@opalapparition.bsky.social THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING WORK. I’m so glad I found you here so I can tell you what a fantastic writer you are and how much I’m enjoying Wolfbird. Than you.

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

Why is every dining table I find remotely acceptable literally $1000

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

God took a 20% cut of his lifespan

I know I’m olde as hell because the court clerks are starting to look like zygotes.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

"There were no books." THROW HIM INTO THE FUCKING SUN.

Boycott Starbucks

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target. We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

Don't believe the lying-ass paid promotions disguised as "news articles" that claim the organizers of the Target boycott have called it off.

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Ao3 going down is how the revolution starts.

Not that Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams need more pressure in their lives, but they have to know they are literally the only good thing in the world right now? Like, normally I’d be doomsday prepping but instead I’m being charmed by 2 boys living their dreams on the edge of the apocalypse.

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

True but we can get a long way on this if we throw the private prison CEOs in the slammer and fine them into poverty. We can offer the workers jobs in a WPA-like program too.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

I wish I could explain the high I get from the moral superiority I feel when I take the bus to court in LA. #notraffic #no20dollarparking #theonlywayIcanrelaxinavehicle #passengerprincessbutonlyonthebus

This one is in Longfellow

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Doña Gagá

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

I think when Death Cab for Cutie becomes your cardio music it’s probably time to increase your Lexapro dose.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

GETTING HARD TO CLING TO ANY SEMBLANCE OF A MORAL UNIVERSE WHEN COOL PPL KEEP DYING AND THE EVIL ARE THRIVING.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

As others have aptly pointed out, police forces have been murdering people for a long time, especially POC. This terrorism from ICE is only a continuation and newest version of what we have been seeing for a long time.

You should be able to get jaw BOTOX at the dentist.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

My brand of depression is listening to Radiohead while doing Tabata sprints until Im on the edge of crying or puking.

What the hell @patagonia.com? There's no way their drag name would cause confusion under the Lanham act. This is purely vindictive. I'll keep shopping at The North Face instead and I suggest others find a different brand. nypost.com/2026/01/22/u...

Minnesota is the best of us.

New in PN: What if we just stopped paying taxes? "Like many other blue states, Minnesota pays more to the federal government than it takes in. But why should the state continue to subsidize a government bent on destroying it? What if it just … didn’t?"

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.

A dozen plus reporters at the stadium to cover the signing of a multimillionaire. Not one single reporter covered how the Tours union was successfully busted today. Baseball labor isn’t just about the players.

I’m sad for all of the employees supported by the economic collapse of sports but I hope every single owner and sports exec who happily helped drag us to hell for lower taxes ends up losing their shirts when sports collapse.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.