Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

'Caernarfon,' was painted by John Sell Cotman on his first trip to Wales in 1800 in the company of Paul Sandby Munn. The trips to Wales allowed Cotman to break away from his East Anglian surroundings, developing a more robust drawing style that he revisited throughout his life.

I’m doing a community preview of my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE on 2/21, 10-12 at the WA state fairgrounds in Puyallup. Honored to be a featured speaker at this event organized by Puyallup Valley JACL.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Concentration camps: "I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."

free them all

I have a Keith Haring poster on my wall, signed when I met him at an event in 1984, and I think probably every day about the impact he had on the world, barely even making it past 30

My mother used to ask me why don't you just write things that people read? Because I am a Literary Writer, and we don't take the straightforward path. I choose the inscrutable one that will lead me to a niche corner of the internet where we scream

Trump: “The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

Striking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)

"We know enough."

"I had to rethink my entire life through that lens: my divorce, my bankruptcy, the end of my academic career, estrangement from my children, and a suicide attempt. I wrestled with existential questions of free will and agency. How much of my life had truly been my responsibility?"

This is very well executed.

What DOJ is doing is making its attorneys go before the same judges over and over again with the same deficient argument in habeas petitions challenging immigration detention. They're losing nearly every case and torching their reputations in front of federal judges.

The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.

Free link to WaPo story: "Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon" that describes DHS issuing secret, non-judicial warrants to companies to surveil and intimidate Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights. archive.is/5hTis#select...

BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS! U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” HERE TO STAY! WI NOU KAPAB!

Credit where credit is due: Chris Van Hollen absolutely did the right thing when it mattered.

“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

This feels important www.ms.now/news/ohio-ic...

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement

This video is a must watch (with sound). Faced with three ICE agents drawing down on her with guns, the ICE observer remains calm and asserts her rights.

A few broader thoughts: 1) This election happened, period. 2) It happened in Texas, no less. 3) It happened even though Trump himself took an intense interest in winning it. If Trump could cancel elections or ordain their outcomes, then why didn't he do that tonight?

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

wait what

“in theater”

“He’s the one who keeps me alive when I’m at my weakest,” Wael said in the statement, CNN affiliate WFAA reported. “Without him, I am nothing. Without him, I cannot survive.”

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“This is coming from the top.”

When you run for office to put a soda machine in the cafeteria but it’s 1933 Germany:

Next week's @newyorker.com cover

Reminds me of right after 9/11.

Pointing out the bravery and decency of Alex Pretti is not about finding the perfect victim. It’s relevant because he was attacked and killed for being decent. People all over Minnesota are engaging in this kind of everyday, ordinary heroism and they know they are taking risks when they do so.

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

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This is propaganda. Article lead says many veterans are "denouncing the slaying and others calling for a political audit of personnel working at the VA." Those denouncing: AFGE, Rep and Dem elects, long-time vet advocates. Those calling for audit: 2 random X users with less than 1400 followers.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis