Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

Canada's EV deal with China shows how U.S. belligerence is driving allies away. It also is stranding the once-powerful U.S. auto industry, now doomed to make domestic gas guzzlers and exist as a footnote globally. @ryanlcooper.com reports: prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 16,1960

If you fire a coach who got to the playoffs six years in a row, you are an idiot

People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.

ICE is now bragging about money they stole from Somalis

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

I guess we should keep in mind that the blind spot goes both ways. Don't waste too much time looking for goodness or a sense of empathy deep down, or even rational self-interest, just because we think it MUST be there. Some people are missing that part of themselves, or have cut it out.

At the risk of living in a society, it's like the twist of The Killing Joke: they think that deep down, everyone else has a soul as dried-up and spiteful as theirs, and anyone claiming otherwise is just faking empathy to seem holier-than-thou. They can't imagine being any other way.

DeSantis did this to women who signed petitions to get reproductive rights on the ballot. Pay attention to what's happening in Florida because it's a testing ground.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

so much about all of this is insane to me but it's especially insane that we're blowing up the transatlantic alliance at the whim of a dying man

As Dolly Parton turns 80 today, some news: I'm thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of my new book, "Dolly Parton: The Stories Behind the Songs," from the same publisher who brought you my books on Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, out in the US on August 11, 2026. www.amazon.com/Dolly-Parton...

i made this for my husband

every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed

The strange bruise on Donald Trump’s hand raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health

Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words: "If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell." Happy MLK Day.

Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest). Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

The Atlantic is acting like a troll blog for right wingers. We should treat it that way! Approach its writers like you would some flack at the Daily Wire. Make it uncool to read this shit. Deny them legitimacy. It’s bad for society to let this keep happening at “prestige” journalism outlets.

MAINERS: WHISTLES A fellow resister has reached out to me offering free 3D printed whistles with free shipping: "We will mail out any qty between 100 and 1000." I've vetted & trust this source. If interested & will help distribute whistles in your community, DM or email address on my calendar... 1/

“I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

I maintain that the dril tweet that best encapsulates Trump, and in fact the entire modern right, is this one

Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

[Q] Girls? do u like nice guys or just hot ones.? [A] well me i like nice guys because nice is well..................nice but hot guys yes its nice yes but hhot is not important as hotness is only temporary he wont always be hot but niceness is the heart [2007]

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1

To recap: the two major parties refuse to rein in the reign of a demented sociopathic king who daily is marching us into both World War III and the next Civil War simultaneously because a Black president once made fun of him and also the Special Boy wasn't given the Shiny Golden Medal he covets

Jake Tapper would comment, but he's busy chasing down a witness who, three years ago, allegedly saw Joe Biden push on a pull door not once, but twice... RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS STAFF WHO COVERED IT ALL UP

Can’t remember the last time someone pretended the Minnesota invasion was about “fraud.” That lie just disappeared.

On this MLK Day please download Miiriya, it’s an app where you can shop Black Owned Businesses conveniently on one app, it’s like Amazon but all the businesses are Black Owned. It doubles as a Mutual Aid app where you can browse Black people who are struggling with overdue bills/evictions etc & help

I always push back against this framing, because Republicans aren’t spineless. They’re not afraid of standing up to Trump any more than the Lakers are afraid of standing up to LeBron. THEY LIKE WHAT HE IS DOING. THEY HATE DEMOCRACY AS MUCH AS HE DOES.

He will without any exaggeration destroy America, reduce this country to a lawless mafia state, start a civil war, start a world war, kill us all, or all at once. And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.

And how fucking stupid are Trump's henchmen to launch this operation in January?? It's like Hitler invading Russia in the winter! I know most of the leaders are from Florida and Texas and sunbelt shitholes, but they didn't realize Minneapolis was going to be a tad chilly? Haha.

More Immigrants Detained by ICE Recount Harsh and Cruel Treatment One man targeted at home says agents took “trophy pictures” of him on their personal phones.

Every Caleb Williams play

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 18,1955

King shit.

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

NO WAY. CALEB WILLIAMS HEAVES IT ON 4TH DOWN.