Anytime I see numbers showing that Asian people are less underwater than others, I wish we were actually fucking teaching the history of Asian people in this country. Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.

In the 1870 census, Boise, Idaho was almost 50% Chinese. Just...think about that. Think about Boise, Idaho today and what you think about it racially. What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.

Chinese people were driven out with murder and threat of murder. There were repeated massacres. That is what happened.

Instead, people think that Asians are the "model minority" who are sort of latecomers to this country and "know how to act." The reality is more that we excluded everyone but the very wealthy until relatively modern times, and limited almost everyone else to those with high educations.

"This is the fourth year of the largest war in Europe since World War II, and the person who started it is not only free, but is still fighting for his frozen money in Europe." - Zelenskyy during his speech in Davos.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

If you look at the polls, Americans are pretty pissed off at the rich. Like, historically pissed off. I talked to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social about the history of populist backlashes for my newsletter

This morning I reached the 350k follower mark here on Bluesky, which is mindblowing. Thank you so much for letting me be part of your Bluesky experience. I'm glad to be here. To celebrate I've donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and to the MN chapter of the ACLU. Onward! www.ilcm.org

Special thanks to @ziibiing.com, whose work putting together the Stand With Minnesota web site informed where I put my donations. www.standwithminnesota.com

🚨🚨"Our American Dream is dead": European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

As leaders of the EU’s 27 MS assemble in Brussels for an emergency summit Thursday, that assessment is predominant across almost all capitals in Europe, according to nine EU diplomats. These officials come from countries which have varying degrees of historic fondness of the U.S.,

and they made clear that this way of thinking is particularly stark in places that have previously had the strongest ties to Washington. The sense of dread and skepticism remains, and the summit will still go ahead, despite Donald Trump declaring late Wednesday that he’s struck a deal on Greenland

Disrupting a church service is a bigger crime than shooting someone three times.

Bringing people food is not a crime.

Bondi states they arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong for the church protest the other day

They won't tolerate a little civil disobedience at a regime "church" but they will abduct and traffic a 5 year old child. bsky.app/profile/erin...

fucking jackyls. they'll assault, arrest, and use chemical munitions on priests in the streets who don't agree with them, but you protest a church led by an active member of the secret police engaged in a genocide campaign and they turn back on their least convicing play at pretending to be human.

The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...

As it turns out, the "Board of Peace" is just a real estate redevelopment for the super-rich, built on stolen land. So basically, at it's core, it's ethnic cleansing dressed up in diplomatic terms. This is beyond disgusting and immoral.

The US government is attacking its own people (and others), but you don't have to spend your life feeling helpless or marinating in fear and fury. In the new NEXT COMES WHAT, Andrea explains why we need to overcome the glib instincts of centrist pundits to come together in useful ways.

Europeans: Americans are so horrible. The world should shun them. Also Europeans: I just drowned a boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide. n.pr/49xRXVf

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Very very worried about what a group of armed masked men who are cool with arresting preschool kids in bobble hats, dragging pensioners into the snow in their underwear & executing women in the street for talking back will do next to make decent humans angry enough to react violently.

More on the folks being dropped off often with no clothes. This guy is not an activist. He just can't stomach what was happening. He felt compelled to act in -17 degree weather to save these folks being released into frigid temperatures to die. More courage than most of our elected officials.

I am more worried about war in Minnesota than in Greenland or Canada. The US is hours or days away from civil war. This might sound extreme, but if Walz has the Minn National Guard blocking ICE ops, the usual response of the fed govt to governors using NG against feds is to call out the army. 1/

Most things I read here from people who are on the ground in Minneapolis seems to indicate that ICE are actively working to provoke the kind of reaction that could escalate this. It is presumably what some in the administration want.

I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.

Jared Golden sees what ICE is doing to Minneapolis and welcomes the same to his district. I expect that from Republicans. But it's Dems like this that wreck the Party brand and make it harder for us to win. Thankfully he understands his limitations and is throwing himself out of politics.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Can we please protect the children? I remember being a kid and being told to go back to Africa. And that was before Trump. Kids right now have it so much worse. The cruelty is louder, more public, more sanctioned. Shelter the little ones. No one deserves this treatment, but especially not them.

Thank their union members for getting them this far

He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Let me just say, having to ask my pregnant patients who are having sudden bleeding if they’ve been at all exposed to chemical irritants/tear gas is not something I ever pictured having to do when going to nursing school. #Minneapolis #OBGYN

His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to: 1) Publicly oppose ICE funding 2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

A bit of good news, though I wonder whether schools will actually resume the DEI initiatives they abandoned, and I wonder whether that kind of un-enforced, fear-based capitulation was the administration's end-game all along. www.wbez.org/education/20...

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

There is no forgiveness.

Reform is impossible. It has to be abolished. We are entering Dem primary season. Do not vote for anyone who claims the solution to this is “better training.” Find the candidate who will abolish and vote for them instead.

This is tyranny

All the moral panics in the world ginned up that queers are coming for your kids, while masked men are kidnapping children in broad daylight.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Brandon is totally correct and also this axios headline is genuinely huge if true Please keep calling your congressional reps and be nice to the staff but also say things that make the staff feel guilty if they don’t push their boss on thi