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Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

Women's hockey tournament quarterfinals are set!

Friday:
Czechia vs Sweden - 10:40 AM Eastern
USA vs Italy - 3:10 PM Eastern

Saturday:
Canada vs Germany - 10:40 AM Eastern
Finland vs Switzerland - 3:10 PM Eastern

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.

"There is no way around the truth that any solutions proffered to ICE violence that fail to strike at the heart of the system that underpins it will leave the door open to resurgence in current and new forms."

New piece from @dreanyc123.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cannot believe Team Canada puts me in the position of rooting for a roster that has Tom Wilson on it. Should be illegal!

How does Sid warm up at the Olympics without the McDonald's M

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

Your overwhelming enthusiasm for this episode has now crashed Substack.

An acceptable casualty. Let’s do Spotify next.

Moon Palace Books Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.

it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

"That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

born to write poetry in the woods. forced to develop compelling, insight-led copy across all channels, from brand platforms and campaigns to social, digital, film, and experiential

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

As a parent, it's nearly impossible to read these stories without breaking down.

It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home.

The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.

The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.

My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Some of them even have these fancy things called "websites" that you can order from!

Bookstores and small/university presses will always get the most money if you order directly from them. It's a bit less convenient for you, but the benefit to local economies far outweighs convenience to me.

Just a reminder that your choices to buy books are not a binary between Beff Jezos and an alternative that has now partnered with Spotify! Please just email or call your closest indie bookstore (even if it's several hours away), order directly through them, and pay their shipping!

Spotify branches into physical books through Bookshop.org partnership Spotify has partnered with Bookshop.org to enable listeners in the US and the UK to purchase physical books via the Spotify app, connecting audiobook discovery with physical ownership.

Disappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...

Annihilation (2018)

Williamsburg Changes, But Toñita Still Reigns - Hell Gate For 50 years, Maria Antonia "Toñita" Cay has overseen the Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg. It's now the last Puerto Rican social club in Brooklyn.

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg.

Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

TL;DR We want clout for having ASL performers but we won't actually show them on TV because god forbid the normals have to see a disabled person
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

LAUSD students walk out in protest of ICE raids Students from Boyle Heights to Koreatown marched for immigrant rights and safe schools as similar national protests continue in reaction to federal enforcement action.

This is an organizing tradition in East L.A.

“For decades, student-led walkouts on the Eastside have served as a powerful tool for activism, dating back to the 1968 East LA Blowouts that shed light on inequalities for Mexican Americans in the public education system.”

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them