My mother needs essential medications and treatments, and we cannot afford them. Please help us, even by sharing. Don’t leave us alone.😭🙏 chuffed.org/project/azez

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

The anti-ICE/CBP rally in Chicago's Daley Plaza has grown significantly in just the last half hour. The crowd is spilling out into street; I'd say there's over a thousand people here at this point.

a quick, inadequate tribute to catherine o'hara and the renaissance she was in the midst of, now cruelly cut short: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

You think you liked The Pitt but wait for the HOLE

I think I would have liked Honey Don’t! more if it had been called Detective Hole

this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol

Is it this kicky little hat?

If you’re not too strapped for $ right now, can people who follow me get $175 of this covered? Even small donations get it there. I will cover the other half. Thank you on behalf of MN!

These fraught times call for a show with what is either an intentionally or unintentionally hilarious title, and which I will be talking about for the rest of the year

“We are not producing a product enough people want,” says the editor who stalled a story on lawless deportations but rushed out an “exclusive” about an ICE agent possibly having a bruise. www.jezebel.com/bari-weiss-w...

With the customary caveat that it can feel a little silly doing this stuff while [Gestures broadly.]: Here's some of what I've been up to in Park City (image courtesy of VHS-ripped vintage TV ad for unaffiliated Mid-Michigan auto dealer) 🧵

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Sponsorships—famously the most exciting part of journalism

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

if CBS and the Washington Post both gut their newsrooms this week, that’s the nail in the coffin for the “just find a nice billionaire and settle down” theory of media preservation

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Meanwhile… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position

Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are. And MAGA knows it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

After listening to one too many “let me explain the way the world works” speeches in Taylor Sheridan TV shows and movies, I wrote this piece for the AVC, about the smirky, shruggy cynicism that has become the default posture of a lot of sociopolitically engaged producers, pundits and comedians.

Season 10 of A.V. Undercover is just getting started. We'll see you back here soon for a brand new episode. If you're a fan of A.V. Undercover and want to support us, you can now subscribe to The A.V. Club. Learn more here: www.avclub.com/av-club-subs...

A documentary playing Sundance watches a community band together to stop immigration officials from snatching people from their homes, in case anyone needed ideas.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

We got to talk about the fact that the first target for this is a Black woman which a lot of people in the terminally online world we know these comms staffers (and others) inhabit represent a particular archetype of person who needs to be “humbled.”

A teacher starting the day with a whistle. Two people taken by ICE, one with the car door window smashed in even though the door was open. A postal worker's dark new work realities. An empty restaurant but booming delivery. Just some of what we heard from Minneapolis www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is a definition that has literally nothing to do with working or class.

Scott is one of my dearest friends, and I am immensely proud to see his kindness and compassion in response to this, that a whole city gets to have him in their corner. Read his words and get ready to do the same in your community

The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... | @newyorker.com

The overlap between "CIA assassination attempt" and "college prank" is surprisingly large.

This was the 26th dedicated ICE air deportation flight to operate out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International since January 1, 2026. We estimate they've deported 1,830 people on these flights - just over 100 per day, on average, so far this month.

A guy in my D&D group carries his books in this gorgeous handmade leather case modeled after the Player’s Handbook

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

All the talk here a couple of days ago about the glory days of browsing through comic strip collections in mall bookstores reminded me of this piece I wrote a decade or so ago for the AVC, about how Matt Groening bridged the alt-comix and mall comics worlds. www.avclub.com/between-zap-...

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

GWAR has appeared on A.V. Undercover more than any other band, and they somehow keep upping the ante.

I know that our attention is being pulled in so many directions, but if you have a few bucks to spare for my friend Ramzi, I would be so grateful. He needs to buy a water tank so that his family has access to clean water, and donations have stalled. If 12 people donate 10 euros, he’ll have enough.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...