I wholeheartedly support calls to boycott in protest but ask that they focus on large, especially billionaire-owned businesses and not on small and local businesses that are essential to sustainable and equitable communities. Those are integral to a future we should be building.

Just finished “Powerless” by @hntdove.bsky.social A wonderful dystopian novel. While it tells of a scary future, it’s no more scary than current events. I totally recommend this book, even if it’s not yet banned.

The zone is so fully flooded that it's impossible to keep up, but this is pretty bad.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

When you take an action like showing up to a protest or calling/writing your electeds, tell someone about it. Your example of standing up, even in small ways, offers reassurance to those who cannot participate and can inspire others to their own constructive action.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) just pointed out that ICE has a projected 2026 budget that includes $858 million earmarked for bonuses. That means every ICE thug will get an end-of-year bonus around $42,000 while the average American worker might see a $2,500 bonus.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Jan. 23, 2026 will be remembered as the beginning of the end for the ICE regime grasping the throat of the US working class. A coalition of unions - including our sister local CWA 7250 - in collaboration with community groups, has called for a general strike of no working, no shopping, & no school.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

It’s revolting that the bullshit machine does this, and even more revolting that people are asking it to.

Imagine what a tiny little man you would have to be to feel threatened by a dancing fox.

in case you stan Pluto and you didn’t click through on my other post you really have to see this.

Just great.

General Zerd (Sinaloan milk snake)has a heater in his terrarium, but sometimes he just wants that human body warmth.

I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE

I took this picture in full context because, even with most pictures of the Stone of Hope, we often see the erasure of the Mountain of Despair from which it comes.

I found this piece on the AI bubble by Cory Doctorow invigorating. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

Xanthe, aka the Speckled Menace, glares at a Steller's Jay whose loud call interrupted her prowl. #caturday

Looking to elections to end the madness?

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

This is an excellent, pragmatic, and hopeful read.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Sounds on brand for the GOP-run USA.

I'm reviewing page proofs for HISTORY SMASHERS: THE SPACE RACE today & thought you might like to see this photo of Robert Goddard's first liquid fuel rocket. On its test flight, it flew about 40 feet and then crashed into his aunt's cabbage patch. #GottaStartSomewhere

Across the country, a growing number of Republican-led state legislatures are moving to gut the direct democracy process — stripping voters of their power to use ballot measures to pass laws when elected officials refuse to act. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rep...

This 1945 pamphlet about fascism--its goals and methods--written by the US War Department laid it all out so that our servicepeople would know what they were fighting to prevent. And it warned that it could happen in the US, and how it would happen.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

There are progressive groups standing up for their neighbors and building back their communities in EVERY COUNTY in Oregon. Find yours through the Rural Organizing Project (the full list is at the bottom of this report): rop.org/2025-annual-...

My city. 🤎

Whatever revisionist nonsense they're pushing now, I remember what happened on January 6, 2021. We watched the riot and the violent, attempted coup unfold live on television. There was no mistaking what it was.

Good morning from another fine day in America where absolutely nothing is happening at all

Wise words.

A useful new coinage: akinetomartyria. I feel it acutely.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Double tap, always.

LOTS fewer illegal fireworks in my neighborhood last night than usual. 😸

A new front in the attack on mail-in voting.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Horrific! Can nothing be done?

Big if true. (I hope it's true.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Possibly important Harvard study finds infections can lead to tau tangle aggregates in brain, usually regarded as symptoms/causes of Alzheimer's. Same lab found a few years back that infections can also lead to amyloid plaques, another classic symptom if Alzheimer's. The (possible!) implication...

I def need to do this. It's past time

“I think AI is only inevitable when we believe the lie of its inevitability.”

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.