If you haven't already checked out @projectsaltbox.bsky.social 's warehouse tracker, well, you should. (And credit them)

Random Puerto Rico fact. They produce the majority of IV fluids used in the US.

Take the less than five minutes to do this. If not for all the nurses out there, than do it for yourself because you’re going to need one at some point whether you want to or not.

New reporting: A single 1,500-bed ICE detention facility like the one in Hagerstown would cost ~$300K/day, $110M/year. And that's the low estimate. I contractor I spoke with says difficult sites — where locals cause trouble — "will easily be double or more of that cost."

Tuberculosis is flourishing in ICE prisons across the country, including in the Anchorage Correctional Complex, Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Eloy Detention Center, Denver Contract Detention Facility, and the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

Nearly 4 in 10 cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable, finds a comprehensive global analysis published in Nature Medicine ahead of World Cancer Day today, reports Nature.

This is absolutely the most wonderful, heartwarming thing you will see all day.

Jenna Norton (@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social) is an inspiration—she is extraordinarily brave & principled in speaking out against the disgusting, damaging, draconian, & terrifyingly authoritarian policies of Trump, RFK Jr, & Jay Bhattacharya 🎁 Link 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink."

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college. Russian Language & Youth Culture Literature: Beat Poets and Authors Ethics: War & Justice (the semester after 9/11!) Healthcare Economics Anthropology: Kinship & Family Structures Feel free to ask for a factoid that stuck w/ me!

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: [email protected]

My father borrowed my copy of Emperor of All Maladies & texted me to say he got to the surgery part & was having trouble getting through it because it was "ugly". Dude reads books on wars & the Gulag but can't get through Halstead's radical mastectomy. Also, Bernie Fisher is a hero.

This is great! @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org are putting together a big Q&A for people who want to know more about state and local response to ICE operations. Send them your questions!

IF ... the evangelicals hate it... get two

People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

#Baltimore Volunteer to help or ask for help clearing your snow if you can't do it yourself due to disability, age, etc! Please spread the word about this new test initiative on 311. If you want a shovel partner so you don't go alone, reach out to me! baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...

Riddle me this, Batman. Why are water storage tanks usually round & why are the vertical types designed with holes in the middle? Sure, round increases volume, but that design makes no sense for Urban environments with space limitations. Engineers? Wastewater folks?

Right wing white dudes finally noticing things a lot of women do for their kids, offices and communities on a daily basis: PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Not a Newsom fan, but I like this idea. Just called my governor & asked him to consider having our state join the WHO global outbreak response network. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

We advance best practices for reporting on gun violence and prevention. We do not report breaking news or individual incidents. Even as historic events unfold, we are tracking reports of 628 people killed and 1311 wounded in US gun violence so far during 2026 and planning more activities for impact.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.

again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

One thing under covered about the Cities Church protest is that one of the founders of the church is Joe Rigney - now Doug Wilson's righthand man. So, the pastor of the church is ICE; & the founder is one of Hegseth's clergy in DC. open.substack.com/pub/swaj/p/d...

🚨NEW: As the public becomes more aware of the inhumane conditions of incarceration, the call for reform grows louder. But many proposed reforms offer the appearance of change, while actually making little progress – aka, carceral humanism🧵

These alt-right influencers are trying to bring war to Baltimore. Be wary, and please, please NEVER talk to anyone who identifies themselves as a journalist if they don’t give you 1)their name and 2)their outlet. If they’re independent, they should have a body of work for you to look at.

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A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help. With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction. This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.

FWIW: Golden is retiring. The filing deadline has passed in NC; Davis is the only Dem running. The filing deadline has passed in TX; Gonzalez & Cuellar both have primary opponents. Gillen has several Dem opponents as well, as does Perez. If you want to primary Suozzi, you still have until 3/30.

Bariatric surgery beats GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes across income levels, study says www.statnews.com/2026/01/19/d... via @statnews.com

A reminder: Bolts is always looking for pitches for reporting on criminal justice and law enforcement (including immigration enforcement), and voting rights & democracy. We’ve put together a guide on what we may be looking for (below). If you’re a freelancer reporter with an idea, get in touch!!

DC folks! Robert White for Congress! joinrobertwhite.com

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

2025 was a disastrous year for higher education in America. Read more from our new report, America’s Censored Campuses: Expanding the Web of Control: https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-campuses-25-web-of-control/ #highereducation #censorship #colleges #universities #freedomtolearn

🚨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.

Posting this here for myself, but maybe also for all of us in the US right now. "The more time you spend doing something, ... the less exhausted you are by the onslaught of information that really wins when it can convince you that the only thing you can do is watch what is happening to you,"

Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

steps laid out in Project 2025 & followed by this admin: removing protections for abortion access post-Dobbs; undermining access to contraception, gender-affirming care & other reproductive health services; & dismantling evidence-based resources www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/y...

Thinking about my country essentially pissing off the the whole of Europe & threatening a breaking with NATO & feel like we will need a US version of this Brexit video to mock our stupidity & deep regret in the near future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwE...

I learned the term "litigating the margins" from The Good Wife, so maybe I'm using it wrong. But the way this government can't seem to let anyone go after they've been let go seems like a level up in this gross tactic to inflict maximum pain on the defendant & the communities watching.

At a dinner party I mentioned that alcohol causes cancer & the whole table was surprised. I do drink, but feel people aren't making informed decisions unless they know this. Alcohol causes ~7 cancers (oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, breast, liver, colorectum). www.who.int/europe/news-...

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

Pierce County, are you guys okay? This is absolutely insane. Video from @hannahkrieg.bsky.social. Neo Nazi Sheriff Swank basically threatened elected officials with violent retribution. Also, he sounds exactly like Steven Miller.

Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture

Gift link to FBI-targeted Post reporter Hannah Natanson's sweeping look at how federal workers have been targeted by Trump. wapo.st/49BQBrh

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.