I saw Jesse Jackson speak at Univ. of Illinois to a couple thousand students and faculty in 89 or 90. It started slowly, deliberately, and just when I was thinking that it might be an off night for him. It built in power and volume and speed and energy until the entire auditorium was on our feet.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

RIP Frederick Wiseman, one of America’s greatest filmmakers. The link below goes to his film’s available for streaming through Kanopy.

Yes great point, it has been a dry and warm year: www.du.edu/news/record-...

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

#GiftArticle It’s later than you think.

Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."

Extremely funny that the U.S. is going to become a zombie patent monopoly, all the mRNA tech in the world and none of the societal benefits, transnational corporations giving that shit to Canadians like Halloween candy as we try to cross Niagara Falls by barrel like it’s 1832

“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

ICE officials said he ran into a wall, which doctors immediately rejected as inconsistent with the wounds. The immigrant's account - that he was beaten in the head by steel batons, contrary to DHS guidelines - is more plausible. But no accountability exists for him, or us. apnews.com/article/immi...

EIGHT skull fractures. FIVE brain bleeds. And they still tried to lie and say he did it to himself.

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Days after covering a protest last week, I realized I had been shot with a new so-called "less-lethal" munition that the LAPD is using more commonly at protests: the FN303. This week, Chief McDonnell said that officers used the FN303 because a judge banned the LAPD from using 40mm launchers.

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

Hypothetically…

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon wapo.st/4rtfCw8

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Update on the OSS Simple Sabotage Manual. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

FEBRUARY IS THE DEADLIEST MONTH FOR WILDLIFE ON ROADS via Guardians of Nature

This is your country Don’t let the big man take it away from you

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

The midterms are 10 months away, but Donald Trump is already meddling in them. Why a raid in Georgia today should concern everyone 👇

This needs to happen at the very least

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

Department of Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July #GiftArticle

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

@nytimes.com - Fix yourself

For Snowmageddon #Caturday Black Cat in Snow, Ross County, Ohio, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration Photographs, February 1940. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/202022...

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Just wow, Minneapolis.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

I’m ashamed.

Front page of tomorrow's Star Tribune.