Even if you didn’t intend to hurt people, even if you didn’t have control over it, why not feel sorry that people were hurt? I think I am fundamentally confused by this allergy to empathizing enough to want to apologize and say I’m sorry you were hurt

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

NEW: One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments. They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics." We are going to teach it anyway. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

Rockwell would have painted this.

Assemblymember Steve Bennett “argued the organization is the most effective one in California and has withstood attacks over the past two decades. Bennett added it provides not just the best reproductive health care, but in some cases, the only care.”

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

The only thing I would add here is that I'd love to see more of it from equally disgusted men as well

Melinda French Gates, heard on NPR today, spoke about how disgusting it was to learn about Bill Gates’s sexual encounters with girls/children. It struck me that society needs more of that, the scorn and revulsion, publicly stated, from women who were close to the men who abused the girls.

@paulscheer.com and @yourewrongabout.bsky.social there was one Charles Grodin role I kept waiting for you to bring up! Vulture is on it though with the tea… www.vulture.com/2011/11/char...

Oh I've been looking for this. 32 songs about what's happening in Minnesota. From @minnpost.bsky.social. Get beyond The Boss. www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...

The end result I think (and obviously it's touchy to talk in generations) but Xers are defined by their cynicism. Millennials righteous indignation. I don't think you get Occupy Wallstreet (for all it's good and bad it shaped the way we talk about capitalism) without that.

Okay, this got me. I couldn't help thinking about how if you'd told Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and their families five years ago that they'd be in a Springsteen song and why--we continue to be our best amidst our worst. Maybe the most American trait ever.

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

so ALL of these children just magically *have* orange slices after EVERY soccer game??? ok George Soros

when it's so bad the NYT is refusing to both-sides it, you really done fucked up

Wow, yeah, reddit.com/r/all is a remarkable tapestry of fuck ICE posts

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

every single one of them should spend the rest of their fucking lives looking over their shoulder for the guy who's coming to kidnap them and drag them in front of a tribunal.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Hundreds of Mothers and Children. HUNDREDS OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Execution. Death squad.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Ring the alarum-bell! Murder and treason!

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Worth reading the whole thread. So much respect and gratitude to the people of the twin cities

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

ADHD and autism

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) -- Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again" poets.org/poem/let-ame...

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

He really is doing all of it.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

i am not even joking but this is the same american ingenuity that defeated the red coats

Hey Bill! I made it into a website now standwithminnesota.com

If you can’t make “maybe we should have a Constitution” popular, fucking resign and make room for those who will.

If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

Oops a P.S. also why Hispanic men kick ass in this profession. They are socialized to listen to female decision makers. Not perfectly and certainly not absent patriarchy but the whole “we love our mothers” thing at least allows them to pretend to follow a directive

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“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)