From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.

"He’s been stolen from us." Jsané Tyler's cousin Keith Porter, Jr. was shot and killed outside of his apartment complex in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve by an off-duty ICE agent who also lived in the building. More: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/13/keith_porter_jr_ice_shooting

what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

🚨 Has this abuse of power become normalized already? I haven’t seen anyone in power DO ANYTHING to stop ICE since Nicole Good was murdered. How many innocents have to die? 100? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000? 10M? This isn’t about immigration. This is about forcing us into submission.

INBOX: Atlanta City Council will introduce legislation next Tuesday to rename Old Wheat Street to Cornelius Taylor Street. Cornelius Taylor was bulldozed to death by City of Atlanta employees during a homeless encampment sweep in 2025 to make way for dignitaries attending MLK Day festivities.

Yes, when I think of voices calling for civic discourse and toning down the rhetoric, I think of the Trump administration. IN particular, I think of the guy who has routinely threatened to arrest elected officials who disagree with him.

Despite all the John Roberts claims that the courts are in good shape and accusations of partisanship are unfair, the reality is that the public intuition that the courts have become more politicized under Trump are correct.

“this is not merely the ‘normal’ spin almost all politicians engage in, but regime propaganda entirely detached from the facts and utterly unconcerned with objectively observable reality. It is the duty of every democratic citizen to call it out, reject it, push back.”

This is why the US has not, at all, acknowledged covid as a mass death event, and part of why it refuses to acknowledge it is also an ongoing mass disabling event (with millions more grieving for the futures it made impossible to them)

THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.

Look at these dumb bubbas

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.

nah man, No Kings

The idea that our demand for human rights and equality has to be packaged perfectly with a bow on top is tiresome. Hopefully this moment demonstrates how the failure to address law enforcement excess is now (through ICE actions) recognized as a threat to democracy in this country.

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Zohran Mamdani has yet to give a solo press conference since taking office.

Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work). >>

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community,” said Milissa, who came out as transgender about 10 years ago. https://capitalbnews.org/black-parents-support-trans-youth/

Same

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024)

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

These people are deeply weird and obsessed with controlling other people's bodies.

"Students will have the responsibility to ensure the accuracy of any content they retrieve or generate." STUDENTS will have the responsibility to ensure the accuracy of the falsehood-generation machines you've thrust upon them? Students who have not learned through actual instruction what is real?

"Educators, educational leaders and unions must continually approach federal, state and local governments to secure funding for technology and training..." You want teachers to push electeds to give more money to tech corps instead of teachers? No. Forget "A.i." Just pay TEACHERS more.

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

In the grand tradition of American journalism, both sides must always be expressed. On the one side, there might be the moral courage of CECOT survivors who told us their story. On the other side, there might might be my service to oligarchical fascism in killing their story. by Bari Weiss

Yes. That’s why I say “don’t stop commenting” on SCOTUS decisions and practices. It matters.

An authoritarian movement, led by the president and reaching into Republican-led state governments and the judiciary is chipping away at American democracy. Trans people are among the first, most often targeted - but it won't end there. Read the full analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine? What?

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise. /fin

Member of the Epstein class says what

“As with the illegal so-called Department of Government Efficiency—which cost us billions of dollars, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and will almost certainly kill millions more—the desire is never to eliminate waste, but to eliminate people who have been deemed a waste.”

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right

My latest premium newsletter is about FIRE's alliances with the American right, and president Greg Lukianoff's pathetic attempts to justify them.

If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere. So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.