"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."—Virginia Woolf

Hardy har

what even is the fucking point

Someone with a subscription could maybe see what they're advising but I will tell you for free to cut the little tube in half to get the remaining potion

We have an internet winner of the day

Trump will have a plan to reconstruct a lot of his tariffs after this SCOTUS ruling through a combination of other legal authorities (232, 301, 122). But those authorities are more narrow and process-intensive, so he has lost the ability to just rapidly slap tariffs on any country on a day's notice

Whatever chaos happens next, can we take 5 long breaths to feel something about this? what should happen actually happening (finally, I grant you.)

Aside from the obvious evil, this shows a lack of awareness (? at least) that things have already been, whatdoyoucallit, *published*? Like, out in the public, never to be unseen again.

Experience new Canadian works for the stage at the Brand New Stages Festival in downtown #Ptbo. New Stages Theatre's third annual festival features three mainstage performances at Market Hall and four shows at The Theatre on King from February 24 to March 1. kawarthanow.com/2026/02/16/e...

Imagine having so much diarrhea between your ears that you think this is a clever point.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Just learned that T!m H*man is only three years older than me & the scream I let out

I've always loved this passage by George Saunders (from an essay published 20+ years ago) but it hits even harder right now. Stay open forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more.

This is a great reminder that many people, and for some reason they seem to concentrate on the right, are incapable of reading subtext, allusion, metaphor, and imagery in the media they consume. All that exists for them is the surface experience, with no meaning attached to any representation.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

kids had their own little lectern, so great

100% this, let's ignore him (hoping this gift link works) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6ee98db...

breathtaking

The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that they're shutting down their books section. We'd say "ironic," but... Keep supporting indie bookstores and public libraries over the mega retailer, aka the institutions that actually care about storytelling 💓

Subscribed yesterday! (Thought I was already subscribed)

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

So they were in the country legally and on Feb 3rd, they're suddenly not. Now they're literal targets. (Will anyone ever trust a USG decision again? After all this.)

inspiring

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

Remember, if someone tells you that your dream of having a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is "unrealistic", they were never your friend to begin with.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Foreign interference (again)

Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...

More whistleblowers, please. ICE and otherwise

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

Really worth your time (re: Canada, pov from here about the wild threats, MN precedents, this strange era)

Lucky to be reading an advanced copy right now--beautiful writing

The Hatch Act, still breathing? I wonder when the last time a fed employee was prosecuted or there even was serious talk of that...Kellyanne Conway (or was that just online chatter?)

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Canadian friends, pls tell me about your community newspapers & news sites? Just drop the names of local faves in the comments. I have lists but am looking for more & hoping not to miss any (for a project I'm working on.) In my area we are SO fortunate to have a few good outlets. Yours? Thanks! 🚨🗞️📰🚨

Quietly repeating the words “Catholic stablecoin” over and over in hopes that they’ll stop sounding so insane

This makes my heart stop

Crafters, if you would like something to work on capitalstitchco has released this pattern for free. The creator has said that in lieu of purchasing the pattern, put that money towards immigrants rights orgs of your choice. You can alter this for knitting & crochet too! 🧶 #knitsky #craftivism

"It's like going to a foreign land. It's really different." Dan Simon, publisher at Seven Stories Press. This is a very cool development in US indie bookselling & publishing for sure! Hope it's taken up elsewhere (looking at you, OZ!)

This guy is brilliant, hits so many crucial points in a disarming (if only lolsob) way & btw how much does it cost to have like 15 armed assholes on the federal payroll sauntering around harassing uber drivers & finally: he's very brave

*Anti-ICE professors* lol