I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

If you don’t believe you have anything to say that isn’t the mean approximation of a zillion different images that other people already made, that’s a deadness inside that no amount of attention or validation is gonna fix. Literally go touch grass, take a breath, and figure out your life.

PSA: The U.S. Postal Service has announced a change to their postmark date system, which could impact filing taxes, mailing important government documents, and voting.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Deadline extended--help fund journalism scholarships.

Boooooo

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

How do you fix journalism? Fucking pay for it. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe. The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Submit your best work for the SPJ's Best in Indiana Journalism Awards. awards.indianaprospj.org

Over 3,302 people donated to our ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social, ultimately raising over $276,000! Catch up on the fun stream with @danryckert.com, @grubb.wtf, @jacobgeller.com, @sarahpodz.bsky.social, @leovader.com, and @yozetty.bsky.social here. youtube.com/live/SMcO71c...

We're raising money for VEAP -- during ICE's occupation of the city, VEAP is invaluable in helping our neighbors pay for food, rent, and other essentials. They are providing *basic human rights*. And you can help! Watch our stream at www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow, and donate to bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

We're about to go live with the ICE Out Charity Stream from the MinnMax Studio! We have @grubb.wtf and @danryckert.com and @jacobgeller.com in Minneapolis to help protect our neighbors! www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Donate here - bit.ly/iceoutminnea...

The homies @minnmax.com @giantbomb.bsky.social haven’t even been streaming an hour and they’ve already raised 90k for folks in Minneapolis who can’t leave their homes. We are the helpers. 💙

Today we're asking you for your help in raising money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Donate to have your message read on our shows. Let's protect our neighbors and communities from ICE. kindafunny.com/donate

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Huge thanks to all the developers who have donated codes for our ICE OUT charity stream this evening! We've got hundreds of codes to give away tonight, from wonderful developers like @lululu.games, @oprel.work, @team.trinketstudios.com, @prettysmart.bsky.social and more! Stream starts at 5 central

TODAY, yes, TODAY at 5PM Central: Join us as we team up with the crew at @minnmax.com for a charity stream raising money for the families affected by ICE in Minneapolis. Watch here ➡️ www.twitch.tv/giantbomb and donate here ➡️ www.givemn.org/story/qexfdf

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

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

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

"How could they lie like that so brazenly??"" Because you let them. FOR DECADES About people you didn't care about.

taunting should be allowed, that’s such a lame game changing penalty

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

We are all Seahawks tonight.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

"The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Minnesota Star Tribune."

This all is absolutely our second chance at getting reconstruction right.

Where is our national press? The government has been shooting at and harassing clergy for months. This used to be a red line. The reality is their red line moved, not yours. They’re cowards.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026: We are ALL residents of Minnesota. We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊 Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

I don’t even wanna watch the Broncos Patriots game. Like, I don’t want to watch it. I don’t want to watch it.

🚨 51-50, Senate votes to block Venezuela war powers resolution after 2 Republicans succumb to Trump's pressure tactics Josh Hawley & Todd Young flip, vote to sink it. All Dems + Paul, Murkowski & Collins vote to advance. Vance breaks tie, blocking it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...