Today!

So on this fundraising campaign the DFL launched yesterday and is receiving critiques for today, I want to say a couple of things. 1. I work in fundraising and Simon is creating a PR crisis. That should be simple enough to understand. And 2. The delineation of funds needs to be clarified.

Gotta share my fav panel

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

"we all want border security" is a thing Democrats say a lot but gotta be real with you, I do not give a fuck if foreign people come here if they're not bothering anyone

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This is why @cortezmasto.senate.gov's proposal to turn ICE funding over to local police is unacceptable. Local police are helping ICE hurt our neighbors right now. Give them ICE's money and they'll just do ICE's work. No, never.

In this episode we rolled back the clock and did a full retrospective on the infamous Harper's Letter. This conversation with @parkermolloy.com was so much fun and what a trip it was travelling back to seemingly simpler times in the discourse. youtu.be/NF-M3Nz0azE?...

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Hope Endures New painting on my Patreon. Free to view : #kidlitart #cats

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

I'd like Bill to read his med school application essay where he talked about how much he wanted to help people. So he could see that he had actually accomplished that... But then ended up hurting far more people than he ever helped. And his legacy will be as the doctor who gave the keys to RFK Jr.

I’ll double check but I’m pretty sure we are still paying for the translators ourselves.

If you’ve said, “Wow, I wish this was around when I was a kid” please consider buying or gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE if you can, or asking your local library to acquire it if you lack funds. Sales tell publishers that books by #Autistic authors for a largely #ND audience are worth publishing.

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just saw an ad for Walgreens that was like “Because you don’t stop for a sick day. And neither do we.” and uh. yeah that’s the whole fuckin problem bud

Running Nazis out of town and then whimsical cardboard sleds at Powderhorn - you just have to love Minneapolis.

A Code Blue is in effect, and no one seeking shelter will be turned away. Our outreach teams are working across all five boroughs. If you see someone who needs help, call 311. Please check on your neighbors and stay safe, New York.

came back to bsky to share some advice from a medieval French courtesy manual: "If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".

Just a heads up that Menards has great prices on the toiletries and baby wipes that mutual aid groups are asking for, and you can fit a lot of them in this bag.

Say Her Name is specifically for Black women AND as a Black woman, I honor Renee Nicole Good's sacrifice. There is no greater love than to love your neighbor as yourself - in my faith, that is quite literally proof of "loving God." And it was Love that got Renee, her wife, and their doggo to stop.

More public restrooms across our city? Relief for all New Yorkers.

thread about X’s new TOS. tldr is musk can now sue users for any reason in a TX court he basically owns, so he’ll almost certainly win. and this is a platform politicians and journalists largely refuse to leave.

For you out of towners, I need to point out: ❄️ Powderhorn Park is in the center of one area of recent heavy ICE activity ❄️ It’s right by where Renee Good was murdered ❄️ With the wind, it’s a bit cold today in Minneapolis And yet South Minneapolis, doing its thing!

"They sold out the next day, too, with a line forming Thursday half an hour before the bakery opened. Despite having double the amount of cookies available, they were all gone within 16 minutes, the bakery said on Facebook."

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

Update on this: bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Biggest day of sales EVER For the *second time this week* I guess being publicly anti-Nazi was a sound business decision. Who knew?!

The point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.

Here is the Maine hotline and the SALUTE protocol. Please know the hotline is active and real. Enter it into your contacts. We Keep Us Safe #AbolishICE

You can’t reach across the aisle with fascists man. It just makes it easier for them to slap handcuffs on you, which was always their intention.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

All, periodic reminder: when you dunk on people like Katie Miller, you're doing exactly what they want. 1. Being screenshot and dunked on amplifies her message, even if it's snarking. 2. Ignoring her and lack of notoriety actually hurts her more. Don't do her work for her. Seriously.

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

If and when someone she knew and trusted reports that she was a lesbian who figured that out after two marriages and three children, we can believe *that*, but until and unless that happens, let’s not forget that bisexuals exist and do not stop being bi when we get into monogamous relationships.

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

Keep calling these chumps and tell them ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the BARE MINIMUM. Get them OUT right now, and ultimately DEFUND AND ABOLISH. Also, NO to failed "reforms" like training and bodycams that change nothing and just give ICE more money to hurt people. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

🚨BREAKING: DEMS DRAW RED LINE IN DHS APPROPS: NO FUNDING INCREASE FOR ICE. POLICY RIDERS GROWING. STORY COMING IN MIGRANT INSIDER

Reminder: this event is tomorrow! Help up put together whistle kits for distribution in the Twin Cities. Take what you need or just help prep them for your neighbors! It’s a lowkey way to help, with plenty of food, drinks, and community. Please share on all socials!

🧵 Staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, have voted by a 76% margin in a National Labor Relations Board election to unionize with UAW Local 2110. The ballot tally was 542 yes votes for the union with 172 votes against.

My mood lately. (I might make into a sticker if y'all want?)

It's Girl Scout cookie time!

Just completed my survey 😇 In all seriousness thank you for allowing us a voice @atg.wa.gov

Today is my 40th birthday and what I would actually like is up to the universe (if it happens on my birthday I will NEVER shut up about it), but if you wanted to buy some cute art while we wait that would also be neat 🥰 measuredandslow.studio/shop

A policy limited pretext stops, like hanging an air freshener from a rearview mirror or missing a single tail light, as the primary reason for police a stop. Previously, Black people, only about 5% of SF’s population, accounted for up to 40% of drivers searched. missionlocal.org/2026/01/sfpd...

A student just sent me a first short draft of a manuscript and referred to it as a 'miniscript' which is so perfect that I'm using that forever now.