This is really a hell of a read: www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

Damnit. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

Hey so that’s a headline you don’t love to see

This is all so good and on-point and THIS PART in particular "Contrary to the 'wine moms' trope, these parents say their efforts are a natural, if unfortunate, extension of the ways in which school-based groups normally attempt to fill gaps."

You know things are crummy when even the text spam/scam folks are using offers of jobs and friendship as bait.

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

Death of man detained in El Paso ICE facility is ruled a homicide: the county medical examiner said the man, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Fed officials had cited medical distress then later called his death a suicide. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

“What the fuck” isn’t even close to cutting it anymore. We need new ways to express the higher tiers of what the fuckedness. Even wtaf isn’t strong enough. We need new and improved industrial strength wtf.

You know what, this email I got today is better without any backstory.

Bah, search is so shitty and consumerist. Looking for a recipe and not only is it buried, but buried under ads, sponsored content that’s really an ad, shitty AI, and influencer content clearly written by AI. (“…it’s not THIS, not THIS or THIS. It’s THIS”) Fuck this to the moon and back. Honestly.

I visited this place and its small, lovely congregation of folks many years ago out on book tour. Really sorry to see this, and some of the miserable, hateful comments about it today 💔 www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/u...

California is completely drought free for the first time in a quarter century! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Not even a week into the new year and already admonished a man so hard (read: merely pointed out his folly) that he removed himself from my corner of the internet 😂

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I work w a lot of folks in Italy and here’s a pro-tip: When signing an email to a person in Italy this time of year, it is VERY IMPORTANT to remember that in “Buon Anno,” there are two n's in "anno." I may or may not have just wished someone "buon ano" which means "good anus" 😂

The GenX eldergoth urge to get into it w folks about which songs Roger O’Donnell recorded and which ones Perry Bamonte recorded and why Instagram music choice matters for accuracy on their Bamonte memorial posts today but also the GenX eldergoth urge to say fuck it let’s play good Cure songs

Just because today is Festivus, doesn’t mean the day needs to try so hard to hand out additional grievances to be aired. “I got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re gonna hear about it!” fb.watch/EaToj53t7i/?...

This absolute banger is like feminist rage and Gogol Bordello went to a Ren Faire and I am here for it

I’m in the habit of waking up w an idea and jotting it down or emailing it to myself and sometimes it’s great what my brain gives me but other times I have no fucking idea what I meant by things like “unique idea for zine” or “nailbed as parallel to revolutionary women”

Maybe it’s just me but it seems like the power is *so* out here in Los Angeles that even the power outage map is out

2026: unsubscribing from brands sending *daily* emails Bought a pair of glasses and have gotten *at least* one mktg email per day from these folks since. Do they think humans need to buy glasses every day? Bc that is truly fn bananas.

An economy and culture that values time for contemplation instead of constant hustle would also accomplish this

Let’s all agree we need all the brainpower we can muster right now, so… publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Merry “eye rolls at ads about making major purchases like SUVs without discussing it with your partner” season to all who celebrate

I had two simultaneous dreams last night, in split-screen: a fish-child trying to get candy from people and a Victorian ghost-woman giving me cryptic (but good) advice. Then fish-child jumped through and tried to bite ghost-woman, then me. My subconscious is EXHAUSTING.

Soul-saving folks came to my door last night to follow up on “the material and home visit” I “requested.” They were perfectly kind about the misunderstanding but whichever one of you chaos goblins is doling out my address like that, your bloodline has been cursed for 1,000 yrs. Have a great day!

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

one of my uncles is banned from thanksgiving after he brought a giant spread of artisanal cheese, engaged in a planned confrontation with my cousins who were hosting and called them assholes, and then left and TOOK THE CHEESE AWAY the Murray's Confrontation has never been forgiven

Remembering I jolted awake last night after having a dream about an int’l super villain w the code name “Katie Como Estas” trying to fight me and steal my stuff. She was white and blonde I was mad at her for cultural appropriation with a code name like that “AH! KATIE COMO ESTAS, WE MEET AGAIN!” 😂

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

I have just learned there was an international cheese award given last week. Flummoxed as to why nobody invited me to that. www.foodandwine.com/best-cheese-...

Oh. This right here.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

Mine is this + that I think every animal on earth will be cool and let me pet them once they get my vibe. Which is idiotic and will for sure eventually get me killed but honestly, there’re are worse ways to go than “trying to pet a wolf/shark/bear”

if you have been laid off or fired, chat with @nerdseyeview.bsky.social ! She is wonderful and this podcast is cathartic as heck!!!!!

If ever you’re feeling intimidated or like you don’t have your shit together, remember the password for the security system at the Louvre was, reportedly, “louvre” abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Four wrongful death lawsuits were filed against OpenAI on Thursday, as well as cases from three people who say the company’s chatbot led to mental health breakdowns.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

That “my [blank] taught me this” genre of video in which a person does a very pointless and usually wasteful thing and acts like it’s a stunning life hack

This gets a little convoluted, but it’s potentially quite important so stick with me for a moment here. Bloomberg News has sleuthed out a federal grand jury in Florida that could be part of Trump’s wide-ranging investigate the investigators retribution scheme. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

If you want your outfit giving both cheese grater *and* face-obscuring lampshade and have nothing better to do with $12,500, I have amazing news for you

Forensic Files rules because in every episode science wins and a terrible predator gets held accountable and honestly more of both of those things pls