when the feds essentially abandoned the scene today after gassing us, we saw upon returning to the intersection this pile of what we were pretty sure was alex’s coat & some of his clothes, a lighter & a crampon, with crime scene tape in it we created the barrier to preserve likely evidence

These MAGA villains are incapable of shutting up. They're going on Meet the Press and CNN trying to spin and defend the occupation, and failing miserably, against very polite questioning! I am less worried about the information war than I have been in awhile.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

I really needed this laugh

Minnesota ICE-watchers did this. By relentlessly documenting ICE/BP/DHS abuses—taking on personal risk to do so—they’ve gotten the horrors into more information streams. Got more people to pay attention, undermined Trump regime lies, and shifted the stances of some Democratic officeholders.

Thank you to everyone who has been pressuring her.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

To not destroy the city? WE are not destroying the city. WE ARE PROTECTING THE CITY. WE ARE DOING YOUR JOB.

I am sick to death of this genre of posting. Amateur, half-baked psychoanalysis in search of an explanation no one needs.

Great, thanks!

So I've seen fewer than 20 movies from 2025. I'm going to try to get back to being the kind of person who averages a movie a week in '26. But I still want to throw out some superlatives.

We’ve covered lots of losing local teams on the back page of this paper. But none with a record as bad as the Chicago DOJ during Operation Midway Blitz: 0 convictions 11 charges dropped 3 no-billed cases 1 jury acquittal

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

My main activity for the next 48 hours will be strategically moving my $50 space heater around the apartment.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

There are so many incomprehensibly evil details in this article. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

Lurie marks a year of cowardice with more cowardice

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

I think Brady got a lot better this season at color commentary, but the NFL needs to make him pick a lane. It is an egregious conflict-of-interest situation for him to be involved in operational decisions for a franchise and announcing games. www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

The article cites two examples, released two years spart. This does not seem like a significant problem. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Watching Sleepless in Seattle, which is 33 years old. That sits between the age of its two key intertexts upon release: -An Affair to Remember was 36 years old -The Dirty Dozen was 26 years old

4.5 of the 5 "buckets" are cost of living. He's just not a veryclear thinker- and certainly not a clear communicator.

I don't understand the punting in overtime thing, but I'll take it.

"14 yard touchdown pass."

In the 1990s the absolute worst thing that could happen to a fictional character is working a well paying stable office job

Top of the charts at my house today

A High School friend just posted this elsewhere on the Interwebs

Great thread on how Shakespeare used the word "minute" in an era before widespread access to precise time-telling.

Can these people even tell that the man is the former editor of WaPo? It says so right under his name... It's a social media app for people to talk about their jobs (weird, but you do you). Even if it wasn't his former company, what is he supposed to talk about? His job was dominated by politics!

Like it or not, most Americans aren't all left or all right. But that doesn't equal centrist! Most aren't wedded to one party and are as likely to take a wildly "left" or "right" stance on an issue as a middle one. Another reason why we shouldn't shrink from the morally right "Abolish ICE."

It's "soup sandwich" that has me taking this man at his word.

historically accurate☑️

We need less media criticism here, honestly. If an article has useful information, but a bad headline... more of us need to just grab that info and run with it. I know this because every bad headline has dozens of viral posts criticizing. That's more than enough!

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

The Thunder are an absolutely deadly team when down 1-2 starters- doesn't matter who as long as it's not SGA. With all 5 starters, they are mediocre as hell. I can't explain it, but the pattern is pretty clear.

Sometimes, it needs to be said

Apparently Jerry Seinfeld's daughter works for Bari Weiss. You learn something new every day!

*clears throat* 🚨 MYSTERY TEAM is out today on collector’s edition Blu-Ray with a new 30 min making of doc and remastered sound and picture 🚨

This Santa Ana story needs attention. That's where Skye Jones was arrested. It was a protest outside a fed building that was never breached. DHS agents didn't need to be outside. But they wanted to, and they blinded 21 year-old, and mocked him afterwards. www.latimes.com/california/s...

sorry yeah sobriety rules & there will never be enough celebrating it in a world that evangelizes substance abuse the way ours does

This Illinois voter is not impressed. Grow up and call for ICE and CPB to be abolished.

"It doesn't matter where I was born."

Wanda Sykes: Ricky Gervais couldn't be here, but he would like to thank god and the trans community.

📸 by Christopher Katsarov

I think they're actually scared by people they can't easily other. They are depressingly good at with non-white immigrants, Black Americans, and students. But they are flailing when it comes to middle class white moms, because that's who all this bigotry is said to "protect."

In conclusion, Caleb Williams' stat line is a land of contrasts.

It's weird seeing first ballot Hall of Fame weirdo Billy Bob Thornton trying out a salt-of-the-earth persona to sell mobile phone service.

Interesting first half strategy for the Bears to leave the end zone undefended. Perhaps they are setting a complicated trap.