Charlotte the cat got a new plushie! Does anyone recognize him?

Wired: running a 90s-style homophobic cover image with 2000s tee hee j/k as an excuse Tired: Wired

imagine how many reporters you could employ for their entire career with just the tax savings from this year.

Every time it rains in San Francisco, let that increase your empathy for the unhoused.

People who call men “allies” for watching women’s sports crack me up. I think I’m going to start saying I’m an ally whenever I tune into an MNBA game.

The end of privately run gas stations? New Science paper by @jlappen1.bsky.social & Emily Grubert lays out a future in which “electric transportation is becoming the market leader, but gasoline still has a share, albeit a declining one”: @dangearino.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Hot take: this is bad. sfstandard.com/2026/02/04/s...

While most drivers are stopped because over traffic violations, 64.8% of the stops of homeless residents were based on “reasonable suspicion” — a less-demanding standard.

Several thousand people are gathered at Dolores Park in San Francisco right now to protest ICE. The crowd is audible from several blocks away.

I wonder if the guy at my gym wearing a Zach Bryan shirt is aware that Zach offered his ex $12 million in exchange for an NDA forbidding her from talking about his abuse. 🙃

cat pic of the day

the left is winning gun rights and the 2nd amendment in the national divorce

"We have to end this dystopian nightmare," Representative Yassamin Ansari, an Arizona Democrat, said.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

NYT says ICE shot him in the back: An “agent aims his own firearm at Mr. Pretti’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range… A third agent unholsters a weapon. Both agents appear to fire additional shots into Mr. Pretti as he lies motionless… At least 10 shots appear to have been fired…” 🎁🔗

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

i joined matt bernstein to talk to ashley st clair, a mother to one of elon musks babies, who’s since exited the far right movement. we spent this time grilling her talking to her about her past bigotry and what made her change

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Today, thousands of demonstrators, dozens of nonprofits and unions, and hundreds of businesses will take part in a general strike in Minnesota, demanding that ICE agents leave the state after the agency has wreaked havoc on the Twin Cities.

Greetings! I’m here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Despite -9 Fahrenheit degrees, a huge crowd is here marching against federal immigrant detainments downtown.

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

This was an interesting watch. I’m at an age now where I’ve been an adult for 10+ years, so decades past reflections are actually more interesting. I can’t say I remember 2016 (or any other year, honestly) particularly fondly, though. youtu.be/rA2h6jm1fto?...

I’m sitting at a cafe in San Francisco and the guy working next to me just asked Claude to write a cover letter for his Apple job application. Sign of the times.

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.

Liam Ramos, 5 years old, wearing winter clothes, his school backpack, and a sweet blue bunny hat. His family didn't know where he was for over 24 hours. He was kidnapped from his school by ICE and they sent him to a facility in Texas. Alone.

Since there are a lot of people insisting that protests don't matter and the Trumpists can simply ignore public opinion: I just wrote about why this idea that authoritarian regimes are impervious to public pressure is very wrong and basically just perpetuates the regime's assertion of inevitability:

Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.

Heyo, I am here in front of the #Palantir offices in #PaloAltoCA, where a Women's March-led "No Tech for ICE" protest is due to officially start at 2:30 p.m.. So far, there are about 40 people—and one frog!—present.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

Even though there’s no way to implement mandated age gates in a way that fully protects speech and privacy rights, EFF wants to help you minimize the infringement of your rights as you manage the imposition of age gates. Learn more in our guide to navigating age assurance: eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Me pitching a train ad campaign

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Might do an entire series of Nazi photos side-by-side with contemporary ICE and CBP arrests

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

I’ve given up trying to understand billboards in this city #sanfrancisco #billboard

when someone asks me how i’m handling 2026:

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

a fun gag would be everyone mailing the white house their old useless trophies. just some pranking in these trying times

Heated Rivalry knows no borders. 🔥 www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/15/h...

"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it

I was a Very Online college student in 2015 who wrote a long research paper about moderating harassment of women online in the wake of Gamergate. The past decade has been wild to watch, to say the least.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

The last decade in US politics

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Congress says it wants to empower parents online. But the Kids Off Social Media Act would do the opposite—by forcing Big Tech to decide how families use the internet.

A mother in Minneapolis rushed to perform CPR on her 6-month-old baby after federal immigration agents deployed a chemical agent near her car, leading all six of her children to be taken to the hospital. This isn’t the first time kids have been on the receiving end of ICE's chemical weapons.

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.