Just gave $50 to this strike fund. Movement work is like a muscle, we have to build it through solidarity. Gotta participate more often and with more weight where we can.

Lower Manhattan 👀

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Dreamy

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Wild.

Humans warehoused in camps for months, some for years. Remarkable organizers doing all to support, monitor, and relay from outside. Indie media like @lataco.bsky.social, started as a taco site, now the vanguard of journalism in this country, deserving your $. lataco.com/captive-loti...

it could be like this, for the whole nation

Asterisks are my favorite fallen stars. *This poem was found after the poet's death on the back of an envelope from Helen Vender, November 28, 1981.

Absolutely right! We got Flock surveillance cameras canceled in our county by basically annoying our sheriff into submission. Never forget: they're trapped in here with YOU, not the other way around.

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

LET'S GO

it's probably fine

Legislation is working its way through the 2026 Va. General Assembly session right now that would end similar *local* 287(g) agreements & other ICE entanglements here. Virginians, make sure you tell your state reps you have their back in support of these bills! See acluva.org for more details.

FYI Loudoun County, this is you—

Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad

Someone I know in Minnesota, and trust completely, is raising money for someone in a truly harrowing and heartbreaking situation due to ICE. Non-Minnesota people whose networks aren’t tapped out, want to help, and trust me, you can venmo me at @wrigleyfield & I will pass on the donation immediately

A devastating loss. And completely avoidable. May they rest in peace, they will be missed 🖤

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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

This is terrific news. Let’s help Stevie have a softer landing.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Do I know anyone who could answer a quick question about submitting written testimony in the Maryland legislature?

It’s interesting how much energy people spend on here backseat-driving local, community-made decisions on tactics, when they don’t belong to the community in question.

we got you 😭 www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

IDGAF I'm bringing this discourse back: John Ganz was obviously right and some of you are marks

La familia de Bayardo Arce denuncia abusos en su contra en Nicaragua: “Tememos por su vida” dozz.es/zqu5g13

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

idk if academic bsky works like this, but does anyone have a shortish reading they like about the why of reading critical theory? this would be for an M.A. class

Enjoyed my first ever long-form podcast conversation (I know, late to the game) with @moneyontheleft.bsky.social about my union’s heroic efforts to keep the CFPB alive. Check it out!

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

man it took me a long time scrolling to realize catherine o'hara had died bc people were just posting pics and appreciation and like, why wouldn't you do that on a normal day

UPDATE: according to reports from Tigray regional state television, drone strikes targeted trucks in two north-east Tigray towns at 4AM local time. A driver was killed, another is injured. These would be the first civilian casualties of drone strikes in Tigray, since the Tigray war ended in 2022.

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

3.5 years after a ceasefire ended a brutal Ethiopian civil war that killed hundreds of thousands in two years...Ethiopian forces and Tigrayan rebels clashed on Thursday, marking the most serious fighting since the war ended. Ethiopian Airlines has suspended all flights to Tigray.

I DID, NOW YOU

One aspect of the DMV deep freeze that local Latino politicians are talking about but no one else I can see: we are short hundreds of snowplow contractors relative to this time last year because they're scared of 1) doing government work 2) alone in a truck outside. ICE is making the ice much worse.

Whatever we’re doing, it’s not enough.

No.

Bring back convalescence

God bless the people who are going out there and directly confronting these fucking cowardly Democratic politicians. Thank you.

bullying—and i cannot stress this enough—works

Liam Ramos is still in a Texas prison. It's been 5 days

Your Libby rental was free for you, but did you know it cost the D.C. Public Library $59.99? The e-book boom (and a complicated pricing model from publishers) has left library systems strapped for cash. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to fight back. 51st.news/ebooks-are-e...

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

It's also going to permanently harm a lot of people who will survive but with ongoing issues. Some of these people are going to end up blind and are going to have to adapt to that. Some of them are going to have lifelong neurological issues. And it's not necessary.

Trying not to take my anger out on the wrong people, with, candidly, only mixed success 🫠