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Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.

For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. [email protected], Signal rstauff.20

NYT pay a trans person to write about trans issues (and not a cis person who has a clear ideological agenda) challenge, difficulty level impossible...

on that note!

I would also be bad at my job if I didn't say, hey, want to be a part of this amazing thing? go donate to a rent fund at standwithminnesota.com. maybe one of the smaller ones.

Today, a Trump-appointed judge will consider whether to end telemedicine prescriptions of mifepristone nationwide. Plus, state legislatures are back in session and pushing a host of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ bills. That and more in yesterday's @autonomynews.co roundup:

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.

This story was fun to write bc it’s mostly older trans guys being like “we used to bind uphill both ways in the snow” But in all seriousness, binding used to be the wild west. Duct tape, electrical tape, ACE bandages. Now we have good products. But the FDA is cracking down on those. Read more:

was coming here to pull out this point and it was at the top of my timeline ⏬

Bianca Xunise nails the feeling of doing something real with your hands: donating food, showing up, helping neighbors. “Thanks for getting my hands to do something besides doomscroll.” inthesetimes.com/article/i-we...

Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city. “This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.

if only there could’ve been a way for them to have learned this a year before the election. like the voters and youth organizing groups who said that would happen without a change in Gaza policy back in November 2023

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

(……one of the more useful things journalists do, I think, is help people understand who to be mad at, and why)

Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

have thought of Virginia Giuffre frequently since she died last year, but truly daily for the last month, and her name should be spoken much, much more than it has been

unhoused people, social workers, and advocates all say the same thing: encampment closures are incredibly destabilizing. why are “progressive” leaders set on this policy? perhaps violence and classicism were always the intended result of a system that responds to poverty with guns and bulldozers.

saying in 2022 that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioners is a ridiculous claim

a lot of Gaza news in the last 24 hours, including this exclusive from this morning

“Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations. It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled.” ily Becca Rothfeld

I catch copy errors literally every day in major news outlets — today in CNN, probably multiple times a week in New York Times, on and on. media companies, you already aren’t paying for enough copy editors, and whatever you’re leaving to AI is not catching this stuff! pls get it together!

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These crisis PR strategies: building a pseudo-feminist narrative around an alleged predator, relying on access journalists, and turning to partisan influencer "news" sources over actual journalists when that fails, are consistent across each of these cases. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

so much to be said here. for one thing, hard to imagine a woman influencer pushing astroturfed Epstein defenses on TikTok and Youtube vilifying his accusers, a la Depp and Baldoni, but I guess we might've seen that had he not died............ we live in hell part a thousand

September 24, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics February 18, 2026: Meta makes biggest-ever electoral investment in pro-AI state politicians

My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

This would be less scary if science journalists hadn't completely abandoned science in favor of right wing propaganda on youth trans care already.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

🧵 THREAD: 🚨The Prairieland Case is a five-alarm fire for the right to protest in America🚨 If you care about your neighbors being terrorized by ICE — and about your own freedom to dissent — you need to understand what's happening in Texas right now. /1

Drafting a poll. Hilary Cass has been spouting a lot of stuff that should get push-back in the media, but doesn't, like policing haircuts and nicknames to prevent trans cooties. Yet bc of the Cass report ppl treat her as an authority. Who wants to see Cass interviewed by @ichotiner.bsky.social ?

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Happy for this one to be out today! this piece is particularly important to the folks profiled here, an amazing prison LGBTQ+ affirming organization called Be the Change, and I'd love to be able to share any reactions with those folks <3 truthout.org/articles/thi...

rachel aviv writing about gisèle pelicot oh i dreamed of days like this

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

okay sure, 30 years of Infinite Jest. just a little confused because the misogyny charges I'm aware of stem from DFW being an abuser, not from the book necessarily............... like am I missing something (piece below from 2018)

philadelphia residents won a similar lawsuit back in 2020. it ended with a $9mil settlement & followed a city-council prohibition on the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

flying as a trans person, within the US or returning to it, has become so needlessly stressful and i don't feel like cis people Get It at all

Judges have mostly rejected the government’s attempt to detain anyone who is black or brown. As of early January (the last time anyone had time to count) 300 judges in 1000s of decisions rejected the government’s arguments. Less than a dozen permit it. 9/ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

solidarity w my new CWA siblings! 👠getting fired for union activity is despicable and sadly super common; the brothel owners claiming rights to any IP of any worker is truly disgusting!

For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...