Doc Rivers, Steve Kerr, the T-Wolf fans, Sportsguy Nick Wright. More please. Let’s go sports world. You want to see brave? Be an immigrant walking to work in Minneapolis. That’s brave. You just have to say “state murder is bad.” It’s not fucking hard and it’s needed from all corners.

"Those robots can't really wash dishes or fold laundry," yeah, but wait till you see one siilently striding through the mall in an ICE uniform

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

These guys all love this so much. They've been dreaming of shooting people in the face since they were kids. It is their greatest fantasy and only true desire

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns." 💔

Whether it's Tony Dokoupil's dad selling hundreds of tons of pot or Marco Rubio's brother-in-law smuggling cocaine inside of boa constrictors, there's plenty of drug dealing going on in the families of MAGA movement members.

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report: An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”

The Baltimore Fox News affiliate reported ICE’s account that the man they shot yesterday had tried to run them over with his car. In fact, he was already in custody when they shot him.

For the past 10 months I've been researching the history of knitting in Appalachia via archives, museums, and with sheep farmers, wool producers & practitioners here and in Ireland. I'll be presenting on my work to date at this year's Knitting History Forum knittinghistory.co.uk/meet-the-spe...

Front and back cover of the latest zine I'm sending out to the zine tier on my patreon www.patreon.com/c/MichaelKup...

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

Still crickets from major media outlets. Come on people

Yes dude

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Feel inclined to blow your mind? Try the new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with a headspinning Small Faces cover story, and an exclusive, ultra-collectible Small Faces CD to go with it. Order a copy here: www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-march-2.... More info on a classic MOJO coming up... 1/3

Very strange/distressing to not see more/any coverage yesterday of James Bernard's passing. I only found out via a shaky video of a printed statement on an instagram post from an old work colleague. WTF

“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” — www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Bravo to NYT reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs for doing the work. www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.

People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

If, like me, you’re desperately trying to maintain, you could do worse than checking out this website. Rebroadcasts of old radio on a number of themes, including crime, comedy, horror, and even old World Series games. It’s not perfect, but there’s just something very nice about it.

This will sound like a joke, but it's not. When TWO "Minnesota Nice" politicians drop the F-bomb in front of live cameras, we're at Defcon 1.

words ain’t workin’.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

I'm happy this is happening, and contrary to the headline, I was watching it.

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in—like, his midriff was on her bumper—and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” [the witness] said. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

n/p "The Louis Armstrong Collection, Vol. 5: Louis in New York" and wondering why I would ever listen to anything else (always a good feeling, always passes, always returns)

California wants to tax billionaires with a 5% wealth tax and the CEO of Nvidia, who would have to pay $8 billion on his $163 billion fortune, says it like it is: that's perfectly fine! 🧵

Is the government of Greenland running a cocaine/fentanyl cartel? This forthcoming CBS News report says the evidence is strong.

Great start. Now rename it for Sonny Rollins! (cc: @jazyjef.bsky.social)

"[Lemi] Ghariokwu created a visual identity as unique as Pedro Bell’s work for Funkadelic." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'd very much like to read Nik Cohn's 'Today there are no gentlemen: the changes in Englishmen's clothes since the war' book. Why is this so hard? Am I missing something here... It's not in print... copies going for over $1k... no scans anywhere that I can see...

The deplorables endure, and have spoken. New imperialism is a go!

Hot Club zoom stream starting at 730pm ET. I'll be there, some of my favorite hours of every week are spent checking out these people gathered in a room in Manhattan to listen to brilliant jazz 78s, with introductory spiels by people that know stuff. hotclubny.org

The Stone (2005-2018), Avenue C & 2nd Street, NYC, 1.5.18 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Donald Trump is doing colonialism the right way. by Ezra Klein

Elon Musk is using Grok to fill the internet with child pornography. Some liberals object.

Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

James W. Grauerholz, writer, editor, cultural steward, and one of the most quietly influential queer figures in American letters, died on January 1, 2026, at the age of 73. Best known as the literary executor and closest companion of William S. Burroughs. topekapride.com/james-grauer...

I worked closing shifts alone at a Subway when I was 14. eventually I got fired for stealing food. (there was no food at home.)

"'Books Are Going to Take Longer to Get to Libraries': What Baker & Taylor's Demise Means for Comics" by Gina Gagliano, writing for @comicsjournal.bsky.social (1/5/26): www.tcj.com/books-are-go...

"The wild-eyed, weird-bearded, longhaired dynamo, internationally known as the Rockabilly Rasputin, was a manic force, one you could always find at just about every unsavory corner of the Hollywood underground." jonnywhiteside.substack.com/p/johnny-leg...

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Maduro’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.