If you stopped wearing a mask in public spaces, now's a good time to pick it back up again

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Jewish New Yorkers have taken over the lobby of Palantir on the 6th night of Passover to protest corporate complicity in ICE’s deportation machine. NYC Jews demand #SanctuaryNotSurveillance!

Perfection:

"Brooklyn Dems' party boss going down in a corruption scandal" has now become such a regular occurrence that you could practically set your watch to it.

Andy Weir's sci-fi sees NASA fully-funded & going to Mars, & the world working collectively to save itself. It's *aspirational* sci-fi during the height of modern American fascism & a real-time dismantling of science. He comments on the times & is inherently political whether he likes it or not.

The anti-trans bills & laws are becoming ever more extreme. It won't be long before supporting your trans kid is coded as child abuse in a red state & trans children placed in Christian foster care to "make them appreciate" their gender assigned at birth.

Gender-affirming surgery saves trans people's lives, so excluding it from Medicaid coverage is a direct threat to trans people's existence By declaring this policy constitutional, Anderson v. Crouch lends legal legitimacy to the eradication of trans people ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances. He still has no comment.

At least Putin is happy. Funny how that worked out.

Does anyone have more info about this assault by Chris Coultier on protesters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wednesday? www.instagram.com/p/DV1A1GCjShv/ I'm curious which precinct responded and whether or not they actually charged this man with a crime. cc: @hellgatenyc.com @thecity.nyc

New Yorkers: if you can do so safely, take a moment to step outside (even on your front stoop) for a moment and appreciate how quiet the city is right now. ❄️ Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

Hell yes! Love to see bad Dems get good challengers.

Donate to help nurses at New York-Presbyterian Hospital get through this righteous strike: www.nysna.org/news/support... 🌹🤝

Not the same but reminds me of when NYPD descended on the apartment of a BLM activist—using drones & counterterrorism cops with long guns in a building across the street & detectives pounding on his door—all because he yelled into a megaphone near a cop during a demo and she claimed it hurt her ear.

Plane and ICE spotter. 👇🏼

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Today at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central branch):

Ever wish you could search everything ever said on the senate floor in a given state for an entire year? Just added to github.

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

Two pieces of media I can recommend if your mind is blown by this and you want to learn more about the amazing world of competitive high school mariachi in the U.S: 🎦 The documentary "Going Varsity in Mariachi" 📖 The queer YA romance novel "Canto Contigo"

I hadn’t realized until recently that we have The Peoples Laundry Mpls! thepeopleslaundrympls.com

Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔

Even though 3 out of 4 New Yorkers support taxing the rich, Governor Kathy Hochul still does not. This year, we must make Hochul either change her position on TTR or else lose her seat as governor. How? 1️⃣ Back @delgadoforny.bsky.social in the primary. 2️⃣ Help build a TTR base: ourtime.nyc/events

I'd honestly be pretty ok with either Claire Valdez or Antonio Reynoso. But Nydia Velazquez is being anti-democratic here, and I really hate to see it. 😞 We should *want* competitive primary elections!

😇 if you want to block them and a bunch of other fascists: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Democrats are going to fund their own prosecutions.

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

Already blocked by one of the block lists I subscribe to. If you're not using Moderation Lists, get on it!

Perfect example of why we're all glad that Heated Rivalry was made by Canadians instead of Hollywood

Our thread of ICE and CBP rapists, sex pests, and child molesters continues below. Our thread was so long that it broke Bluesky.

BORTAC agent David R. Dubar, Jr., 53, of Sierra Vista, AZ has participated in illegal kidnapping and human trafficking operations in Chicago, Charlotte, and elsewhere. Dubar is on temporarily duty assignment to CBP's Detroit Sector for purposes of deployment to IL and MN. Height 5'8", weight 185lbs.

Juan Di Bella, Patrol Agent In Charge of the Wellesley Island, NY Station (originally from NM) has participated in major kidnapping operations in Chicago, Charlotte, and Cato, NY. Di Bella, who has worked as a CBP Public Affairs officer, is likely also present in Minneapolis this week.

Agent Mark Cruz of Altoona, WI (ID'd by wrist tattoo) has been seen transporting shackled kidnapping victims to Minneapolis St. Paul airport. He smiles while victims are loaded onto private flights to the SLIPC concentration camp in Louisiana. SLIPC survivors have sued over rampant sexual assaults.

ICE agent Michael Muscarella of Malden, MA has been seen in Minneapolis in November and December, and in Boston earlier this year. As always, we discourage the posting of personal information. We will also note that Michael Muscarella is a very common name.

Justin T. Corbin, seen wearing an "ICE" vest this week in St. Paul, MN alongside Kristi Noem. He is not an officer, he is Kristi Noem's assistant. A former Heritage Foundation intern and Trump 2024 transition team staffer, he is now a DHS employee who works on media scheduling for ICE Barbie.

CBP agent Jeffrey Walker of San Diego, CA. One of two main bodyguards for Greg Bovino. A former Navy SEAL, he is always with Bovino in every city. He's very disciplined about wearing his mask. Walker has a tattoo on his left outer triceps. Wears USA flag and "GTAC" patches on his plate carrier.

ICE agent Kent Wayne Perry, 41, of Kingwood, TX. Seen in Minneapolis in November and December alongside other ICE and CBP agents. Appears to be a member of ICE SRT (Special Response Team). Often carries a pepper ball gun. His twitter is www.twitter.com/notkentwayne

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US

The good news is that we can watch polymarket to see what's gonna happen

If you want the Democratic Party to be a vehicle to undo the evils of Trump, you must undo imperial, violent forces within the Democratic Party. bsky.app/profile/thra...

Every California 4th grader knows that Elon is dead wrong about this

Off to a good start

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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