You may have seen this video of a woman shooing away two ICE agents with a bat go viral. It's fake, an AI-generated video. Here's how you can tell and how to fact-check similar content:

Thought of you @phantomkhalid.bsky.social :)

We must all have ways to hold, release, some of the devastation and fury in these times of terror and rage. When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action. Because we must take action. But we must have capacity. Some words, and some resources:

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

Standing offer: I'll give feedback (after Feb 15 only) on up to 25 pages to anyone who donates any amount to an org/fundraiser/wishlist in the link. I'm a former journalist, current novelist, and writing teacher. Synopses, queries, chapters, op-eds, all good. Honour system: DM and tell me where/what

Do you want to attend a Worldcon panel called "A Brief History of Rhyme: Speculative Poetry and Science Verse"? We certainly haven't thought of it yet. It's only going to happen if you pitch us your awesome ideas using this form right here: www.lacon.org/programming/...

I just want one day where what I want to do doesn't get overruled by everyone else's needs

We're now closed to general submissions, but we're still open until the 21st to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors! This is an extension rather than a separate window, so if you've already submitted, please wait until our next opening in April to send us something new. 🪐🗡️

That's it. That's the call. Go. 🔥📞🔥 Info, numbers, script 👉

1. These companies continued to advertise on X as Grok generated nonconsensual sexualized images of kids (and adults). We contacted all of them for comment. All 37 either declined to comment or did not respond. NFL Shein NBA Outback Steakhouse Burger King ESPN (Con't)

One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.' Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots. Raise your voice.

Here is a much larger, vetted list of ways to help Minnesota. Please share it widely. www.standwithminnesota.com

MetaFilter had several vicious fights between people who were directly affected by state-based reproductive coercion and cis men were dedicated to just asking questions and talking rationally and had clearly never in their lives had to spend a moment's thought on reproductive risks

minor thing but how nice to finally see an acknowledgment of the fact that lesbians are also watching this show

Someone needs to wrangle this into a "And how many people killed by ICE is 'too many' or 'a lot'?" question.

Since a few folks have asked recently, this is my personal favorite whistle to print. I can do 60 on an A1 Mini in 5-6 hours depending on the filament/settings! makerworld.com/models/11816...

Ways to make my sister hang up the phone: Talk to my cats as though they're human Talk to my cats in baby talk Offer to show her images from my cat's dental surgery

If you are a worker at a place where ice is staying or patronizing, think of creative ways you can gum up the works: Take forever to wait on them or bring them their check. Waste every second of their time you can! Make them repeat themselves again because you “didn’t catch that”

Maryland readers—this is a BIG one. Join me Jan 14 at Park Books, Severna Park with Kate Quinn. ⚔️📚https://buff.ly/8RSlu7O

Everything is horrible and this website is definitely a distillation of that horribleness -- which is probably good in some way because we need a place where we can talk about and show what's happening! Still, some deep breath break is needed, so, what can I do? I can post DOGS. Here there be dogs.

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

WAIT. WHAT?

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

O, falsely, falsely murder’d!

Celebrate the wins

For the evangelical crowd: “I’m a big fan of Jesus’s hot take that people should recognize His followers because of their love for everyone + assistance to anyone in need, but you do you, I guess.”

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!

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

"They want an excuse to fire on protesters." "They're looking for a reason to declare martial law. Don't..." Ah. See, they're already doing and saying whatever they want. They're putting people in camps and murdering people at will. Our behavior doesn't drive theirs.

Ellison and Walz should be in front of the cameras right away, making clear that FBI agents will be indicted on state charges if they destroy evidence or sabotage the investigation in any way.

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

This is very distressing news about RAICES, an organization that I’ve funded and recommended to others looking to help immigrants. I will be canceling my monthly donation.

The Fantasticks is being reimagined as a gay love story for an upcoming Broadway production!

Like the hatching of cicadas, the discovery that women are human with independent thoughts, emotions, and sexual desire, cycles around and everyone is surprised by it. Then everyone will forget and revert to unsatisfying slop until a new show emerges that we go berserk for, and it will start anew.

I…wouldn’t it be better to enforce the existing laws against presidents invading at will and whim? Will they introduce a new resolution for each threatened country? They’ll have no time to do anything but.

Want to know what emboldened them to do more evil? No fucking consequences. That's what did it.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Boosting my call script again, since I think some people are only catching the second post, which is call tips.

This is a good visual. Looks like in order to ensure we have proof that we mailed something on a specific day, we will have to stand in line at the post office and request a manual post mark.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

pretty crazy for basically a couple of poor/marginalized trans women come together and produce a news outlet that is making national headlines and re-reported by multiple outlets within months of getting starte. And I promise you will see more huge news reported by us very soon!

The pure schadenfreude joy #Minneapolis is taking seeing this ICE SUV stuck in less than 3 inches of #snow is just everything. You really have to know #Minnesotans to know how this is antithetical to everything we are in #Winter, where we'll shovel even Packer fans out; but no help coming here. 😜

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