Interested in learning more about how men can start the conversation around reproductive rights? Join us at our upcoming #SXSW panel "In This Together: Power, Partnership & Reproductive Freedom" on March 15 in Austin, Texas: bit.ly/3ZIC4FK

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state House seat in Arkansas. This is their 2nd flip of a legislative seat so far in 2025 (after a Texas flip in January), & it adds to a tremendous trend that started last year, when they flipped 21% of all GOP-held seats in play: boltsmag.org/legislative-...

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

This is like the worst Onion article ever. The End Gun Violence banner that travels around to the last mass shooting

#Fayetteville #Arkansas

Remember the announcement a few years back that @stephenking was going to have writing residencies at his former home in Maine? They're now open for applications stkfoundation.org/writers-resi...

This week's comic: Is It Spring Yet? foxtrot.com/2026/03/01/i...

Calling your reps and senators can feel really nerve racking at first. We actually did an episode about this on How to Save a planet which I cannot fucking find but an easy solution is to do it with a friend. The more you do it the less stressful it gets.

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

On this #MSWL day I’m looking for serious nonfiction on the American Civil War era by writers doing meaningful research and translating their findings for a broad public - military history, social and political history, major figure biography. For @uncpress.bsky.social Civil War America series.

NEW FROM ME: The deportation plane stuck in the blizzard took off this morning after 31 hours, but not before exposing a much bigger problem with exceedingly long delays on ICE flights. With exclusive interviews and photos taken by local ICE flight watchers. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportat...

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Confirmed. My story here: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races. This is a great way to do that:

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Another long-haul deportation flight likely in progress. This will be Omni’s 20th ICE trip in the 7 1/2 weeks we’ve been in 2026. Dozens of blue state and swing state public-employee retirement funds are invested in Omni’s private-equity owner, Stonepeak.

There is, quite literally, a rebellion rising up from below in the name of God. The regime knows its potential. It knows it can inspire even more resistance. And it’s taking steps to crush it.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ plans to build a mega prison in a rural county have stalled after lawmakers refused to release funding for the project, with its costs now estimated at more than $1 billion.

If you want to keep PBS programming in Arkansas, please go to friendsofarkansaspbs.org and sign the petition. This disastrous, shortsighted decision must be reversed. #arpx #arnews

My dad gave me some old disposable cameras he'd never developed, with expiration dates dating to the early 2000s. I just developed the first one and found photos of my grandpa, who died in 2010—one on his little red tractor, and one walking in his garden with my childhood pet dog behind him. 🥹

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

By The First Amendment Troop, and the piece is entitled, "ResistDance."

I’ve got some abolitionist family who lived in Kane County - I’ll have to check out whether they connect. (Mine came from Red Oak Presbyterian Church in Ripley, Ohio. Rev. Gilliland is an ancestor of mine - some of his children moved west.

Historian here 💯 what Minnesotans have done is show the way in protecting our modern interracial democracy, a legacy of Reconstruction when its foundations were laid.

PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.) 14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave. Minnesota may be at an all-time high. THREAD 1 of 4 🧵

'The founding generation believed in the ideal so much they put it on the Seal of the United States – "E Pluribus Unum," or "out of many, one."'

Reminder: Never take “coolness” tips from Bob Jones University grads named Asa.

Liam has been on my mind constantly the past 2 weeks. This picture was seared into my brain; it is evidence of the total lack of humanity within this administration. Many thanks to @danilawaart.bsky.social for allowing me to recreate this beautiful work as crop art. #cropart #iceout #jamesbaldwin

#arpx Hurrah!

No Kings 3.0--Hold the date: March 28 For more details, see www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Please sign up via Mobilize — this really helps INWA with planning large events like this one! Also, be sure to sign up for Mobilize text alerts to receive updates.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception – a myth propagated by a punditry vying for relevance, hellbent on presenting grandiose reckonings and sweeping narratives rather than careful empirical assessments.

Mine too!

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

This whole thread (from a didn’t-used-to-be-immigration lawyer in Minnesota) is worth reading, but I’m specifically sharing the posts surrounding the one for my many health folks. This is what the resistance against ICE is fighting to save people from.

Federal agents abducted two people in Uptown, Minneapolis this morning at 6:45am. Boxed in their car in the middle of a major commercial street (Lagoon) and smashed out their window.

If you are looking at 100 whistles and thinking "I don't know that I could give that many away," one of our group members (who is incredibly involved at all levels) has written a guide for how to use whistles as a catalyst to talk to and organize your neighbors. www.riotgrrrlrevolution.org/help

Thread!

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

For a story I'm working on, I'd love to talk to VOTERS who: -Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change -Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice -Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON

What can you do with a history degree?

I am quite willing to concede that my sister, who is decidedly more Arkansan than I am, is more civilized than I am.

After the interview with a fellow from Arkansas now living in Minnesota, we get a gobsmacking explanation of why ICE is treating Arkansas and Minnesota folks differently: Arkansans are more “civilized.” Not gonna lie: I’ll be holding this over my brother for a while.

The Wagoner History Center (in OK) will host a #BHM presentation honoring Black soldiers. #USCT "They Fought Like Veterans" will center on the First Kansas Colored Infantry and their role in the Civil War campaigns in Indian territory. www.fox23.com/news/histori... #tellthemwhatwedid

I wrote this thread up into an article and revived my old Medium account to host: medium.com/@katestarbir... I explain how Bannon's comments of "ICE surrounding polls" are a strategic attempt to exploit our outrage to advance his goals of voter suppression — and how we can redirect that attack.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.