Tim Watson

Flyer that reads: Emergency Protest From Miami to MPLS Stop ICE Terror! Friday Jan 30th 7PM Torch of Friendship 301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami FL 33132

Anti-ICE demonstration on Friday in downtown Miami at the Torch of Friendship, 7PM

Interesting editorial choice to include a photo of Stephen Miller and Katie Miller together in this story, as Katie Miller is from South Florida (grew up in Weston).

‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms

Small sign of the times: my Republican state senator, on the record, saying, "I do think that he [Trump] will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller." (Gift link).

A page from Always Coming Home. Text reads: "TIME AND THE CITY The City The word kach, city, was not used of the commu-nities of the Valley or its neighbors; small or The large, they were all called choum, town. Stone Telling calls the Condor towns kach, trans-lating their word; normally the word was used only in two com-pounds: tavkach, the City of Man, and yaivkach, the City of Mind. Both of these words need some explaining. YAIVKACH: THE CITY OF MIND. Some eleven thousand sites all over the planet were occupied by inde-pendent, self-contained, self-regulating communities of cybernetic de-vices or beings-computers with mechanical extensions. This network of intercommunicating centers formed a single entity, the City of Mind. Yaivkach meant both the sites or centers and the whole network or entity. Most of the sites were small, less than an acre, but several huge desert Cities served as experimental stations and manufacturing centers or contained accelerators, launching pads, and so on. All City facilities were underground and domed, to obviate damage to or from the local environment. It appears that an ever-increasing number were located on other planets or bodies of the solar system, in satellites, or in probes voyaging in deep space. The business of the City of Mind was, apparently, the business of any species or individual: to go on existing. Its existence consisted essentially in information. Its observable activity was entirely related to the collection, storage, and collation of data, including the historical records of cybernetic and human populations back as far as material was available from docu-mentary or archaeological evidence; description and history of all life"

Page from Always Coming Home. Text reads: "forms on the planet, ancient and current; physical description of the material world on all levels from the subatomic through the chemical, geological, biological, atmospheric, astronomical, and cosmic, in the historical, current, and predictive modes; pure mathematics; math-ematical description and prediction derived from data in statistical form; exploration and mapping of the interior of the planet, the depths and superfices of the continents and seas, other bodies in the solar sys-tem including the sun, and an expanding area of near interstellar space; research and development of technologies ancillary to the collection, storage, and interpretation of data; and the improvement and contin uous enhancement of the facilities and capacities of the network as a whole-in other words, conscious, self-directed evolution. It appears that this evolution proceeded consistently in the direct linear mode. Evidently it was in the interest of the City to maintain and foster the diversity of forms and modes of existence which made up the substance of the information which informed their existence-I apologise for the tautology but find it inevitable under the circumstances. Everything was grist to the Mind's mill; therefore they destroyed nothing. Neither did they foster anything. They seem not to have interfered in any way with any other species. Metals and other raw materials needed for their physical plants and technical experimentation were mined by their robot extensions in poi soned areas or on the Moon and other planets; this exploitation seems to have been as careful as it was efficient. The City had no relation to ject of their observation, a source of data. Their relation to the animal plant life at all, except as it was the sub-similarly restricted, with one exception: communication, the two-way similarly restricted. Their relation to the human species was world was exchange of information."

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin — and I can't be the only one amazed to read her prescient description of AI data centers in the PNW.

As you've been saying for a while now!

Cover of Virginia Transportation Research Council report "A survey of anti-icing practice in Virginia" with an illustration of a snowplow, an outline of the state of Virginia, and a "no" icon over an illustration of ice.

The ICE Resistance That You’re Not Seeing Our screens may be bursting with graphic images of the ICE occupation, but the bulk of the work is boring, invisible—and absolutely vital.

"So much of the resistance is either carried out by women or coded as women’s work—unheralded, boring, unglamorous, and mostly undocumented."

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

The brilliant organizing on the ground in the Twin Cities is also leading to some brilliant on the ground reporting and writing.

I love that ICE Watch has turned the word "commuters" from a grim descriptor of American life to a symbol of community protection.

I love this poem so much, and my students found it hard when I taught it a couple of years ago, but a group recitation is a great idea for a transformative experience.

(The poem did prompt a couple of students to recount their own moose encounters, which was great bc we don't see many in Miami)

Many are making this same point more eloquently than me tonight.

A vivid account of the incredible organization in Minneapolis.

The murder of Alex Pretti was the tragic tipping point, but looking back a month, even two weeks: the bravery and the organization of people on the ground in the Twin Cities, those group chats, their witnessing, their mutual aid: *that's* where this political sea change came from. Thank you.

The cumulative visual effect of this thread brings home so powerfully that ICE/CBP's whole aesthetic just *is* armed MAGA protest (without the Trump flags, at least so far).

Thank you to @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social for documenting this.

Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25 January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears ... [They] are lying in defiance of obvious truths"—NYT Editorial Board, Jan. 25, 2026.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"—Orwell, _1984_.

of all the rittenhouse posts I've seen in the last 24 hours, this is the one

That sounds highly likely to me. My speculation is that it's precisely because he has a challenge from the left that Moskowitz signaled to Jeffries that he had to keep a low profile on this vote (he may not have voted, in fact?). Jeffries voted no while knowing that the bill would pass, I think.

Caveat: I'm no expert on Broward/Palm Beach county politics. Or House of Representatives politics for that matter.

Here is the bluesky profile for Oliver Larkin, the DSA candidate challenging Moskowitz.

Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) is one of the most conservative Dems in the House, so it was striking to me that he was *not* one of the 7 House Dems who voted for the DHS/ICE funding bill last week. I also note is facing an energetic primary challenge from a local DSA candidate who has raised >$100K.

And it was in that context that Thomas Paine's claim that "a government of our own is our natural right" sounded like common sense. (Plus he called the king an ass.) Who is our Paine today?

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

Yes. But not a TRC that offers amnesty in exchange for testimony (as they did in South Africa).

alex pretti had more courage than jeffries ever will

He died exercising his First Amendment rights. He was a lawful gun owner. Anyone with eyes can see he was holding nothing more than a phone. He was executed while restrained by five men. These are crimes against humanity.

Now do the World Cup

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I am not on the ground but @aktange.bsky.social is, and she recommended a local grocery store that is providing food boxes and has links on its site to other local orgs. I donated to Neighborhood House and the Hummingbird Initiative.