There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

Ah here you have White House Council for Obama Kathy Ruemmler telling Epstein that the ruling that killed Gawker is "amazing" and "kind of awesome." Very cool!

Since October 2023, Palestinian trade unionists have been urging workers in the US and around the world to strike in solidarity. This is the closest we've come to that here in the US. This was a thousands-strong strike, with 19,780 workers voting to authorize. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

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About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”

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DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Apparently Steph Curry has made recent investments in tech start-ups run by former IDF/Israeli intelligence operatives. 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 www.donotpanic.news/p/nba-star-s...

"When one fed attempted to blow off the crowd by visibly watching basketball highlights on his phone, a protester shouted “You’re watching ads, you broke bitch! Kill yourself!” The federal agent returned to his room shortly thereafter." crimethinc.com/2026/01/27/t...

again if this was an actual political party instead of a mafia that shakes down liberal aunties for actblue money, there would be mechanisms to get these people away from the levers

I interviewed Nikhil Pal Singh about his recent essay in @equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

This has the same stink as the endless "Biden very mad at Netanyahu" articles in 2024. Managed PR masquerading as policy change, and a pliant media willing to do the leg work for them for free. Really gross stuff.

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If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

At the nurses strike outside of Montefiore Hospital in the freezing Bronx, nurses and residents take a moment of silence for fallen nurse Alex Pretti

I’ll be following this developing story very closely

heart-rending, yet heartening work from erik

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I,'m told by detainees at Dilley that 80 pct of facility currently protesting--that would be ~1500. Guards physically blocking ppl from joining. Dozens of ICE CBP police cars racing to area. Detainees say protest triggered by news of events in Minneapolis & treatment of 5 yr old." @ericleeatty

Huge vigil for Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis right now. Thousands calling for ICE to leave the city. “This is not another damn vigil yall. This is a turning point.”

Businesses on Nicollet—where at least a thousand people are rallying in protest against ICE after they murdered Alex Pretti down the block—have opened their doors to the community to use the bathroom and warm up. At The Copper Hen, trays of food are being set out for people to make their own tacos.

ICE and CBP siezes and destroys evidence. It is standard operating procedure. They have dedicated coverup teams.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

We all know someone like Alex in our lives. We all have an Alex in our lives.

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.

ICE just executed another person in the street in Minneapolis. They already had him subdued and beaten. No need to seek out the video. It’s bad. Watching closely to see if any of our leaders here do anything but express dismay. And that does not include siccing “our” police on protesters!

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Many, many thousands of people gathered in The Commons in downtown Minneapolis to march against ICE right now.

So many union members and workers, some of whom struck today, out at the airport picketing among thousands and cheering on clergy as they were arrested. Lots of hugs, singing, sharing of hand warmers. inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

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The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

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Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers. prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...

can you get Travolta to attempt to read "Thomas Pynchon" off a teleprompter @oscars

here we go

I had never watched Chris Marker's 2012 Viennale trailer and I'm really glad I knew nothing about it before hitting play www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af9s...

another great dad text

It’s happening

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

People are being hunted. Families torn apart. A woman was just shot in the face. And DHS seem to think it's acceptable. I joined @robinkelly.house.gov and my colleagues to formally introduce articles of impeachment. It's past time to fire Kristi Noem.

Update from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: James Rodden, the attorney for ICE which we identified as the operator of a white supremacist account on X, is back on the job in a Dallas immigration court.