"Bovino to Leave Minnesota, But the White Supremacist Agenda is Still in Play" Bovino is the scapegoat for Trump's intentional reign of terror in Minnesota, but as long as Stephen Miller is in the White House, this is just window dressing. Dems must go on offense! open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

The week on the Mongabay Newscast I speak with drag artist @pattiegonia.bsky.social. She explains why joy is critical in this moment, and why she feels the environmental movement must prioritize it to succeed. “If we want people to join this movement, we have to make it freaking fun."

Please REPOST 🥹 . . my name is pattie gonia and i challenge pete hegseth to a kettlebell swing competition. i'll win. & i'll do it tucked…...and in heels.

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Renee Good was murdered by Trump’s goon squad to terrorize the people of Minnesota. Today, thousands of Minnesotans assembled in frigid temperatures to show that they are not afraid. Whatever the opposite of doomscrolling is, that’s what I’m doing now. #FuckICE #ICEOut #FuckTrump

2024: Rachel Lense created a Pride flag out of NASA pics. 2025: The incoming presidential administration deleted it. 2026: Ember tracked down the constituent images, rebuilt the composite, and added additional images to update the flag to the more inclusive, current version. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ For science!

WHAT does Russia have to do with Gaza? This is so transparently awful.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

Fresh off an Eagles playoff loss? ICE does not want this heat

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

Do what you do best, Philly

NFL: Choose Love ………. NFL: no, not like that

Whether the regime is waging war abroad or against its own citizens, Trump becomes more emboldened every time Congress refuses to stand up to his lawless actions. The American people do not want another endless war, and we will hold Republicans responsible for their fealty to the mad wannabe-king.

Last week, five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats to advance a War Powers Resolution that would check Trump’s power to wage endless war in Venezuela. Yesterday, two of those Republicans (Hawley and Young) flipped back to Trump’s side in order to block the legislation from passing.

Elon Musk is deadset on speed running through every single horror show the Gilded Age Robber Barons ever gave us, from company towns to pseudoscientific racism.

Lots of ways to help, thank you @ziibiing.com #StandWithMinnesota

At least 10% of *all* ICE agents are deployed just to Minneapolis right now.

"They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old." BAH GAWD! That's @dandrezner.bsky.social's music!

I do also think this is indicative of Kristof’s media diet. of course if you are only consuming news from billionaire-backed outlets you have no concept of the scale of resistance happening. it’s contrary to their own interests to show it!

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

The one that pisses me off is viral on fb now showing hundreds of thousands of people mobbing Washington from like … Chicago to 35W. It’s so obviously fake.

On top of the excitement of launching Delta Changemakers, LLC, I had a fantastic call the other day with Andrew Kinney, my new editor at UNC Press, and I'm so very happy with what this means for completing "Queer and Present Dangers."

Holy shit. There are 35 Non-UN organizations and 31 UN organizations listed in this document.

I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud.

I am very excited to officially launch @deltachangemakers.com, a consultancy for social justice, inclusive democracy, and civil society! Check out the website, spread the word, & follow on LinkedIn & Bluesky! deltachangemakers.com

Today is supposed to be the launch of my consulting practice, Delta Changemakers, LLC. If only I can get Squarespace & Google Workspace to play nicely... but check out the site, and more official launch coming when I get all that straightened out... 🤣

Convicted five times for inciting racial hatred… www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Carrie, you are missed.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Once again: thank the gods for the leadership of Letitia James. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Nearly 30 U.S. ambassadors just got recalled within a week. Career diplomats. No explanation. The Foreign Service union says this has NEVER happened in U.S. history. Not during wars. Not during scandals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... #BlueSky #NewsSky #PoliSky

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

If you have some time in your day, please give this a read. Folks in the comments are on point too. I'm autistic and have put up with even folks in my close family saying that fuckin word for far too long and claiming ignorance. Let everyone know why speaking this slur ought to be social suicide.

And they said bari Weiss couldn’t push cbsnews into new formats and find new audiences

And just FYI: Helping refugees is a core to the Jewish belief system. There’s a reason why on Passover we say “we won’t be free until everyone is free.” Culturally we consider ourselves to be refugees for thousands of years so we strongly believe in the moral obligation to help displaced people.

Important piece from my friend & colleague @revjenbutler.bsky.social on how (white) Christian nationalism has taken root in the making of U.S. foreign policy under the Trump regime. religionnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

I definitely recommend following the most fabulous Pattie Gonia…

When China’s rulers ordered tens of thousands of soldiers to crush pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing in 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian was the commander who famously said no. Now, leaked video from his court-martial was posted online. nyti.ms/48Ho706

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Also, props to the drink raccoon for holding his own (if not his liquor) in this ranking.

An invaluable read…

“She wasn’t told why she was detained...She was shackled like she was some type of hardened criminal, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney...If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Epic: “New Yorkers can now gaze in wonder and horror as the tower’s summit transforms ... Sometimes, the throbbing diamond shape adds an inescapable Eye of Sauron vibe. At other moments, it appears to shift into a pulsating yonic void. Vajazzled steeple aside...” Just read it all...

The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat