The ability to actually be funny at a time like this is impressive 🤣

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Bailey Ober recognizing the situation in Minneapolis, the first MLB player to do so #MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

Easy to be cynical but this seems like it’s heading in the right direction

Senator _____: I’ll keep calling every day until you stand up against authoritarianism. This is your opportunity to be on the right side of history; when your grandchildren’s grandchildren ask about their illustrious ancestor in Congress back when America was still a democracy, will they be PROUD?

I was silent a few days after—like you—witnessing the execution in real time of a US citizen. Not a video game. Not a scene from a dystopian film. An actual murder of a man who dedicated his life to helping vets in a notoriously thankless job. I feel SHAME today. And like you, I’m shell shocked.

This is my favorite Night Hawk number so far! Don’t miss the audio recording of Matthew Warner Osborn breathing modern life into this 200-year-old ancestor of Batman in the latest Substack! ➡️➡️ open.substack.com/pub/mattheww...

Let’s go!

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121

Just cats. That’s all. That’s the post.

When a movie like Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979) feels like a vacation from the world, things might be rather grim😆, ps I loved it.

Baby’s first Substack is up: I was forbidden from playing “my music” loudly even in my room because my father complained that he was “composing music” and being able to hear anything else distracted him. Back then, this always struck me as a bit phony… open.substack.com/pub/andreaho...

“A highly placed official, who declined to go on the record, admitted that staging the World Cup in the US is going to be a “very delicate” and “difficult” period, in the months leading up to the tournament as well as during the competition itself.”

Usually January takes me OUT mentally and I’ve been trying to figure out why this year is different, especially given what a krumkake the world is right now. I finally realized it is because I rejoined CHOIR. You guys, I have been SO much happier! It has made my seasonal “sads” way more manageable

I’m trying to go super slow through the episodes of Heated Rivalry because I don’t want them to run out! No spoilers but real question were humans THIS ATTRACTIVE in the 90s?

Ambassador of Denmark to the United States…

Me, in my head “Dude I could *totally* take an ICE agent if it came down to that.” Also Me: Nearly gets my shoulder dislodged arm-wrestling with my 26-year-old daughter for funzies. 😆 Why am I like this you guys.

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social discovered the Night Hawk, 1820s progenitor of Batman, in the archives of America’s first socialist newspaper; now he’s sharing weekly installments on Substack as we count down to his @uchicagopress.bsky.social pub date for his book of the same name!

Liberty Hall is looking to build a sapphic Eden with Girl Bar — a monthly night “for gurls and gals and nonbinary pals” — and this month, folks can catch the 1994 lesbian romcom that inspired it all. lawrenceks.news/3LMa1Sm

Minneapolis:

Temu Gestapo

On Thursday morning, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement toured a warehouse in south Kansas City with aims to hold detainees there. By the afternoon, city lawmakers banned such detention centers from being approved.

Here is a website you might be interested in. Please let me know if there is a better one. iceout.org/en/

After four immigrants died in ICE custody last week and the agency waited until after hours to announce it, I’m sitting here on a Tuesday night wondering how many people (we’ll learn about later on the weekend) will have died during this week. What a morbid reality.

Disgraceful

@uaw.org hope you're all standing with this man.

If you believe that being joyful is also an act of resistance, which I do, that doesn’t mean you can’t schedule an HOUR a day to take this fight to the streets. One hour every day from now—> midterms. EVERYONE CAN COMMIT TO AN HOUR A DAY. Assess your strengths and get involved. One hour a day.

We are going to have to be prepared to roll around in the mud and get dirty. This is NOT a situation where love and hope are going to conquer all. And I say that as the most absurdly optimistic person on the planet.

As we begin to gear up for the fight of our lives, something I’m learning to come to terms with is the idea that that old way of thinking… “When they go low, we go high…“ is simply no longer going to work. This is too big of an emergency.

Yeah

PS If you need a refresher on what happens when a president interferes with the federal government’s banking system and the financial fuckery that will then ensue, please do some research on Andrew Jackson’s disastrous presidency and the Bank War. 🧐

Been saying this.

Perhaps I’m just an eternal optimist but I feel like the tides are turning

Needed this

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

It’s super easy to download the 5calls app (also follow them here @5calls.org). I just signed up and called all the numbers listed for my senators and representative. Make this a daily habit!

Sign up for @5calls.org and follow them^^

Postcard-mailing will begin in May. Sign up to get involved. Host letter-writing parties as at your house all summer. Meet your friends at the library and write all afternoon. Hit up a coffeehouse etc turnoutpac.org/postcards/

The midterms will be here so fast. Today is the day we all must decide what our role will be.

I think each of us has to assess our skill set and get to work right now

this is how you do anti-fascism and affordability.

A “good ICE agent” is one who realizes the moral REPUGNANCE of what they are doing and hands in their resignation. I understand how much a 50k signing bonus must seem as an abstraction but the lifelong memories of the horrors one must commit will no doubt render that a small, shitty trade over time.

Do ICE agents ever get fed up and quit? I’m waiting for the whistle-blowing heroes who leave to write their story.

Where are the ICE agents staying while they’re in each town? Perhaps people should be canceling hotel reservations, picketing the motels allowing them to stay, banging pots and pans in parking lots to keep them awake all night so they can’t do their Gestapo work.