Rest in power. You gave us all so much in such a short time. Thank you.

So I’m watching Suddenly Amish and it really feels like nobody was told what this show was about when they signed up. “What do you mean I can’t have my nails and eyelashes! What do you mean there’s a dress code!” Maybe learn one single thing about a culture before trying to join it.

It’s not illegal to dine with Jeffrey Dahmer. (I chewed the entree, but didn’t swallow.) There’s nothing untoward about getting tax advice from Al Capone. You can’t charge a person for being a pen pal of Ted Kaczynski. There’s nothing illegal about trying on boots with Benito Mussolini.

"Speech and debate is not for the chickenshit." God, I love Starfleet Academy.

Sign for an ICE protest: "Get the hell out of our galaxy!"

Yesssssssss

GIFT OBITUARY A relatively unknown and unappreciated individual who helped all of us who regularly use, and frequently rely upon, GPS. wapo.st/4q5tv2n

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

In the past year, librarians have had death threats, defunding, political firings, and 27 new James Patterson books. Unleashing your sassmouth on me because you waited until the very last minute to do your assignment isn’t super effective.

“Kamala warned us” Fuck you Palestinians warned you Black people warned you The Left warned you Half the international community warned you The US slide into fascism has been long and slow. Many have been falsely imprisoned or killed by it over decades. It just finally came for you.

A general strike + government shutdown + mass protests - all happening at the same time, is the only thing that they can’t control. Economic pain that oligarchs can’t profit from. The people must be too big to ignore. Too big to fail.

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

One thing we should definitely NOT do is flood the DOJ with prank applications. Because that would be very, very wrong.

“Hundreds march in Madison, Milwaukee to protest Trump immigration enforcement The anti-ICE protest was part of a day of action across the country organized in reaction to the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in Minneapolis.” wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/01/30/h...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Someone I’m vaguely in a writer’s group with is having a conniption because there’s an Asian lady in Bridgerton and HISTORICAL ACCURACY and THE AUTHOR’S VISION and my sister in literature: You are incorrect, first of all, and second—even if you weren’t, it’s 100% wish fulfillment.

A lot of people who thought folks were just being hyperbolic about fascism and concentration camps are apologizing now, right?

A lot of smart people with their hearts in the right places are astonishingly ignorant of our own history. It doesn’t undermine the horrors of today to acknowledge that a lot of of what we are seeing did in fact happen during the civil rights movement.

If Target’s having financial problems they need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps & stop being a drain on society & expecting everyone else to take care of them.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

If you had arresting journalists on your fascism bingo card, grab your dauber.

TFW when you wake up to low water pressure and are worried about frozen pipes but it's "just" a water main break on your street.

What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country. They didn't think we would. We do.

just a reminder: if fire hydrants near where you live are buried in snow after this week’s storms, it’s a mitzvah (and a gooooood workout!) to dig out around that hydrant so fire crews can get to it faster if need be.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Ellison: "We have the right as a state, as a co-sovereign, to do our own business with our own tax money. What the federal govt has said is, 'if you don't do it our way, we're gonna saturate your state with 4,000 ICE agents until you cry uncle and obey us.' That's unconstitutional and illegal."

🚨 #GVerse #BreakingNews: Jacksonville, Florida, tonight. A march has arrived at the United States Courthouse. From Minnesota to Florida, the message is the same: People are showing up, and they’re not backing down. ABOLISH ICE 🔥 #ICEdOut #BlueToTheCore #TogetherWeRise

Solidarity

BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

I've been reading & reviewing all day, with a little Postcrossing as a treat.

Drip your faucets, stay inside.

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out

Yesterday, 400 people protest in front of Immigration Court in Concord, CA. ICE has been detaining people here before and after their immigration hearings. #abolishice #IndivisibleResistersContraCosta youtu.be/Ht27BEHmrEI?...

Highland Park. Callowhill Street. Caller says that their neighbor is cleaning off their car and looks really bothered and upset. Caller wants PD to see if he's okay.

we’re right about ai too

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...

Do you understand they are weak and their violence comes from weakness? If we fight them together, if we link arms, if we say enough in one voice, they will crumble and we will be free to create something better, something we deserve. I’m begging. Please. See it. Know it.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

Gen Z doesn't love Harry Potter because its author is transphobic.

'autistic people are terrible at reading social cues' says allistic person who cannot read social cues of autistic people

this isn't The Big Win but it is a big win and people should feel great about it.

It’s ok to be happy Bovino is leaving. We all know it’s not the end. But it might make things slightly better here in Minnesota for a few weeks and that would be welcome. Or it might not. But at least we won’t see that fuck at Target.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Oregon said Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent letter to Minnesota reinforced unease about how the Justice Department is wielding its authority in its nationwide push for state voter rolls, suggesting the administration’s campaign may be driven by improper motives.