ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

🚨"I'm seeing icicles form on people's eyelashes out here, on mustaches, on eyebrows, from just the condensation from their own breath freezing against their own face," - @jtcestkowski.bsky.social from Minneapolis ICE protests in MINUS 20 DEGREES (-38 wind chill). LIVE NOW ⬇️

If you work for ICE, you will be unhirable in California.

@rianjohnson.bsky.social Why did you use the UK version of the Carr book THE HOLLOW MAN instead of the US version, which is titled THE THREE COFFINS? Because the former title was more recognizable?

Holy crap! What tools for learning!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Why I subscribe.

How ICE is like the Brown Shirts: robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice...

Telling use of the word "appease."

[email protected] This is a good idea: "Large projects may be required to maintain a certain amount of greenery for the volume and area they displace." What would a stepback formula but for greenery look like? Could stark NYC plazas be greenspaced? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...

Great book.

The signs won't last a day. Those that do will be thoroughly defaced.

History repeats...

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

They think they are immune and unaccountable. They are going to find out otherwise. They are unhireable. Neighborhoods will want to be warned if one of them lives there. If they can find someone to marry, it will not go well. And most of their children, like those of the Nazis, will renounce them.

As unsettling and violent as the govt goons are in ONE BATTLE, they are models of professionalism compared to Trump's death squads.

This is how the bigot evangelicals imagine the Rapture.

1. Death squad members are terrified people will discover they work for ICE. 2. One by one, they will be unmasked. 3. They'll lose friends, family, neighbors and future job prospects. 4. They will never have a home again except among themselves, which is no home. people.com/ice-agent-jo...

Did Bib Weir play to more people than any other performer ever? bobweir.net/bobby/

I have a theory that Tom Cruise has actually made only one very long movie, which tries to answer the question, Who should I be as a man in Reagan's America? Watching ONE BATTLE, I'm starting to think that Sean Penn has also made only one movie. His question is, What's the worst a man can be?

Trumpian projection has reached the State Dept. Here's a new warning: "Reconsider travel to Nigeria due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, armed gangs, and inconsistent availability of health care services." Could describe anywhere ICE is and where American hospitals used to be.

Great post by Timothy Snyder on Trump importing Maduro's death squads to America. snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

This notice in red seems significant.

The Kennedy Center is the new Sun City. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/a...

Why have there been an increasing number of christian terms in the NY Times crossword puzzle?

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Thought you'd be interested in this piece, which misses what seems a bigger story: Shopify using AI to collect its users in a way that could compete with Amazon without those users, who might sell on Amazon, violating their contracts. www.fastcompany.com/91461336/ai-...

I grew up in publishing alongside the rise of ebooks, and this new book by Richard Curtis does a great job of showing how publishing adapted to them and innovation in general. richard-curtis.com/digital-inc/

When France's king Charles X wanted to distract the country from his failures and his desires to restore the cruel privileges of the nobility, he invaded Algiers. As he king he lasted only a couple more years before being ousted. The violent occupation of Algiers lasted 150 more disastrous years.

Alright, I call BS on Stranger Things. It's Chaotic Evil. Why change that?

How Hopper's conversation with Mike would have actually gone in 1989: Hop: You OK? Mike: Yea. Hop: Good. Let's go. Exeunt.

@claradolderman.bsky.social Re Stranger Things, you totally called it. Very impressed. Right about the fire issue too.

Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.

If I could do my entire education over, I would have every novel set in England accompanied by a map of where it's set and a brief history of the place.

Not to get all AD&D but I think Dustin wouldn't call Hawkins Hawkins. He'd call it the Prime Material Plane.

I wonder if one could do a study of horses like Gladwell's look at Canadian youth hockey players to see if those actually born early in a year do better or worse than those born later the same year.

Alternate headline: THE WIFE GAP: How can we trust a man in the Age of Trump who's had only one wife and been faithful to her?

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Just finished the "Lion Sleeps" ep; great as always. I wanted to remind you that you said you'd be doing an ep on REM's AUTOMATIC if you made it to 2026. Given your BlueSky reposting, you have, so I'm looking forward to it. Glad you're healthy. Have a happy new year.

The key word is "ungrateful."

Why we loved this piece: The Empress and the Kite Maker by Stephen S. Power immediately feels like an old familiar legend, while at the same time being delightfully fresh. And cake! Bio: @stephenspower.bsky.social is the author of the novel The Dragon Round, and his new novel, Safe at Last,

Security Theater: The Musical.

I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.

Everyone should watch this video and be ashamed that what Bush and John Yoo started by making America a torture state Trump and Miller have turned into a concentration camp state. But we should also be proud that there are groups documenting this in real time. The Germans didn't.

Weis is now learning how viruses work.

Ever wonder what it would be like to be a mediocre white man facing accountability?

New CBS logo.

You know those fundraisers where you pay $5 and get to hit an old car with sledgehammer? I'd pay way more than that to hit Andrew Tate. I'd also pay to hit Jake Paul, but I wouldn't like having run after him.

MAGA meets Reality.