I say to myself more than just about any other statement these days

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

I think it's time to rethink how we categorize "middle class."

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

This Day in Labor History: February 10, 1966. The Senate failed to gain cloture on an attempt to appeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, a sign of the limited power of labor unions in American politics, even at the height of their membership and influence in the United States!!!!

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression. Multitudes.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

SUSPECTED Political Message? I realize they’re all “poorly educated” but is there not one MAGA that speaks Spanish and can translate for them?

Happening in Los Angeles, guardians of pedophiles banner is up. This is even better than the ICE protests almost.

Side two is post punk perfection

Heterodox Guitar Hero day new @danielbachman.bsky.social and @billorcutt.bsky.social

Has Trump ever apologized, like ever in his life?

Asked about an ICE ad featuring the song “We’ll Have Our Home Again,” DHS said: “Not everything you dislike is ‘Nazi propaganda.’”

Whoa. Really curious how these sound

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.

From @pabloreports.bsky.social : “DHS is quietly supercharging its detention infrastructure. A massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion ceiling to expedite Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda.” migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.

😭

It’s frustrating how many leftists still use amazon, spotify, x, etc. like damn there really is no line for some of you, because they already crossed it

They need two years to find artists willing to play there.

When they reopen it's just going to be an unending loop of Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation.

We don’t talk enough about this one

Announcing my new record “Revolutions” out Feb 6 at Bandcamp & streaming services. This record was written during a 7 week course I took through Plum Village Monastery with monastics & climate science professionals discussing the role engaged Buddhism can play in a world experiencing worst case…

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Just gave a paper exam today, for the first time in years

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

I am not looking forward to putting a lot of miles on my "Josh Hawley Sucks" tshirt

Maybe dressing like an SS Officer wasn’t the best idea after all

Coates is always worth reading. apple.news/AEP72W5oLQW6...

When it’s my turn to pick the movie “do you wanna watch a BBC documentary about krautrock or a biopic about an African socialist leader who was assassinated by the CIA”

It can get lower!

Soundtrack for a snow (teaching from home) day

“What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland.” Imperial Boomerang - Chris Hedges

Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.

Ornette Coleman “Science Fiction”, 1972, Rolling Stone Columbia Ad.

Waking up

I enjoy it when jazz bands have names, especially when they are really good ones with eponymous album titles

As far as I can tell, not a single organization or elected official left X in response to this.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.