Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century

PUPDATE: Swimming lessons are officially underway behind the scenes… with mixed opinions. 🦦💦 Asian small-clawed otter mom Pintar is confident her pup is ready and gives him a gentle toss into the water. Dad Sebastian is not so sure and immediately tries to rescue him. 💙

Thank you @ballsandstrikes.org for covering @transequality.bsky.social’s amicus brief on behalf of legal scholars and historians on the history of anti trans discrimination in the law

Democrats have flipped control of the city commission in Fort Pierce, Florida, tonight, by winning a tight special election. www.wptv.com/news/region-...

RESULT: Democrats have easily defended two state House seats in special elections tonight in Virginia tonight. They candidates overperformed the 2024 results by 3 and 20 points respectively, per @uncrewed.bsky.social.

Ford living up to its namesake founder's enthusiasm for Nazi collaboration:

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.

incredible book and i will also recommend elaine parson's work as well. uncpress.org/978146965213...

Wow. "World Relief is mobilizing immediately to protect the 4,400 refugee families under our care and preserve stability"

THIS. I do not want to see the Sad ICE Man movie in two years. No.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

all these mfers look like thumbs

Here in Chicago, parents and teachers have also worked together to protect children from these violent goons when they’ve been near schools.

Eight years ago, I wrote this essay about Seattle’s historic moviehouses, focusing on 7 theaters that were at least half a century old and still operating. Now only 3—the Admiral, the Uptown, and the former Cinerama—are still open; the rest are just memories. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

RESULT: Democrats have defended a state House seat in Connecticut. This is a district that voted for Harris by single-digits in 2024. Larry Pemberton is the first recognized member of a Connecticut tribe elected to the state legislature, according to: ctmirror.org/2026/01/13/s...

Auto worker named TJ should already be polling at 20% in the Dem Primary for 2028

The latter part of this tweet has gone under the radar but it's an alarming escalation. The Trump admin has already detained dozens of people with full refugee status, seemingly those who had not yet adjusted to green cards, and is detaining them in Texas and seeking to strip them of their status.

Gregory Bovino's father was a delightful man too. Everywhere he went, people commented on the man's laughter. Edit: Sorry, I misread it. It says manslaughter. Yep, manslaughter

The fight against ICE is the fight against white nationalism is the fight against antisemitism.

"A woman who broke into the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot is facing new charges after a neighborhood dispute in Jordan where state police seized three guns from her apartment." www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...

“Abolish ice” is not radical

“It’s disgusting & dishonorable to the oath we swear to protect and care for the people of our states— a lot of people claim Christianity, but when it comes to feeding hungry children they don’t do it.” @justinjpearson.bsky.social & @rolandsmartin.bsky.social on @GovBillLee rejecting💰for food

جمهوری اسلامی ایران رژیمی جنایتکار است

I thought I understood and then, continually, it's like OH. oh. I see Misogyny is a central, load bearing animus to most of the bad shit happening here. It's crazy the levels of disdain and hatred not only for women themselves and their bodies but even for *concepts* ideas or vibes tagged as femme

I really think people are *really* underestimating the depths of misogyny in US society

Great for a grandstanding Republican Senator who has voted for tax cuts for the rich and not much else to lecture the country about "Congress and its dysfunction." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Rising grocery prices raise new questions about Joe Biden‘s economic policies

Yeah I did an article for Jez on the far right and child marriage a while back, and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing right wingers explicitly arguing that we should allow it for that exact reason

this wasn't just fact-finding, it was a form of what @joshchafetz.bsky.social calls "congressional overspeech." the testimony from black americans was dramatic and divisive. it captured the attention of the public and helped build support for aggressive action against the klan (2/?)

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.” Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD

Honestly pretty solid analysis

Going on a hike in mountain lion country but don’t worry I’m being responsible and smearing myself with beef fat first

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

American Federation of Teachers is (finally!) dumping X, and moving to Bluesky. Good for them!

Sadly, there are many errors in the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com obituaries on Colvin. Please read Phillip Hoose's award-winning Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice for more on Claudette's Colvin life and courage.

Four women were courageous enough to be on that case, including two teenagers --Claudette Colvin & Mary Louise Smith, along with Aurelia Browder & Susie McDonald. That case went to the Supreme Court and led to the desegregation of Montgomery's buses Dec. 21, 1956. Rest in power, Claudette Colvin.

Rosa Parks made her bus stand Dec. 1. Colvin's lawyer Fred Gray was Parks' lawyer. They worried that the state would hold up Parks' appeal (like they had done with Viola White in 1944). So Fred Gray decided to file a proactive federal case. Gray wanted a minister but no minister stepped forward.

Colvin stopped straightening her hair after the May trial. She was NOT pregnant when community leaders decided not to go forward with her case. She said the only adult who kept up with her that summer was Rosa Parks who wanted her to continue to be involved in the Youth Council.

The judge strategically threw out the segregation & disturbing the peace charges and only found her guilty of assaulting an officer, making a legal challenge to segregation harder. Plus, many Black leaders didn't trust young people & thought that Colvin was too "feisty" and not the right image.

Colvin explained, "I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." Rosa Parks raised money for her case.

When Colvin was arrested, Montgomery's Black community was outraged.The police manhandled her. She struggled back & was arrested on 3 charges (disturbing the peace, assaulting an officer, & the segregation charge). She was afraid the police would rape her and recited the Lords Prayer in the car.

Claudette Colvin was a political young woman. She'd studied segregation in school & been politicized by the arrest of classmate, 16-year-old Jeremiah Reeves, who was convicted & ultimately executed for a consensual relationship with a young white woman. Colvin joined Rosa Parks' NAACP Youth Council.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

here at cbs news, we are undertaking a mission to tell the kind of stories that for too long have gone untold, like how cops are badass and white people have never done anything wrong

Roughly 80% of immigrant-owned businesses along key corridors in Minneapolis and St. Paul have closed in the past week as employees and customers stay home in fear of ICE agents detaining them.

This is literally called a "show of force" and it's used in war to intimidate the enemy when you ain't really got shit to back it up. They are a bunch of wildly insecure pissbabies treating their own capital city like it's goddamn Fallujah

Like many other folks targeted by ICE, Guan is in a lot of danger if he’s sent back www.dw.com/en/xinjiang-...

A Third Way consultant is not "the Democrats."