At midnight on Sunday, New Jersey officials chose to help federal agents suppress the ongoing rallies at a New Jersey ICE detention center rather than acknowledge the concerns of hundreds of detainees and protesters gathered there.

The Senate confirmed Steve Pearce as director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pearce spent years in Congress arguing the federal government owns more land than it needs. He co-sponsored legislation to speed up public land sales.

Monstrilio is about an entire gay family and their gay monster son. First half is baby monster problems and the second when he gets on Grindr.

We must fight this volcanic eruption/radiation leak/incoming tsunami in a fair and legal way.

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova was gut-wrenching and amazing. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez rocked my world. Severance by Ling Ma was gorgeous. Vintage hot take: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu is a much more fun read than Dracula.

All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta and breast milk doesn’t contain enough of it — meaning babies are at risk of uncontrollable bleeding without a vitamin K shot.

An important Native American historic site in East Providence RI is slated to be turned into a massive mixed-use development. ecori.org/metacomet-go...

I forgot to mention before, but my story "The Golden Vanity" was published in the Lovecraftian anthology 'Atlas of Deep Ones' by Obsidian Butterfly Press, which came out last week. us.amazon.com/Atlas-Deep-O...

Notes from my recent reread of Jane Eyre, in no particular order: 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/j...

The state has banned “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison from ALL high school library shelves. The “classics” are safe, they promised.

Gyoshu Hayami: Black Peony.

The current administration of the United States is illegitimate. Its actions are immoral and illegal. The United States and Israel have committed multiple war crimes in their attacks on Iran. I am disgusted by my country's actions and wish peace and safety for the people of Iran and others nearby.

My US Representative. : )

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Never having heard about any of this before, I googled it to find out what it was and learned that it was 1) weird Mardi-Gras shit and 2) racist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistick...

I do bite my thumb, sir. I bite it so hard.

Post a banger not in English. Weird fave from my time in Korea (my friend Amy always knew what to sing at the noraebang and I miss her sooo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxB...

If I understood correctly, the SecReT mEsSaGeS were: "I have a lot of girlfriends. I like you better than my other girlfriends. Live a good life and don't let the haters get you down. New York is really fun. Viva Puerto Rico. Viva America (in the geographically-inclusive Spanish sense)."

Aaaah *shit.* 😖

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

x-files but careless whisper plays every time there is gazing www.tumblr.com/ozzytrustnoo...

CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool

This is the strangers' case / and this your mountainish inhumanity

Also, the culture of secrecy and the binding of people is precisely how you create an environment ripe for abuse. So good luck and God speed, current clerks. Remember you don't have to put up with shit.

I want to say something more about this. Way back in 2007, the clerks were in fact counseled on confidentiality and ethical canons. Roberts gave us a little speech and was like "you are bound to not speak about this by all legal ethical canons."

I feel confident in saying that Ponies, like The Mummy and Pirates of the Caribbean, was filmed for the bisexual gaze.

Not so much "a review of 'Cien sonetas de amor'" as "some things I learned about Pablo Neruda while reading that made 'Cien sonetas de amor' much less enjoyable": 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/1...

Response is to @timdickinson.bsky.social 's post above: "Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps"

I'm surprised more people aren't into Lenormand. It's like reading an alethiometer. #divination

Wow, CNN, maybe you SHOULDN'T HAVE HELPED HIM GET ELECTED BOTH TIMES.

When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots. Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.

Homan’s use of “in theater” confirms DHS views this as a war in which they’re occupying hostile territory.

If you're all parking in one spot, leave someone behind to keep an eye on the cars and take pics of anyone surveilling/planting things on them. Keep your phone locked except when necessary - in Pittsboro one of ours had her phone stolen by fash after they hit her in the head with a hockey stick

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

They fired Greg Bovino so that we don’t start demanding the head of Stephen Miller who is without a doubt the brains of this entire fascist operation.

Don’t forget it’s not just Pretti and Good

I honestly keep forgetting this happened. They made less of a fuss over the assassination of a state legislator than they did about the fucking Rose Garden.

One thing that's confusing to me is how few of The Enemy have been doxxed. This administration has been notoriously, consistently terrible with opsec, so how have 22,000 violent jackasses mostly managed to keep their names and deeds out of the news?

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

the snap election is one of those boring ass electoral system design elements that turns out to have immense political implications

Who fired the shots? Do we know yet?

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Dex doing good and informative work with this thread and also reminding me why I do not live in the upper Midwest

It's going to take so long to recover from this horror show.

I've gotten reports of at least five other instances in the past few months of [most likely] CBP (possibly another agency bc they didn't identify themselves) stopping passengers on the jetway to board and requiring a photo—taken with a small camera or smartphone—with no explanation.

US military has apparently been systematically seizing oil tankers involved in export of Venezuelan oil since December. This was the seventh.

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