my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

Interesting discussion points, and just as I finished the Stepford chapter of “Scream w Me” on horror film and feminism. Also, another paired reading: www.thecut.com/2017/11/i-wa...

ATTENTION BLUESKY you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!

Sometimes having adhd is like being my own year-round secret Santa.

One of the many benefits to me of spending most of my life in integrated spaces, esp in my education, was that I had multiple Black teachers/camp counselors who would lead us in an abbreviated version of this sometimes. It really meant something to me as kid, saying that, feeling it in my body.

new substack! open.substack.com/pub/youngmim...

Got an email asking me to find the backstory behind a strange, single-sentence law. Turns out it’s the remnant of a 63-year-old beef between lawmakers and a former FBI agent who was maybe the best checkers player in North Carolina history www.ncrabbithole.com/p/a-reader-f...

How Trump’s Immigration Crusade Is Endangering Black Americans talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i... important reporting from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

Giving my TT algo a run for its $ pt 1

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

This comes at the same time that the conservative movement is targeting young women more broadly—from tradwife bullshit to MAHA misinformation about birth control. The goal is convincing the next generation that the rapid erosion of their rights isn’t a political crisis, but a lifestyle upgrade.

Bad bunnies from long ago www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

#DTLA #art www.moca.org/exhibition/b...

(Don’t worry) if there is hell below, we’re all going to go — Curtis Mayfield m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzsm...

My soul feels this dog deep

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

From just north of me: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... They left a toddler in the car alone for 40 minutes.

I don’t think this budget and infrastructure is just for “immigrants.”

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

I usually don't release discarded draft versions but this feels like it might be useful today

As someone who has personal experience w abuse & coercive control, this political moment is psychologically brutal. To see dynamics across the nation that I recognize in my bones (& have carefully avoided in my personal life), to see the enablers telling me I don’t see what I see—baby, harrowing.

Last month, Secretary Kennedy had a press conference where he claimed that the original intent of the ADA was to exclude trans people. So I asked a bunch of experts and someone who was actually there.

NEW: The College Democrats of North Carolina are fighting the removal of early voting sites on college campuses, claiming that the state’s election board is violating the 26th Amendment by abridging their right to vote based on their age. #nccourts #ncpol www.courthousenews.com/north-caroli...

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Just deleted my TikTok account. Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS. DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS! You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

I have been asked repeatedly if I’m leaving my blue city in a gerrymandered red, but purple state, and I keep saying that I’m not tossing my community. My community is my security as much as it is my responsibility.

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

unfortunately we're seeing the same status quo rhetoric from soon-to-be NC senator @roycoopernc.bsky.social unacceptable the only way Cooper shoots himself in the foot is by staying safe Americans want abolishment, not reform

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Absolutely wild. You really should check it out yourself. Every corner of Reddit is inflamed. Forget about “breaking containment.” This is simply everywhere.

Recommend Gessen's piece. Care, community, and organizing are the counter to this. Human rights & democratic ideals are worth pursuing. Codifying them is important but enacting them depends on all of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Currently, by my count, all but 11 Democratic Members of Congress are to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of abolishing ICE bsky.app/profile/alex...

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Democrats have no obligation to support a bill that not only funds the dystopian scenes we are seeing in Minneapolis but will allow DHS to replicate that playbook of brutality in cities all over this country.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

I get hype for my alma mater’s student paper the way other alums get hype for the bball. You can donate money directly to them, too. www.dailytarheel.com/page/donate

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

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