ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

“and love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win” —james baldwin

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Communication from my university today: "given that AI is here and poised to stay..." Maybe! In my classroom, we try not lean on "givens," especially those of no more than a couple years vintage. One doesn't need to be critical of AI to recognize this as an abdication of inquiry.

This guts me

If bondi’s goal was to make the Trump regime look even more authoritarian, cruel, and uncaring she really nailed it

Two Halftime shows because racists can't tolerate anything that isn't White dominant. This is America. This is why there was a Civil War. Nothing new. We need to stop coddling these racists. Let them lose and eat bland food and listen to crappy music. The majority salsas forward.

Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present. The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

If you haven’t seen Mr. Nobody Against Putin, please do yourself a favor and check it out. A defiant and incredibly brave chronicle of Putin’s propaganda machine as it’s weaponized against the education system in real time.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Psych🧵: Scott Galloway, a marketing prof at NYU, is calling on people to unsubscribe/opt out of tech services like ChatGPT, Microsoft Office & Prime for the month of Feb., to protest ICE. He says, "A one-day slowdown is irritating. A one-month slump is 1/3 www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boyc...

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

This is incredible???

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

We are ruled over by thieves and murderers and rapists who are hellbent on taking everything from us. Evidence like the Epstein Files just makes abundantly clear what we already know and continually confronts us with a question we must answer: how much more of this are we willing to take?

Catherine O’Hara brought such effervescence, pathos, and humor to her work. Truly iconic mom as Kate McCallister, hilarious as Cookie Fleck, and on and on. Sad to hear of her passing.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

We have to save ourselves and true, revolutionary solidarity is the only answer. No more waiting for saviors. No more biding our time between elections. No more accepting scraps.

As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

As people in Iran intermittently regain connectivity, they are sharing that they feel abandoned. They have risked their lives in the streets, and the government killed tens of thousands of people. But instead of expelling Iranian diplomats and shutting down embassies, foreign governments are doing…

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

We should make their political lives miserable until they resign, retire, or end their terms.

Important. There has not been a deescalation.

Another shooting by border patrol, this time in Tucson. Shot while fleeing following a traffic stop and in critical condition. www.kvoa.com/news/top-sto...

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable. There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage. Pass it on.

Keep applying pressure.

Firing a few key faces at the top while maintaining the the fundamental system is one of the most common appeasement tactics in history. Don't settle for Bovino. Don't settle for Noem. Don't settle for Miller. ICE must be abolished. That is the bare minimum.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Much has been made of the fact that the terrorists publicly executed Renee Good and Alex Pretti despite Good’s and Pretti's whiteness. It may be more accurate to say that, amid the metastasis of the white supremacist worldview, witnesses like Good and Pretti exchanged whiteness for humanity. 1/2

Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

Congressional switchboard # is: (202) 224-3121.

We love this interview with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social poet @egcunningham.bsky.social, and all the work @robmclennan.bsky.social does for writers 💙💙💙 Thank you, Rob! 🙏🎉

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Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

“…this collection has all the joys of ecopoetry without its singular focus, making environmentalism feel intertwined with the speaker’s emotional life.” So grateful for this deeply reflective review of @egcunningham.bsky.social’s FIELD NOTES by @mkzariel.bsky.social in the Seattle Star 📚💙

Thank you so much to @mkzariel.bsky.social for giving such generous time and attention to Field Notes!

Personally I’ve been a lot healthier when I started to let myself cry. Would recommend allow yourself to be in tune with your emotions.