I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

It's that time of year. Jane's Walk is accepting submissions for walking tours for its festival in early May. If you live in NYC, I really encourage you to submit a tour and to participate. It's really fun. www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...

the Black Panthers were right

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The wellness to eugenics to fascism pipeline is well documented. It’s why disabled people beg you to stop treating us as expendable. Health supremacy devalues other human beings. It leads to deciding some lives are “worth” more than others. It paves the way for atrocities.

imagine being a beautiful cow and ending up as a boxy, three-button USA flag sport coat with a collar gap and the bottom-most button fastened

I had a long chat with my Covid conscious piano tuner today, and like every conversation with CC people, you hit a point where you all just go “I don’t understand. I don’t understand these people who are otherwise smart and kind consciously making this choice to harm people. It baffles me.”

You have a 5-10% chance of long covid with every infection, higher on reinfections. That’s one in twenty to one in ten people who may be too sick with long covid to protest the next time you need them. To follow ICE. To volunteer. To donate. I truly do not get the constant own goals.

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.

Getting long covid will make it much harder to do organizing or mutual aid work. If you want to preserve your ability to help, wear an n95 when you share air.

They think they have a right to impose their delusions on your kids. They are banking on the fact that liberal parents will be too nice to be as aggressive as MAHA. Prove them wrong. This should infuriate you and you must make sure your legislators hear that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Worth noting: literally any US born politician could get some of that Mamdani glow by siding with people over billionaires every single time. Just love your neighbors more than money and fight for them relentlessly! (And have years of coalition building and great communication skills, etc.)

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I can't think of better rebranding ambassadors for masks than the 2026 Olympians. Our leaders have tried to pass off masks as something you only wear if already sick or older with comorbidities. But everyone is vulnerable to post viral illness. These athletes get it 👏🏼👏🏼

This is blackout poetry to me

Breaking: The CDC reports SARS-CoV-2 levels *quadrupled* in Minnesota in the past week. Using harmonized wastewater estimates, we project 1 in 12 people in Minnesota are actively infectious. This is equivalent to a 59% chance of exposure in a room of 10 people....

Watching my backlog of recordings from Milan-Cortina, hearing stories about how Olympians caught COVID and it took them 3 years to come back to competitive/healthy form, I think, "WHY is there such resistance to mild precautionary measures just because you want to avoid illness?".

It's almost like there's been a concerted bipartisan effort by the media, politicians, and influencers to gaslight people into ignoring the dangerous respiratory illnesses that have been rampaging through the country since 2020 or something.

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NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

You really don’t need to be antisemetic about Epstein. He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.

at some point maybe we should do something about the cabal of billionaires intentionally demolishing society so they can profit off the ashes

Even though not all my music is in lydian. It is in lydian, in some sort of spiritual way perhaps

There are reports that ICE was at South Station in Boston, taking photos of everyone coming off the trains. Photos. Of everyone. When we get rid of this administration, we must also insist on destroying whatever sinister database these fucks are feeding.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Howard Lutnick misled the American people about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein because he didn't want to admit he continued interacting with Epstein even AFTER Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor.   It's a disgrace. Lutnick needs to resign as Secretary of Commerce.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

The art of the soundtrack as mix tape (The Crow, Tank Girl, Cruel Intentions) has been replaced for tracks written for the movie or just orchestral scores and I hate it. I want B-sides from every popular band on soundtracks. I want someone curating it to put crazy combinations together. I miss it.

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

when you dress so badly derek just gives up

Living in Minnesota right now is wondering if your patient is late because they got caught in traffic, because they got arrested, or because they got detained and all of these are perfectly plausible and equally likely.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

As a purely political matter, it shouldn't be hard to say, "hey, you know that agency with armed, masked men who kidnap your neighbors, throw tear gas at peaceful protestors, & turn cities that offend Stephen Miller into war zones? Yeah, we're not going to fund it anymore."

im no six figure political consultant but if i were in charge as the trump admin was warning about catastrophic jobs numbers coming tomorrow, id probably have my “every republican president destroys the economy” campaign ready to go for the rest of the week

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Covid protection shouldn’t just be at the Olympics or Davos, everyone deserves to be protected. My long thread from earlier in the week. Covid is not over!

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

Should they reply to you telling them that Olympians are still taking precautions by pointing out that you are not an Olympian, reply that like an Olympian you too are competing in a historic event, and when they ask what it is, tell them: it’s called the surviving the pandemic.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

yea why not start an article about the benefits of mitigation by undermining it

Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous