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Iโm Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.
08.02.2026 20:33 โ ๐ 12944 ๐ 2170 ๐ฌ 213 ๐ 159This woman is about to be my Rep.
HELL YES.
unsolicited advice in hindsight |
lesson from my body
do one less thing even if something isn't going to get done |
even something in the Signal
we haven't done 2026 before |
we're just humans
i know
i see you, hear you
(together) we keep us safe/r
"This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom." โ Carter G. Woodson
#tdih 1926, Woodson initiated Negro History Week which led to Black History Month. ๐งต
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
In light of Trumpโs post yesterday, some history:
โOn Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.โ www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
โHow to Resist Like Minneapolis.โ There are many versions of this advice floating around out there. But Iโll share this, since itโs good & since Iโm a Dessa fan. (She wrote this.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
06.02.2026 16:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think itโll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
06.02.2026 03:33 โ ๐ 670 ๐ 164 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 9Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!
04.02.2026 23:58 โ ๐ 1313 ๐ 337 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 18This made me tear up a little. Go Birds and F' Trump indeed
04.02.2026 23:10 โ ๐ 203 ๐ 69 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 22/2
How things happen has always been
unclear. Hurricanes begin
in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start
to wear masks. Fascism is
a word my neighbors wonโt use
yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens
are coming for someone else.
โCHARLES RAFFERTY
1/2
โThe Problem with Early Warningsโ
CHARLES RAFFERTY
People donโt like to leave a party
unless the house is actually
on fire. Even then, if the flames
are far enough away
to be pretty, theyโll finish
their drink, take one more pass
at the hors dโoeuvres.
Besieged by ICE and need whistles? See below.
Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.
This made me weepy
04.02.2026 01:38 โ ๐ 1761 ๐ 491 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 47With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, we decided to write a guide on what to do if ICE invades your neighborhood. Thereโs no single right way to approach a dangerous moment, but there are steps you can take to stay safe. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
30.01.2026 20:33 โ ๐ 347 ๐ 160 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1Since last year, weโve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and itโs getting harder to keep track of whatโs happening, let alone remember whatโs already happened.
So hereโs a quick thread to help.
The Judge who ordered the release of five-year-old Liam wrote quite an opinion. Come read it with me.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
02.02.2026 12:34 โ ๐ 5139 ๐ 1245 ๐ฌ 46 ๐ 10โAll over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.โ
02.02.2026 12:38 โ ๐ 1306 ๐ 609 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 6I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I canโt even find the words to describe the scale of Trumpโs corruption here.
If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
02.02.2026 12:03 โ ๐ 5053 ๐ 1484 ๐ฌ 67 ๐ 29New in PN: The regime moves to make journalism a crime
"The way heโs targeting the press isnโt just about quieting criticism so he doesnโt have to hear people being mean to him. Itโs the same impulse we see on the streets of Mpls: He wants to dominate those who oppose him and force them to submit."
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a โlarge deportationโ promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
02.02.2026 00:52 โ ๐ 5792 ๐ 2034 ๐ฌ 50 ๐ 13Maybe Liam is too wee yet for Spider-Verse, but I โค๏ธ Miles Morales and Nueva York is covered in snow too!
Much thanks to @julioanta.bsky.social for the translation so that I could include both spideys.
#Comics4Liam FREE THE CHILDREN!!! Shutter forever these evil detention centers; ABOLISH ICE.
Steve would like to show you his favourite rock.
Thanks, Steve. It's a great rock.
A must read investigation into a Mexican immigrant with no criminal record who was hospitalized in Minneapolis with multiple skull fractures while in ICE custody.
Federal agents claim he ran headfirst into a wall. Doctors determined that was impossible.
abc7ny.com/post/ice-min...
If you're watching this, the government is shut down.
Reporter Jacob Bogage breaks down which services are open and which are closed during the shutdown. https://wapo.st/4alk8qJ
Read this story not just for the ending but to see how the secret police treated this woman. Guns drawn. Dragged out of her car. Because she was observing them.
31.01.2026 15:03 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Four minutes of your day. Watch this video of children at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, reading their beautiful writing aloud.
To ICE: "I think you should make friends with the world."
What a privilege to get a glimpse of this sunlit, caring school community.