A warning has been issued to international travelers: If you come to Florida to see a World Cup match, you could end up in a concentration camp as a prisoner of ICE. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/human-r...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

NPR put a video clip from this interview on their Instagram account, Tuesday evening. Worth taking a look. Melinda French Gates—strong, brave. Epstein’s friends—malignant scum with shriveled rotten souls.

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?' To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Melinda French Gates, heard on NPR today, spoke about how disgusting it was to learn about Bill Gates’s sexual encounters with girls/children. It struck me that society needs more of that, the scorn and revulsion, publicly stated, from women who were close to the men who abused the girls.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

It’s weird watching Ken Burns’s American Revolution because sometimes it’s so like sly commentary on the U.S. right now, and other times it’s just, whoa, how did they even do that?

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

They aren’t *only* journalists. They are Black journalists.

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

TikTok creators are posting on Instagram saying their TikTok accounts have very recently been suspended. The creators say it’s because they posted anti-ICE content.

The “selfish bastard” persona is yet another irony in people who claim to follow Jesus Christ

Make no mistake, we are now seeing white American citizens being murdered by law enforcement because we never truly addressed the way our law enforcement treats Black Americans. If we do not help each other, it’s only a matter of time before we all lose. Our liberation is tied together.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

This government wants everyone to own and carry loaded guns — unless you vote for Democrats. Then magically the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to you. 🤷🏽‍♀️

The power you have is to end funding. So end it.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

With calls to prosecute all ICE-sanctioned killers and maulers to the fullest extent of the law, let’s remember that the terrorists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an armed insurrection were all pardoned and set loose after tremendous efforts to bring them to justice. No pardons for ICE!

Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info: "You don't have to watch the video." Seriously. You don't. Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Politifact fact-checked Trump point by point in today’s speech at Davos. www.politifact.com/article/2026...

President Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to "permanently prohibit the release" of the portion of the special counsel report about his retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Does anyone remember how after Franco died, every week on the news segment of Saturday Night Live they (usually Chevy Chase) would solemnly announce: “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead”?

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

BREAKING: The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, just delivered the strongest rebuke of Donald Trump we’ve seen yet regarding Greenland. Wow.

Sometimes I think about the fall of Saigon in April 1975 and how a year later the U.S. was partying for its 200th birthday and Gerald Ford was president because Nixon had resigned in disgrace. A special birthday year does not erase bad stuff.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

30 day books by women. My day 8 A Memory called Empire Arcady Martine I love the naming convention, importance of language, identity a stranger always because of your birthplace, and all the politics along with the science fiction of course! #booksky #readingwomen #bookchallenge

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen #buchsky #buchliebe 27/30

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen #Books I'm late to the party, my 1/30 is....

I remember learning about the French women who slept with Nazis when France was occupied. After the liberation, the French shaved the women’s heads and hounded them through the streets. Very ugly, horrible. The populace will punish collaborators.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

A couple days ago I realized my imported French butter (President brand) is now made in Brazil (!) and is 7 oz. Instead of 8 oz. Same price it’s been for months. Was cheaper in 2024. Au revoir, special butter.

There’s this $3 per meal idea from idiots in Washington. Also they want us to eat red meat. (wtf?) Do they know that ground beef is now $8/pound?

2/ lots of people on here decry paywalls and insist they’d pay something if only there was a lower price point. Ok, donate to their news fund. Their reporting (and @mprnews.org) is undergirding much of what you read anywhere www.startribunecompany.com/donate/

Minneapolis is showing us how citizens can mount resistance to an armed fascist invasion. They are paying in blood. They are taking action. Standing up. We all need to consider that there is no other option when the armed thugs are on your own streets.

this thread contains three different accounts of reporters who rode along with citizen anti-ice patrols. I suggest reading all three.

“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.” Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...