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one of the most sure-fire signs that someone is on team anti-trans (even if they don't explicitly state their own position) is when they go out of their way to defend ppl who misgender & express irrational anger toward trans folks. they give *them* the benefit of doubt, but not us

I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.

I Discovered This Amazing Food in Prison My friend gave me one of his signature rice bowls. At first, I worried it would taste bad. But it was so good that I decided to make my own.

My friend introduced me to his signature rice bowls. It was so good I decided to make my own.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

No Kings includes Draft Kings

People: 8-Month-Old Baby Goes Viral After Hairdresser Mom Gave Her a 'Fresh' Set of 22 Inch Extensions (Exclusive)

Baby with 22inch hair extensions

This photo is funnier than it has any business being

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Inside the resistance with Will Stancil "It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."

"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."

In no functioning country is this allowed.

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

"Imagine if we actually followed the Constitution."

Today, on my patrol, we had people joining who had randomly driven across the country to do ICE watch with zero vetting, who were visibly unfamiliar with the city or rapid response practices, who had gotten the link from an acquaintance. Beyond bonkers to allow those people but not, say, CNN.

someone make a fed group chat and just add them all in by themselves and have them entrap each other

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.

Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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The New York Times When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.

Gregory Bovino Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf. 22.01.2026, 17.09 Uhr

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

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.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

It's not just the St. Paul Doubletree.
The Intercontinental in downtown St Paul is also shutting for now.
According to the Pioneer Press, they're both operated by an indigenous tribe, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.

FYI, ICE has been arresting Native Americans.

www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/h...

Not just Mexican restaurants. Many places are doing this, including some McDonald’s and supermarkets.

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.

The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

we’re in an epidemic of white ladies making the 🧊 raids about them on instagram

"Fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme"

Monster of 2025: AI slop The drive for a frictionless existence has sloppified our offline lives, too.

In 2025, AI slop is everywhere. The best way to beat it is systemic change, regulatory overhaul. But the second-best way is by rebelling against it in our everyday lives.

That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

The trade war’s hidden victims: Beginner musicians and school music budgets This holiday season, aspiring musicians may be priced out before they ever unwrap their first instrument—courtesy of US tariff policy. With eight months of trade data to assess, the effects of the Tru...

Choking off the supply of student-grade instruments with tariffs means fewer players (and customers) for US instrument makers down the line.

This is eating an industry's seed corn. My latest for @piie.com.

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Illustration of some whale sharks. The colors used in this image are mainly blue gradients and pink. They are all smiling and swimming happily

Whales sharks 🦈🫧
#art #sharks