By Forugh Farrokhzad (1934 - 1967), one of the greatest Iranian poets ❤️ www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159078...

"In the U.S., some political figures are invoking Somalis and Somali Americans with suspicion and disdain—as if we are faceless others rather than families with deep, beautiful roots. This poem is a loving reclamation." - Rowda Mohamud, on this beautiful poem:

Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's first woman governor:

If ICE did not have guns and tear gas, they could literally be defeated by a group of mean 13-year-old girls. The girls would make some cruel and accurate comments about the ICE agents, and in two minutes there would be nothing left but a couple tablespoons of gray goo.

The ICE agent personality: "...baffled, brutish, plainly terrified and out of control, incapable of self-regulation or basic self-soothing, never learning a single thing and making as big and violent a mess as they can on principle." - David Roth

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

When big news breaks, misinformation spreads fast. It’s often hard to filter fact from fiction. Our 2024 guide remains relevant today, outlining what to look out for when it comes to misleading analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

The people celebrating ICE enjoy watching masked men terrorize and abuse women and children. They love it! They enjoy watching the videos of the violence first, then create justifications for that violence in reverse. Their ICE support is predicated on wanting the violence to escalate and continue

This is a powerful and frightening story about an agency that has become unaccountable for its abuses: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

David Garcia, 34, had Temporary Protected Status after fleeing the Venezuelan government. It was revoked. Since then, he spent nearly four months in six immigration detention centers across the country, including alongside convicted criminals. (Gift link) www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/01/11/v...

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

Listen to these beautiful people 💔😢❤️🎵

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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

"Fine dust settles on fragments of the past, my friend; not one of us can guess what happens next." - Evan S. Connell, Points for a Compass Rose

More brave people giving everything for their freedom:

No congregants were injured. "One Torah that survived the Holocaust was in a glass case and was undamaged in the fire." 💔❤️

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

This is so true! Even for the 500-word poem I just wrote, AI could never have made the deep connections of symbol, language & flow of argument that my own heart, mind, experiences & synapses did. I'm also looking forward to reading Anna O. Law's book:

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

They do not see peaceful protest as legitimate. They see it as a crime that they have the authority to immediately punish by whatever means they deem appropriate. That’s what law and order means to them. ctmirror.org/2026/01/08/h...

After the Trump admin started deleting video evidence of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from a DOJ server, a law firm secured a judge's order requiring the U.S. to restore the files. The firm has now partnered w/ @archive.org to permanently store them 👇 archive.org/details/@jan...

"The relationship between every citizen and their government is transformed by the constant demand for submission." - Michelle Goldberg "When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life.” - US Rep Wesley Hunt (R-TX) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

"Defunded by Congress and fearing the Trump administration might pervert the organization to further undermine free media, the board members agreed it was better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Five years ago.

Acclaimed Salvadoran newspaper El Faro pulls no punches. Here is the English version of their op-ed: beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

Vždycky můj nejoblíbenější básník, vždycky v mém srdci. (A to pískání! ❤️) Karel Kryl 1944 - 1994 💔🎵🇨🇿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPut...

Doing research on James Baldwin, I found him in an awe-inspiring face-off against white obtuseness, here. Heartbreaking how little the power structures have changed. But he is timeless: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzH5...

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

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"The problem is that there are millions of people in the US who do not or cannot see how ridiculous Kennedy’s claims are; they can’t see how Kennedy is lying to them. Kennedy and his anti-vaccine followers count on this; they prey on everyone's lack of knowledge." - Dr Jim Alwine

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"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Exploring ekphrastic poems, I found this magnificent, deep, heartbreakingly beautiful one by Ocean Vuong, on Irving Berlin's White Christmas: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Christmas came early to the Russia scholars with Santa declassifying the Bush-Putin meeting transcripts. That's 2001. Ukraine is Russian land, simply given away for no reason, as if USSR had not collapsed and there was no Ukraine independence referendum. And, long before the 2008 Bucharest Summit

The beauty of Vysočina in Czech Republic.

A trustworthy place to watch the spiked/leaked 60 Minutes CECOT report in full: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I thought about the idea of genAI as a partner for jam sessions to improvise and toss it back to you, but then I realized that would destroy the purest known music-based relationship.

Best explanation of why not to trust chatbots/LLMs I've ever heard. The ham-handed chatbot cuts verbal 🥩with an 🪓

💯 For me as a journalist & poet, the factual errors are definitely the big problem. And so is the flat blandness of the chatbot/LLM voice. I don't want my own voice corrupted by it.

Beautiful tribute to artist Lee Krasner from poet Anita Barton-Williams, "Dear Lee:" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ciK...

History has receipts. Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons, fought alongside the US after 9/11, and was later invaded by Russia. Now, in 2025, we hear: “It’s not our war. It’s a war on another continent.” Geography didn’t change. Commitments did.

"Is a new fake [AI] reference being generated from the last?..."

In a world full of cowards and grifters and bystanders, be an Ahmed al Ahmed. The courage and inner light of this man! May his life be filled with blessings.

Reposting this from the account of the late Steve Silberman z"l, who presciently reminded us that every generation must stand up in the fight against fascism.