“There are no words to fully capture the pain, fear and disruption this causes for our scholars and their loved ones,” Zachery-Ross said. “To see our families targeted in this way is a violation of the sense of safety that every member of our community deserves.”

ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.

Reports are that they were hanging around bus stops at the end of the day, and that some buses returned to the schools rather than drop the kids off and put them at risk. I'm FURIOUS but feeling galvanized after already seeing the community mobilizing to support impacted families and start observing

a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?” and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond of course of course mutual aid is an expression of love love is an act of resistance

There should be a website where you can put in a list of the usernames of your old AOL/neopets/etc. friends and if any of them also put in your username the site lets you know there's a match and provides a messaging space to catch up (but stay anonymous if you want)

Hey what’s up UofM is trying to get a data center built in Michigan and if you happen to be free Jan 29th you and as many friends as I can find to bring with can go share your opinion on that in an open house record.umich.edu/articles/u-m...

Also, knowing the mental health histories of some of my friends, lovingly, neither should they. BUT. Good news! There's so much more to community defense than /just/ arming yourself! Let me introduce you to the good lord and savior riot/street medicine (also wilderness first responder shit)! 2/7

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Snow emergency! If you need to move your car off a public street to a garage, you can text 734-328-1705 for a ride from one of our volunteers. #annarbor #a2council

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

10 just shared his take on some biblical miracles: "it was so unfair! He turned everything into wine and fish, what were the kids supposed to eat?!" (In case it wasn't clear, we have never attended church, I have no idea where he heard these stories except maybe the Simpsons?)

Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.

S. Beal being ignorant and wrong on Facebook, another example of "fork found in kitchen"

Just thinking about what it could be like if we offered social workers, nurses, and teachers $50k signing bonuses to quickly increase the workforce in those fields (desperately needed) instead of giving it to 🧊.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

In addition to being monstrous and inhumane I imagine this does immeasurable harm to the work Safety Town-type programs have done to help kids feel safe listening to firefighters and LE in emergencies. In a burning building or school shooting, will terrorized MN kids be too scared of men in uniform?

Some of these need to be photoshopped into the Mean Girls burn book

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Very annoyed at whoever* decided to procrastinate on doing progress notes and is now having to catch up on a Sunday night instead of relaxing and watching a movie *It was me

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Being responsible and eating lunch before I go to Costco, please clap

Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care: You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action. Care work IS justice work

There is a teen sleeping over tonight who apparently goes to bed at Regular Kid time and not Feral Night Owl time like my own kids do, and now I have to figure out how to quietly take the dog down (wooden) stairs for her regularly scheduled bedtime pee without waking said teen up. Pray for me...

I never want to hear the right complaining about "participation trophies" ever again

hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said

Jan 6th: County sheriff deputy kills someone after a chase and crash, saying they pointed a gun at the officers Jan 13: It turns out there was no gun; the local Reformers line up to collect their Fell For It Again award; your friendly neighborhood abolitionist fights off a migraine #A2Council

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

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

NPR's Merch team understood the assignment shopnpr.org/products/fer...

On top of everything else, today is a really awful day to have sinuses. I want to shove my head under a pile of pillows and sleep for a week

Once again, the "don't tread on me" crowd is awfully quiet

Gentle reminder to check in with your body and take care of yourself. Our nervous systems are not equipped for a 24/7 firehose of terrifying information and taking some time and space to meet your needs will allow you to be ready for your leg of the relay. Hydrate, nap, eat, craft, be in community.

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stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

There's a house in town that has a thought-provoking political sign that they change out fairly regularly. Today it said "what makes you think you won't be next?"

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

important message to all bluesky users

I appreciated @kairyssdal.bsky.social 's note at the end of marketplace tonight about January 6th and the direct connection between the insurrection and the economy, democracy, and ultimately the people at the heart of keeping both running. Every news story is political AND a story of humanity

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

Tried chatting with the (incredibly unhelpful but quaint) paramount+ chatbot* and it reminded me so much of smarterchild that I went down a nostalgia rabbit hole and found this lovely article: slate.com/technology/2...

Without health insurance