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My aunt and uncle went without power for 2.5 months after Maria. My grandfather who lives in San Juan went even longer. The power lines were the most impactful image of many tonight.

truly, I love that 20-year-olds are still learning to love a crockpot.

I am an unrepentant Superbowl Scrooge & was happily home all day after a week+ of Way Too Much Stuff, but I am still embarrassed that when I went for my little afternoon walk to drop my compost I was briefly confused about why all the undergrads were so clearly en route to a party, crockpots & all.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

this is appropriate!

it's 35 degrees in Minneapolis today and I just spotted my first dude (appropriately) wearing shorts.

imagine graduating with your journalism degree in 2008.

To clarify: this isn’t a program run by Delta. They may not even know it’s happening. You fill out the form offering to donate miles. Someone in need fills out their own form, and a volunteer contacts you. You book the ticket yourself for the person in need.

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

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Superb Owl.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

As myself and others within the academic and research world have been clearly pointing out this has all been counterinsurgency, not actual on the ground changes
Elite media is helping to amplify that counter insurgency propaganda in place of the reality that nothing on the ground here has changed

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

We just sent $285 from our fund. Rachel and Ashley are trusted organizers. Let’s get these needs met ♥️

if I gather a group I will let you know! I think we're just cutting brush and setting it on fire, meanwhile. :)

I would be there in a heartbeat if I hadn't committed to a prairie restoration workday / badly need to touch some frozen grass! have a super time!

my only hot take about grad school this week is that I finally made it to "congrats, here is the key to a tiny room in the library that is all yours" status, a situation I have coveted since I was 19 years old.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

since people ask me about this a lot, here are my recommended starting points

(I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)

just thinking about how much of a social good it is to have healthcare lets us live our lives, on top of the part ~~so many don't have in this country~~ where it also keeps us alive.

I have access to affordable, ungatekept physical therapy for the first time in a long time and paying $10/appt to just have a SAFETY NET as I try to bring strength training back into my life after 5 years of unpredictable back pain relapses & fear is...simultaneously both astoundingly simple & huge.

ooh but that sounds cool.

okay 1.
just started Clariel (I never read past Lirael until now) and it is annoying the shit out of me, maybe because it is in a timeline where the goths aren't cool, tho I'm told Stuff Will Happen.
2.
tell me more about "other weird necromancer books" (besides Locked Tomb obv)

me, 5 feet tall and rounded by winter layering, covering my face for warmth with my hand-knit scarf during school patrol: "does this make me look too scary?"

What if this is what we paid for when we paid our taxes

What if we all got to have a home

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The Billie Eilish Doctrine of Discovery

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.