All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced

I know it’s not for everyone, but there really is something incredibly powerful about faith-based organizing. So much love and respect for the clergy and faith leaders showing how it’s done today

If you liked this volvelle, you might also like this one with a unicorn pointer dial. bsky.app/profile/drka...

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

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

Very excited to publish this interview with Greg Wiedeman on @bloggers.bsky.social! Greg has good insights on simplifying LAM tech to be sustainable in the context of limited resources. It was great to talk to him, and I'm glad to share our conversation saaers.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/k...

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

In the 1870 census, Boise, Idaho was almost 50% Chinese. Just...think about that. Think about Boise, Idaho today and what you think about it racially. What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

My partner: *shows me a picture of a random spot in DC from the new Queer Eye season* My partner: Where do you think this is? Me: Pulls it up on Google Maps in about 60 seconds

someone once told me that metadata was an act of passing the torch forward & it is; it's an act of hope against the darkness and the hope of knowing in a sea of known unknowns and unknown unknowns

Paper clip collection, annotated with date of invention. Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.

they gotta be trolling me

General reminder that one can live their ideals of social action without ever posting about it online. In fact, that's often preferable!

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

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It can't be overstated how much the far right built itself around the paranoia that federal agents were just one corrupt administration away from being able to kick down your door for any reason, so be ready to kill at a moment's notice.

You don’t step up because you are brave or strong but because it’s your turn

Spouse: I was thinking this morning, in my time off I could use that 50% off coupon for the massage. Me: I was thinking this morning, since our main mode of information access switched from alphabetical to search & retrieval, I bet we're applying alphabetical ordering to unrelated things less. +

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

Dear Meta, I would happily accomplish nothing for you for a mere hundred million or so. A huge value!

I tried to change my password to "BeefStew" but the system told me that it's not stroganoff.

Looks like the pattern is also sold here for people having trouble buying it through Ravelry: payhip.com/b/TqQL1

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

We’re visiting a high-school friend of my wife and LOOK AT THIS PAINTING HER DAUGHTER DID

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...

re: anti-AI discourse: the hate & shame is only productive if it’s directed at those making the deals that will erode institutions. refusal is punching up. anyone attacking individuals outside of that capital agenda-setting context for their individual choices under capitalism is not serious

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

If you’re American, the chances you had family members fighting against fascism in WWII is Very High. 12% of the US population served, a whole lot more held things together at home. Be the type of ancestor that, in 80 years, they look back at you with pride & gratitude.

This is more nuanced than things on the ground: essential research services (libraries, staff support) have been gutted at an alarming rate, and there is little discussion of rebuilding former capacities. Even as the US is at its wealthiest, we are robbing the future www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

The Met staff (900 strong!!) voting to unionize is a really big deal for the arts nonprofit labor economy in NYC, which means it’s a really big deal for the arts in general

"for faster service, you can access your account on our web site" my phone menu brother in Christ, believe me, if I could do the thing on your web site, I already would have

this thread is now complete. stay safe out there

I think a lot of people think they are in the business of producing _deliverables_, and AI is very good at producing deliverables, and the above post is an example of people discovering they were not actually in that business at all.

Once again: if you want to use AI in a way that will actually improve what you are doing, which *is* possible, it would take more people, more money, more time, and more care, not less. But that basically never happens so everything AI touches becomes terrible.

Things keep reminding me of youtu.be/6T2zUEiVQU4?... - it's all rather depressing.

these are important

Surely some PhD candidate out there's already written a paper about how True Crime has parallels with fairytales, right? In that a lot of ppl partake in them as cautionary tales, instructional narratives they listen to on the outside chance they wind up in similar situations, literal or metaphorical

Given that decimated library budgets haven't been as effective as I had assumed they would be, I wonder what it will take for universities and libraries to not be the funnel for the extraction of monies by commercially inclined software providers, publishers, and vendors?

This is how free and open access works. There is no way to have a free and open access project and then go “wait, no, not like that”. www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

This book is a goddamned delightful romp through the history of trying to define colors, and you should preorder it!

Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins! After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Molly's being characteristically thoughtful. I'll be more of an asshole: THE AI COMPANIES HAVE USED WIKIPEDIA'S SHIT FOR YEARS. It costs millions of fucking dollars in infrastructure to serve up content to these companies. Should Wikipedia subsidize them? No? Then it's *good* they're getting paid!