If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez, Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE. GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

At #ORS2026? Don't miss "Advocating for Impact: Shaping Public Policy and Funding the Future of Orthopaedic Research". This advocacy workshop features AIMBE Executive Director Dawn Beraud and Former NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer at 2:30 - 3:30 PM on Sunday 3/29

Grateful for this accessible rally as I don’t feel comfortable attending in person with my recently dislocated shoulder at risk of re-injury, but I want to at least be counted. #NoKings #NK3AR

Once governing bodies claim the authority to decide who qualifies as a woman & require medical proof to back it up, that authority doesn’t stop with transgender athletes. It extends to any woman whose body falls outside expectations. You're about to see it in action.

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures

1/2 Among other things... The government is still silently withholding appropriated money for science. There is real damage being done to our current and future health because of actions that are extremely unpopular AS SOON AS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT THEM. You can help by raising your voice this weekend

Won't you be mine? 😆😍 (h/t @sarahmackattack.bsky.social ) 🌊 🦑 @deepstewardship.bsky.social @deepoceanobs.bsky.social

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Choose your fighter: badass women edition

Happy Valentines day! 🩷🎀✨️ Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet

I would ask people to call or message their senators about this and specifically that Vinay Prasad needs to be out at FDA. Even the Wall Street Journal has said as much. There is push back. Companies won’t fund clinical trials if they can’t trust the FDA.

Want to send filament to 3D printers making community safety whistles, don't want to support Amazon? @protopasta.bsky.social has committed to helping out: proto-pasta.com/products/the...

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that ICE has or plans to open more than 150 facilities around the US, in nearly every state, many near major metro areas. @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Early morning data analysis is greatly improved by the addition of a lap-cat 💛😸

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

This guy got beaten by a bunch of masked thugs whose salaries are paid by our taxes simply for being Mexican. Help him out.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

In about a week, the Senate is expected to vote on giving ICE and Border Patrol BILLIONS MORE in funding. Together WE can stop that. Call your senator TODAY and urge them to vote NO! #ICEout #WeFeedYou

Dinosaurs Survived! All 15 designs so far. www.emmalerae.com/store.html

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

When skiers can say what democratic leaders should be screaming youtu.be/1JvQ_IxWVbM?...

What the literal fuck is a flag, my guys? I wish the IOC a very get run over by a bobsled.

A friend in Idaho just shared that earlier today ICE showed up & surrounded her kid’s preschool with guns drawn, and took away one of the preschooler’s dads 😞 Absolutely horrifying.

Indigenous fire stewardship brings rare Ontario prairie back. After nearly disappearing, the Black Oak Savanna at Alderville First Nation is thriving again thanks to 25 years of Indigenous-led restoration. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl #ShareGoodNewsToo

There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released

Oh joy, the new MATLAB release has added Copilot 😐

"They and other Somali-Americans say their children are doubly vulnerable by virtue of their race and disability: While the first is obvious, making them a potential mark for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the second is not." 19thnews.org/2026/01/chil...

I can't be the only one who hasn't done any art in years but is especially motivated to do my own art *because* we're so inundated with genAI slop. In the past I may've looked for public domain or creative commons options but I trust nothing now, gonna have to do it by hand I guess.

When ICE finally releases someone who's been unlawfully detained after flying them halfway across the country, they just dump them outside of the detention centers here in Texas. help pool frequent flyer miles to get these folks back to their homes, pets, families.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

Do you hate AI? Hey, me too. Support my hand-painted artwork ko-fi.com/s/1e0dea7302

It does seem like this is one of the only times when it's not inappropriate to share the Anne Frank quote, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

This whole statement from Portland Mayor Wilson is excellent. This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.

I've seen a lot of people worried about using AI logos for ICE OUT protests. While I can't personally verify which logos are AI and which are not I did make a human-made version of the Minnesota Rebel Alliance Logo. The logo is under Creative Common License CC0. Source files🔗⬇️

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Guzman et al. show the potential of MRI-based methods to obtain 3D estimates of whole-muscle architecture and strain during contraction, providing data that allows for new avenues of skeletal muscle biomechanical research. 👀https://buff.ly/6MDy58y

I am loving all the variations of the Rebel Alliance Starbird. Rebel Loon, Rebel Ptarmigan, Rebel Cactus Wren, I am not joking when say I would collect one for every state, territory, native nation. Bring on the Rebel Blue Birds, Cardinals, Mockingbirds, all of them.

"[...] if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay." #FuckICE #abolishICE

If you need whistles, or you want to contribute to our GoFundMe to help us get whistles across the US, visit our link tree: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Indipendent journalist Georgia Fort said. "It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

GET IN, DORKS! The stakes are high and we have a LOT to stand up for in 2026. Join us on March 7th, 2026! www.standupforscience.net/march7 Want to host an event in your area? Sign up here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/ #Standupforscience #takebackourscience

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

16 degrees F, perfect outdoor pool weather 🦆

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

What's the status of ICE funding? The House passed a standalone DHS funding bill last week. But then they COMBINED the DHS bill with 5 other less controversial funding bills to trap the Senate. Now the Senate has til Jan 30 to vote on a 6-bill package that funds ICE *and* most other gov programs...

Tomorrow is today! And if you hate dialing, 5calls.org lets you click to call your electeds. It even gives scripts (though I like the one below).