damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Yet another connection to Palestine, where people are denied the right to grieve

Yes and another answer to "what's the point of protesting" - it radicalizes people.

Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...

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.

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

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

Federal agents flashbanged a car full of kids last night including a 6 month old baby, according to local news. Why are NYT reporters in a rural diner talking to anti-immigrant kooks? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMO...

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.

tomorrow: leaflets air-dropped over the Twin Cities inform residents that unless they evacuate to certain designated zones they and their families will be treated as enemy combatants by the most moral ICE in the world

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

I guess Ezra Klein doesn't think Nicole Renee Good "Was Practicing Politics the Right Way"

I can't help but think of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, and how Schwerner's last recorded words before being shot were reportedly, "Sir, I know just how you feel."

Please read this piece by a student journalist at Roosevelt High School, the school that DHS attacked yesterday. rooseveltstandard.com/797/opinion/...

No one who doesn't want to be convinced will be moved by the forensic accounts undertaken by the media but it's still good that they offer the accounts. Not because people will be convinced but so that others can tell accurate stories.

This is my blood

NYC‼️ TODAY, 6PM, FOLEY SQUARE EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO #ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER “This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct & predictable result of a federal agency that has been allowed to operate with impunity” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces

Thanks @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing one of my favorite poems in the collection: rustandmoth.com/work/on-not-...

Excellent mail day! Can’t wait to help launch this stunner by @ltanenbaum.bsky.social on 1/27/26 at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn! www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...

My Cassandra cred's pretty solid--20+ years on far right beat, ten on Trump, nobody ever accused me of being a ray of sunshine. But at the end of this bad year, I think this too is true: fascism took so much, & yet nowhere near all it could & wants. There's so much left to fight for.

It was little earthquakes for me. But also this might be the most perfect album ever

I wonder what she tells her children about the kids dad helps rip from their mothers arms.

public-facing anti-feminism may not be the most evil ideology but it is the most impossible ideology - the public pronouncement that one's own public life should not exist.

When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

It is, in fact, a note-perfect example of the sorts of pieces Arielle Angel discussed in this Jewish Currents piece a while back: a piece that responds to a hideous antisemitic tragedy to decry people's silence, while ignoring the outpourings of sympathy and official support that actually arrive

upgrading my opinion: this might be one of the best longform pieces actually talking to random democratic voters about the main issue of our day anyone's written

w/ passage of Marjorie Taylor Greene bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, re-upping story I wrote couple yrs ago abt Renton Sinclair, trans dude in KC who survived horrific, non-affirming childhood w/ a mom who later became a MAGA anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...

So excited to participate in the launch of @ltanenbaum.bsky.social’s gorgeous debut poetry collection!

Delighted to share I will be reading from my debut collection, Dear Mother, at Lofty Pigeon books in Kensington Brooklyn on January 27th w/ @carrieconners.bsky.social and Arden Levine www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...

Soooooo many advisors in academia tell their advisees this rather than "there are 500 applicants for each job and it's a crap shoot!" there is another story lurking here which is the feminization of professions when they are in states of decline in pay prestige and working conditions

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Look, we all fall short of the bravely fight the Nazis image we have in our heads but not sending an email is the hero we can all truly be

If you're a parent of a certain age you've likely found a lot of childhood favorites don't hold up and Princess Bride is such a delightful exception. Our 8 year old held court at Thanksgiving performing "there's something I forgot to tell you, I'm not left handed" and more.

The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.

Help keep us safe This weekend (12/12 - 12/14), we’re launching a citywide community effort to canvass as many businesses and hand out as many whistles as possible, all to protect our neighborhoods from ICE. Come join us by finding or hosting an event near you. Sign up at HandsOffNYC.com

ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones. not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.

The PSC is deeply disappointed by the City Council's failure this week to censure Council Member Inna Vernikov for recklessly bringing a gun to a Brooklyn College protest in 2023. See the full statement from President James Davis ⤵️

So, I wrote a book of poems that has a sequence that are in the form of letters to my dead mother. While writing it I read lots and lots poems about grief, elegies of all kinds. it's one of the great subjects of poems because you need the non-literal and heightened language to do it

I go to Federal Plaza a lot, and Goldman shows up when something newsworthy happens (i.e. a child is detained, or a family with a story that will get exceptional press.) Whereas sometimes I'll walk into a courtroom and Brad is just in the back sitting with a family on a Friday morning with JFREJ.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

I'm reading student's poetry imitations & notes on poetry collections. They went deep with Elizabeth Bishop, Kevin Young, Pablo Neruda. CC students in a required class. They are doing good, deep, real work, but if you just look at the "page count" & "number of sources" it doesn't look "rigorous"

I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way. Let me paint a picture for you.