This month, ICE... - killed an unarmed American mom - admitted to adding people filming them to a database - had its budget fully re-authorized by Congress

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.

This is filled with so much great writing it was actually impossible to choose just one quote, but I leave you with some excerpts below and reiterate: *read the whole thing.*

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

Running off to work on a story. In the meantime: Religious left: still a thing.

Clergy arrests are powerful symbolism and the clergy that deploy that symbolism are usually very conscious of that. Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

Singing

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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

"We are made of a strong material," Lizete said. "Even if we are drowning, we will find a way to stay afloat and get to the shore."

This ICE observer had her TSA-Pre-check revoked. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047... "Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked."

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.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

In addition to being bad, this is all pretty stupid.

It’s been this way forever, or at least since the Iraq war. The lowest professional dividend was in seeing things correctly from the get go.

My kingdom for a Jewish dating app that lets you be bisexual!!!

This is my blood

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best antidote to doom and despair is getting out in your community if you are able to and working towards something positive. Not everything has to be about fighting fascism directly. Simply building better and stronger communities is a worthy endeavor.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

If you don’t know, I am not sure I can fully describe the entire universe of losing a Torah — the spiritual injury, the communal injury, the stress and financial strain of acquiring a replacement for this extremely expensive and difficult-to-ensure holy ritual object…

my kingdom for a series called "They saw this coming" featuring interviews with people who predicted today's hellscape

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Whether you're conventionally attractive or not, men will explicitly sexualize you as a way of undermining your power and confidence. I've been on both ends of that dynamic, "lol ew" and "nice, would fuck" conversations about your body are two sides of the same coin.

Here's the link for submitting comments (deadline Feb 2 2026) www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...

This is such bad news

I think people are fighting about less serious things in part because there's so much serious stuff going on. Totally understandable. Here's the trick: You have to remember to take the less serious things *less seriously*.

I keep thinking about how Heated Rivalry has captured a level of male sex appeal that the MCU still hasn’t figured out.

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

Wow, they’re troubled? Should we throw a troubled and concerned party? Should we invite Susan Collins??

Lemon,

The kids probably don't remember when Bari Weiss tweeted "Immigrants: They get the job done" after Mirai Nagasu (not an immigrant) landed a triple axel in the Olympics

Cats figured out that if you're going to be annoying you also have to be funny and that's something we could all learn from

And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.

My take on the “therapy isn’t enough” meme (based on a piece by Gustave Doré 1855)

you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Living and working abroad has had its difficulties but imo it’s something everyone should do at least once. You learn things about yourself being a stranger somewhere.

even if I’m putting on my very most cynical hat, it’s a very good thing that the establishment lane understands that they’re getting graded on this

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

This is actually unhinged, we are so far gone already… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Can someone explain to me which Jewish holidays aren’t “family-friendly”?

Post-Thanksgiving dinner is objectively the most correct time to swipe on dating apps.