ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Virginia lawmakers advanced a constitutional amendment to repeal the state’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions. “This is a moment that’s been a long time coming,” says an advocate who has fought to expand rights restoration.

...it's January 16th

Wage theft on a massive scale.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Watch Virginia tomorrow. A lot of this will go through. Big day ahead.

Kaden Rummler, a 21-year-old trans man, is now permanently blind in his left eye because an ICE terrorist shot him in the face - point-blank - with a "non-lethal round". He also suffered several skull fractures and a piece of shrapnel embedded itself 7mm from his carotid artery. Help him out here:

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

The president said "Fuck you" to a citizen and only the citizen will face any consequences

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

oh my FUCKING god

not a great sign that the majority of speeches are solemn and politically tinged, yes, but so resistant to touching down on anything specific. glad we can all agree it’s a weird, hard time, but yeah, could use more what wanda sykes brought. a lot more.

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

Read what you want, darlings, but it's odd when books that happen to feature sex are treated as radioactive and those about murder are treated as general interest.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right

Real Jesus shit

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

Not saying Dems should ignore suburbs and rural areas, but I think they need to put forward a vision celebrating urban and diverse spaces. It is what scares a lot of people about Mamdani, because he gives people that sort of vision

I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

“God damn them all.”

Barricades Protect Autonomous Grieving Zone in South Minneapolis After ICE Killed Woman Yesterday

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."

HARD KNOCKS by me (Ruby Lang) has hockey and is written by someone who's Asian Canadian (and has an Asian Canadian FMC) rubylangwrites.com/practice-per...

For those outside Portland, this is a high-immigrant/low-income area. It needs more love, not federal enforcement with guns. Praying the two are okay and for our whole fucking country living in fear.

I have been feeling almost completely inconsolable for the last 24 hours. But I have to say, Noem helping ID this vile piece of shit—that. That feels pretty good. Thank you, journalists and good people of Minnesota.

We literally declared independence when England did this.

After the killing of Ms Good, Greg Bovino of the CPB led a raid on a Minneapolis HS. An official there said: They don’t care. They’re just animals,” I’ve never seen people behave like this.” All MPLS schools now closed for the week. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You can walk from where the feds murdered Renee Good to where George Floyd called for his mother in about 15 minutes.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

Pulled this from the NYT article. It seems pretty cut and dry about who was the threat and who was at risk.

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

When I hear "there's no gay romance" "m/m was created by women" "romance is for women" I think of the number of author bios in the back of "Best Gay Romance" books, or magazines, especially the 90s, ending with notations of when those authors died and I get so fucking angry I cannot even tell you.

❄️Happy Winter Solstice❄️ When Love Commands, by Jennifer Wilde (aka Tom Huff) Avon, 1984 Illustrated by Robert McGinnis

god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion

Visiting Moonies always feels like coming home. So beautiful to revisit Sing Anyway by @anitakellywrites.bsky.social

YES TO THIS. 😔 I recently was trying to find the words to describe the way AI slop steals our appreciation of beauty, our curiosity, and sense of wonder. It isn’t just about truth in political matters, etc.

so close to episode 5 hahaha I am losing my mind

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

Fuck every single one of these assholes. Once again, this is *literally* what the Nazis did.

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances: January-June 2026 Pumped by K.M. Neuhold (January 2nd) I’m just a nerd, standing in front of a bench press, asking it not to humiliate me in front of my gym crush I’ve never walked into a gym on purpose in my life, and I’m not sure which part is more shocking, the…

guys I need you to know that Cougar Gold is, actually, the greatest cheese of all time. all love to my homies at Tillamook and I know I’m a bad Oregonian for saying this but Cougar Gold will rewrite your cheese brain chemistry

Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.