A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

“Renee Nicole Good!” March in NYC chants in solidarity with Minneapolis following the ICE killing of legal observer Renee Nicole Good. Estimated 800-1000 attendees, with march circling 26 Federal Plaza where ICE operates before dispersing. More actions tomorrow at 8am and 9:30am at Foley Square.

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

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unhappy 5th anniversary of unpunished unprosecuted undigested televised live heinous crime against democracy day to all who celebrate

“These viruses are serious, dangerous, and life-threatening. We are seeing children who are seriously ill, families grieving devastating losses, and hospitals under capacity strain.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

The Chicago protest against the U.S. attack on Venezuela has stepped off to march through the downtown area. Hundreds have joined the march.

Stay warm this winter by curling up by the fire with a copy of STORY Issue 22, now available. Get your copy here: www.storymagazine.org/store/autumn... Subscribers, keep an eye on your mailbox.

From c. 3,600 years ago, an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a hedgehog curled-up in a ball! 🦔❤️ Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

How dare you assume that someone whose entire career has been a bad faith grift to benefit conservatives is acting in bad faith to benefit conservatives.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

If anybody needs to bawl their eyes out, the TCM Remember is up for this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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"He heard the voice calling from the direction of the river, so clear and ringing through the trees that he hardly knew it as Mr Oakes's; 'Who is he dares enter these my woods?'" Happy birthday, Shirley Jackson.

"I told the nurse I jog three days a week, play soccer, lift weights, and take spin classes. She just giggled. Honestly, I’m used to it. It was kind of annoying when she took my blood pressure four times, though." buff.ly/bcx3OS1

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Greetings, new 18th-century and Material Culture pals! I offer to you my favorite (non-gravestone) 18th-century artifact: Staffordshire teapot (ca.1760-65) from the Met bonus: it was once owned by a guy named Cecil, Lord Revelstoke, which is a great #romance name www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

fun fact: writing is the most effective way to end up having written an entire book someday. unfortunately not many people know this

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i fucking love my country of MPLS

This is so accurate

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Yay! Check out this amazing issue of @storymag.bsky.social!!!

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

Cassandra’s story is a great example of “connection without contact”-it’s an intimate thing knowing someone’s fate while they remain in the dark. @willwriteforchai.bsky.social’s #ExpoRecommends @gwenekirby.bsky.social’s SHIT CASSANDRA SAW (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/ParaSocialReco

guys, stealing is only punk if you steal from the wealthy & the big corporations -- stealing books is worse than absurd. go to a library ffs

nice tenth revision you got there. would be a shame if the whole thing was better about four drafts ago