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.

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

Like the No Kings protests in Chicago in the fall, the atmosphere outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility this morning is thus far calm, even carnivalesque.

Watching a movie, thinking "these cuts are terrible, they're destroying the comedic timing. Who edited this, a man?" I was wrong! There are TWO men listed as editor on the IMDB

Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple. He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated. 📸: Pierre Lavie

I would add, because I believe we will only get out of this by offering a BETTER FUTURE Universal Healthcare Universal Basic income Universal free higher ed Rapid decarbonization via renewable development and transit reform like free fucking buses everywhere

1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…

ICE Nazis visit a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul in hope of ordering food and kidnapping some restaurant workers, but get met with resistance from EVERYONE inside, only to get their fascist asses thrown out. 🙌🇺🇸💪👏✊️👇

Today's episode: a tornado is coming at your warehouse. Your supervisor has told you you can't leave or you'll lose your job. 6 coworkers end up killed, are you one of them? Oh wait that actually happened.

My favorite thing about Gemini meeting notes is the prevalence of singular they.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

It's not too late to get me a birthday gift, by which I mean, donate to the Albany Park Mutual Aid fund! Or, if you shop at HarvestTime, you can tell your cashier you'd like to load money onto the APMA gift card when you're checking out.

I don't get it. Basically any album that I really liked between 1993 and 2003 would meet this million-dollar criteria? Signed, I Find Novelty Upsetting

Mannnnnn you know I love me some bougie hippie shit, but it is bananapants that the dishwasher soap from the refill store (reduce single-use! reduce plastic! buy only what you need) is ** 5x the price** as name-brand stuff sold at Walmart. Do I need to go back to littering the planet?

Us: Abolish ICE! Democrats: How about we make the ICE agents have QR codes so after you're murdered in cold blood your corpse can scan it and find out who killed you? 👍

We will not let Trump use working people's hard-earned dollars for political retribution. In the streets, in Congress, and in the courts, we will fight to protect our communities.

Withholding federal funding from states that are standing up to authoritarianism is illegal, unconstitutional, and an abuse of power.

My work laptop is bragging that the new OS has a redesign that looks slightly more like that one WinAmp skin I liked, that I could connect to devices I do not and will never own, and also that they've inserted the plagiarism machine into everything.

Ooh, a CTA spending scandal in the making! Chicago journalists: rev your engines I wonder who authorized this, and if they can be dragged before the Chicago City Council

Hittin the sizzup at Montrose Bird Sanctuary. 1.13.2025

Your fascist boss needs you desperately. As an experienced civil servant you know levers of power that your boss doesn't even know he wants. Even by coming in to work, you fear you are teaching him by example how to use that power. Following orders, even occasionally, is even more dangerous.

It's 10am in Minneapolis and rapid response is underwater, reports of chemicals deployed already. As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago. We are in freefall.

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How's Luigi doing? I just got a call from my doctor's office asking me to ask my insurance whether they'll cover this year's physical because my upcoming appointment is only 363 days after my last physical and I'm having some feelings

Seen in Minneapolis. "If you see this man tell him to hammer his dick"

omg you guys Did you all know that holding shift while scrolling your mouse wheel lets you scroll HORIZONTALLY? I'm telling everyone I know (especially those of us who live in spreadsheets)

Better yet, a livable universal basic income so we can dispense with all this BS social welfare red tape once and for all

We are now up to fifteen clear calls for impeachment. Rep. Robin Kelly IL-02 Rep. Maxine Dexter OR-03 Rep. Chellie Pingree ME-01 Rep. Melanie Stansbury NM-01 Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove CA-37 Rep. Kevin Mullin CA-15 Rep. Emily Randall WA-06 Rep. Sarah McBride DE-AL Rep. Juan Vargas CA-52 1/2

Does Amazon know how poorly the Goodreads/Kindle sync works, in terms of tracking books for the yearly challenge? If I paid as much money to computer nerds as Amazon does, I would expect functionality, that's all I'm saying. Once again, Amazon is both Evil and Stupid.

. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on avoiding ICE being sloppy+untrained=> same bipartisan "fund them more" as police: "More money to further professionalize the people committing state violence doesn’t change the core dynamics: what they’re there to do, who they target, what they can get away w/doing"

As promised, we are back with a second wishlist for our friends in Minneapolis! This time @naomikritzer.bsky.social is helping out by being our local contact who will receive all the goodies you send! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... As always, you can avoid the 'zon at our GFM!

Let's do sandwiches! Tell me your favourite sandwich. Bread, wrap, sauces, toppings, fillings, all of it. I love fried portabella and roasted red peppers, dill Havarti, ajvar, on toasted crusty bread. Also love grilled cheese sandwiches lol *do not be rude about other peoples' toppings*

Holy smokes, do I love the Sworn Soldier series by @tkingfisher.com Me, reading WHAT STALKS THE DEEP while my partner watches a game on TV: ahhhhhh nope nope No Nooo NO NO Him: What?! What's wrong?! Me: I'm reading a horror book and *it is happening* Him: <sigh of relief, goes back to the game>

The Rock, by Peter Blume (American, born Smorgon, Russian Empire, now Belarus, 1906–1992) 1944–48 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/56682

The people who've long been calling to abolish ICE were always right. As those words come to feel right in more mouths, I hope you consider not just ICE but other systems of stunning, racist harm: police, jails+prisons, detention. You don't need to know what's next to demand something better +

You know a major barrier to car-free utopia is our silly health care non-system Even if you have insurance and don't live in a care desert, you usually have to pick providers based on who on your plan is taking new patients

New Year's Resolution for 2027: start dressing like Anne Lister

thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.

<sighs fondly> Remember when Reagan died?

Colors, by Students and Faculty of The School of Art and Design American, Unknown June 1987 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75031

another speaker says “any shared surveillance is collaboration”

If you (a colleague) send me an email asking me to set a meeting with you, or asking me my availability, you're losing allllll your cool points. Sorry, homie, but we both use the same Outlook and my calendar is up to date. I can see your availability! You can see mine. Don't waste our time.

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It's 2026 and someone out there is using Acrobat commenting tools to draw red boxes around the text boxes they've added into the page via Edit PDF. Flames. On the side of my face.

once again, i urge everyone to stop reading the mealy-mouthed legacy media stories and just read the ones that are telling the truth and in the plainest terms possible.

Hey all, if you're spiraling I've got a couple of psychological first aid tips that can help until you're able to process with an actual professional. Do: name what you feel in your body very specifically. Don't link it to emotions yet. Name "my stomach hurts" and "my chest feels tight" and

"I'll just pop onto social media real quick and then I'll make some lunch," she says, forgetting that online = bad news = nausea