If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

This. It's OK if your writing doesn't save lives. It's OK if your writing only saves you.

Thank fuck I’ve got my writing still. Good way to take my brain off the hook for a minute and focus entirely on something that isn’t the current horrors. #writing

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

I don’t know how many people in the Twin Cities were clutching pearls about OMG TRANS KIDS IN SPORTS but I hope they get a chance to reflect on shit that really matters.

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

#AICouldNever I did not mean for this week to turn into metal week yet here we are, shout-out to the fierce resistance in the Twin Cities and continuing in LA and elsewhere in the USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKj...

This is haunting... It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...

Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.

Look at this absolute queen

this, too, is a gospel.

I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him" WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.

YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IT TO A "DEMOCRATIC" CANDIDATE WHO GLEEFULLY DESTROYS UNHOUSED PEOPLE'S BELONGINGS ON CAMERA, THROWS TRANS PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS, AND GOES ON THE GODDAMNED DAILY WIRE TO AGREE WITH GODDAMNED BEN SHAPIRO THAT ICE ARE NOT TERRORISTS.

Jarring to see the footage of this video juxtaposed with the narration describing "rising tensions" and other milquetoast expressions. The violence in the clips is only coming from one direction: ICE.

Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

Last night, after people in N MPLS found all those printouts detailing their operations, hotel, etc., there were some that were rightfully skeptical that it was real, or possibly a plant of some kind, because it's hard to fathom that our lives are being ruined by people this incredibly stupid.

"Fierce opposition to ICE and the Border Patrol has sprung up through block clubs, neighborhood group chats, school Facebook groups and Catholic parishes, stretching beyond the typical Democratic voter base..." Yup. Exactly. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Reports say ICE told leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe they would get fuller information about four detained tribal members only if the tribe signed an immigration agreement. Tribal officials rejected the demand, citing sovereignty and treaty rights. Ransom, basically.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner dedicated & physically gave her award to a felon rapist who praised Hitler, incited a deadly insurrection, committed war crimes, empowered acts of war against his own country and is using military to attack and kill immigrants and his own people. WTF has the world come to?

I can't believe we are being forced to live through these times led by a man who has somehow remained in charge of this party in spite of the fact that the only American people he listens to are his imaginary friends who mostly vote for Trump.

Notice the "clashes" framing They never frame ICE/Law enforcement as attacking.

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

I worry that people are relying too heavily on the fact that all this is unpopular in the polls. Most autocrats are unpopular with their people. Once you control every branch of government, muzzle the press, and start murdering your own citizens with impunity, you don't need to be popular.

It takes a lot of gall to say "take back Minnesota!" when you're an asshole from FLORIDA. But the good news is, there's going to be a high of 8F on Saturday and it's supposed to be windy.

If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP. That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING YOUR SAFETY ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE TO YOU ALL. NO THANKS TO THE VICHY POLITICIANS WHO ARE FAILING COMPLETELY TO MEET THE MOMENT. NO FORGIVENESS FOR ANYONE WHO IS FORCING YOU TO DO THIS

the standard you walk past is the standard you accept. adults are responsible for the types of relationships they have, when those relationships are free from coercion and force.

You really won't be able to put the snakes back in the can. Any vision of ICE going back to being somehow lawful and peacekeeping (which they never were, but are now off the leash) is gone -- no trust can be reclaimed by the average citizen because what they'll remember is this terror.

New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee: Through analysis of publicly available information, interviews and in-person observation, the Observer identified multiple companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area operated by individuals with connections to Patriot Front.

ICE is holding Native Americans hostage as a bargaining chip to raid reservations, saying they won't release them until the tribes give up sovereignty. www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...

every elected with an ounce of ambition should see this as the opportunity of a life time if they are willing to break the mealymouthed consensus of mediocre substackers and instead listen to the polls heralding incandescent rage

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

"well this can't possibly go on," I say once an hour, every day, until my mind is ground to dust

“I’m not sure we totally agree about some of these political things, but fuck it, let’s risk being martyred by the state to protect the preschool on the corner.”

These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.

like yeah on this basis I am forced to conclude I am in fact a harder fucking operator than a strapped 6’2 guy from Dallas who shits himself with raw terror when he sees a Ethiopian restaurant

This woman basically said she wasn't even sure what grabbed, but it was all stuff around her house, and it allows her to stay out a bit longer. This is courage, and we should all be yelling at our reps that they should be showing the same.

Several military service members have sought legal counsel starting around the end of September, after the U.S. military had killed 17 people in a series of extrajudicial strikes. trib.al/PTC0XZK

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

Omg, I made some of these too!

I mean, I would, if I were them. The US is 100% not to be trusted any more, nor will we be again for a long time, if ever. Even when we get rid of the current feculent toad in what remains of the White House, the US fascist infrastructure will remain and could resurface, like a case of Nazi shingles

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