Wisconsinites decry data center effects on utility bills, climate in online town hall. Via @henry-redman.bsky.social

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving. here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage. Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

How many “Free ________” stickers am I going to need to put on my water bottle this year? Jesus Christ.

When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair... www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli attacks put European Hospital in Khan Younis out of service, putting patients at risk.

Mayor Baraka from Newark, NJ holds a press conference detailing how GEO Group has opened an ICE detention facility without permits or inspections. They can’t even verify if there are detainees inside because GEO Group is refusing to allow city officials inside.

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for @propublica.org

Trump Vows To Reopen Joann Fabrics As Prison theonion.com/trump-v...

Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

The most jarring element of these deportations (to me) is that people are carrying them out. Nobody in charge stopped them from happening. That feels obvious but also extremely chilling to me when directly considered.

The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.

Milton High School is looking to add an animal science facility with the support of the school's Future Farmers of America Alumni.

Sethy Seam, who was 16 when sentenced to life without parole, received clemency last year, and left prison in January after 27 years: “A lot of kids had hard lives. They did 25 years in prison, and now they’re a whole lot different. They need hope, too.”

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction rejects Trump administration request for certification of anti-DEI compliance via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wisco...

Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

Details emerge about Milwaukee courthouse arrests by ICE

More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

Newark is the third U.S. city, and the first in New Jersey, to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in school board elections. The change came after a yearslong student-led campaign. boltsmag.org/newark-...

Jack Lowden is in talks to star as Mr. Darcy in the upcoming Netflix series adaptation of ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.’ (variety.com/2025/tv/glob...)

BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General Josh Kaul said he plans to take legal action against Elon Musk in response to a cash prize related to Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.

In Wisconsin, people who fear they’ll be deported are mailing their most precious things back to Nicaragua — just in case. A must-read by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social + photographer Benjamin Rasmussen.

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

“‘Legal’ and ‘illegal’ are not stable categories of belonging” a very helpful exchange here on the vast network of local and for-profit lockups that jail immigrants, how that system evolved, and what to watch for as conservative officials promise to expand it boltsmag.org/the-past-and...

In theory, storage programs for belongings that cities remove from homeless encampments are supposed to protect people’s property rights and make it easy to get their possessions back. In reality, they rarely accomplish either objective. www.propublica.org/article/home...

I saw @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social posting some useful advice about organizing a couple days ago & this morning I was searching for something else in my photos & found this also-useful passage from his book, Elite Capture.

only using x for my banking moving forward

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