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...

and its bullshit. FreeFile was the step to making it easier to file taxes. They got rid of it, even tho it is super popular with Americans.

my capacity for constantly asking "what the fuck is wrong with these people?" shouldn't be confused with nativity. constantly being made agog by the depths of their depravity is a good thing because it means that empathy meter is still working. goes for all of you

So cool for 89-year-old blues legend Buddy Guy to be honored. Appearance in Sinners last year (and on the soundtrack). And just won Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Black History Month starts today. Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African-American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.

I again, repeating myself, ad infinitum, still do not understand how Trump mocking a disabled reporter on camera at a rally in I dunno, 2015 wasn't enough of a red flag to get him cancelled by the media permanently and have his Apprentice shows taken off the air It should have ended RIGHT THERE.

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Modern African-American History Moby Dick; or the Whale Slave Narratives Wittgenstein Literary Theory

the wrong years actually

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

nooooooo

Statement from CNN on the Don Lemon arrest:

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Me watching Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe and seeing Tumnus with packages: Wait, are there shops in Narnia?? Absolutely sitting here trying to figure out the Narnian economy (i mean I guess so. Except we know Jadis is ok ruling over nothing) oh no spiraling

White evangelicals are who's preventing further slippage for Trump. And they're unlikely to ever abandon him, in my opinion, so he's probably at or near his possible floor overall right now.

this looks ugly and dumb and i don't think thats what george 3 looked like based on paintings so dumb

Trump hasn't just insulted the troops of our allies. He's insulted the Black service members who fought bravely for a country that wasn't even giving them the full measure of equality. Great piece by Pulitzer winner Matt Desmond: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The blowback of voting to fund those that are killing us on our own soil has only just begun.

they couldn't even roll our domestic army

maybe there just shouldn't be cruises to antarctica. (or anywhere, cruises are lawless, terrible things that dump a ton of waste in our oceans)

oh no

Re-reading childhood favorites to see how I've changed The Horse & His Boy by CS Lewis, currently

quelle surprise said no one

City of Others is a weird, spunky urban fantasy mystery that somehow compresses a nefarious corporation, scheming jinn, undead ducklings, wyverns, supernatural markets, and office politics into one seamless story. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends Jared Poon's Singaporean fantasy adventure:

“This is a preschool you stupid motherf*ckers!” (From Somali Snaps)

The fact that few are talking about Keith Porter shows that you all are still on some white supremacy bullshit.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

When outraged Germans protested over Aktion T4 in 1941, the Nazi government officially shut down the program. It continued unofficially until the fall of the Nazi government. Don't take your eyes off of ICE if they back off their current tactics or fire more leaders in the face of mass protest.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

reported ICE activities in the Twin Cities this morning -- terrorizing a daycare -- drawing weapons outside a bank

I think a good romance series people should read is the Palace of Rogues by Julie Anne long because it is about people that try starting their lives again after setbacks. They’re all standalone but one of my favorites is My Season of Scandal

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

They sure as shit voted for a reinforcement of dominant racial hierarchies, they were just confused where they were on the fucking chart

The point is to evacuate language totally of its ability to hold meaning & thus to eviscerate our ability to make meaning together. It's not supposed to convince you but to silence us AND stop us listening to each other. In BAD LANGUAGE I call this anti-semism, an enmity to meaning-making.

There are 4 lights, Kristi

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

For anyone who thinks they're safe: ICE is murdering 30something white guys named "Alex." They'll murder you too if they get the chance. That's why everyone needs to give everything they have to stopping this occupation.

looks like punk ass bitches @berniemoreno.bsky.social and jon husted have turned off their phones these fake ass excuses for senators will rubber stamp anything trump wants but i will still yell at them. i certainly hope Sherrod Brown, who is talking about ICEs cruelty, wins.

not for nothing but their '24 VP pick and his state are under complete, murderous siege and the Dem establishment can't even muster some united front to help their VP pick, their guy from 18 months ago, nevermind giving a fuck about the citizens. Depraved

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

my father just tried to tell me that mpls should stop rioting and its like where riots? what are you talking about? he has an entirely different reality as to what is going on. you cannot bridge that gap.

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.

After my colleagues voted to give DHS more funding, DHS agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis. DHS is the single greatest threat to our communities. We must defund it and hold the fascist perpetrating violence accountable. 1/2

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.