The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

If ICE’s expansion plans are realized, the immigration detention system will triple in size — detaining 120,000-150,000 people at any given time, mirroring the scale of Japanese American internment during WWII."

The real divide is between whether you have (or are open to developing) a critical understanding of the relationship between technology and power, or maintaining an uncritical one.

People are saying you have to accept repentance and changed minds, but what does that mean, for someone like this? Do we need to accept someone who says “I realized I’m against his anti-Somali policy and looking for someone who likes Somalis but hates all the other people I hate”?

Canada's EV deal with China shows how U.S. belligerence is driving allies away. It also is stranding the once-powerful U.S. auto industry, now doomed to make domestic gas guzzlers and exist as a footnote globally. @ryanlcooper.com reports: prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...

Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

in the best case scenario (we somehow survive all of this), we will still have had so many years of our lives disrupted by stress and anger and calamity

I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.

A pictorial representation of the argument of this academic paper:

“How dare they protest in that ICE field office director’s church!” Meanwhile they had nothing to say when ICE raided churches and shot pastors in the face with pepper balls and chemicals👇🏽 🤔

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

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An intrinsically unbelievable claim btw

very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Republican Nazis thought we would greet ICE as liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

Great thread

So … over 8,000 acts of ppl invoking their 1A rights to mouth off to law enforcement? Cops have no rights to their feelings. We do, however, have the 1A right—attested to by SCOTUS—to insult the guys w guns. This is quintessential police-as-baronial class whining: “how dare you not kneel to us?”

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Another person taken today in Northeast. ICE left their car out in the road and pepper sprayed legal observers, directly violating a federal judge’s orders from earlier this week.

The rhetoric of “paid protestors” lays bare the sheer callousness of this administration. The idea that anyone is out there due to empathy, caring, principles, is beyond them.

As a historian of Manifest Destiny I should have some sort of witty response to this, but I cannot believe that the MAGAites are embracing a history of violence and dispossession so enthusiastically. Our history of "acquiring new lands" is littered with massacres of the prior inhabitants.

A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling"). They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

100% what Jesus would do!

One of the foundational problems of our era is that we have broadly—in news media, in voter perceptions, in public discourse, etc—decided that Republicans have zero responsibility to the public, zero responsibility for their choices, & no agency as elected officials. Its destroying us.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

Update: A judge has ruled that ICE must release Gibson by noon on Friday.

On why the absolute immunity stuff is nonsense, see this slate.com/news-and-pol...

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

Seriously. I have issues with how the press handles statements from law enforcement—but this is something else. This admin, this agency, these same officials have constantly lied the whole time, including lying about events on video. It is dishonest for journalists to simply repeat their claims.

DAN KOH: “$30 BILLION for 10,000 more ICE agents… that would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all medical debt. Trump is making it easier to kill people than keep people alive.”

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

Trump also thinks Alaska and Hawaii live in little boxes off the coast of California. His cabinet is too afraid to correct him. He’s gonna build a box around Greenland next. You watch.

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions. Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction. Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections. This is conservatives achieving their goals.

Will Americans who live in those opposition-controlled states be free to stop paying federal taxes? No? So it’s just stealing our money, then. And handing it out to states that voted for him. Defecating on our laws and Constitution harms ALL Americans on Right & Left.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

this wasn't just fact-finding, it was a form of what @joshchafetz.bsky.social calls "congressional overspeech." the testimony from black americans was dramatic and divisive. it captured the attention of the public and helped build support for aggressive action against the klan (2/?)