What we’re doing is working. A few people - mostly angry young men who barely have ideological views, just a yearning to commit justified violence - seem almost upset that it’s working, because they wanted the chance to kill someone. The other 99.5% of us want to help our neighbors.

We have many fewer guns than them. We have 100 times as many people as them. Even from a purely strategic perspective, it’s insane to pursue any means of resistance but one that negates their superior military force and advantages the side with the greater number of eyes and ears.

ICE is being suffocated by people LEGALLY and PEACEFULLY observing - following, recording, alerting. It’s plenty confrontational: they do not want to be followed, and ICE can become violent at the drop of a hat. But it is not crossing a line that will justify them using force against use.

There’s no real debate. I have witnessed a very small number of ICE activists advocating for carrying firearms or even trying to agitate by physically striking ICE vehicles, etc. Let’s be clear: the incredibly vast majority of people resisting ICE correctly believe these people are fools.

It’s the story of how the South went from the Founders’ “This evil institution that we make all our money from will one day pass from the Earth.” to after 1830, where you could be arrested for even mentioning the word “Abolition.” The South cleansed itself of dissent via state and private violence.

I'm not here to defend white people - many of whom were perfectly happy to participate in the oppression of Black people and other POC. I'm just... it's not hard to see the parallels between Renee Good and Viola Liuzzo. All whiteness is conditional.

I've been thinking about this since 2017 that in the cultural story of the Civil Rights Movement exclusively as a story of Black liberation obliterates the secondary story of white subjugation enforced by violence.

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

europeans and canadians from their safe seat observing: "i tell you what id do! id march right into washington and drag him kicking and screaming out of the white house and then id kick every ICE agent in the balls i would!!!" *quietly ignores their own increasing fascism*

I know this is a tense subject and time but I gotta say that I'm getting a little frustrated at the way many folks who want the US to understand the cultural nuances of their country and view Americans as unlearned, immediately act like we're all the same hive mind regarding... a lot of things.

The Council President vote was messy. But we need to be clear on why this process did not need to unfold the way it did, and why we were met with a prolonged deadlock, repeated deflections into technicalities, and unwillingness to engage directly with the merits of leadership.

nonprofit friends! working on a grant to a funder who I know from the "classical music programs for youth" sphere and it turns out they also have a "free or affordable legal services for marginalized people" grant category and it's open until Feb 20 feels like some of y'all might need that

Weeell, a Nebula would be nice. Not gonna happen but it would be nice.

I'm beginning to be thoroughly creeped by the way something without extensive media presence barely exists in the world consciousness. Genocide in Sudan, slavery in western China, these things are not getting the attention they deserve, and they aren't because the cameras aren't there.

“Criticizing Newsom” and “campaigning against him” are not mutually exclusive concepts and it’s very weird to act like they are

Every time one someone decides they're gonna give advice and it's like "eat a lot of rice," it makes me stabby

There are no feds in Valhalla. Queer love will prevail. And furthermore, Minnesota is Canada.

Man but there are a lot of people trying to move us into a hot civil war on this here platform.

It's one thing to know that Putin is getting revenge beyond his wildest dreams for the collapse of the Soviet Union. And all it took was blackmailing the GOP and flooding the Internet with bots. But it also exposed how deeply racist, misogynistic, anti-intellectual, and fascist this country can be.

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

I know you want that insurance discount but sometimes in life you have to make a choice lol

THIS. There are many different ways to resist, and not all of them involve direct confrontation.

This song has been playing in my head all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUF...

I hit a point a couple years ago where I knew I was a pretty good writer overall. But winning a Nebula definitely cured me of imposter syndrome

When you see the very people who used big platforms to dismiss your work as alarmist and your analysis as impossible three years ago writing op-eds now using even stronger language. I know, I know, it doesn’t matter. Better late than never. Still, annoying enough for a skeet.

WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Tue Jan 13, 2026 It’s another day that Dems are doing incredible things and people are trying to tear them down. It’s another day that everyone wants to convince you that there’s nothing worth fighting for and that we should just give up. 1/

Trump is openly saying Civil rights are Bad He is CALLING THE GOD DAMN PLAY And you still wanna feel bad and wonder if the folks who GLEEFULLY destroy the safety of Black and Brown people Get it ?!?

I don't see it said much in reporting about mass deportation, but for almost two decades one of the hottest topics in labor has been the coming home elder care labor shortage. And my god, guess who does that labor. Millennials/Z could all become baby mills, our kids still wouldn't grow up in time

This is *the* thing no author can abide: An editor inserting a change **after** writer has seen "final proof" etc. A late update in a breaking news story? Sure. But columns, reviews, features, magazine pieces... No. Happened to me once. Refused to work with that editor ever again.

When fascism came to America, no one embraced it more enthusiastically than those waving the Bible and carrying an American flag.

Please do not come to the US. Spend your money at home, in Canada, or in Mexico. #Boycott #WC2026 #TartanArmy

Guys re: whistles, it just occurred to me that I know almost literally every local business owner along Hennepin. Tomorrow I’m going to explore their appetite for giving them out for free. If it exists, send me whistles and we’ll get them into people’s hands

Taps sign, White supremacists love to larp and infiltrate horseshoe left communities, because they can recruit there. They have low trust in mainstream, authoritarian tendencies, and have similar rage farming tendencies.

need this done up as a chick tract

I honestly hope these jamokes try to breach the home of some wackaloon prepper sort. Of course, the wackaloon preppers are probably the ones trying to breach other people's houses.

Good advice from Portland's Stone House.

“The only war is the class war” people are not looking too smart lately. They never have looked smart, but they aren’t looking smart at the present either.

Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.

Absolutely THIS. Learning to write clearly is part of learning how to think clearly.

Hearing many stories now of ICE going to the homes of observers and activists to menace them.

If we are going to fight against the false nostalgias of history in fascism… maybe we should be clear so we avoid the false progressivism of near history ppl

if i had a nickel for every bsky user who was very confident about how the senate works and very wrong, i wouldn't have to work another day in my life

Soooo we going with the disconnection from the fact this has BEEN the rationale of state sponsored Black Indigenous death for years , ( around the time white people got tired of race) And domestic violence with a dash of calling Renee Nicole Good a wine mom as she smeared …

It’s the real Black Barbie. 😍

I can’t explain it but she looks extra Trini in this and it’s lovely

She just never looks unintentional and I adore that