this is incredibly frustrating. By framing this as a policy demand Dems are aiding a disinformation campaign that is intended to confuse the public about what is constitutionally required.

Big hell yeah to everyone in the replies here. Let us never forget that NPR is not our friend.

Seriously dude

Real simple letter you can send today And as a Texan it's the least we can do while they keep kidnapping people to concentration camps in our state

One way to judge a society's investments is asking: "what kinds of people and relationships will this investment create?" Sit with this question. Investment in repressive bureaucracies has become so normalized that we are desensitized to how far away from the best parts of humanity it takes us.

As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The Color of Seattle for 2026-02-05 #ColorOfSeattleDaily

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Free pattern from stitchthesystem on insta! Language 2 for "fuck ice" finishes~

Never let it be said that @law.harvard.edu doesn't teach you how to write a precise Question Presented #lawsky #academicsky

And this is why it's so important for white people to place themselves on the front lines of the resistance to ICE. Until the public consciousness evolves to where we as a society view nonwhite people as fully human, it's going to take more white people getting shot to keep media attention.

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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Live in Spokane? Want your #WALeg members to fight for the Millionaires Tax? Join us and our labor allies to rally for progressive revenue and against harmful cuts this Saturday, February 7th:

Have you signed in PRO for the Millionaires Tax? Make sure you do before time runs out! Take action ➡️ https://investwanow.org/sign-pro-millionaires-tax

Hoboken has: 1) No freeway interchanges 2) Few multi-lane streets 3) Small blocks 4) 60k population in 1.25 sq mi (a little smaller than Emeryville So it seems like the recipe for Vision Zero is to smash the freeways, road diet everything, & build dense housing.

as someone who once managed a monthly budget of $40,000 of rent assistance for a small nonprofit social service agency? you know how much time and effort it would take to pay 40 people’s rents?!?!?!? applications, in-person meetings, approval from my boss, mailing a check to a landlord…

the plot to dismantle democracy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

The DMV is losing one of the best transportation reporters in the US. I'm sad for Rachel, but even more so for DC.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

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Thanks to @spacedaddy.bsky.social for lending me Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats. Many of the pieces in it are about old cats, which suprised and moved me greatly. This poem is a stunner.

This is a great semantic distinction. I really wish Qasim would have acknowledged Ashley the Baronness. m.youtube.com/shorts/eZR21...

Important 🧵

Beautiful.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

For some people, attention is the whole thing. That's the real issue at the heart of the current discourse.

Attention attention, edamame (steamed, in the shell, salted) is a better side for pizza than salad. Repeat, 🫛 goes better with 🍕 than 🥗. 🫛+ 🍕=🥇 🥗+ 🍕= 🥉 (🥈= 🧆 maybe?) That is all, as you were

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Robotaxi companies are scrambling to expand in cities, but they’re ignoring rural America. They shouldn’t. AVs could do a world of good in the countryside (and unlike in dense cities, they’d fit well into existing transport networks). My guest essay in The Driverless Digest. 🧵

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

“Every single day that a kid is in a place like this, they deteriorate,” Hidalgo said. “I’ve seen [them] withdraw. They lose weight; they just get physically worse.”

Quite the contrast: In one part of the Epstein files, DOJ published unredacted nude images of women and potentially minors. In another part, officials redacted President Trump’s face from a news image that was shared in a text exchange. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Devastating.

Please don't do this in alt text. If you're posting a screenshot of text, you need to transcribe the actual text. You can use tools like Google Lens if rereading the text makes you sick.

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

The color of the sky in Seattle is pastel gray #cbcecc

In 1968, our middle school principal threatened to expel any student who wore a black armband to school on Fridays: there was a moratorium day every Friday to protest US participation in the Vietnam war. This is the same, only worse.

On a night of life-threatening cold, a homeless person entered a Lansing bus station seeking refuge from the freezing temperatures. Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."

ICE cannot expand any powers! They are just instructing agents to break the law. I’m so sick of DHS law breaking being covered like this.

#Upholstery was the work of providing furniture, especially seated, with padding, sprang, webbing, and fabric or leather covered. The word also referred to the materials used to upholster something.

OPCD should stop calling these corridors. they are slivers at best.