I keep seeing posts about why this is a bad/hard time to be a writer and I want to gently respond that, past or present, good writing is never about ease or practicality.

Write because you need to. Write because you have something to say. (1/2) #writing

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

It also loops back around to a way to defend male abusers by believing men are destined to abuse, which makes them unaccountable. And then the logic flips to how women should behave to avoid abusive men, when that’s victim-blaming. We should instead think about how to prevent abusive behavior

Anyway, if you want to know why we live in the world we do, it has a lot to do with the fact that we live in a culture that is structured and predisposed across the board to protect privileged people and specifically white cis men who leverage abuse for gain or pleasure.

Exclusive: ‘Pink coat lady’ who recorded fatal encounter between federal officers and Alex Pretti speaks to Anderson Cooper | CNN Anderson speaks with Stella Carlson, the witness who captured crucial video showing exactly what happened when Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS officers.

Incredible interview. In awe of this woman's bravery. A true patriot. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Prove that you're human song

It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.

If this administration can manufacture prosecutions against journalists or the Chair of the Federal Reserve for daring to stand up to them… then what is the meaningful difference between us and an authoritarian nation?

This is testimony…

📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti.

“After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”

I love how Bloomberg is reporting this "new strategy for CEOs" advice like it's totally normal

news.bgov.com/in-house-cou...

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

next democratic administration should just say ICE stands for “Income Contribution Enforcement” and roll it under the IRS

and by the way, i’m not just saying this as rhetoric. that is actually what the numbers are, and i’m qualified to say that, as someone in the field

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti.

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, was killed by ICE while trying to protect a woman being assaulted.

Trump calls him a “monster” and “domestic terrorist.”

Trust your own eyes. Unlike Trump, the video doesn’t lie.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

"My guns keep your rights safe from an oppressive government."

No. They don't. You'll get executed for the crime of being armed while not a Federal agent. You'll make the tactical decision to not shoot.

They allowed insecure people to feel powerful.

We sacrificed school children for this myth.

The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.

it is correct for state officials to call for peace, they should not encourage extralegal violence

but the best way to convince people that extralegal violence is not a good option is to enforce laws against the murderers killing their friends, family, and neighbors

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

The Democratic leaders in Congress have repeatedly shown that they have no interest in leading an effective opposition.

They have no appetite for the legislative trench warfare this moment requires. They don't even have the will to speak about it clearly. They just want to be left alone.

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

PSA: You do not, under any circumstances, fund the Gestapo