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A federal judge has prohibited federal immigration agents in Minnesota from arresting, detaining, retaliating against or using force and chemical irritants against peaceful protesters and observers.

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

New York Times, January 16, 1995. For as long as there has been diversity in Star Trek, straight white men have been complaining that it's too woke / PC / whatever. This phenomenon predates VOYAGER, of course, but it hit that series especially hard.

Enrollment at colleges and universities has increased for the third straight year, with headcounts across undergraduate and graduate programs reaching 19.4 million — the largest total enrollment in a decade, according to a national report.

It rocks that everyone at CBS News is blabbing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know: It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Some rare days everyone is circulating the same piece urging you all to read. It's this piece by @adambonica.bsky.social underscoring one of the reasons knowledge of history is valuable. Because w/o it, we treat contingencies as certainties. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...

Scholars & organizers stress that the most important thing for pro-democracy movements to do is to peel away a regime’s “pillars of support.” Breaking companies from ICE is a winnable struggle that can put serious pressure on the Trump regime, raising the political cost of their actions. 👇 👇 👇

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

"the public will have to get more involved in 2026, weighing in with their viewing choices and their pocketbooks to make sure the options that bring the most freedom and ethical behavior are also the most profitable." Great piece!

An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

BREAKING: The Minneapolis school system says it will offer families remote learning as federal officials carry out immigration enforcement in the city.

We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

30 people were arrested in Minneapolis Friday as ICE protests continued, with 1,000 expected across the country Saturday, days after Renee Good was shot, killed.

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "We owe it to this woman, to her family, and to the American public to ensure that an investigation does occur and follows all the available evidence to its logical conclusion."

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

What a cool job!

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.

Weiss is embroiled in her first major controversy as editor in chief as her handpicked anchor takes evening news show

ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.

Five years ago.

RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it. STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it? RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.

What. The Actual. Hell.

Yess! I lived off of Golden Krust chicken patties when I was at college. Perfect meal with cocoa bread.

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Here's my FAQ on finding their district phone numbers, email addresses, and what to say to them: www.patreon.com/posts/124314...

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

🤬 “…clearly protected at the time of the Founding…”?!? upper case F too!?

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Lee: As a Black woman, there’s no way I don’t have hope. I’ve seen a lot in my life, and we have these moments of backward steps. But we have hope. I see hope. I see our young people—they have hope. I see them fighting hard for our democracy and for a better life.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

ah yes, the best way to explain and understand the world is by ignoring experts and practitioners and turning our attention to the “average American,” whatever that means

It's National Science Fiction Day. This day honors the birthday of sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #SciFi

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Whew. That Mamdani has an exceptional speechwriter and is one of the most compelling politicians I’ve seen.

Love that this article keeps popping up in my feed. It's motivating to finish the final stretch of the study with @alicemalmberg.bsky.social, where we show significantly positive effects of the @marchforourlives.bsky.social Road to Change yearlong protest in 2018 and GOTV for youth. #SPSA

For real, with the f*cking names?!