“where would they deport them to lol” yes that was also true when Andrew Jackson was president

""We've known for years that the prevalence of psychiatric disorder in juvenile facilities is extremely high – far higher than in the general population. And we know that few kids get services, whether in detention or, particularly, when they go back to their communities.""

It would be easier to navigate discourse if everyone didn't use ableism to explain why others don't already agree with them.

the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them. You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

There is a genre of "AI" labor that is as horrofying to read as Upton Sinclairs The Jungle—and just as important data-workers.org/michael/

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Periodic reminder that what's marketed as 'youth social media bans' actually amounts to requiring people to provide personally identifying information in order to access whatever content a given government disfavours.

For a v long time, I conflated "person who can make good art" with "person who has a functioning moral compass." I think that transference (based on appreciation, love, enthusiasm) is something a lot of us do. It hurts a lot when we find that our appreciation was hijacked so someone can do bad shit.

Yesterday the LA jails saw their 8th in custody death for this year. I've looked at a lot of years of their death data and if things were to continue at this pace 2026 would easily be the deadliest year in LA jails out of the past two decades.

but the ethic they push- violence is good and effective motivator that we should have exclusive right to wield- oh wait- actually it’s our god given right and part of the natural order that we have a moral obligation to wield violence as motivator- it’s intrinsic part of their ideology.

Fun niche fact for Seattleites: Bellevue Square was a Japanese strawberry farm that Miller Freeman, who ran a whole anti-Japanese organization, acquired for nothing once the Japanese families were sent to the internment camps The Freeman family’s real estate empire was built on confiscated land

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

1. Multicare / Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Washington State has become the latest hospital to shut down its trans youth care clinic in capitulation to Trump. Private clinics say they are stepping up to take patients. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.

In sum: America, the concept? Trash, settler colonial, throw it out America, the people? Incredible, salt of the earth, would die for them

Even if they release body cam footage, take off their masks, get more training, they are still responsible for detaining and deporting thousands of our family, friends & neighbors every day. ICE doesn't need new rules. It needs to be dismantled entirely.

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

THREAD. In the section of my Copaganda book on how body cameras as a supposed “reform” are one of the great propaganda achievements in the history of the police/surveillance industry, I explain that one of the reasons police wanted them so badly for years was to link to facial recognition tech.

This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

When people say “there is no returning to normal”, it’s not meant as doomerism. It’s an invitation to bigger thinking and dreaming. When people say, “this is always what the US was”, it’s not a resignation. It’s a call to action for all of us to imagine beyond the concept of the US as it stands.

Heads up, Seattle: Aki Kurose Middle School in Hillman City and Cleveland STEM High School in Beacon Hill are sheltering in place after ICE activity was reported in the area.

The thing that's really convenient to not know is that nonprofits like Feeding Our Future exist because the nutrition reimbursement program is so burdensome IN THE NAME OF REDUCING FRAUD that a cottage industry exists just to fill out the paperwork on behalf of programs that actually feed children.

If you have a Ring, time to un-have a Ring.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

What you are seeing here from Booker is the most craven and cynical counterinsurgency designed to preserve the key structures while tricking low information liberals into thinking people in power care and are “doing something.”

Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:

I can't imagine living through this moment without the balance of working with young people.

This is........pretty wild A collection of "insiders" say they don't think data centres are (the present tense is important) slowing down decarbonisation (mostly the "innovators") This comes out 1 day after a @rhg.com US emissions update that *explicitly* names DCs as a core cause of rising GHGs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

If we as a society don't make education meaningful we cannot expect students do create meaning for themselves, and we have allowed the utter degradation of the system by allowing it to become nothing more than big business. Students are grist for the mill. We don't even guarantee their safety.

upsetting but inspiring one today. Article from 1990 with a researcher who spoke with survivors, “The nuns cried, but the children did not”

Back in 2018, I started reading about the history of successful movements. Two things really stuck with me: 1) how long real, sustainable change can take (especially given the backlash to early successes, and 2) how you never really know when the watershed moments are when you're living in them.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The source that informed me of this said the Border Patrol officer in question claimed the victims were trying to run him over in their car, which is why he shot.

If people actually stopped to feel their feelings, it would break society apart. I would love to see what we'd build from the rubble.

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

Imagine if newspapers instead wrote something like, "According to police, the suspect tried to hit the officers with his car. In 35 out of 37 statements issued by this department over the past 5 years, police gave false initial statements, later contradicted by their own bodycam footage."

What you tolerate from your empire is what you will one day see deployed against the imperial core.

Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

Oh dear

There is a big disconnect between people who know immediately *why* this is all wrong and have the context and everyone else (including many who know *that* it’s wrong.) Thinking today about how to bridge that gap.

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is