Drew Daniel

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

There’s no turning back now!

Whoah! Congrats!

HIs notable silence signifies racist aversion but also perhaps an intuitive awareness that King’s legacy is MAGA kryptonite, too strong for him to touch- the civil rights struggle is vivid evidence that the America his base wants to return to was an oppressive era of Jim Crow brutality.

The Artists Challenging Taboos to Start a Conversation About Suicide Niall McCarthy, Hannah Perry and Lauryn Youden use first-hand experiences of loss to critique the systems that can contribute to mental health crises

Really moved to see my book about suicide integrated into the Lauryn Youder installation discussed in this article. www.frieze.com/article/arti...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Right? Seek out previous collections “Tea” and “Cocktails” for more zingers

Loving this new book “Tricks” from our living national treasure @dapowell.bsky.social - sad, horny, witty poems that reward rereading

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

This is terrific news- I can see how this builds out from your SAA plenary session conversation with Kim Hall in exciting ways- congratulations!

Underneath (II), by The Soft Pink Truth from the album Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?

My new solo album comes out on @thrilljockey.bsky.social on January 30th but you can hear the last song on the record today: thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/track/undern...

(Not just “literary” manifestos, I was just thinking of writing that goes for the throat)

Frank O’Hara “Personism: A Manifesto”, Valerie Solanas “S.C.U.M. Manifesto”, some of the Church of Subgenius rants, The Process Church “War” issue, Zoe Leonard “I want a president”

He’s @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social on here

Oooof

What the hell? DId not expect this to go so hard - it’s like Joe Meek jamming with Portsmouth Symphonia

(Sound on)

“Everyone should be asked to respond to this bogus and tendentious re-description of reality that I have cooked up- or else”

One lesson from yesterday:
"In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."

FUCK ICE

Terrific thread 🧵

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

This is like an ICE kidnapping but on an international scale.

It’s our friend Duncan Moore (aka Headband) - electronic / noise music honcho from Baltimore

happy NYE from Matmos y’all

So many people were struggling in 2025, I hope 2026 brings whatever you need.

R.I.P. Richard Smallwood, an incredible artist. Fun fact: As an undergrad I was in the Young Inspiration Gospel Choir at UC Berkeley and one semester he was our special guest and taught us to sing some of his songs and arrangements. That concert together in an Oakland church was 🔥