ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

👇 All of this. Talent, like beauty, is not an indicator of inherent “goodness.” The two are not essentially linked.

Yes, except it was CD World (I miss you every day, CD World) on Kings 🤘

I was just thinking on my walk tonight, “why isn’t Lupita Nyong’o, one of the most beautiful & talented women in the entire history of the world, in more movies?” So exciting to be reminded that her performance as Helen will be the SINGLE reason for me to see this new Nolan venture.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

And Robert F Kennedy Jr is such a gross, spineless, sycophant, he’ll let him do it without a peep. Shameful.

The REAL question is, who on god’s green earth would even ACCEPT this construction job? This turd has a lengthy, documented history of never paying his contractors. You’ll receive Nothing but the scorn and derision of your fellow citizens and for What.

Self-soothing by imagining all the union jobs that will be created for the tear-down/rebuilding phase of this little experiment. None of this shit is going to remain standing once his grave is getting pissed on every goddamn day.

PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Happy birthday Tula-Tu! This petite party pachyderm is 1 today 💖

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

Some rare good news before bed.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Now let’s do all the rest of the children snatched up by these disgusting goons.

Tit of the Day: Himalayan Black-lored Tit 📷 Nitin Chandra

To the kids blocking the traffic during the #IceOut Corvallis protest: that’s some truly obvious obstinacy you’ve got going on there, especially in your aggression towards older folx who have been doing this longer than you’ve been alive. Keep that main character energy at home next time.

Was told repeatedly that I “didn’t know what [I] was talking about” and also that “no matter what happens, you’ll be fine” and that enraged me like nothing else. Sorry, I care about people other than myself, dude????????

Criminal misogyny from the expected corner. Fuck these men and the men who embolden and protect them.

That girl should’ve bit his dick off.

Received a solid email just now from @jeff-merkley.bsky.social’s office in which he calls for the resignation or firing of Noam and the dismantling of ICE.

A Minneapolis friend of mine was telling me how the misogynistic and racist underpinning of this organization are wholly on display in every interaction. Quote: “Watching how many of these agents will talk back to/berate women, but be completely silent when faced by men, has been very telling.”

Been seeing a lot more of these two-toned squirrels at our bird feeders the last couple of months.

I think there’re two schools of thought about how to encourage other journalists after these latest journalist arrests. One is, “what a joke, nobody’s scared.” That works for some and that’s good. Another is, “that is scary, risk is increasing, but now’s a time to be brave & we have your back.”

What a constant barrage of utter shit this year has been, and it’s not even February.

I hope it’s today.

Vaccinate your children, weirdos!

And by "the theater," Tom Homan (paid by us) means the occupation (paid for by us) by state agents (armed & paid by us) of a state that annually sends $44 million more in taxes to DC than it gets back in federal support for the 5.8 million Americans who live there - or, as they might say, "us."

Also, anyone dismissing the protest songs being released right now as “cringe” are only showing their own lack of experience with and ignorance of the grand and expansive history of protest music, and you can just ignore them.

The “rhetoric” they want stopped is they want people to stop saying that immigrants are welcome and that people of color have the same right to be here as white people. What I learned from the man who left our store yesterday is they want the left to shut up and take it, and we won’t.

I think the power of a song like Bruce Springsteen's "The Streets of Minneapolis" is not just that it cuts right through the moral smoke screen the feds are putting down, and not just that it is very direct, but that it claims the wider scope and vindication of history and the future to come.

BUGONIA’s kind of the best case scenario. Feel-good movie of last year.

Layoffs over the last year: UPS: 48,000 Amazon: 32000 Intel: 27,159 Microsoft: 15,387 Nestle: 16000 Verizon: 15000 Google: 12000 Chevron: 8000 Paramount: 7000 Walmart: 7000 P&G: 7000 Estée Lauder: 7000 Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

Got our first “I’m not shopping here because of your rhetoric” walk-in/out today. The rhetoric of not thinking people should be shot in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors? Anyway, the first amendment is the best part of the constitution, bar none, and I respect their right to it.

It drives me absolutely insane that the money I give to the federal government is being used to brutalize our families and our children. Our money should be feeding, clothing, and educating Liam.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Please explain to me—like I’m five years old—why you expect an agency that has shown zero (0) respect for any law of the land to adhere to these conditions, @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social. This ain’t it, fellas. Abolish and prosecute is the only way forward. We must learn from Jan 6

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...

Want more audiobooks? (Obviously.) Want to support a great cause? (Double obviously.) 🎧 Tomorrow, you can bid on 12 audiobook credits in support of Publishing for Minnesota, an auction raising funds to support immigrant communities and those most impacted by ICE ⏬

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Mmmmm just like every nazi hanged after WWII.

One of our best. Thank you, Boss 💚

Wild how many people don’t understand that 25 is a grown-ass adult age. That is not a child, it is a grown person.

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

ICE BELONGS IN MY WINE, NOT IN OUR STREETS

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade You've got to be carefully taught You've got to be taught before it's too late Before you are 6 or 7 or 8 To hate all the people your relatives hate You've got to be carefully taught

Thank you, @repvalhoyle.bsky.social

I would be proud for my community and employer to know that I put my body on the line to protect my neighbors from fascist thugs.

No amounting “training” or “parameters” or “oversight” is going to fix this. Abolish and start over from scratch. @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov