Braved the cold to check out the new Studio Museum space. So glad they’re back

Minneapolis police are now showing up with riot cops to stop peaceful potluck protests now. All in service to protecting fascist death squads. Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors

No, they cannot be reformed.

rekt lmao

Pennsylvania GOP state rep. Joanne Stehr on the concentration camps being built in her area: “I’m saying ICE has a job to do, and it’s going to get done. We are taking out the trash.”

I should have done time tracking to see how long I've spent on job applications

I don’t know if this counts as a watershed moment or whatever but it is significant that even the NYT has to drop the pretense and call it what it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.

Important to run a candidate who has actually held elected office in New York before, i.e., someone who has even the vaguest chance of winning

Recalling a recent conversation wherein the prospect of tenure no longer existing in red states was called alarmism

"Lizzie's a terrific reporter who's done great work in a very difficult situation for us, and I'm incredibly grateful to her and in awe of her courage and her talent. I don't blame her for being upset. That's a natural reaction, and it's understandable," Matt Murray on firing a reporter in Ukraine.

I feel like what we consider reactionary is what they consider tech optimism

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

This is the correct frame—SRG as the specific organizational unit is not the issue, it’s the people in the unit and their actions that are the issue

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who take money from GEO Group + CoreCivic. Find out if your reps have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. Published in @theappeal.org + @inthesetimes.com. theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Actually hard to imagine any progressive other than Zohran himself having a real shot at that office in the near future.

Remember this is a guy who named a programming system that he developed after a porn actress because he thought it was a funny way to mock a female pioneer in his field.

Personally I do not think that there was a “shift” in perception on age of consent in the last 10-15 years… I think perception has been pretty consistent actually

I encourage people not to get too invested in the movement of tickers as a social justice cue lol

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Yeah sounds like a real committed educator

BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Felton bylined the best story WaPo did on the encampments www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

yeah of the newer forms that are emerging I am most positive on worker-owned publications

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

This is kind of wild -- the Los Angeles jails just had their 2nd in-custody death this month. It's the 9th in-custody death this year At this rate they'd be on track to more than 90 deaths this year.

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

compound interest lol

Nobody (Jeff Bezos) wants to work anymore

I would like to read some research examining where former knowledge economy workers end up. Plenty of journalists and academics will be forced out of their professions. What kind of work will we end up doing?

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

There was (and remains) a real journalistic opening for a super-robust news operation that isn't doing false equivalence. That's what's needed in the Trump era. That could have been the Post. Except its owner doesn't want that. newrepublic.com/article/2061...

WaPo firing "more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom"...

Billions of dollars in revenue left on the table here

ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

A rare misstep

Very cool that every professional sector I worked in is now in free fall

Are you a cop?

Yeah, if you’re a gun owner and masked goons show up on your doorstep…

Here is a link to the story. The Star Tribune analysis indicates that there are “fewer than 20” attorneys left. www.startribune.com/another-wave...

Was a big mistake to do a public private partnership.

Judge Simon here in Portland just granted the TRO in the ICE use of force case. The first three sentences are pretty haunting.