Anne K Yoder

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

William H. Gass: The Tunnel | KCRW Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.

Michael Silverblatt was a great reader, a great talker, and a great champion of so many Dalkey Archive Press authors. We’ll be posting some of our favorite interviews all week.

Tonight, listen to his conversation with William H. Gass about “The Tunnel”: www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

Feds paid over $128.5 million for new ICE facility, deed shows Financial details surrounding the sale of a warehouse in Social Circle to the United States government have been made available. According to a deed obtained by reporters, the U.S. government paid …

The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

read that first paragraph if nothing else:

Discovering Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm was like happening upon a portal to significant books, writers, literary conversations and style. We are bereft, though in this moment especially I’m so grateful that @davidnaimon.bsky.social continues this important work

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer. 2:53 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 1.5M Views

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights.

When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Discord Alternatives:

-Paper and pen.
-Trained pigeons.
-Semaphore.
-Fire beacons in stone towers.

explaining my dream to my shrink

'Operation Dildo Blitz' Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50+ Arrests Protesters in Minneapolis threw sex toys at federal agents to protest ICE crackdown on immigrants. Arrests were made as demonstrators shouted insults. What drives people to such extreme actions in the fight for immigrant rights? #Immigration #Protest #ICECrackdown

One demonstrator said they attended the phallic protest, at which people pelted federal agents' vehicles with sex toys, "because "ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump."

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

We've all heard "no one is free until everyone is free" etc but I really do think the example of the abolitionists is instructive: they knew that tyranny is rapacious and insatiable, that it spreads, and that violence visited on one group serves to demean and terrorize everyone else.

Epstein class gets every benefit of every shadow of a doubt, the rest of us look at an ICE agent funny and we get pepper spray and a cracked skull

truth 🙏🏼 @jonathanjackson.house.gov

Nothing says prayer breakfast like concentration camps

The cover of the newest Chicago Reader, which features a huge photo of an egg that’s cracking open

My feature on Fire Talk Records’ Chicago-based imprint, Angel Tapes

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

AAAAAAAAAH

can’t not hear and see:

Steve Bannon proposes using ICE in elections Steve Bannon has said that ICE agents will "surround the polls" at the midterm elections in November.

Hard to overstate how unusual and dangerous it is that they are laying this groundwork so far ahead of the midterms.
www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.

alas! I grew up on the WaPo Books section, and in recent years, I so appreciated the coverage, especially given how few intact books sections remain.

What a loss for all of us: readers, writers, critics, etc. Thanks to you and your team for your criticism and coverage these past many years

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.