The men's free skate today was a reminder of why I find sports so fascinating and why I write sports books. It turns out that even revered competitors are . . . human.

Forget Ilia Malinin for two seconds. This is Kazakhstan's first Winter Olympic gold medal since Lillehammer 1994, when Vladimir Smirnov won the men's 50km cross-country skiing. That was 10 years before Mikhail Shaidorov was born.

I can't believe what i just saw. SHAIDAROV GOLD. SHARPIE

Holy shit. Figure skating DRAMA.

Want to help some Minneapolis area kids whose neighborhoods are being terrorized AND stock up on Thin Mints? Order Girl Scout cookies! Right now, there are 157 boxes left. Can we get all of them sold? digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop1...

I've heard directly from hundreds of children at Dilley. One young girl who shared her story with me grew up in the United States and her stepfather is a U.S. citizen. She said that the guards are mean to her, she is afraid, and that she is worried she will die in detention.

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit

If THE LIBRARIANS on PBS Independent Lens airs past your bedtime tonight, don’t worry. You can also stream it via the PBS app and on the PBS Independent Lens YouTube channel starting at noon EST Monday. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

That entire Halftime special was a celebration of community, love, music, diversity and Puerto Rico and very deliberate middle finger to colonization and white supremacy.

Please please watch tomorrow night on PBS. Most people have no idea what librarians are dealing with. Some heavy hitters in our field are in this movie. @librarianjones.com @sassylibrarian.bsky.social @becalzada.bsky.social

You're personally invited to watch The Librarians, a new documentary about censorship, libraries, and the fight for the right to read, premiering next week on Independent Lens on PBS. www.everylibrary.org/librarianspbs via @everylibrary.bsky.social

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day! Love, Quinnen, Abby, Rory, Sister Louisa, and a new sporty girl you'll meet in 2028 🏐

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

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...

I hear Springfield Ohio is Trumps next target. Love you Ohio. ❤️

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...

The schoolmates of Liam Conejo Ramos wrote letters to ICE. This is just gutting. And also such a reminder that hate is taught. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Nothing is improving here in Minnesota. Nothing at all. We continue to be occupied by lawless sadists at the pleasure of senile lunatic obsessed with revenge. Read this story. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

The new documents in copyright cases against AI companies show the lengths to which tech firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI went to obtain colossal troves of data with which to “train” their software, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of books.

Here are all of this year's Youth Media Award winners and honorees. What a great day to celebrate something, and how nice that it is youth literature. bookriot.com/2026-youth-m...

Kudos to the committee members for all their hard work this past year and MAJOR congratulations to all the winners! Back in the Twitter days of yore, I somehow managed to live tweet *and* request library books at the same time. Idk how I did that.

I only requested 40 books during the #alayma announcements this morning. Not bad!

The annual announcement of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards is the biggest event of the year in the world of children’s publishing. Join us Monday, January 26, at 10:00 AM CT for the livestream. 📺at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page. ilovelibraries.org/article/join...

150 years of the American Library Association! Woohoo!

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

My take away from what’s happening in Minneapolis is that it crushes the lie that people are by nature selfish. When the time calls for it, people can do astonishing things to keep their communities safe in the face of all odds.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Breaking News: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” broke the all-time Oscar nomination record with 16 nods, including best picture and best actor. nyti.ms/3Zrgfdw

In hiding... in the United States. Families are in hiding in the United States. Government gangs are forcing families into hiding in the United States of America.

Friends, please take a moment and read this piece by poet, children's book author (and fellow South High grad - go Tigers!) Bao Phi. It's wonderful and moving and necessary. time.com/7345628/anti...

Welp, it's weird to be sharing positive news when we've got an American city basically occupied. But then again, the offer for this project came through the week Trump got re-elected so....

Announcing new deals for @emmawaltonhamilton.bsky.social @jamesburks.bsky.social @buffalojenn.bsky.social @aramkimart.bsky.social + more buff.ly/AGn07t6

My sign today.

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

📽️If you can't get enough Riverdance, Jason Brown commentates his Riverdance short program here - it's all for the fans www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhL...

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

I have been trying to explain what a journalist is, what they do, and why, and why they are different from talking heads, pundits, influencers, commentators, activists and politicians. This is a journalist.

CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

I'm watching White Christmas for the first time ever and I really do think this movie could be improved with Kristin Wiig's Dooneese.

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

Column: My childhood books certainly transformed me, writes The Post's Climate Coach Michael Coren. These scientists shared their favorite books from growing up that inspired their career.

Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc. Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times. Booooooo.