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Jacob Lawrence, The migration gained in momentum, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134658

Casi 22.000 empleados públicos perdieron su trabajo durante el segundo año de Gobierno del presidente Javier Milei. https://ok.me/RIMO1

High school students marching against ICE this afternoon in Detroit, Michigan

I would lay a premium to watch live sports without prescription drug commercials

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a 'hell no.' We cannot give one more penny to Trump's ICE while its masked, poorly trained agents terrorize people across this country. It's time for the Senate to step up and stop ICE's violence."

The delivery people of NYC get the next cover of the New Yorker with cover art by Peter de Sève, “New York’s Finest”

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

Educators, you can bring Bob Weir into the classroom using his profile from NYC’s Hidden Voices: Americans with Disabilities in United States History. You can download it here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

got to interview weir maybe a dozen times & he was always lovely. but he also spoke very slowly, with long thoughtful pauses that made me think we'd been disconnected, but i didn't want to be interupt. so once, when we actually did get disconnected mid-thought, it took me far too long to notice.

Doc Rivers, Steve Kerr, the T-Wolf fans, Sportsguy Nick Wright. More please. Let’s go sports world. You want to see brave? Be an immigrant walking to work in Minneapolis. That’s brave. You just have to say “state murder is bad.” It’s not fucking hard and it’s needed from all corners.

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

This week, Danielle planned to write a piece about Thomas Paine's Common Sense - we're embarking on 2026, so it's a good time to think about how 1776 turned into a revolutionary year. But the more she wrote and thought about Venezuela, the more we seemed to need a Common Sense for 2026. #Venezuela

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Joint Statement- Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain on the Events in Venezuela Jan 4, 2026 1. We express our profound concern and firmly reject the military actions undertaken unilaterally in Venezuelan territory. These actions contravene fundamental principles of international law

delicious under-drawing of john l. lewis in graphite and chalk

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

Joan Miró, The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), Montroig, July 1923-winter 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134798

gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

The R word is not acceptable to hurl as a slur, especially by the President. His followers see it as their cue, though, and now they're bullying the Walz family with it. Do you see what Trump has unleashed?

This month, federal troops were deployed to Democratic-led cities throughout North Carolina, even as a federal judge ruled the administration’s 30-day takeover of Washington, D.C., this summer was unlawful. https://capitalbnews.org/trump-national-guard-city-updates/

Fernand Léger, The City, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135856

Breaking News: Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae artist known for songs including “You Can Get It If You Really Want,” has died. He was 81.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

A Republican said he changed his views about Arab Americans after spending 72 hours meeting with residents and visiting three mosques. “You have all been lied to with the propaganda that’s going on about Dearborn, Michigan,“ he said.

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️‍⚧️

Farmers’ Almanac Ceases Publication https://theonion.com/farmers-almanac-ceases-publication/

Indian nationalist leader, politician, & statesman, Jawaharlal Nehru, was born #onthisday, 1889. A humanist & secularist, Nehru’s vision for India was marked by a commitment to secularism, democracy, & social justice. Here he is on the cover of 'The Humanist' (now @newhumanist.bsky.social), 1964.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

24 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience. From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.

"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"

Youth turnout, 2021 to 2025 (and 2025 as pct of 2021): NJ Gov 20% to 29% (+145%) VA Gov 27% to 34% (+126%) NYC Mayor 11.1% to 41.3% (+372%) Sources: CIRCLE circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea... and DDHQ

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

and this democracy is yours too

Bing bong

💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Shouts out to Max Scherzer, doing it for all the guys over 40 who experience neck, shoulder and back pain because of the violent repetitive movement of their bodies, whether that's Pitching to Major League Hitters or Shifting Slightly in Bed

There's a new museum and tuition-free art college in San Francisco opening in the spring, called Art+Water. The first exhibit will span 10,000 sq ft and be entitled "The World Of Boots Riley". Sets, costumes, monsters, puppets, miniatures, stop-motion, photos, drawings, notebooks, plans, etc

The AHA has sent a letter to the Rutgers University president & chancellor expressing deep concern about recent threats made against history professor Mark Bray. “The threats & calls for his firing have no place in an intellectual community governed by mutual respect & constructive criticism.” 🗃️

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children. A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year. We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

… on rancor when he claimed the United States faced “a war from within.” Cities led by “radical left Democrats,” he said, are unsafe places. “We’re going to straighten them out one by one,” he said. “And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war, too.”