The young mother was denied urgent treatment for her heart condition due to her pregnancy.

Me pitching a train ad campaign

An extremely wild thread

May Minnesota's business leaders someday find the courage of our high school journalists: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh man I was wondering if there were concerns to be raised. And now they have mistreated A TROOP?!?!?!

The title-sealing interception, as called by Indiana Hoosiers legendary radio voice Don Fischer. #CFP #NationalChampionship

reading this poll, not a single number here is net favorable for the trump administration. "trump admin.'s plan to deport immigrants here illegally in the U.S." is underwater among independents by 20 points! www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...

well this looks like a problem that one of these fucking billionaires we have lounging around could help fix in ten seconds if they gave a shit

Is this how we spend our Januarys now? Losing population centers to fire?

Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

ATTENTION OREGONIANS ICE agents have started dressing up as utility workers to lure us out of our homes/get permission to enter. Do NOT open your door for them and verify that you are dealing with a real worker by calling the police or your utility company. youtu.be/ZLvKiNi5jJ8?...

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

Well, Mendoza is adorable.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

This is 100% not the point, but the certainty that these folks have that they are going to heaven.... breaks my catholic brain

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

“Bonding over betting stories” said in an ad…

ICE agents pose as utility workers to get inside immigrants’ homes to detain them. The utility company has posted guidelines on how to recognize real utility employees. I have no words!

I was wrong! It’s like two weeks away!

Spanish NBA broadcast >>>>> Claro que si!

He had no legal training, no big-name lawyer or civil rights advocate by his side. Yet for 13 years, he refused to accept that the judicial system would hold no one responsible for the killing of his 16-year-old son. By @megomatz.bsky.social

"After the loss of his son, [Craig] Stingley wanted to see the three men imprisoned. But so many years later, justice now looks different. Now Laumann is dead. Beringer is changed by the experience. And Cole is a father eager to protect his own ... [I]n Stingley's eyes, prison is beside the point."

ELove helped open doors for artists like Tupac Shakur and John Forte (RIP), contributed to Def Jam’s rise. The Public Enemy logo is based on a photo of ELove standing next to LL Cool J. It was adapted by Chuck D, who trained as a graphic designer, when he created the logo by hand in the mid-1980s.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.

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Oh look my incandescent rage is back

Martin Luther King's granddaughter honors her grandparents' legacy while forging her own path

This semester my class will have a unit on the labor aspects of the civil rights movement. We'll read one of King's speeches on racial and labor rights (from All Labor Has Dignity), & watch the documentary At the River I Stand, on the Memphis sanitation worker strike. www.kanopy.com/en/product/r...

The ADA Final Rule requires accessibility for: -All online course content -Digital materials used for in-person courses -Content provided by publishers Historically, I have made PDFs of my slide decks available to students on Canvas. This year I won't be. Why not? #academicsky 1/n

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MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

The American Experiment is over. Empires die.

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.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

"ICE spent nearly $140 million on weapons and ammunition in the final weeks of the 2025 fiscal year ... Already, since Sept. 1, 2025, ICE has spent nearly $8 million on new equipment — including simulation rounds, junk cars, sniper training gear, and a model building — for various training courses."

The ICE agent that murdered a man in Los Angeles on NYE allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game. www.latimes.com/california/s...

One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh. Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...

They don’t deserve these positions

Happy "white people cherrypicking MLK quotes that support their own viewpoint" day to all who celebrate

It's almost like the issue isn't training but the fact that these are terrible human beings working for inherently violent agencies.

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

Wouldn't that be cool if you could invoke the 25th Amendment? Wouldn't that be cool Ed? Because I live in an apartment, Ed. I can't invoke the 25th Amendment Ed. Let me know when you find someone who can, Ed. Try the bathrooms there are mirrors in there.

The problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.

NEW — DHS just posted this as an apparent explanation for why they arrested an elderly US citizen with no criminal record (it's a quote post of a post about ChongLy Thao's arrest.) The implication seems to be that all Asian men look the same, and it's not their fault they mistook one for another.

ChongLy Scott "Saly" Thao's family has started a GoFundMe for him:

We need our commentators to take notes. This is amazing, lol #NFL #NFLPlayoffs #DaBears #BearDOWN

DHS is out with a new explanation of this and "he's a brown guy who looked like some sex criminals who he allegedly lived with" (his sister-in-law's story suggests that last part is made up), and they claim he refused to be fingerprinted or "facially ID'd," which I do not in any way believe at all.