel Canyon! @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and @geekandsew.bsky.social joined me for this one. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform. #christianbale #podcast

It’s time to kick off 2026 with Christian F*^%ing Bale month! @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social, @geekandsew.bsky.social, and @whoistiffisme.bsky.social joined me to discuss #ThorLoveAndThunder. Listen now. #ChristianBale #Balehead #Podcast

It is time for another exciting episode of Pop Culture and Fandom News. @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social and @geekandsew.bsky.social join me to discuss what we are into, the trailer for Netflix’s Apex, & some of our hopes for 2026 Pop Culture. #Podcast itsafandomthingpod.com

Ring in the new year with a listen to our latest episode! Carla from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social, @geekandsew.bsky.social, and @whoistiffisme.bsky.social joined me to discuss some films that worked and some that didn’t, the trailer for #TheOdyssey, and our pop culture resolutions. #NewYear #Podcast

It’s time for part two of our best of 2025 countdown. @carlatemis.bsky.social from @okrealquickpod.bsky.social, @geekandsew.bsky.social, @wisconsennach.bsky.social, and Sasha join me again to countdown our top five in films, TV shows, theater, books, and music. #Podcast