Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution 2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party Protecting women and children, is it?

FREE! TONIGHT! FOR WRITERS! An online intro to publishing class with the brilliant @finejuli.bsky.social to kick off @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's monthlong Pub Crawl (where you can learn a LOT more about publishing), but tonight is commitment-free and you can just get the lay of the land! 1/

Langston Hughes (1943)

And if you're visiting the must-see exhibition, Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, at the Art Institute of Chicago, be sure to also check out the exhibition of 35 artworks from his collection of more than 800 Japanese prints. www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this

Us poets have to warm up, too.

The difference between the president and I is that I was raised to be a decent human being, and my faith teaches me to have compassion. He lacks both of those things.

If MAGA's favorite demon, George Soros, paid people to protest, it would be easy to find evidence and show it. If he promised to pay people and didn't, that would be a crime, and MAGA would be thrilled to charge him. Instead, it's just another shameless lie to keep conning the cult.

All you gotta do is read the Trib’s editorial board’s thoughts to immediately understand what the most incorrect position is in any given circumstance

Must be weird to be in the White House Press Corp, to gaggle in the briefing room or travel on Air Force One and respectfully ask polite questions about economic issues and foreign policy to a child rapist.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

That’s a start but they still have millions more to release! #superbowl

Portland, OR., Mayor Keith Wilson: "To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame." www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

It’s hard to understate how much the GOP candidate was disliked here. She was responsible for ruining the school boards of at least three districts (including mine), and ensuring that every school had the donated “In God We Trust” and 10 Commandments posters in each classroom.

If you don't have conservative parents, you might not know that the Don Lemon church protest story has been the biggest thing on their radar for over two weeks. While everyone else has been watching murders in the streets, they've been screaming about a black man doing journalism in a church.

Yes. I was heartened to see all Senate Dems vote to cut the ICE budget back to 2024 numbers (didn’t pass)…but that’s still $12B a year for an ethnic cleansing paramilitary force. As w/ many things, trying futilely to restore an old violent, bigoted system is a nonstarter. We need new, just systems.

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Just gonna say, now is a great time to join your local Democratic Committee and see what you can do to support local candidates, especially if you live in a "safe" red district. Republicans wasted millions of dollars on this race. Make them waste that much money everywhere.

this week’s cover by Till Lauer

If you don't think a sleeping giant has been awakened, then you're not paying attention. This was January 30 in Minneapolis. The pedophile führer's Nazification of America WILL NOT STAND. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

If you have stories/photos/video from the Portland, OR protest that you’d like to share anonymously, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of cretins.

Hmmmm.....

Current* conditions near St. Helena Island, MI:

I'm so old, I remember January 2025 when this racist letter circulated in Lincoln County, OR encouraging people to report on their neighbors who are undocumented. The letter ended by saying this would bring houses prices down. What was condemned as racist vigilantism last year is now gov't policy.

"Were Northerners prepared to watch their neighbors, many of whom had lived in their communities for years, be violently removed from their homes or grabbed off the streets? For many, the answer was no." Fascinating, & I had no idea.

America has now reached the stage of greatness where our very pro-family administration is tear gassing little children who were at a peaceful, daytime protest against that government’s mass round ups and deportations of little children.

This is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault

Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less

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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

We should hold government employees accountable for assaulting law abiding citizens and attempting to silence their constitutionally protected speech.

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Something to have in your back pocket when people tell you to be docile, so you don't give them "an excuse"

This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

Made another thing

10/10 ICE protest sign

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

Test the chains gnaw the screws we are many they are few

Another day, another future Nuremberg trial.

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

The Trump regime has declared the American people to be their enemy. They know the creation of a dictatorship requires unreasonable uses of force. That's why they tear-gassed a crowd, including children, in Portland today.

Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.