FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Women challenged the Holocaust in ways that don’t always look heroic or defiant at first glance. Irene Gut Opdyke’s courage unfolded inside a Nazi officer’s home, where survival required making difficult decisions, and where no choice came without consequence. 1/9

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

What Democrats want :: What Chuck Schumer says Democrats want

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Marimar Martinez talks about being shot by CBP: “My arms, legs, and chest were all wrapped in bandages. I had 7 bullet holes in my body. I remember the agents rushing the nurses to finish up so they could take me with them.”

Letters: Cut Florida utilities’ power | Airport name change may cost you | GOP rigging the game trib.al/UMcJOOU

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

They grabbed his father at McDonald’s — he tried to bring his dad his heart medication and they laughed at him A heartless, lawless regime

Illinois is one of the few states in the middle of the country that protects the right to comprehensive reproductive healthcare. Supporting care here means supporting access for people who have nowhere else to turn.

“Liam is a bright student,” said the five-year-old’s preschool teacher. “He is very kind and caring, and his classmates miss him. He comes to class every day and brightens up the classroom. All I want is for him to come home safe and sound.”

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

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Ashley Moody is just another career politician in the pockets of elites and special interests. Over a million dollars in Moody’s corporate stock was traded – while she had access to insider information only Congress gets. And she’s an automatic yes vote for all of MAGA’s extreme agenda.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Meanwhile in N. Dakota, it's 'fuck you' for hungry kids. “It advances us towards socialism,” said Sen. Janne Myrdal, R-Edinburg. Those in opposition argued it should be the parents’ responsibility to cover meals. JFC. www.kfyrtv.com/2026/01/23/w...

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

Johnson: “Did your investigation uncover evidence sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump knew that his claim the election was stolen was false?” Smith: “Yes it did”

Florida escalates its battle on sociology with new curriculum, textbook. Professors push back (via @danielrivero.bsky.social)

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Kaleb Blain, a 35-year old trans man and pitmaster, was fired from the legendary BBQ restaurant Terry Black’s after he was doxxed over Charlie Kirk comments. Now he’s running his own barbecue spot in Waco: “I feel better than I ever have.” By @kitoconnell.com thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/b...

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

Ahead of the statewide day of action in Minnesota on Friday, January 23, (no work, no school, no shopping), @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, international president of the @afacwa.org, described the current moment in Minneapolis as a political landmark similar to Memphis in the 1960s 🧵1/5

"You're asking me about something that the president just said... He's never going to implement it... We should talk instead about what he's doing... Every time we get distracted by what he talks about rather than what he does... he destroys and he redistributes to the rich."

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Trump lets another drug trafficker out of prison because his father happens to be a Republican member of Congress.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship. We good with that, America? I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.

For truth-sharing: NPR has a detailed fact-based look at what really happened on January 6, 5 years ago:

A felon who married an immigrant is telling a lot of y’all that the problems in this country all stem from felons and immigrants. But keep buying that stupid red hat that’s made in China.

Renee Nicole Good. I knew she was from Colorado, but not that she graduated high school right here in my city. Her music teacher spoke and then she played a recording from her performance in her senior choir. The first verse is Renee’s voice.

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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

🚨BREAKING: Indiana Senate Elections Committee voted 6–3 to advance a controversial mid-decade redistricting bill that would all but guarantee the GOP wins all nine of the state’s congressional seats. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

35 years ago today, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality

“More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year… predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...” www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Can I let you in on a little secret? Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity. It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.