I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Minneapolis is about to do something big. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cold-city-...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words: The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters 1/2 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

@tkingfisher.com I wanted to thank you for the Saints of Steel books, which have kept me sane these past few months when I was immobilized for long stretches from medical procedures. Just what I needed--engaging, heartwarming, with an interesting set of puzzles and characters I came to love. Thanks.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this. What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Grok is off the rails 🥴

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased. But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?

once again reminded of how the NYT sent me more emails to fact check Rice Truck than they have had critical sentences about invading greenland or whatever the fuck ol pudding brain was on about that day

Just found out my husband's sang "Son of Preacher Man" and "Afternoon Delight" with his 8th grade choir (~1979) because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.

This is my back story. The Jorts Lore, if you will. It’s a pretty funny story actually even if people were upset at the time www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

PSA: I am probably going to be meaner than usual this week as I watch my country decide if it’s going to install a blood thirsty mad king with access to nuclear weapons who wants to kill me and my loved ones. I imagine this goes for many Americans.

Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...

The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running. There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.

Well now, there's a thing

Learned this morning that my partner, who votes in every single election, was removed from the voting rolls here in Ohio because of "inactivity." He got it fixed but what the fuck. If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.

Find me these English professors. I have questions.

Putting the final touches on my syllabi means I ask ChatGPT my favorite question: “How effective were the CSA Lycanthropy battalions during the US civil war? I'm particularly interested in their battlefield performance against US ordinary troops and the US wyvern cavalry.” ChatGPT's answer?

The Guardian today tries out several explanations for why TFG keeps bringing up Hannibal Lecter, and honestly this one had not occurred to me but seems entirely plausible: www.theguardian.com/culture/arti...

That’s it, I’ve officially muted the word for a husked tropical fruit until various white people enthusiastic about politics do some homework on the history of the word as a slur. (Hint: the fruit is brown on the outside and white on the inside.) Now if I could just mute emojis.

PSA: I know its become a sort of rallying meme but trust me white folks, you do not want to be asking your desi friends/colleagues "are you team coconut" just had someone try that and the results were... not good. Just don't. It won't end well.