New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Essential reading for community safety/support organizers preparing for DHS assaults. 👇🏻

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Marian Hassan finds strength in memories of her father’s resistance.

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun. www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustices.

still reeling over the guy that brought up potentially losing global entry at the constitutional observer training. I know people don’t want to give up comforts but please

“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

NEW: Police in riot gear arrested up to 54 protesters on Feb. 7 at the Whipple Federal Building following a day of actions that culminated in protesters throwing hundreds of dildos. [Videos] unicornriot.ninja/2026/dozens-...

some things are actually getting worse here.

“We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product as a measure of human progress and wellbeing. Let us not forget that when we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We all deserve stronger privacy protections online, and end-to-end encryption is one of the strongest tools to do so. Companies should make it the default more often, rather than optional (or unavailable). encryptitalready.org/

He is so mad about being outed as an illiterate pedophile who ****s himself.

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

The 22-year-old's family is now calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the NYPD from responding to mental health crisis calls, which the mayor says has underscored the need for the City agency he pitched during his campaign: the Department of Community Safety.

@chuckforqueens.bsky.social, NY-06's abolish-ICE candidate, has a real shot to defeat establishment-Dem Grace Meng. On this issue: • AIPAC has spent nearly $900K on Grace's behalf, and Grace still won't say "genocide." • Chuck doesn't take AIPAC or corporate money and supports BlockTheBombs.org.

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

“One cop we talked to—he appeared to be a lieutenant or commander—about babies being gassed said in response ‘that's too bad.’”

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Non-Filipinos: Why are there so many MAGA Filipinos? Me: Colonialism. Buying into the Model Minority Myth & the Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant narrative and colonialism.

From my son (12) 🩵 #Comics4Liam Check out more from amazing artists at comics4liam.com!

The ACLU wants to hear from any families with kids or anyone who was significantly impacted by the use of chemical munitions at yesterday’s protest. Please email my office so we can help connect you with their legal team.

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

it should go without saying but I'm absolutely horrified by the news coming out of the states right now if you'd like to help support people targeted by ICE check out #comics4liam and comics4liam.com

I'm delighted to hear of the release of Liam Ramos! The good folks of @comixaction.com have put together the #ComicsForLiam initiative, to celebrate a brave boy and bring attention to others in his position. Check it out!

Reform will never fix the rot

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Meet Tulikko, a mythical Finnish Fire Fox that makes auroras! 🔥❄️🌌🌈🦊

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

We all deserve stronger privacy protections online, and end-to-end encryption is one of the strongest tools to do so. Companies should make it the default more often, rather than optional (or unavailable). encryptitalready.org/

others might argue that burnout isn’t inevitable, but i think folks with longevity go through many mini burnouts and the work of sustaining is built on figuring how to get back up, not on how to evade a process of conclusion and closure and healing.