He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

In which I ride my bike to the Y even though it's cold outside. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/20/a...

In which I take my bike to BBW to schedule a tune up and reminisce about my first ride in the city, on a three speed, up Fulton Avenue and over on North, in the heat of a July afternoon. I'm glad I pick my own routes now. That was a lot of cars. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/17/t...

Obscene

Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.

What are you doing on Wednesday at lunchtime? Join UMBC's CoLab team as they share their hands-on experience reshaping the Walters Art Museum's current 'Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano' exhibition! my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/summe...

I made a hat!

In which I ride over to Hampden for a lunch date and think about what it means to tear down all those trees for another Hopkins building and think about it in the context of generations of betrayal by the institution. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/09/t...

I forgot to hold this grudge but I’ll never stop holding it now.

In which I reflect on a year without much biking, realize it is what it is, remember that I want to ride my bike more, and then ride around Guilford thinking about how much they don't want folks to enter their neighborhood from the east. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Remember that 80% of the ACA subsidies about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich. www.kff.org/quick-take/m...

I hate the warrior metaphors account cancer, but one thing it has in common with war is that whether you live or die is just luck of the draw.

angela alsobrooks, grand marshall of the 50th baltimore pride parade

This is racist even by his standards. The bigoted uncle nobody invited to Thanksgiving, and he rules us like a king. He’s a rapist and a pedophile, too. I can’t stand it.

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

I have decided to take up knitting again and wow is this algorithm chock full of new stuff to look at! I’m time traveling to 20 years ago, when I was so into knitting I went to a yarn convention.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Just approved time entry, there’s no stopping me now! #actingchair

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

Back when we had shame in the world, you wouldn't see a President fight so hard to starve Americans.

In which I am grateful for my new-ish bike commute through West Baltimore, learn that only starlings technically murmurate, and am grateful to get to know these streets better. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/11/05/b...

In which I check out "Perkins Square," think about housing prices and development and displacement, and then ride over to Patterson Park, Canton Waterfront Park, and then north until North, flying down the bus/bike lane all the way home. whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/11/02/f...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

the one true oped www.news-leader.com/story/opinio...

Holy - and I don’t say this lightly - guacamole.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Whoa what if you came to @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social’s book talk at @redemmas.org next Thursday? withfriends.co/event/233832...

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

Just bananas.

"The league believes it succeeds despite its players, not because of them." Switch "players" for "workers" and "the league" for "the library" or "the coffee shop" or "the hospital"or "the school" and Napheesa Collier speaks for all of us. www.cbssports.com/wnba/news/ly...

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent. Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.

Remember this when you come at us with vote Newsome no matter what because no

Anybody else thinking about Melissa Hortman and her husband right now?

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

The Onion News Network truck will be driving around Chicago today, including a protest downtown, delivering pivotal ICE coverage to our neighbors. If you spot it, please let us know. In the meantime, subscribe to The Onion. membership.theonion.com

I am watching Predator and the troops on the streets of DC are wearing the same amount of gear as the guys in Predator

Women's Studies Quarterly is seeking new general co-editors! Maybe this is you? www.feministpress.org/news/call-fo...

I ate a perfect nectarine this morning and I thank the earth and farm workers and the Saturday market for this incredible gift.

The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.

1650 books collected so far!!!

😭 I will miss her so much!

5 million Texans are uninsured bc they don’t have full access to the ACA because Greg Abbott is still suing the federal government not to provide it. Moreover he rejects federal money to cover “the coverage gap,” which means he freely chooses, on purpose and with no reason, to keep Texans uninsured.