oh my god??

pretty obvious at this point that the conditions in the MAGA camps are considerably worse than Japanese internment

Let's see how much traction in the news this gets... This should be front page news.

I cannot imagine a way to make the DSA more popular than by investigating them for existing It will be like this all day every day with people joining DSA

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story. I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

I wrote for the new @gourmetlives.bsky.social about straws and convenience and American myths of productivity gourmetmagazine.net/nation-of-su...

Ever since the Stochastic Parrots paper was published, I've been fielding the question "How do I know that you're not (just) a stochastic parrot?" ... one that I find inherently dehumanizing, as I write about here: journals-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/doi/10.1177/... Short 🧵>>

it’s difficult to overstate how much the next generation of Republicans is worse we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society

Played this very recently for the first time, still decompressing/coalescing thoughts on it but can definitely recommend playing it

holographic stickers are now in shop!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This is why USDS was converted into DOGE. The original USDS was a leader in the charge to liberate government from wealthy parasites, so the coalition of private equity billionaires bastardized it as hard as possible. Deleting 18F was prioritized for the same reason.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

It can get lower!

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

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.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social EMERGENCY PROTEST TODAY. ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis. Union Square. 4PM.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

Here's a handy video of some warm-up exercises you can do to help get yourself prepared to shovel! Obviously, adjust them to your fitness level, but the main goal is get yourself warmed up for physical activity. You can't go from 0 to 60 here, & you'll get a better idea of what you can handle!

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

ok, I finished it and I get it now, though I think the show has pacing issues. and it is an inspirational story about overcoming an awkward first hookup

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

*incredibly slowly* so if.. I wanted.... independent voters.... To vote.... for meee.... I would support.... Abolishing ice

This particular one can be such a vibe. We highly recommend it. bullypulpitgames.com/products/the...

This is about as bad as the 2009 Edeyn Blackeney murder hoax. Trust but verify, especially if you have a large audience. www.transgendermap.com/issues/hoaxe...

THE PROBLEM ISN'T TRAINING. Jonathan Ross was a 9-year veteran of ICE, and his quick-draw shooting of Renee Good was smooth and practiced. The answer to brutality isn't better-trained brutality, the answer is to abolish ICE root and branch

If you enjoyed the video of this person slamming greg bovino at a gas station, watch this this is some bidness - a wee spot of frank talk about risk, fear, whiteness and doing more a brief introduction to a vast set of truths that many of us need to spend much much more time sitting with

4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.

This man literally put everything on the line for what he believed in when faced with encroaching fascism. He's an example we should all learn from right now.

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.

Union, union, union.

oh hey, i’m in this movie!

this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.

as a white transmasc person who grew up in the south, presenting as an alternative/queer girl, there’s something intimately familiar to the rhetoric around Good’s death. This piece captures it well. Conservative white men believe they’re entitled to possess and dominate white women

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .