Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

The so called ‘war on terror’ was actually itself a campaign to terrorize people at home and abroad. ICE was a product of that, which is clarifying.

little kids all think trash collectors hang the moon and moreover they’re right. why on earth do people grow out of that?! in a sane civilization they’d be worshipped as gods

Corvid Party!

This is not much different from the future envisioned by Pynchon in Vineland

“For Dewey, the great thing about the arts, not-so-fine as well as fine, is that they provide occasions for the integral exercise and the cumulative gratification of all our powers of mind, intellectual and imaginative as well as emotional and sensory” from, of all places, Commentary, 1962

Coordinated a beer drop by a white friend to deliver a 30-rack of Hamm’s to a Hispanic friend’s doorstep because his wife wouldn’t let him leave the house to go buy more beer for fear he’d be brutalized by lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries. This is Minnesota community. We take care of us.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

The Confederates started the Civil War because they couldn't imagine the response of regular people.

Bless

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

I cannot point to a single point in history where softening the blow of a profound moral critique “accomplished” more

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

First watch: Matewan (1987, written and directed by John Sayles). Extraordinary true story and much more of a neo-western than I was expecting, and admirable for dealing with an issue rarely touched upon in American cinema: namely, class struggle. 1/3

I don't watch the evening news but is it not supposed to be the news? Like, objective, as much as possible? I know news is not objective, but, I thought the premise was "I believe and trust this objective reporting of things happening"

Today I correctly pronounced a student's full name and they told me I cracked their top 10 white people list lol

Makeshift New Year’s resolutions that have really grown on me: - not working at home - blowing off work - watching more movies

Letting students use ChatGPT to generate creative writing ideas is like having a kindergartner stay inside during recess while a robot goes outside and plays for them. It’s depressing on a geologic scale.

Here I wrote one for my district, pay me 50 G’s please

Can’t think of a single acceptable use for AI that adds to student learning

I feel very strongly Grammarly should not exist.

I actually got into teaching so that one day I could police robot writing and tell humans to please have real human grammatical mistakes in their writing. I am living my dream.

I will not be voting for anyone who doesn’t bare minimum sign on to abolishing ICE. I work with kids directly affected by ICE. It is unfathomable what they have to deal with. If you’re on the fence about this, please, get off it. It is horrific. There is no reform.

I’m reading the Iliad to start the year, this is the kind of stuff that gets you eviscerated by Zeus

We're studying the Alcatraz Proclamation in AP Language today. I'm fired up!

Top 10 favorites based purely on vibes, no order, an impossible list Sound and Vision A New Career in a New Town Space Oddity Memory of a Free Festival Scary Monsters Heroes Starman Five Years Modern Love I'm Afraid of Americans

50 fresh "How to Report ICE" zines folded and ready to deploy in Little Free Libraries around town. Versions for multiple regions available from @meganpiont.bsky.social drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Shirley Rim, 1/11/2026, 7:19:39 AM

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Put another way the Democratic message is “grin and bear it”

STRANGER THINGS (2016-2025)

I know I have so much of this stuff saved all over the place (and am looking of course) but Does someone have a handy resource of free printable quarter size Know Your Rights, How to Deal with ICE, etc zines they might link me to? (If you don’t I’d still appreciate a repost!)

I know I have so much of this stuff saved all over the place (and am looking of course) but Does someone have a handy resource of free printable quarter size Know Your Rights, How to Deal with ICE, etc zines they might link me to? (If you don’t I’d still appreciate a repost!)

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

amazing

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

Abolish the law also. Allow free movement across borders. There is no law ICE serves that isn’t systematic violence.

I forgot I made this "Pure Moods 2024" (which, lol) playlist a couple years ago for the classroom. I like it and I think it's good, in case you were looking for a new playlist. (Also switch to TIDAL, thanks! :-)

Governor I was not familiar with your game

This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes. If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.

"Would you like to provide feedback on our new AI acceptable use policy?" You bet!

The state agents invading our cities are the dangerous ones, not our neighbors they target.

We should be applauding people who break rules to stop what's happening. Failing to break rules is what's worthy of critique right now. That's the stuff people should have an explanation for — and I know, some do, and that's fine, but the absolute moral minimum is supporting those who resist.

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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

Disarm, disband, and prosecute ICE

it's evil, just evil. all of it.