New Loom! Peter and I set our sights on a classic. writersloom.org/2026/02/05/p...

More new Loom late at night! Peter and I tackle a big one here. writersloom.org/2026/02/05/p...

Writers’ Loom returns! Norman and I offer some thoughts on a major Oscar contender. writersloom.org/2026/02/02/n...

Loom returns! Late-night reading for those with a cinematic bent. writersloom.org/2026/02/02/n...

@1988toppspodcast.bsky.social Caught up on the last two episodes. Wretched Bengals losing that athletic competition to the A’s is just some classic ineptitude from the team I loathe to love

Made that holiday gift certificate last

Bring on some delight

This is still unacceptable. There is no reform possible for a culture of lawlessness. You have to rip it up at the root and create a whole new culture.

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend

So good, this album. Just so damn good

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

I regret to inform you that a DC Examiner reporter who tweeted that Border Patrol was leaving the Twin Cities has deleted her post, and as a result I deleted my post sharing what she reported

Looking forward to good cheer from the estimable @kuzmatt9.bsky.social and @davidmcellis.bsky.social!

Pick. A. Side. If you turn away from what's happening and have ANY political power, you've made your choice. You're supporting the killing and kidnapping of innocent people. And people around the US -- and the world -- are bearing witness.

Will never understand, after watching Rahm absolutely shit the bed as Chicago’s mayor—from closing public mental health clinics to all the shady stuff around Laquan McDonald’s murder—why people keep going back to this callow, craven, soulless person for anything about effective politics.

I feel the same way now as I felt the night of J6. I know now after going through the aftermath of that what their playbook is in these situations - to cover up, lie, rewrite history. We can only hope that there are enough decent Americans now who won’t let them do it again.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

no matter what trump or anyone in his administration or any republican or any random shit online says happened to alex pretti, we know what we saw. never forget that you KNOW what you fucking saw.

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

The Policy Director for the President of the United States said that the VA nurse was murdered because he was an “assassin.” And not one Republican in Congress will say a god damn word about because they are spineless cowards.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Eight soldiers (and one officer) who fired on colonists at the Boston Massacre were arrested almost immediately. By the loyalist governor. No video evidence. No debating “was that snowball a musket.” The fucking British we revolted against understood justice better than our government does now.

Blood on the snow in Minneapolis. Abolishing ICE is the *compromise*

This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.

Let’s be clear: anyone defending the Trump Administration after watching masked, anonymous agents assault a man, pepper spray him, then fire 5+ rounds into his back is irretrievably complicit in political terrorism.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Any news organization that quotes Bovino saying the victim intended to “massacre” agents and doesn’t say that is a damnable lie disproved by the videos is not a serious news organization.

Fucking decades of lies and horseshit and the power of armed individualism mixed in with centuries of oppression and millennia of state supported violence

MH is uniformly on point and I hope he’s right in this thread

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Stunning, really

There it is. He was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. They executed a man for exercising his 2nd amendment right.

New video shows the man who was killed moments before the shooting. He was peacefully standing in the street observing before ICE agents started pushing him for no reason.

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.

@markharris.bsky.social You called that Kate Hudson nomination like the pro you are. Well done, sir

Can I screencap this and drop it on every contact in my phone? I don’t delete numbers, so like the woman I dated for six weeks in early 2019 might be annoyed. Pretty small price to pay. Shit—I always say any silly old Loom playlist is worth posting on the chance even one song reaches one person.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Nearly three years old, this post. Here’s hoping it does the job writersloom.org/2023/02/08/h...

Things are accelerating. Find your people and get ready to defend your neighbors, friends.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

The courts won't save us.