"Jeffries and his leadership team were “recommending” a no vote, but that is different from a whip operation where Democratic Whip Rep. Katherine Clark and her deputies push members to support the leadership position on the bill." Not whipping this vote is no leadership at all. Call your reps.

A leftist told me to "respectfully fuck off" because I called them out for using the r-slur. So I told them to "respectfully eat shit." As a reminder, if you use that Elon Musk-approved eugenicist language around me, we're done. You're gross, and I am blocking you or cutting you off.

Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

I really love this series. It's an MM romance manga where a woman is isekai-ed and he ends up sucked in as well. He's an accountant who takes on fixing the new world's books only to find he has no resistance to magic and this knight has to fix it... carnally. It's quite cute and I love Kondou

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

today's good thing is also small, I discover I can save leftover cocoa from the night before and reheat it and put coffee in it. I put cinnamon etc in my cocoa so it was good. But it did make me want whipped cream.

Tired: they're turning off the press pool cameras at the tarmac because Donald Trump is old and decrepit and doesn't want to be filmed going down stairs Wired: it's because he's gonna fall down the stairs Inspired: we're gonna get footage of them Weekend-at-Bernie's-ing his corpse down the stairs

The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE.

Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE

more lascaux honse worry stones, just in time for the year of the horse (honse) reopening shop on jan 24, 2pm CT #ceramics

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

Until 9pm tonight (PST), if you donate to a MN food bank or mutual aid network and send me a pic of the donation receipt, I will send you a coupon code for two books of (mostly) m/m romance short stories and novellas.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

News articles aside where you really can't control the images, there is literally not a single post that requires a photo, image, or meme showing the face of anyone in the White House.

As writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.

Excellent read. "You can’t reform a concentration camp regime. You have to dismantle it and replace it. We have a thousand ways to do it. And most U.S. citizens—particularly white ones—have the freedom to act, for now, with far less risk than the many people currently targeted."

We're coming up on primaries. If you feel like the candidates you have in general elections do not represent you, now is the time to get involved. I don't want to hear anyone who didn't support a primary campaign complaining in November about their options. Seriously go look up who's running now.

Don’t forget to notice and remember the good stuff that is still all around us in this sea of horrors, cruelty, greed, and oppression that we are living through. 🌱🌻🐶

👋🏼 👋🏼 You can show support to my black-owned ice cream business today and any day!! I had a shop in Seattle until 2019 & now I am selling my coveted ice cream recipes for you to make at home! You can also gift them to all your sweet obsessed friends! Thank you so much. ❤️ payhip.com/SweetLosIceC...

Tonight's #murderystuff film is The Thin Man (1934). I need a good laugh. Thanks, Asta!

It's OUT! Only on Amazon for now, but it's out!!

Back in Oct, we tallied 20+ citizens who’ve been grabbed and held for more than a day *without being able to contact a lawyer or loved one.* These are only the cases we happened to hear about. Before Minneapolis. The admins has released no data or details. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

my good thing for the day today is bringing coffee from home and saving money and also seeing that rachel maddow video of all of the us towns and cities fighting to keep ice detention centers out. ooh also the sun was out and the air was chilly but the sun was nice anyway

yeahhhhh i probably will be more willing to fork over the extra money for amtrak next time

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

This book banning bill would set the precedent that the Miller Test is irrelevant, which will legally imperil creators nationwide, especially queer creators. It died last year and it's shambling corpse has been trotted out to horrify us anew this year. If you're in FL pls call your state reps.

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.

Hey friends! We're bringing back one of our wishlists specifically looking for hand & foot warmers for the folks who have to be outside to protect the community! With temps plummeting in the Twin Cities, this is a quick & easy way to help! @naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!

Have you heard of flock cameras? They don't even need to be there to scan plates and track you. Deflock.me

Bad Bunny tells MAGA to fũck off in the best way. The World Will Dance. #SuperBowlLX

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

California! Admission to state parks is free on MLK Day!

Today's good thing is Josh Johnson. (Always good but made me tear up.) youtu.be/p68TXmnOy60

This is actually the union, btw bsky.app/profile/jool...

Hilton appears to be closing the whole hotel instead of just kicking out ICE. Cowardly. But they're clearly feeling the pressure.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Friend: I love this character! I hope nothing bad happens. Me, the writer, hearing that:

forgot to post a good thing for today so: went to a local bookstore to get a card for a reader who sent me a card, and the store owner and I chatted about current everything despite not knowing each other and the vibes were impeccable. also the store was selling On Tyranny and people were buying it

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.