I think we’d be a lot less “mad” if Moyn hadn’t spent years attacking everyone to the left of center — especially “liberals” — who had already figured this shit out.

"if we abolish ICE how will we handle undocumented immigrants" well I'm ineligible to run for office for so, so many reasons but I've got a step-by-step plan for anyone who needs it: 1. help them get some documents

I have yet to do one of these personally. A friend has been helping neighbors for two months now and has run out of funds for their neighbors and themselves. I know everyone is stretched thin, but it you can help at all I'd appreciate it. They are kind to a fault. gofund.me/74c9bc508

The ICE tax strikes again. Please consider throwing a few $$ in the hat if you can. We’re at the point where the helpers could use a little help themselves now.

My kids love each other and that will be enough

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

lol this flagged in my daily medieval search

This is good. I got a business travel friend to donate some of his miles. But we should be hounding delta non stop until they do it for free.

I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure

Going to twice deep fry five spice chicken wings tomorrow.

I can't wait to assign this as part of my Centralia Massacre activity

Seeing a lot of analysis of why this data-driven approach is a bad strategy for running a newspaper, and sure, totally, it is, but the bigger issue with the Bezos quote is that it's a lie and not at all a description of what Bezos is doing

The city of Minneapolis, where you can genuinely say "but WHICH dildo related anti-ICE demonstration in 2026 did you mean?"

I would tell them to start by joining something fun - anything that gets them excited about being with other people (trivia nights, swimming, arts club) - from there I'd encourage them to invite a couple of other people to work on some sort of collaborative project with them at the local level...

minnesota problems

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

That brief window where medium published great stuff at 1$ a word was amazing (for me, as a freelancer. Also for you, as a reader, because we could afford to work harder and do more).

did anyone get a picture of the frogs with the homemade costumes? i loved how minneapolis they were. paper mache frog heads with bright colored paint.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Incredibly moving memorial in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis for Renee Good. Over a thousand in attendance by my eye. The video is a eulogy delivered by a friend of Good. ICE out of Minnesota. Justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

There is no way that we can host the World Cup or the Olympics.

Ah yes, the Praetorian Guard, famous for their efficiency at their one job.

Becca Good is a powerful, courageous, and moral person.

Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

Love that Tom Homan’s public strategy is essentially if you sell your neighbors out, we wouldn’t need so many agents. How about you fuck off?

There was so much ICE activity today. A group of agents spent the whole morning inside Jimmy’s Bar and then ended up driving erratically all throughout the Holland & Como neighborhoods, eventually trying to park at the 2nd precinct police station.

chat please suggest some well-written, smart (respectful of audience, not performance of cleverness), and absorbing shows, I need to canary-cover my brain for a minute

I'm an "I have an uncanny knowledge of the axle, toe loop and Lutz jumps in figure skating" Olympics fan.

Are you a “I have opinions about curling” or “I have opinions about luge” Olympics fan?

$400 more to their goal.

Absolutely. Sometimes, you don't get the chance to meet them, let alone work with them, although they're your institutional colleagues. That's because they are rarely on campus. And their TT positions are upheld by adjuncts, lecturers AND the tenure-line faculty who do the most teaching & advising.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

I feel like I was making headway with my substack before I realized what they were about and I fucked off. It stung, but not enough to even give me pause

Give if you can . . . #GoFundMe #Minnesota 🇺🇲

Today's "go fund me" From Stand with Minnesota - get these kids' dad out of detention. Let's get it moving a little more, Saturday Bluesky.

Today's "go fund me" From Stand with Minnesota - get these kids' dad out of detention. Let's get it moving a little more, Saturday Bluesky.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in Minneapolis is 5 days away!!!!!!! 🎞️📽️🎊🎶❤️‼️ Join us Feb 12-15 (Thurs-Sun) at the MSP Film Society & Walker Art Center for new restorations of long unseen, beautiful, and fiercely political films!! Brought to you by @archivesonscreen.org ❤️🎞️ mspfilm.org/il-cinema-ri...

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

Where is Jonathan Ross? A month ago he killed Renee Good. Is he on the streets, armed and ready to take more lives? Is he in a cushy office somewhere, living a good life off the taxpayer dime. Is he at a training facility, teaching feds to step in front of cars, kill, and say they were afraid?

reminded that hamish mcsubstack's 2023 explanation of why he takes nazi money is: "Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetising publications) makes the problem go away – in fact, it makes it worse.." This is false. Like it's false false. Very false.

I like international sports for a lot of reasons but one of them is “opportunities for annoying jokes about early modern history”

anyway, it’s true and bears repeating. leave substack.

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.

I don't want to speak rashly here, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the Trump administration is *not* actually concerned with holding pedophiles to account?

JD Vance going to Italy like Francis I in 1525, and with a similar result (humiliated in or around Milan)

I was literally shouting online about Bartolome de Las Casas the other day.

we’re up over $4,000, so let’s hit that $4,785 total and meet this family’s need today!!! just a lil over $500 to go💗 V: @em-cassel PP: @biketrouble

A story about him from last year www.the-sun.com/sport/143961...

Tucson area folks, come say hello! tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?action=displ...