Whenever you have a female character that knows how to fight or shoot and you want to explain why, remember that “Because I wanted to.” Is a complete sentence.

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

Watching an old movie from 1998 (Fallen) and the main character is doing research on the internet. Pulling up full page scans of newspapers in a way that we’ve only been able to do recently as stuff gets scanned and uploaded. And I wonder how people get the idea that anything can be found online.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

No offense intended, just some light ribbing. @kenjennings.bsky.social should stop trying to make “JIT” happen.

Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word. It's just evil.

This is a long thread but you should read it. In related news, judges *must* start holding AUSAs in contempt (and then locking them up) if we want this to stop without more bloodshed.

Same here. First video game was “Adventure!” I was stuck in a maze of twisted passages all alike.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Neat that they decided to host a football game at this Bad Bunny concert

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

I think we are giving ICE too much credit. They are evil, but they are following the orders (in a very incompetent and cruel manner) of the more powerful villains: Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noem. We can't let this vicious authoritarian regime subcontract to ICE the blame from voters.

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

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power. "Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?" www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

DAMN

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

If I was a billionaire I’d have all the books, a house large enough to hold all the books, and my own private internet servers where I would mirror the internet archive and Wikipedia among other stuff. Also I’d pay to have scotus justices [redacted]

What a wonderful interview with Greg Ketter -- someone who clearly deeply cares about community and books -- and great questions from @zachrabiroff.com!

Naomi is the author of the beautiful and incredibly relevant Year Without Sunshine, and you can basically participate in that kind of community now: donate to Minnesota families and maybe get an ARC of her new book!!

"This is the worst fucking time. But watching people's response to ICE has just been the most affirming thing in the world.” We interviewed our friends over at @racketmn.com about what it’s like to cover the crisis in Minneapolis as community-centered journalists

New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse. @lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

"We can do this. But it will not be easy. Even if all goes well, we still have three more years of Trump in the White House. And there’s no guarantee that it will. But whether American fascism triumphs is not a foregone conclusion either."

Absolutely terrific post by @lukefarrell.bsky.social . It’s shocking, wasteful, and pernicious how much our government relies on private contractors to perform the state function of administering public services. Great proposals here. lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city. The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis. radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

"I would like nothing more than to return to my little bed and leave the actual work to the Mannys and Kumals of the world. Maybe you all should have thought of that before you decided to vote in the goons intent on ripping out the spine of this country." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

can you please share the link to the story? Journalists gotta eat and these big screenshots that go viral don't help. Here's a gift link. www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Okay, since I’m in a mood, do you know what is annoying mild *annoyance* about all this, rather than a gut-wrenching crisis? I’m not a Christian but my sense of fairness keeps requiring me to defend the church because people keep posting shit about “Why aren’t Christians speaking up?!”

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

January 24, 2026

A central aspect of modern conservatism is the iron clad certainty that 1: some people count as people and some people don't. 2: it is their *exclusive* right to decide who goes in what group. 3: anyone who has a problem with this goes in the second group.

It can be a hard pill to swallow but you have to accept that while you will prevail in this struggle, you may not be there to witness it.

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

By tomorrow, either ICE will draw down, or Trump will double down by invoking the Insurrection Act and putting military on the street.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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Bless the people of Minnesota. You're our guiding light.

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!

Trump stabs a WSJ reporter and starts carving meat off their body while yelling that devouring the flesh of his enemies makes him stronger. Bleeding out on the floor, their vision grows dim, but before the light goes entirely the reporter sends a last byline: “Trump advocates for high protein diet.”

Naomi Kritzer's informative blog posts on how to help are great (see last/pinned post). Her Hugo & Nebula award-winning novelette "The Year Without Sunshine" is a must read for the moment we're in. A fave. We take care of us. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars