Allowing the President to appoint his cronies and remove at will those who do not pledge or show fealty to him to the Merit Systems Protection Board means that we will lose one of the core institutions that undergird functioning democracies - protected & indep. civil service employees.

we have a story by Rae Callahan ! it's about working on a fishing boat at night, looking for bluefish. great details, great mood <3 this is also the author's first published story ! always a happy thing to involved with. read it ! xraylitmag.com/night-blues-...

The way that @splitlipthemag.bsky.social shows up for its contributors and staffers, past and present, always—is so beautiful and special:

Look around and see how many people are learning to garden, moving away from social media and seeking community, training to survive with less and grow stronger. It’s instinctual and one of the most beautiful things. Change is coming and it’s coming fast. Not simple, not clean, but change.

My friend’s son took his life on Sunday. Monday was her birthday. This weekend is Mother’s Day, and on Monday she starts a new job after being laid off. May none of us have to summon the strength to move through days like this.

ONE WEEK AWAY.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

What a great opportunity to discover something amazing, completely risk-free!

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

It's all so clear

Rick Barot ♥️ A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Know I’m not the only one channeling my fury into writing right now…there’s a call just for us!

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody. Lorth Sim, a 59-year-old Cambodian na... TAT: [Nationalism]

Rental Family with Brendan Fraser is sappy as hell and I loved it.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

A group of amazingly generous folks are 3D printing whistles and sending them (for free) to people across the country whose areas are under attack by ICE. They've sent almost a million. Want to help? Buy them filament 👇

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

So excited that author copies have arrived! Big thank you to Jeff Bogle at @stanchion.bsky.social. Order your copy below!

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

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Reminder than instead of Amazon, you can use bookshop.org, instead of Kindle you can use Kobo, and instead of Audible, you can use Libro.fm. And if you are lucky enough to have a local indie bookstore, please shop there!

AMBER Alert issued for 2-year-old abducted from northwest Indiana | wthr.com share.google/6d3cp81dPtqi...

The truth social Obamas post is an attempt to call his followers back to the fire. A racism rally is soothing and a distraction from proof of the unpalatable pedo stuff.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

New Issue! Words: @dallonwrites.bsky.social , @alexmiller77.bsky.social , @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,CHRISTOPHER NEGRI, KIMBERLY BRYANT, @liamcarnahan.bsky.social , EMMA HEATH & EVAN MURPHY, DAVID MCARTHUR, PATRICIA CASPERS, ANNE DUNCAN, SPENCER ECKART pitheadchapel.com/2026/02/01/v...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

thin-skin.com/flash-fictio... ❤️ Big thanks to @thin-skin.bsky.social for publishing my menopause flash (does that make it a hot flash???) that started out in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness ❤️

Murdering dissenters & arresting journalists is what dictators do. Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.

Things are not going well in Indiana. They’re passing laws to force trans folx into certain bathrooms, force local police to support ICE, force teachers to hang the 10 Commandments in all classrooms, and to allow people to sue abortion medication manufacturers.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Last night I dreamt of monsters closing in. Others came to help defeat them. Have you ever held the evidence of betrayal before someone and had them insist it wasn’t real? Is this your first time? It is bewildering but you roar back with anger and hold hands with your friends to keep your footing.

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”

From M. Gessen: "If we don’t talk back, if we alter our routes to avoid protests, if we are lucky enough to be white, straight, natural-born Americans — or, if we are not, but we lie low, stay quiet — we will be safe ... but that's not how state terror works."

I went out and saw Hamnet before the snow really started last night just to pile on the Big Feelings 😭

I just used 5 Calls to do this. I told my Republican Reps funding agents to murder working class people goes against their Christian morality.

This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Every post about protestors in Minnesota today need to mention that it feels like -20 degrees outside

Mehdi Hasan a bit late to the party here - anyone who has been paying even a moderate amount of attention has known this for a long, long time.

Hollywood drugged us into the a mass delusion that some hero is going to save us. There is no hero. It’s a million small real actions by hundreds of millions of people that will pull us out eventually. The people always win. Find something real and tangible to do, and do it now. And now. And now.

We're always looking...

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