ICE must be abolished, and it will be. The American people won’t stand for this. In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Not only did this happen in a residential neighborhood, the park is right next to a hospital campus and the Ronald McDonald House/patient recovery housing.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Feeling pretty vindicated for my decades-long distaste for Chomsky (genocide denial, regrettable sentence structure, etc.)

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

The flimsy politics of citizenship might seem like the detail that distinguishes Liam’s story from the stories of our own kids. But his innocence, like the innocence of all children, is unimpeachable.

More training won’t fix this, because they don’t want trained agents. They want hair-trigger goons juiced up on hate. They are going to keep doing this until someone gives them what they really want and fires back.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Great thread if you need some hope

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

This feels like a weird thing to ask at this point in my career, but the industry is a mess lol. If you are an editor who is accepting/commissioning FEATURE stories, could you just reply to this & lmk! I have so many things & nowhere to send them.

I need someone to give me a cute house so I can level up my hermitage. I'm so close to apex recluse status.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

This doofus literally stole an election, started an illegal war, killed hundreds of thousands (millions?) in the middle east, and paved the way for our current situation, but sure …

The fact that 200 Cigarettes isn't readily available for streaming continues to be a tragedy.

Free rides on buses, MAX and Portland Streetcar start at 8 p.m. tonight! 🎉 🚉 MAX Blue, Green, Orange and Yellow Line trains will operate two to three hours later into the service day than usual and arrive at stations every 30 minutes 🔵 🟢 🟠 🟡

Pour one out for Jim Moylan

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

there are good people in the world ~sniff~

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

Some traditional Christmas music for you.

It's time for my annual tradition of wrapping gifts while I watch Black Christmas.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The funniest thing about the Andrew Tate fight is that the guy who beat him is awful. youtu.be/9ZSoJDUD_bU

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy. If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends. Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

I need to buy a present for a cosmopolitan 16-year-old boy. (Lives in London now, has been all over.) Advice is that he likes things that are "hip and trendy." This is not my area of expertise. (Got kids; they are borderline Victorian.) Anyone got good advice? Looking at maybe $100.

I’ve never had the urge to stuff someone in a locker before now.

My two favorite things I learned about macaques from Steve Bloom’s book IN PRAISE OF PRIMATES (1999): first, that they learned about hot springs by observing human behavior;

You know who isn't stressed out right now? The 'snow monkeys' of Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. They're wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) who live in the nearby hills, but winter in/around natural hot springs (onsen) in the park.

So many comments from people going rabid over one of the most mid Hanukkah spreads I've ever seen

(Open by appointment) Closes Saturday Dec.20, 2025 Mark Anthony Martinez wraps up his final curation of the year with a brief survey of San Antonio’s original macaroni factory! This “ode” , if you will, spans multiple mediums—all honoring the “Lion” brand product produced by the original company.

This entire weekend

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Tammy Faye’s legacy doesn’t deserve the comparisons to Erika Kirk’s face.

if you could choose between learning to live with your emotions or burning the whole world down in an attempt to avoid them which would you pick?

We need fewer articles from shit parents who've estranged their kids and more articles from kids spilling tea about their shit parents.

In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell. By @piperbomb.bsky.social

Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district. Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

On a Housing First approach to the homelessness crisis: cariluna.com/housing-first/

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

We need to stop using the word academic to describe anyone with an opinion and a degree.

I’m at 82% full internet burnout. Almost everything is fake, dumb, or inaccessible. It used to be a place of wonder, and now it’s a dull brick owned by at most 3 companies. I love supporting friends and meeting new people, but I want more than this. Also don’t get me started on queer censorship.