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Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

This is incredible.

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

“If passed, the SAVE Act will disenfranchise 20 million voters.”

Trump has pushed the Republicans to hold a vote in the House this week.

Call your Rep and your Senators.
202-224-3121

well, I didn’t have “why do you think a convicted rapist just said he was going to kill himself because he was fat on tv?” as a parenting chat today but

here we are

A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

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.

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on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

good morning to sociologists from this historian.

I’m very comfortable and cozy on the D-list, being known mostly by children and bisexual librarians, but every now and then I think it would be fun to be famous just for one or two reasons, and this is never more true than when I remember The Muppet Show

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JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

She thought ICE agents were taking her to school. The 10-year-old ended up 1,200 miles away at a detention facility By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — More than an hour before dawn, on a pitch-black street lined with heaps of Minnesota snow, 10-year-old Elizabeth Zuna

She thought they would take her to school. 😡

“…fed agents’ vehicles surrounded the family’s car…Elizabeth thought the agents were going to take her to school…Instead, the aspiring doctor & her mother were detained & flown 1,200 mi…to the South TX Family Residential Ctr in Dilley.” shorturl.at/Qc4OK

students lead

this AP headline is written correctly.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

This is not hyperbole. What Miller is trying to do in IN & TN is a direct assault on democracy and what we did during slavery and what happened in Nazi germany.

Miller wants to turn all public institutions into immigration enforcement and create a snitch state. It would the end of democratic rule.

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

so i guess 'democracy dies in darkness' was not a caution but rather the business plan.

the company-state continues apace

@mpgphd.bsky.social I have writing to do I guess

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

please watch:

No, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself

I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with

Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth

N.H. weighs felony-level offense to stop illegal immigrants from renting an apartment - The Boston Globe “Illegal aliens are not welcome in the Granite State,” said the bill’s sponsor. “We will continue to make sure that there is nowhere they can live.”

This is like laws preventing Germans from giving Jews safe harbor www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...

yknow after ~19 years we’re making progress

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

Thinking of Giselle Pellicot today and her assertion that “shame must change sides.”

Our society MUST do more to ostracize abusers instead of the victims who are made to feel like the only way forward is alone and in silence.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...