FWIW, the Republicans lost a House vote tonight, then pulled other ones.

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

The Michigan auto worker who was flipped off by Trump after heckling him has reportedly been suspended

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/?)

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/?)

It's more important than ever to support queer writing, queer writers, queer readers.

this fucking headline and the lede is that she *served on a fucking school board*

goddamn this is pathetic

Bari Weiss' problem isn't that she's bad at journalism (she is). It's that she's bad at agitprop.

I'm sorry that your technofascist billionaire funded effort to blow smoke up the ass of wealth and power has been a little bumpy, how unfortunate

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

Look I know we go "jesus christ he's a barely sentient pile of self-tanner at this point" but this one had my jaw drop

Bad move by @gallego.senate.gov, saying this without telling people Trump has repeatedly been offered immigration "deals" and turned them down. In 2018 Dems offered him $25 billion for wall in exchange for Dreamers; he said no. Dems offered GOP big border bill in 2024; he told Rs to kill it.

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

Breaking: NYT now says *six* federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.

lol

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

This is essential reading. www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

This Bari Weiss edict is the most idiotic manifesto for a legitimate news organization that I have ever seen, and I cannot begin to tell you how many idiots I've come across in my career. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

New Quinnipiac poll: 53% of voters say ICE shooting of Renee Good is not justified, including 59% of independents (!) 57% of voters disapprove of how ICE is enforcing immigration laws, including 64% of independents (!!) Trump/Vance propaganda is failing

My article speaks to some of the resonances of the 1850s and our situation today chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime. Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

This hat cracks me up. "Wear an evil robot head, on your own head! Stare vacantly as your hathead does the same!"

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison: "There is no statute of limitations on murder. So this case is not going to be over even if they try to block a high quality investigation."

I am enjoying reading through the replies to this post.

My understanding is the feds are reviewing national wildlife refuges to determine if some are no longer needed or no longer fulfill their mandate. A clear pretext to open the door to development, etc. Nothing is safe and everything must be put under as much public + journalistic scrutiny as possible

“Be not afraid.”

Will never not be jarring to see armed goons demanding people’s papers on the street in the United States of America like it’s Nazi Germany. Fuckin nightmare scenes.

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

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JUST IN: Rubio tells Judge Boasberg that there’s no way to retrieve the 137 Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act — or even offer them due process — given the delicate negotiations with Venezuela’s new post-Maduro regime. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Batman tv show is 60. Adam West should have got an Emmy for this scene alone. I love DeNiro, Washington, Day-Lewis etc but none of them have had an acting challenge like this. youtu.be/tgCkmUS1IYI?...

Noriyoshi Ohrai’s quite wonderful poster for the 1982 rerelease of Star Wars as dubbed in Japanese.

US senator, decorated retired navy captain and Nasa astronaut, Mark Kelly, has filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify the “chilling” attempt by Pete Hegseth to reduce the military veteran’s rank and pension as punishment for speaking out against the Trump administration

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

In America now you can be shopping with your toddler one moment and fleeing with her in your arms from a secret police attack the very next.

ICE shut down the oldest Mexican restaurant in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota -- a city that voted overwhelmingly for Trump (and Pete Hegseth's hometown too) Feel safer yet?

My feed, as everyone gets back from their various screenings of that new zombie movie:

Ahem.

"We don't exclude titles created with AI tools from the catalog, we ask that publishers self-identify AI content" is an embarrassing failure to protect authors and readers from the theft and disinformation of "A.i." garbage. Also, you should have used a semicolon instead of a comma after "catalog."

Is this fucked? Yes. Does anyone who turned their money over to a fucking Eric Adams memecoin absolutely deserved to be scammed out of every last dime? Also yes.

Every single fucking time, I swear.

I grew up in the age of the Batman Burton/Schumacherverse. The '89 VHS is burned into my memory, Penguin's death in RETURNS haunted my nightmares, FOREVER was *the* summer movie of 1995, & a BATMAN & ROBIN screening was my 11th birthday party. HOWEVER, Batman '66 is incredibly special to me.

This is super disappointing. Guess I'll be cutting back on using library ebooks for a while as I consider this.

"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."