Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

The way I'd do numbers with this on the old White Whale Twitter account

The Pittsburgh metro area boasts a vibrant and quirky indie bookstore scene. There are tiny bookstores with carefully curated offerings, large full-service general bookstores, and plenty of niche stores specializing in mysteries, children’s books, and even the outdoors.

Officials have not publicly released information about what charges the teenagers face.

Thanks to resistance by ordinary citizens, the Trump administration has been denied 11 detention warehouses — that's roughly 35,000 beds. 6 potential sites remain: Port Allen, LA; Chester, NY; McAllen, TX; Starke, FL; Durant, OK; and Lebanon, TN. The fight isn't over, keep going!

According to Boston Globe, plans for Merrimack detention warehouse are scrapped! Our tracker is up to date to reflect the cancelation of the sale thanks to community pushback. Merrimack = 🟢 h/t @altstategov.altgov.info

love to be rewarded for my misogyny by being forced to sit through a photo op with Racism Peepaw instead of getting to party with Flav lmao

I could write an essay here, but most elite women's hockey players are still growing up playing with boys. They're coached by men. The toxic culture is learned behavior and any girl/woman in sports knows how to go along in order to get along. At some point, woho players have to unlearn that behavior

It's not just the guys. It's really not prudent to not understand that women's hockey has MANY of the same problems A lot of folks have joined the discourse this week w/out one iota of context or history & are putting the women's team up like a foil to the men's. They're going to be disappointed

Thought we wanted peak Twitter back!

Like the fact that they took over six months to pay us $2500 or that we can't afford to list all our books anymore... We all have our issues with Ingram but they're the only org in a position to do this. It's criminal that Edelweiss has been able to operate in the space this long unopposed.

Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I hadn't cried about how much I love Minneapolis in a few days, so this was a good one to read: "Minnesotans will continue to keep Minnesotans safe until we rid the state of the federal occupation, just like lake ice is weakened by springtime sunshine and subsumed by the water below."

re: the Atlantic measles piece —  anyone who's taken a creative writing class knows that second-person is something you play with in your first year, find incredibly profound, and then tuck it in the closet

This stirring account from novelist and translator Sara Nović explores the fraught intersections of deaf identity, eugenics, and the adoption process. It’s a sobering must-read. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

The best refutation to grind culture mentality is a gold medal.

It feels sometimes, like people forget how brutal evictions really are. In Minnesota, you only get a 14 day notice before a potential eviction. Your eviction follows you which makes it almost impossible to find housing again and there are very few social safety nets for being unhoused

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

here you go

It's like everyone ever has always said, "journalism is better when it's backed by live markets"

For Pittsburgh Penguins fans and everyone in Canada! Sidney Crosby prayer circle! 🇨🇦 #LetsGoPens

In Pennsylvania, around 144,000 SNAP recipients could see benefits cut this year — an estimated 45,000 in Philadelphia and 12,000 in the collar counties, according to the state Department

Good questions to ask your local elected officials if you find out ICE wants to buy a warehouse to set up a concentration camp in your community 👇 (See the section titled "Factors Towns Should Consider When Faced With An ICE Detention Center") Pass it on! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Iceland and Ireland both. Truly some of my favorite international authors to read.

OK, let’s discuss what’s happened with the proposed NYC public libraries budget for FY 27. Mayor Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov released his preliminary budget yesterday. This kicks off the city budget process. [Long thread]

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

Roses are red Fat Tuesday discotheque The singular of pączki Is actually pączek

Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

Women's hockey tournament quarterfinals are set! Friday: Czechia vs Sweden - 10:40 AM Eastern USA vs Italy - 3:10 PM Eastern Saturday: Canada vs Germany - 10:40 AM Eastern Finland vs Switzerland - 3:10 PM Eastern

"There is no way around the truth that any solutions proffered to ICE violence that fail to strike at the heart of the system that underpins it will leave the door open to resurgence in current and new forms." New piece from @dreanyc123.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How does Sid warm up at the Olympics without the McDonald's M

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

Your overwhelming enthusiasm for this episode has now crashed Substack. An acceptable casualty. Let’s do Spotify next.

Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

"That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

born to write poetry in the woods. forced to develop compelling, insight-led copy across all channels, from brand platforms and campaigns to social, digital, film, and experiential

As a parent, it's nearly impossible to read these stories without breaking down. It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home. The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.

My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people. The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Just a reminder that your choices to buy books are not a binary between Beff Jezos and an alternative that has now partnered with Spotify! Please just email or call your closest indie bookstore (even if it's several hours away), order directly through them, and pay their shipping!

Disappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...

Annihilation (2018)

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg. Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...