Leslie Dunlap

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Sophie Labelle (@sophielabelle) That’s not a question.

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

I am thinking about Samuel Fuller’s White Dog (1982) on racism and white innocence (Kristy McNichol).

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

And at this Epstein moment. smh

Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir

Content note: child SA

The obit writer couches father’s abuse as “sexual encounters, “visited her in her bedroom,” “transgressions,”
“notorious behaviors.” Insult heaped upon injury as Lessard wrote her memoir at great cost to expose not euphemize abuse.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Thanks

Does anyone know what park this is?

51 planned parenthood clinics closed in 2025.

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Minnesota unions really fought for this. There is a coalition here of unions and community groups, rooted in a deep history that goes back to the general strike of 1934, but also organizing against Target, and aligning union contract expirations more recently.

A general strike against fascist terror makes this one of the most politically important days in the lives of everyone reading this.

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

Alt text: photograph of Minnesotans, with posters reading No Ice and “Minnesotans know Ice is slippery and dangerous”

Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota

racketmn.com/voices-of-th...

A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

(Except man-woman relationships, lose that)

I want these subject headings for Married to the Job (history of marriage and academic labor)

Subject headings for film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: married people, drama; man-woman relationships; spouses; invective; drinking of alcoholic beverages; Edward Albee

“maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul”

I’m screening it for a class of elders in a continuing learning class!

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Rewind Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original Theatrical Trailer

Trailer from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
New York Times called it “Marital Armageddon.” My spouse said yeah, armageddon tired of being married to you.

youtu.be/ppeMfoKdbAY?...

+ a history of cvs!

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Popsicle daddy.