It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

CRIS Ohio does really great work supporting refugee and immigrant communities in Ohio, if you're looking for a way to stay a few steps ahead of the political winds

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

It’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality

🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🚨 One of our volunteers, Noah, a veteran who has been doing work as a medic in MN, was arrested and is being held without bail. Please call his reps using the call script!

Dear @whipkclark.bsky.social & @markey.senate.gov & @warren.senate.gov: as a constituent, I want to know how the Democratic demands regarding DHS funding will address the fact that ICE believes it may round up people they “suspect” are undocumented, rather than having a warrant. #mapoli

Brave of Anthropic to post their Ls.

there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement: they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.

So very grateful for and to everyone who keeps showing up right now. Thank you so much.

It's official. Abiding by the deal struck between Trump & Schumer, Senate has severed the DHS appropriations from the rest of the minibus, sending the bill back to the House for final passage. DHS will get a 2-week continuing resolution, during which both parties will campaign on Trump's fascism

istfg we're so fucking tired y'all

Great piece from someone who really understands how these flights work

A thing about certain funny women like Catherine O’Hara—I think also and especially of Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn—is that it’s hard often to describe why or even how they’re funny. They just are.

🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?

I love “adjust your priors and let’s get to work” and now want to end all my talks this way

A lot of my thinking over the last several years has been radically shaped by the path breaking work done here by @shastingssimon.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social. We are fully in the mid-transition now. Adjust your priors and lets get to work!

You could start here, if you're wondering where to begin. Some other comrades of mine are working on more analysis like this for refineries in California; stay tuned and i'll share that once it's out later this year.

Hey guys check this out tl;dr modeling of the 'energy transition' has been critically incomplete for as long as any of you have been thinking about it. It's been done assuming X changes, but all other things remain somewhat equal. Fine in a numerical model; not how the real world works.

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Did you see this @banditelli.org ?

#iceout #boston #today The city is representing In Copley Square in front of BPL. Gives me #hope!

If... "you screw up your economy trying to drastically reduce your emissions" Ah, which country is doing that (or even trying to do that)? Countries deploying wind, solar, EVs, etc, seem to be doing just fine to me. Modelling does not suggest that climate policy screws your economy either. 1/

Many people are asking "why don't other politicians do this" and the answer is BECAUSE they don't want you to understand this shit and they want you to just trust they know what they're doing when they're secretly fuck you over. Look at the funding bill!

Grumpbeak

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." That's from a group of more than a dozen prominent climate scientists. Probably nothing.

Really don't understand why we need to have this debate on here every few days. It's not that complicated. Voting is necessary, but it's not sufficient. You HAVE TO vote. In primaries and local elections, not just every 4 years. But in between you have to be engaged. Call, write, volunteer.

Dear World: what will it take to convince you to boycott the World Cup and Olympics? Does this help? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Doing the thing to mock it is still doing the thing. Don’t do the thing.

It is becoming impossible to distinguish between sarcastic criticisms of terrible A.I. and genuine praise of terrible A.I. so please, for the love of God: STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I. TO CREATE AWFUL THINGS JUST TO POINT AT THEM AND LAUGH AT HOW AWFUL THEY ARE.

my favorite part of the melania movie is when dorothy’s house falls on her

My entire class just got up and walked out. There's a big protest planned downtown with all of the high schools in the area. The kids are alright.

Me yelling at CT Senator Chris Murphy to do something more substantial. Definitely post on your rep's social accounts - their staff sees it and reports back!

Call to DEFUND. Do NOT vote to continue funding, this is a stopgap measure. "More training" will NOT work with these racist goons!! Call out Schumer and Jeffries for their lack of leadership!!!!! DO SOMETHING BESIDES MAKING OUTRAGED VIDEOS!! Use that white male privilege, Chris!!!

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!

I said this about NYS gov Kathy Hochul, but plenty of other folks can have some too

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

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No Kings has been absolutely essential to building up the numbers and resources for our ICE watch and is posed to become a direct recruitment platform

There are a bunch of protests on Saturday in smallish Florida towns in parts of the state where you really wouldn't have expected protests in past decades. For all that parts of this site dumped on No Kings, it seems to have helped build something that's now capable of operating independently.

Autocrats are existentially invested in delegitimizing protesters. They otherize/vilify them to undercut the validity of their grievances. And of course to justify violence against them. I write that with detachment as an academic. And then I read his words again and I'm deeply deeply sickened.

At the end of the day doesn’t matter if we like/admire folks they decide to test out full blown authoritarian violations of the constitution on. It matters that we fight for everyone to be protected by the constitution. Solidarity is not the same as fandom or friendship, solidarity is what wins.

I'm not sure how Microsoft's "we understand that people don't trust Windows 11" and "We're going to put even more AI into it" are reconcilable.

Goodnight

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early