1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

Concentration camps

Last call for ABOLISH ICE stickers & shirts from Commonwealth Press! Orders close at 5PM EST this Sunday, Feb 8. Net proceeds go to Casa San Jose, which supports Pittsburgh’s Latino & immigrant community through social services, education, and advocacy. www.compressmerch.com/collections/...

Pretty disappointed by this month's Fetterletter, if I'm being honest.

By "panic" of course they mean "accountability." But, still, it kinda feel like if anything merits mass panic it would be learning that the country is being controlled by a secret club of powerful sex criminals destroying the world for personal gain.

JUST IN: In a new court filing, attorneys for Marimar Martinez call Chicago's U.S. attorney's office "active enablers of an out-of-control client." They cite reports from @chicago.suntimes.com and @npr.org in which DHS refuses to back down on claims that Martinez is a "domestic terrorist."

Self-portrait - Claude Cahun, 1921

The Blair Witch Project website in 1999 #WebDesignHistory

Here’s Lucy

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

Got an actual human staffer for the very time even though I've been calling Dave McCormick's office daily for the past year. Happy to report that the staffer sounded absolutely fucking miserable.

jfc

Six years ago we made the trek out to Punxsatawney. Couldn't see or hear much on stage but from the signs in the crowd I gathered that Phil was commented on current events more than he usually did.

Thousands of protesters marched to Portland's ICE building Saturday. Demonstrators were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs shortly after their arrival. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

A year ago: We need TAXES on the WEALTHY Now: We need a cleansing fire

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.moma.org/collection/works/57406

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

Update:

When I wrote a thing for Defector, Dan McQuade designed one of the greatest things I've ever seen to illustrate it

I love @luckymckee.bsky.social. And he loves Partially Devoured! Or at least he’s doing a good job pretending!

Civil Rights Demonstrator Being Arrested, Los Angeles — Charles Brittin, 1965

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Chicago. Now. Ice out of everywhere. Snow and cold not slowing folks.

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

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Farm workers in solidarity with Minnesota #IceOut

I deeply love the half of this movie where Ralph Fiennes is hanging out with his gigantic naked zombie pal, getting high and looking at the stars, occasionally dancing to Duran Duran.

Roughly 9000 tapes. Media Burn’s other 3000-4000 are already at the new space…

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Filmmaker Eagle Pennell speaks about his legendary indie film "The Whole Shootin' Match."

Okay shirts are available! $5 from the sale of each Abolish ICE shirts goes to @nilc.org and they're printed at a Union shop (Commonwealth Press) here in Pittsburgh. They'll ship in 2-3 weeks, maybe sooner. alternatehistories.com/products/abo...

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

As a small distraction I highly recommend putting together a playlist called "When It Happens!!!!!" and starting to populate it with all the most exuberant and/or angry songs you can think of, and returning to add more songs every once in a while when you need to think about it for 10-15 minutes.

Is your dumb ass really asking why someone would try to drive away from a platoon of masked, Full Metal Jacket lookin' wockaflockas, stompin' into neighborhoods, breaking down doors and windows, draggin' men, women and children away with "absolute immunity"?

Up to 10,000 people gathered for a vigil after ICE killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026 - another short video from the vigil site. Story is developing.

As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

Here's Rudy Ray Moore on the legendary children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go

jfc amazon is fucking evil

Here’s Lucy.

Metropolis depicted 2026 as a rigidly/literally tiered society in which the ultra-rich controlled everything and lived in obscene luxury on the backs of a ground-down workers, using a sexy robot to distract and sow dissension and chaos among the underclasses.