That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything. We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

at least we’re all united in our horror. none of us had to experience the Dunkin ad alone.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

added a few dozen books to the 2026 list this week (lots of sept/oct books have been announced in the last month), take a look!

Just watched the new #MuppetShow with my daughter and really enjoyed it! We want more Muppets, Disney!

I canceled my Post subscription a while ago thanks to Bezos, but Ron Charles’s book reviews would have been one of my most compelling reasons to keep it. Sad news about the Books section today.

Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.

Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson & Demeanor briefly performed on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

A bystander took a heart-wrenching picture of Liam Ramos in his hat and Spiderman backpack, and there was pressure, and he and his father are free. We must not forget all the prisoners still in the camps whose names and faces are known only to their loved ones. We must make miracles for them, too.

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Nice panorama of a No ICE protest, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I wonder if they knew when they were filming this scene that it would end up being a classic.

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

get in kids, we're making folk heroes

the 2025 ALA Notable Books list for adults has been released! I am so proud of the work that we did narrowing down hundreds of books into this list of 26 exceptional titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

Some of my very favorite book awards get announced today. The Reading List is a great resource for genre fiction. Congratulations to the authors and to the librarians who did SO much reading! 📚

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

terminally online commenter: Minneapolis is swarming with highly paid Antifa militia person on the ground interviewee: I'm a dental assistant who's never been to a protest in my life & I was watching TV and saw my neighbor thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed and I grabbed my coat and here I am

Home supervising my daughter’s e-learning this morning and a little sad I’ll miss out on my yearly tradition of watching the Youth Media Awards live at my desk at work and then going to put the award spine labels on the books ASAP. It always makes me so happy!

OMG OMG OMG Why am I only discovering this at 9:51 pm?!?!?! A whole day wasted!

"PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED."

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

there are two axes you can measure this on: 1. are they getting more popular, politically, by shooting people in the street? we have polling, and the answer to this is no 2. are they successfully intimidating the rest of us into backing down because we’re afraid? the answer to this is also no

Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

This. And are being written by marginalized authors.

I’m looking forward to reading this!

live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old

Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all

Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

Exciting happenings at my library!

i left the church and have nothing to do with it anymore but something happens when i see priests and pastors and rabbis and imams and sikhs at protests going so hard in mega harsh conditions i get choked up. this is how all of that is supposed to be. that's what all of that is supposed to be for.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

“You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets."

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing. Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion. Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/148814...

We are quickly becoming less, not more, secure because we are treating our friends like enemies. Demanding to buy another country, insulting our longtime allies, and imposing tariffs is causing so much damage to the friendships and relationships that have provided security and peace.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white