FUCK yeah arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Palestinian citizens of Israel have launched a general strike to protest spiralling violence and Israeli police complicity with criminal networks ⬇️

All My Apes Gone, academia edition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hello from Portland Maine, where 88 of about 550 kids were absent from my youngest’s middle school yesterday, hiding from ICE.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

From someone on the ground in Lewiston, Maine:

the reason the elite are so desperate to vilify hard-working people coming to this country to build a better life for their families, unleashing wave after wave of gutter racism in the process, is to distract from the fact that their incestuous degeneracy causes most of our actual problems

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

this might get me yelled at but i think it's a pretty good sign of how wildly off path the court is if they think blocking a recession is part of their remit

If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

I would also note: X has deleted a handful of these images. But the vast majority of them remain live on X today.

The EEOC has just voted 2-1 to remove the entirety of its employer guidance on sexual harassment because portions of it protected trans people. This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.

I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...

Everyone I know is either hiding or actively going out to help. "In church basements, volunteers sort canned goods for neighbors too frightened to leave the house. Residents in apartment buildings have taken to pulling their blinds closed all day and night, hoping to escape notice from ICE agents."

Noticing a trend from my Facebook feed: Lots of Republicans/conservatives in cities subjected to Trump's occupations (L.A., Minneapolis, Charlotte, Chicago) are angry and turning radically anti-ICE. But Republicans/conservatives everywhere else don't believe them.

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

No hell hot enough

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

The assault on Minnesota is insane. apnews.com/article/boun...

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Calling this "Catch of the Day" is psychopathic and speaks to how ICE is hiring the worst human beings they can find who take pleasure in harassing, murdering, and dehumanizing others. abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-launc...

He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.

if it helps, I'll post a doc with a few scripts + tips!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

I wonder who in Trump's circle knew yesterday that today he was going to retract the threat of war and of tariffs against Europe –– and who those people told, and who those people told in turn? And how many bought Exchange Traded Fund shares yesterday so they were able to ride the market up today?

maybe the lesson on "objectivity" in journalism schools will be finally be scrapped for "how to protect yourself and be prepared while reporting on local ICE raids"

8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Who’s an NPC now?

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

Our bodies are withering from the cold; they convulse and freeze.My 5 kids and my wife—who suffers from mitral valve prolapse—are living without shelter. We are sinking in the mud and freezing; even our tears have frozen. We need $200 tent🥶🥹 Vetted @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

My name is Aboud, I’m 13 years old from Gaza. I have autism & special needs, and I have a disability & an electric shock. I’m pleading with you to help me & donate to my needs. I need $200 to buy medicine and food, and my family wants to buy a tent for us to live in😭 chuffed.org/project/1580...

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

Well good morning to you all. "Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

Incredible and inevitable— Police chief says ICE agents violated his own officers' civil rights while off-duty. A female officer was boxed in by ICE agents who demanded her papers, pulled their guns on her, and knocked her phone down as she tried to film.

"Penn said ... it was willing to send notices to all employees 'informing them of the agency’s desire to hear about any experiences of antisemitism, together with instructions about how to contact the E.E.O.C. directly.' Within hours...the E.E.O.C. told Penn it would seek to enforce its subpoena."

I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause

Can you help Mohammed today?

Met some new friends to bring to my office, aka my emotional support book pile.