Andrea Pitzer

Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

what a sad and awful person you would have to be to write that piece. it's like he's olivia reingold's soulmate.

(around the No Kings logo, images of megaphones, and a photo of protesters holding signs that read “ICE OUT”) MARCH 28 NO KINGS NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

The date for the next No Kings Day is set.

But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

A grizzled large, black, older dog lies on a bed, looking away from the viewer.

I pet Area Dog and ask, “Who’s a good boy?” He looks away, as we both recall that *someone* covered in fur kept hearing the snowplows last night and waking me up to warn of imminent apocalypse.

Damn, dude got fewer votes than Melania got views nationwide.

The sarcasm was meant to indicate that the White House wanted Walz to wait until the children who were kidnapped in the current operation had died before he should make comparisons. (I've written widely about detainee deaths in US detention in the past and will continue to going forward as well.)

How We Think About Words Like Murder' in Our Minneapolis Coverage The Times sticks to facts and avoids language that passes legal judgment on events that are still unfolding. Listen to this article • 2:29 min Learn

[Stares in “Screams Without Words”]

Yes, I've been writing about those deaths in my newsletter and elsewhere.

(Kidding about the last part. It's obviously good that the situation didn't escalate.)

Ilhan Omar was going to fuck that guy up. He's lucky the other guy restrained him first.

Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':

—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)

The administration's allies are very mad Walz came out with this comment now, when children are merely being hunted by secret police, instead of waiting until some of them die in detention.

What @prisonculture.bsky.social always says is: find the thing you can do and do it. You can’t do all the things. (Or something like that but more eloquent). I remind myself when I feel I should be writing marching observing delivering organizing meeting reporting shopping

Screenshot of a tweet from Megyn Kelly reading "The whistles should be banned"

Looks like Skeletor now hates Black Santas *and* whistles.

Thank you for the kind words, Kay!

We must not lose sight of the expansion of detention centers/concentration camps in the US. I recommend this excellent and sobering book, "One Long Night," by @andreapitzer.bsky.social as essential context for all of us as we seek to dismantle existing camps and halt the creation of new ones.

Feeling good about this, from Degenerate Art, days after the election: "Many of the people running things and appointed to carry out tasks will be incompetent... There will be infighting, they will bungle things—sometimes in ways that do additional harm, but more often in ways that trip them up."

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Definitely worth the buy and worth the read!

Congrats to @bethmacy.bsky.social, whose run for Congress is now officially endorsed by our new @governorva.bsky.social, Abigail Spanberger.

An embarrassment of embarrassments!

A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

wild to see any Democrats “unite” around any bodycam proposal after DHS has said they’ve got multiple bodycam videos of agents killing Alex Pretti

Some folks are responding to this as if US tactics are based on Putin's, but it's not that complicated. The US has a horrible history on immigrants. Anywhere you go, if your recipe uses the same authoritarian overreach and endemic police violence for ingredients, you get the same shitty cake.

A screenshot of my profile, with my name and bio at the top. Underneath it a horizontal bar has a heading "Similar accounts," followed by thumbnails of "The first good website about PC games," a "writer, journalist, and co-founder of PC games," and a candidate for Congress in Massachusetts.

Went to my profile and found this bar of "Similar accounts," which look more like the kind of thing people might be paying to promote than anyone who has something in common with me.

I feel like I’m losing my mind. Obviously they were doing something illegal, which is why they were hiding from legal authorities. What is legal can also be immoral and shameful.

Family of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.

BREAKING: Family of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings

A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.

theintercept.com/2026/01/27/b...

Watch this space. The idiots in the regime are including ICE agents in diplomatic protection details abroad, and Italian elected leaders are not having it.

The mayor of Milan calls ICE "a militia that kills."

After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a friend in Moscow was going to protests and getting detained at them. He typically got released with a court date and then fined. One evening an FSB guy visited him at his home to tell him he should stop going to protests. Police-state shit.