part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

I wonder if people with the last name of "Kelly" were ever seen as undesirable blights on American greatness? I guess we'll never know.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

The whole thread about guys being amazed/confused by the Swiss watch precision of the protests in Minneapolis is outstanding, but this one is *chef's kiss* perfection.

A British soldier once used his gun to furiously knock out a tray of chips my uncle was carrying and eating after a night out in Newry, because no chippy in the town would serve them - sincerely hope no ICE officer is able to enjoy a treat for the rest of their days in their locality

Welcome to the AFC Championship Game in Denver. Alex Pretti and Renee Good should be alive today. 5-year-old Liam Ramos should not be in a detention center today. And our government should never, on any day, use children as bait.

I'm working on a new talk on the benefits of AI in historical research. I've completed my opening slide...

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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

If shock troops were firing tear gas at random people in Walthamstow all day then, yes, I do think I'd find it within myself to deploy the five or six clicks of a mouse that would be necessary to order a gas mask online, yeah.

The images from Minneapolis are heavily redolent of those from Derry before Bloody Sunday. The logic of challenged militarism, faced with civilian resistance, is to increase the violence levels. That’s their one trick. Violence, or additional violence.

Just one of the Minnesota versions of this Irish rebel song.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

LFG

When your dad dies you know the first Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthday, etc without him will be hard. It turns out the hardest is the first big weather event. I can almost hear him - Got enough salt? Snowblower ready? You didn’t leave gas in it from last year, right?

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MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

I've seen lots of winter storm/the power might go out prep advice but not these tips: Do all of your laundry. Every last bit. Wash your hair before the storm, even if it's not a hair wash day. Run the dishwasher before the storm and not again until it's over. Good luck everyone!

Vance wants local officials to help ICE. Fuck that.

It fascinates me that there is a type of person who wouldn’t be caught dead diving a Tesla but is fine with their name and reputation being used by Musk’s far worse company.

Fingers crossed.

FYI #mapoli

I bet loads of people in other countries have tips for ICE. An avalanche of tips. www.ice.gov/webform/ice-...

The Americans are the bad guys.

THE POPE'S STILL GOT IT

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

Where are our Massachusetts leaders? Are they really going to let California get this amazing deal and not us? We have plenty to offer Denmark. We’re good at the other kind of football, we like danishes, and we’re used to being cold. Plus, Damon & Affleck belong to us, not California. #mapoli

If you’ve got Netflix, watch The Rip. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

I don’t want to crowd @atrupar.com’s territory, but this is batshit crazy. “Every county in the Western Hemisphere does exist at our pleasure because we are the superpower.”

Everything is terrible, but this was just shared on my sibling group text and I'm still laughing at it. It's Garron Noone's commentary on a midwestern "salad". www.tiktok.com/@garron_musi...

This is Irish journalist Niall Stanage - of The Hill.

ICE making plans to bring their occupation force to my area is awful and unfortunately not surprising. Time to get our whistles and be ready to stand up and protect our community from their abuse.

Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

Tom Nichols is not a sky is falling sort of guy. When he talks about how something could lead to WWIII, holy moly.

Without a doubt, the best account to follow is @cpsc.gov Against all odds one part of the US government doesn't suck.

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Improved surname tool at John Grenham's Irish ancestors site! ☘️ #genealogy www.johngrenham.com/blog/2026/01...

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

It's barely the second week of January - pace yourself 2026. There's no need to bring in the exiled Crown Prince of Iran this early. You'll burn yourself out by Valentine's Day if you keep to this blistering pace. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Advice I give people at protests is now depressingly relevant to everyday life: if you don't want to give everybody on Earth a running tally of your location at all times, get a Faraday bag for your phone for less than $20 and keep it in there when you're not using it.

One reason we are losing is that Republicans angry that they can’t teach the Bible as public school curriculum are hard at work proudly abolishing the Department of Education, but outright kidnapping and murder are not enough to get Democratic leadership to say “Abolish ICE”

As I listen to Sec Noem lie about how ICE murdered a woman today, I’m remembering how she introduced herself to DHS staff last year. She walked out to a song about how even though she’s older, she’s still fuckable. She’s awful in all the ways you can be awful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAvI...

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

I don’t believe a single fucking thing ICE agents say.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

In this thread we discuss the last novel we absolutely loved. I do NOT understand why The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois hasn’t become Instant Canon in the way that Homegoing or Sing, Unburied, Sing have. It’s a much better inheritor of the traditions of Morrison AND Walker than those two are.