Digested week: ICE’s performance is intimidating and deadly, but also farcical | Emma Brockes

Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling:

Celebrating Black military service is not “DEI shit.” It’s essential to America’s defense.

Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses

ganked from meta

“All time is quality time. Don’t abandon your chisel believing it’s not.” — Andrea Gibson

Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026

‘You don’t want to live inside his head’: diplomats’ dilemma in the age of Trump

My church crush I have been friend chasing wants to meet for coffee sometime

Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’

"Yes.. intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial.

I’m making a pot of lasagna soup for the first time. My apartment smells amazing…

In December, Pastor Sergio Amezcua put out a sign-up for Minnesotans who were afraid to leave their homes and needed grocery deliveries. Since then, his church, Dios Habla Hoy, has delivered food to 17,000 families. From Mother Jones senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social in Minneapolis.

Subzero temps, mass arrests, and a shutdown that is still swelling the streets. Thousands across Minnesota are marching, on work stoppage, and risking arrest to say: immigrants are welcome here. From @sarahlazare.bsky.social with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

How HIV researchers overcame setbacks and kept a vaccine trial going : Consider This from NPR

Apparently I am a cereal now

In Trump's America, we’re bludgeoned by the never-ending stream of misdeeds and affronts, which each day come wrapped in propaganda extolling a new Golden Age and assorted false glories of Dear Leader.

I’m starting to find my rhythm in this new position. Yesterday was the requisite initiation-by-information-dump. Today felt better—I got to sit down and actually talk with some of the program staff, dig into real client issues, and feel like a human instead of a sponge.

Who wants to tell her?

Catholic Charities Mission Access Point

Since I have been in my apartment almost a year now, I am reimagining my kitchen space. I moved the toaster oven and microwave to the closet so as to set up the necessary kitchen appliance of urban xennials: the air fryer…