HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements." bell hooks 1997 we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.

He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.

Oh COME ON I hate this

DRAGONSDAWN (1987) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 25” x 36” This was the first cover in the Dragonriders of Pern series to feature the beloved fire lizards and I really enjoyed painting them. 1/5

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

This is why I am currently working on a deck of oracle cards, on track for a late 2027 release. (Sorry about the potato quality and huge watermarks, but it's a work-in-progress and big corporations have a track record of stealing and selling my work.)

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

Icymi, when writers organize, they win. As Writers Against the War on Gaza lifts its PEN America boycott, it looks back at the power of collective pressure, and looks ahead toward the work to come. lithub.com/the-boycott-... writersagainstthewarongaza.com/statements/p...

NEW: Until recently, two Minneapolis women have heading out each day on a simple mission: to find and mock Border Patrol field leader Greg Bovino. I talked to one of them and wrote about the strengths and limits of mocking these dripless malevolent losers: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Jesus this chart.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Magazine cartoons are good.

Homgry

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“One cop we talked to—he appeared to be a lieutenant or commander—about babies being gassed said in response ‘that's too bad.’”

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church

From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota. I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.

Um...sorry for your confusion, but Helen was *not from Troy.* She was Spartan: the daughter of the Aetolian princess Leda, (wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus) and (supposedly) Zeus. Homer says she was taken from her husband Menelaos's house to Troy by the very junior Trojan prince Paris.

It's February! It's LGBT+ History month AND the month of valentimes, so why not get your eyes around my historic, very bisexual fantasy romcom? farragobooks.com/book-series/...

It's also worth noting that ALA is using some obfuscation language here. *ALA* may not have had any segregation policies, but libraries absolutely did. ALA didn't just not have policies on conferences in segregated cities, but it didn't do shit about discriminatory libraries either.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The ACLU wants to hear from any families with kids or anyone who was significantly impacted by the use of chemical munitions at yesterday’s protest. Please email my office so we can help connect you with their legal team.

Chomsky also denied and downplayed the Bosnian Genocide, largely because Milosevic was nominally a socialist.

This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from. This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.

we’ve known Chomsky was a piece of shit since he tried to downplay and deny the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 70s, but I’m glad more people are *finally* figuring this out

It can get lower!

It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march

ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help. ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Chomsky out there manufacturing consent smh

Yesterday at the Portland ICE protest, Portland cops were literally *right there* when ICE started teargassing the crowd, which included children and the elderly. Most cops stood around silently while people begged they do something. A lieutenant who was actually responding said "that's too bad"

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4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children. They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.

This is also an extremely common cause of death for incarcerated Americans in federal & state custody, btw. All of these systems are connected.

Hi everyone, one of our whistle producers is down to a roll or two of filament. If you have the capacity, would you mind helping them out so they can keep printing whistles? Thank you all!

Covering a protest — even one inside a church — isn’t a crime.

I do want to say something about the Whistle Crew this morning that is kind of magical: The reason I give us a different name every time I post is that we really aren't a formal group. Any structure that exists does so entirely so we can connect folks who need whistles with those making them.

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this

Additionally, Councilor Kanal would like to see a ban on chemical crowd control weapons in Portland.

And as Morillo says, Portland @mayorkwilson.bsky.social spared no words for those carrying out the attacks. In a message last night to Portlanders, Wilson openly called for ICE agents to resign. "Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets."

Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.