My dad wore this CD out

Been so busy I forgot to share some important Black History information that I never knew despite being related to this family. While working on my family tree, I learned that my distant cousins are Charles Summer Syphax, Jr., and his son, Charles Sumner Syphax, III (🧵)

Tensions over immigration enforcement escalated as hundreds of Plymouth-Canton Community Schools students staged a walkout in protest of ICE operations, while religious leaders from multiple faiths called for defunding the federal agency.

#OtD 4 Feb 1913 Rosa Parks was born. Often wrongly described as "quiet", she was actually a lifelong activist who supported Black power, Malcolm X and worked alongside the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. More about the LRBW in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e...

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order directing local police to investigate reports of illegal activity conducted by ICE and other federal immigration agents. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/3/chicago_brandon_johnson

🎵I was born by the river, I was whuppin' that ass🎵

Miguel Tiny Desk up

Not to be too vulnerable on main, but I think what is really upsetting and ultimately hurtful to me about the Stancil stuff is that a lot of us (especially women) have put in a ton of work slowly, unglamorously trying to build the sorts of organizing frameworks that made his adventurism possible.

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

Reporter: The Columbia Heights Public School District put out a statement saying they're overjoyed that Liam is back in Minnesota, but they flagged that 4 other students from across the district are currently being held at Dilley. And early this morning, the school received a credible bomb threat

RIP Billy Bass Nelson

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

the thing is, the way it looks right now democrats are going to do really well even by default. dont have to go on record promising anything, dont need to be bold, dont need to put themselves out there and theyll probably get control thats just not good enough

For the past 25 years, Reshona Landfair has lived with the painful aftermath of her name lingering in the public without her consent. She was the 14-year-old girl in the absolutely sickening R. Kelly videotape. Now, she’s reclaiming her name and her story. We should all bear witness.

Never thought I'd ever see someone's wig getting split literally

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

Shri is going to protest in DC on Tuesday. I'll take what I can get

What it's like to have actual congressional representation? I just called both the DC and local phone numbers of Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters, hoping to address these unlawful arrests; both went to voicemail. I gotta hang my hat on Shri Thandedar, but his aide didn't even know what happened!

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

My manager, an avowed maga, pmo so bad this morning. About an hour after the arrest of several Black journalists, she sent me a gif of Kermit the Frog happy about it being Friday, on teams. I lingered so she knew I saw it then I clicked out the conversation. I don't know who she thinks I am.

The people on this site are so sick

A man who I work with who is younger than me by only 5 years didn't know who Catherine O'Hara was and if I see him on any of these streets (don't worry, we jumped him in the gc)

“Agents are at my door right now” In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)

AAHHHHHHHHHHH

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

And wouldn't you know it, we got a vaguepost email about "personal feelings about the state of the U.S." and "coordinate with your manager regarding a need to take time off", presumably for folks who want to protest Jan 30 🙄

Abolition or nothing, Senator

As the 2026 Eminent Artist, he receives a $100,000 prize. A short film on his life will debut this spring, followed by a free monograph in the fall.

Sean Grayson, the former sheriff’s deputy convicted of second-degree murder for the 2024 death of Sonya Massey — a Black mother of two who was experiencing a mental health crisis and was unarmed at the time of her fatal shooting — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Nothing but abolition is acceptable, Senator

Shirley Raines, founder of Beauty 2 The Streetz and known for her volunteer work serving homeless communities in Los Angeles and Nevada, has died

Oh gosh I wonder who could tell him no

As a fan of this series since the first game dropped, I had no idea this movie was released this weekend. As a fan of this series since the first game dropped, I don't know why they keep letting Chris Gans adapt this game into feature films.

I remember in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder how the company I work for had what they called safe rooms for everyone who wanted to discuss their feelings whenever a similar event happened there after. They stopped after a few years, now they don't address anything at all.

The police aerial bombed Black people in Philly in the 80s.

❤️

Not could. Have. Fred Hampton.

Watching MSNBC live coverage and I hear who I'm assuming is a federal agent say, "it's just like Call of Duty, pretty cool, huh?" and this shit is just a game to these lunatics

“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”

Mayor Frey's phone number is 612-673-2100. Governor Walz is 651-201-3400.

How many people will die before our so called leaders say this is enough

Account takeover #caturday

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Two realities