It is just heartbreaking that her two brothers went to Congress to testify at a hearing.

holy shit

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 2 19thNews: Nearly 40 years ago, advocates agreed with Reps to strike trans ppl from the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act protections. In a major shift, today disability rights advocates are standing squarely behind trans ppl & their rights.

Don't let Republicans and transphobes re-write history when they're the ones who've been orchestrating a genocide with a cabal of pedophiles all along. Trans people, yet again, were the canaries in the coal mine, and everyone just looked and said, "huh, there's a dead bird in there".

Looking for some palette cleansing fiction about trans and especially transfem folks. Romance, fantasy, eggfics, lay them on me! #transreads #booksky

chappell grammys outfit is i c o n i c

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped

Fox News poll: The Democratic Party is favored by voters on transgender issues by 22 points

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

what really bugs me about the "trans people got ahead of public opinion" line is that it ignores *why* public opinion changed. it didn't just come out of nowhere, there was a deliberate push to make trans rights a wedge issue.

I ran a campaign in this seat years ago. This has always been the bluest corner of white voters in St Paul, but these are Soviet level results. This seat averages ~20% for Republicans. This result is just slightly worse than the ~+14 D swing in special elections this last year.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Well, his campaign just sent this out so I don't think they've "lost" him:

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

"We need Plato more than he needs us" Bully for UT Austin Classics prof Deborah Beck for speaking up about state officials banning readings from Plato at Texas A&M. I don't know how she and other faculty speaking up can be protected, but they shd continue to do so and we shd continue to try. 1/3

This is who the Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis is named for

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A doctor says DHS agents were counting bullet holes rather than assisting Alex as he died. Indeed, they were actively harming him further. We know initially they had only been concerned with finding his weapon

Finally started on Parable of the Talents. Who was going to tell me the leading presidential candidate's slogan was "Make America Great Again"? This book was written in *1998*.

NEW: I spoke with the Texas inmate who was put in solitary confinement after a GoFundMe for her sick prison cat went viral. While she's since been returned to regular housing, she and her longtime friend worry that more retaliation could be on the way. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

hey, good morning. or afternoon, depending on where you are. this is a dark day. been other dark days too, lately. don’t lose sight of the beauty around you and the many reasons you’re here on this earth. we will get through this and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

The @startribune.com is doing the work reporting ICE's attack on Minnesotans.

Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing. Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...

A combat-wounded Army veteran says federal immigration agents detained him for about eight hours after he watched an ICE arrest from a public sidewalk in south Minneapolis. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Adrian Gonzalez is found Not Guilty of all counts of child endangerment, sheds tears in court in Corpus Christi next to his attys. The family members of the victims shed tears too. 💔 #Uvalde

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks. One is rent. The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.

It blows my mind that some people don’t cry. I cried this week over a really good burger. I love crying.

@jasmineforus.bsky.social voting for a Republican funding bill is a huge unforced error in a #txsen Democratic primary that she is already falling behind in.

Lancelot Blackburne, the gift that keeps on giving.

“Iranian people will change the regime themselves sooner or later, but we need help. We are empty-handed, standing in front of the bullet.” www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr...

The 1st Amendment was written in the aftermath of literal Puritans using the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony to suppress speech and force people to pay taxes to their church. The idea that Madison and Jefferson wanted to create special carve-outs to the First Amendment is absurd.

Wish the "don't believe everything you read on the Internet" generation had followed their own advice.

No Kings means No Kings

It's honestly kind of funny that they're trying to paint Minnesota of all places as a violent crime infested hellhole and the people there as "dangerous radical communists" or whatever when the biggest stereotypes about Minnesotans is how nice they are. Their state slogan is "Minnesota nice" lol.

“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?

Meanwhile in Texas .... www.texastribune.org/2026/01/15/e...

Rebel Girl is not just a bangin song but instructions.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

How unsurprising that, IMMEDIATELY upon implementing Texas' school voucher program, the state began discriminating vs disfavored schools based on race and religious preference. It's almost like all the little-d democratic rhetoric was a bunch of disingenuous BS being spread by liars and bigots.

Throwing back to Brett Kavanaugh's hand-waving of racial profiling by ICE away, there is no way to explain the agency's repeated targeting of Native Americans and the places they live unless you are using skin color as a proxy for immigration status.

Golden Son by Pierce Brown An epic sequel consisting of war, revolution, trust & betrayal🪐 The story & characters are consuming my soul. I am so invested & equally as scared😅 SO GOOD!! I can’t even think of anything else because I’m still wrapping my head around that ending🫣 ⭐️4.5/5⭐️ #BookSky 💙📚