@donnerkay.bsky.social co-founded the Mississippi Free Press with publisher @kimberlygriffin.bsky.social. It is Mississippi's ONLY women-founded statewide news publication, so they absolutely ought to be verified @bsky.app ! Thanks for y'all's responsiveness & efforts to verify all.

Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.

The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression. Multitudes.

Elon his entire adult life: I'm taking us to Mars! Elon now: It's come to my attention that the Moon is closer

Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year. Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Brandi Carlile was just brilliant (as usual) at the #SuperBowl. Plus, this. ⬇️

I know stephennie. I trust her.

This is awesome but it’s absolutely unconscionable that Minneapolis or Minnesota leaders haven’t ordered an eviction freeze.

My students know Hanif Abdurraqib. They refer to him as “our man Hanif” and “Uncle Hanif.” On Super Bowl Sunday, “IT’S JUST THAT I’M NOT REALLY INTO POLITICS” is THE poem to remind us that every single thing is political, especially when it’s uncomfortable. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 8

Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

In December, I told you about how Trump’s Department of Education is stripping nurses of our professional status and making school more expensive. From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I love when this beautiful “bird” shows up at our feeder. She brings a sense of peace and calm. This helps me recenter and realize life still holds much beauty. Sending this energy to everyone in #minterland on this lovely Sunday. 🦌

In between gaslighting Americans about the economy & sucking up to Trump, Lutnick took up TV air time to lie about his relationship with Epstein. He visited Epstein’s island in 2012 yet claimed he cut ties with Epstein years earlier. What else is he hiding? He must resign.

The city isn't burning, dipshit. We are being occupied by a federal force. The level of complicity with what is happening here is insane. No one in Washington realizes the danger this poses to the Republic.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This is still one of my favourite videos ever, perfectly explaining the staggering amount of public money that’s going into NOT solving traffic congestion. “It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit." Jevon’s Paradox via Australia’s great show “Utopia.” Please share!

If “the urgency of normal” is a child development principle, it should apply universally. I’d welcome links if I missed it, but I haven’t seen David Leonhardt, Lucy McBride, TracyBeth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad, David Zweig, or Emily Oster say anything abt kids being denied their right to a public education

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections

38,000 times 38 THOUSAND times Tell me when this stops. No one can say he shouldn’t be in cuffs.

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

The Benito Bowl has had right-wing media in their feelings for months

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

The Trump administration has turned the Super Bowl into it looks like a war zone with military personnel everywhere, camo colored Humvees, etc www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

The tiles don’t lie.

The sad fact is Republicans in Congress (just like a third of them) could end our national Trump dystopian nightmare at literally anytime. They’d only have to have a shred of patriotism or devotion to the Constitution.

New scarf ✨! Using commuter time to finish stalled projects. Sophie Scarf in Aglow singles from @lottieknits.bsky.social. Leftovers from the Frank Shawl. Really committed to the Sophie as croissant bit 🥐🧶😏! #knitting

There were two elections I was watching yesterday—and both ended up as clear Democratic wins. Let's recap for those who weren't glued on here last night. 1️⃣ In Louisiana, Dems very easily held a seat that had gone for Trump by 13 percentage points in 2024.

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

Once, we had a naturalization department and a customs department and that was it. The whole Department of Homeland Security is post-9/11 America Fuck Yeah stuff

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

With every overperformance, it only seems likelier that Democrats will retake one or both houses of Congress by a decent margin. It's important that they run on a clear promise to hold Trump and his goons accountable, so they can hit the ground running in 2027 with a mandate to do so.

Maybe it's time to close the Wall Street Journal for good. New York isn't a conservative hub, the newspaper is ugly, and Rupert Murdoch doesn't care about democracy. Bruh, do you see how stupid you sound?

Late result for anyone still awake: Na’Cole Thompson, the Democratic candidate in the mayoral race today in Leander, Texas, has won the election. She got 57% and won’t need a runoff, with two Republicans adding up to 43%.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

NEW: House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THE EPSTEIN CLASS

Keep pushing Norm.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny Continuing on my theme of dunking on the Glen Canyon Dam, but with actual human women who are boss lady scientists who do pre-dam botanical research 7/

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

6 Democrats called for an independent investigation and full briefing about ICE activity in Eagle County in a letter to Kristi Noem coloradosun.com/2026/02/03/e...

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