And in the end it's meant to replace you

Warms the soul to see Charlottesville High School students participating in a walk out and speaking out against ICE abuses today

Well, that problem is solved (drafts are here!) but not sure the first one can be overcome

I love that the halftime show was just as much a visual performance as a musical performance. The malfunctioning power poles were such powerful imagery, so many meaningful details throughout.

I am very ready for this to be the last single digit temps for a while 🥶

It was inevitable.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Oh yeah!!!!

Uh, riiight, Ring is just for lost pups 😒

i’m glad that whatever else happens house of pain are still making some residuals off jump around

My eldest is a huge Seahawks fan and we have enough Seahawks gear to go around for the whole family. Go hawks!

This is the kind of thing why I've been using DuckDuckGo for years

Seems clear that the regime is using counter-insurgency tactics to punish cities for their legal & institutional opposition to the fascists.

The Atlantic is a land of contrasts. (Gross article soft-pedaling the slow drip of heavily redacted DOJ releases.)

Same in Los Angeles, though the media doesn’t care to report on that at all

MAGA is a dead end. This is the future

Went out for a walk this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Belmont bridge bike lanes are cleared. (Though there are some patches of ice.)

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Did you look at the drawings?”

I saw a gorgeous red-tailed hawk today. I first saw it perched in a tree with it's white chest sticking out like a sore thumb. It flew off when I went closer so I was able to capture a few pictures in flight.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Hope you're staying warm this blustery #Caturday

Lol, NPR segment on politicians calling for abolishing ICE have some Third Way tool arguing against. Have any Third Way candidates won a single elected position? Who is their constituency? Just the most vacuous pablum, makes me so tired.

What do you do with this? This is fundamentally unreformable 🤬

rotating incriminating fedposts in my mind

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

Tim Kaine in the membrane

Hyperloooooop!!

Taco Tuesday is tomorrow. Are you ready? 🌮🌮🌮

Afternoon greetings from Happy Goaty Funland

Defund these ones in particular

I honestly think it is because to become that kind of successful, you need to be a psychopath anyway. You have to be able to sleep at night after ruining people lives, you have to be devoid of empathy and happily screw people over. That is what makes you successful.

Mass illness is the point of concentration camps. It's not that the camps are failing, they are succeeding for their intended purpose.

I always recommend people spend less time consuming news and more time with long form journalism. Well, this is one of the best things you'll read. It's a hopeful story that has long been inspiring to me, and it's told beautifully here: www.gq.com/story/walpol...

Sick, rotten administration. I blame everyone who voted for Trump, again.

Anti-ice tools. Nothing plastic works on this kind of hard-frozen stuff, only heavy duty garden implements.

“Restrain, reform, and restrict ICE.” That’s what Democrats are giving us as we’re being murdered in cold blood and broad daylight. It’s time to accept the Democratic Party enables fascism so that we can start fighting for ourselves. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/get-out-of...

Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years

Safe routes to school not looking particularly passable any time soon

A zine documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship (zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...)

Should have worn sunglasses when I was out working on clearing the chunks of sleet, now that I'm indoors everything has a red cast

It is here. The freezening of the rain

Looks like even the main roads are barely cleared, side roads are way worse. Sleet is 👎

"this was the secret about the secret police that became clear when the K.G.B. archives were opened (briefly) in the 1990s: They were ruled by quotas. Local squadrons had to arrest a certain number of citizens so they could be designated enemies of the people."

When @mashagessen.bsky.social says something, you shut up and listen:

Doing a little experiment and clearing a small section of sidewalk. There is zero snow, this stuff is all sleet. It's probably not a bad idea to try and move some off of walkways now, as it's relatively heavy and behaves like sand when you move it. I'm curious how much fills back in the trough.

Curled up with (next to) a cat, first flurries of the incoming snowstorm have started to fall in Charlottesville. On my mind is the long road ahead for this country.

Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.

ICE is policing. Policing is Rikers. Policing is cops in schools. Policing is police riots. Policing is assumption of guilt not innocence. Policing is global black sites. Policing is warrantless kidnapping. The list is endless, abolition is the only way forward.