I keep finding new patterns for making things easier. The latest is for this and similar stews, where you’re shredding the meat after and blending the sauce while it’s hot. It’s a stew; it’s better the next day anyway. Putting it all in the fridge overnight and dealing with it the next day is fine.

sadly I think ICE and DHS are going to keep killing people until someone--apparently not Dem leaders--makes them stop

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

I remember slowly becoming more and more baffled during my PhD that so much of the educational inequality literature failed to note that the labour market was dominated by low-wage low-education jobs.

"Major media know Trump is building a dictatorship, but they’re unwilling to tell the public that Trump is building a dictatorship. This cynical pursuit of profit at the expense of public awareness is unacceptable." @markjacob.bsky.social asks some critical questions here:

Timeline cleanse🧼🫧 Synchronized wiggles courtesy of Dobby and Greta, the Chihuahuas living in Chihuahua (yes, that is an actual place) #TinyBlep #WiggleWiggleWiggle

My statement on funding DHS: The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024.

please pause your doomscrolling for this breaking news re: dogs and fries 👇

Texas Republicans have drastically ramped up their anti-Muslim rhetoric over the last few months. Much more on that here:

Artist CF Tunnicliffe first came to prominence with his wood engraving illustrations for Henry Williamson’s book Tarka the Otter, 1933

Why do so many Democratic officeholders, candidates and political operatives keep following the same playbook, the one that says that if they want to win elections they have to raise tons of money, spend nearly all of it on targeted media... (1/n)

Turns out there's a playbook called the "W.A.R. Room" written by top party operatives where all of this is advised as the best way to win tough elections. More in my newsletter this week (5/5) (link below). open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

We need to send DC a clear message that they will not get our midterm votes if they give an inch beyond “Abolish ICE”. The GOP needs 60 votes. They don’t have them. Flex on that. Either ICE goes or you get jack. It‘s obvious they are all in campaign mode. That not going to fly.

Paul's back and he nails it here

As if the world wasn’t crazy enough, I go to my drive-thru for breakfast and have to deal with this crap…

not since the run up to the Civil War have I seen an entire political class so overmatched by their moment; GTFO & Go Away

Scenario: a friend or family member is having surgery with an overnight stay and you are going to be their hospital advocate. Here is your packing list: - a change of clothes for you both - all their meds in original bottles in case the hospital pharmacy can't source something they take

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See, the trouble with Schumer, and the reason nobody in Texas gives a good goddamn about him, is that he doesn't believe in anything, he doesn't give a shit about the people who have to live with those he appeases, and he's way the fuck up in New York, lmao.

i'm sorry, but who in Texas doesn't think Schumer's full of shit? That's probably one of the few things that left, right, and center agree about. can't speak for the rest of these states, but i think understanding we're actual humans and not a monolithic demographic might go a long way.

Waste to whom? Who’s viewing others’ education as a waste?

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."

Texas A&M’s syllabi review policy does not prevent student indoctrination but in fact promotes the censorship of faculty. TAMU AAUP President Dr. Leonard Bright interviewed on @rolandsmartin.bsky.social @drleonardbright.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

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We’re living through a Ghostly Stagecoach ride

let's all pitch in so these fuckwits can make a gazillion dollars

“You warned us & we didn’t listen. Now look at this mess you helped create.”

good morning mr president, heres your daily list of things you could do today to make everyones life worse

With the Governor of VA sworn in, Democrats now control 24 governorships in the US. That is up from 16 just a decade ago. The GOP wants you to believe Democrats are finished, but the numbers tell a very different story.

When I ask a creative lil thought-provoking question and get back a boring non thoughtful answer

If the Democrats used just a fraction of their donation money to support Spanish-language media rather than blowing it all on TV ads about grocery prices they might actually be able to make a dent here.

A police riot on a federal scale

Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned

each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time

The problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.

"Hew closely to party lines" badly understates disapproval of the shooting. 1) ~2x as many people say "not justified" (54-28) 2) Independents say "not justified" by ~3-1 margin (61-21) 3) Only Republicans support the shooting, and they do so by much smaller margin (52 pts) than D's disapprove (90).

I will never stop being angry at the Dem leaders & electeds whose cowardice got us here (already angry at the Republicans)

I’ll reup: “Everyone failed…and there is nothing else polite to say. The story of the coming years and eras will likely be not a morality play of undoing the frenzied damage done, but a tragedy where we’re picking up the pieces of what’s left.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

Moyn was denying the wolfs existence over the bodies of dead sheep.

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this week's delivery of splendid @memorients.bsky.social 'stuff' has arrived in port courtesy of Samera Hassan (leading from the front) #earlymodern #Quakers

But read, eg, Heather McGhee's book "Sum of Us." You will learn that in post-segregation America, *thousands* of public pools were ripped out, because white people would rather not have pools at all than allow blacks to enjoy them. That's Deal 2! Examples abound.

A non-zero-sum worldview is, in my mind, the core of what it means to be "on the left." You believe that through cooperation & solidarity, we can *all* benefit. Indeed, if you look back through history, you find that non-zero-sum cooperation is the root of pretty much every human advance!

If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.

this version of cops obeying local officials really sucks

again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

One of the best articles we've seen from out-of-town press. Does a good job of covering what isn't getting covered enough and capturing what it feels like on the ground right now... (This is a gift article - lmk if the link doesn't work.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

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