BlueSky, January 2026, Part 1

Well, well, well... the first half of January 2026. omfg, as they say.

It started with gentle Happy New Year messages. There was the 5th anniversary of the Trump-inspired insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and then they launched into the invasion of Venezuela. Then some other miscellaneous demented stuff from the Trump regime, and finally the big ramping up of the ongoing ICE invasion of the Twin Cities, including the killing of Renee Good last week. 

Everything below the line is in reverse chronological order, except some of the more timeless images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.
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The people of Minnesota are gonna win
Snowden St.

corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture:


slop enjoyer

ICE deployed a tear gas grenade directly into a group of marked press at the Whipple Federal Building near Minneapolis on  1/15/26.
Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

President Trump is keeping the Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by its recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social

Oh wow. Trump got a hand-me-down Nobel Peace Prize! Did you know: It would not be the first time a Nobel laureate has given his or her medal away: in 1943 Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social

Amy Klobuchar says: I hear your horror stories but don't take the bait! I'll vote to fully fund ICE anyway. World history has few examples of leaders utterly betraying their own people like this.
Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com

dairy mart drive-in sign, artesia, new mexico, 1979:


old roadside pics

JB Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities. This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
Acyn

If they do end up making a “list” of protesters… Thanks for documenting which side I was on for future generations, I guess. I’d rather that be crystal fucking clear to my kids and any future grandchildren than ever have them wonder, tbh.
Adam @mnorthstar82.bsky.social

A 55-year-old Cuban immigrant was choked to death by guards at a Texas detention camp, a fellow detainee told the Washington Post. 
Will Oremus

Right now I care about punishing the people attacking my city more than I care about healthcare policy… and I have probably published fifty essays on Medicaid and related programs over the years.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

I care more about supporting the people being harmed by ICE than I do about tabortion or gay rights — and those things are the work of my life.
Dr. Felicia Kornbluh @vtfeminist.bsky.social

Random truth: Population of
Minneapolis-St. Paul: 730k
Greenland: 56k
Uncle Mark

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press:


Mr. Dan Zak

“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
Walter Olson

I will not. This is America, land of the free. This is not an authoritarian police state. I will waste all the time and resources they want to spend on this.
Aaron Sojourner

I know people on Bluesky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
Ana Marie Cox

As disrupted as things are by erratic federal “enforcement,” there is no insurrection or unrest in Minneapolis
Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social

Crazy: Evangelical leaders are reacting to ICE violence by calling for people to pray...not for the victims, but for ICE and Kristi Noem! Evangelical [House Leader] Mike Johnson is also blaming the victim in vile ways.
Greg Sargent

We know just how useless their thoughts and prayers are.
RR Edmonds

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! 
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Norm Charlatan

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social


Minnesota State Rep. Brad Tabke [from a far southwest Minneapolis suburb]

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
Norm Charlatan

Yesterday, the State Department expanded the immigrant visa ban to half of all legal immigrants, including all immigrants from 93 countries. No law was passed. Not even an executive order was signed. They just did it. Tweeted it. Banana Republic.
David Bier

So, crazy news: it's actually already illegal for a federal agent to shoot a civilian in the face multiple times. You can actually already arrest and prosecute an ICE agent for that.
Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social

Wikipedia is 25 today.
Chris Steller

At the local coffee shop this morning, I noticed tons of guidance on the wall on countering ICE. It made me think that places with only corporate coffee shops lose that kind of community support, and that absence is its own form of suppression.
Patrick Stephenson @patiomensch.bsky.social

There has been a lot written about third places and if their collapse has contributed to the current political environment we find ourself in (I believe it does) but not much on how those places were replaced with corp spaces who solely exist to sale products and not act as a community hub.
Michael Senters

The Senate should not vote to fund the government while communities in America are under assault from the government.
Costa Samaras

Mid century Italian pencils. Sold now, but please enjoy the packaging:


Present & Correct

Remember all those thugs who stormed the Capitol? They are now storming Mpls/St. Paul. No difference.
Suzanner @susersuzanner.bsky.social

Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt. 
Acyn

they keep saying "don't take the bait" but there isn't any bait, in this analogy ICE is throwing dynamite into the pond
Danielle Froom

When you use the phrase “the situation is not sustainable” [like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey did] you are giving them a phrase they will leverage for the Insurrection Act.
David Brauer

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
John Moe

They're scared and weak and frustrated and losing so they're going to keep shooting us. It's all they have left.
Daniel Suitor

Metro Transit drivers are witnessing ICE arrests in the streets, and one operator from Somalia was held for over a month after being detained on his way to work, according to union leaders.
Sahan Journal

Since 2000, home prices have grown nearly twice as fast as incomes. That’s great for those who already owned a home, but terrible for buyers:


Steve Rattner

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social

This is an orchestrated invasion of Minnesota based on lies. The ICE agent was not injured, that is a lie. This is all pretense so they can nullify state government. They can do it anywhere. this is not just Minneapolis St Paul, it is across the state. TheOccupation
quick13

QR codes for ICE is hilarious, like they’re a restaurant menu that shoots people in the face.
Kashana

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right. If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening. If you can’t make “maybe we should have a Constitution” popular, fucking resign and make room for those who will.
Courtney Milan

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
Norm Charlatan

Amazing how quickly the pretext for invading a city just falls away. The circular justification in Minneapolis is now “we are punishing the city for resisting our punishment.
Schooley

Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when they’re afraid for their lives — they say it when they hate us. They say it when they’re punishing us.
Jessica Valenti

Nothing says ‘self defense’ like “that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead”
Tom Murphy @thommurphy.bsky.social

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average:


Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social

So Republicans are mad at celebrities for wearing "Be Good" pins after ICE murdered Renee Good but support lawmakers wearing AR-15 pins after kids were murdered in classrooms????
Covie @covie93.bsky.social

The four Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other three are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people including the Dakota 38 during the Dakota Wars.
UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social

You notice that whenever a powerful person flagrantly commits a crime, legislators always go "we need to make a law against this" as if it's not already illegal according to laws that already exist? What Elon's doing is already illegal, and has been illegal longer than ICE has existed.
Pookleblinky

An end to the male loneliness epidemic? Previously aimless and disaffected young men and boys are finding companionship by driving around together to tail the goon squads and warn their neighbors.
Wedge LIVE

A basic truth from my research is that people are hard to persuade, but easy to manipulate.
Jen Mercieca

Modern civil wars don't look like the American Civil War. They're more often like the Years of Lead or Argentina's Dirty War. With that in mind, I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to say Trump's regime is either trying to fight a one-sided civil war or, at a minimum, provoke one.
Ned Resnikoff

Conservatively estimated, 32 millon hectares of land is used for producing 1,400 TWh of biofuel per year. If that land instead was covered* by solar panels, it would surpass the *total* current electricity production worldwide.
Søren Have

every once in a while i remember this door:


Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social

My whole life, fascism was defined as being stopped by armed, masked agents of the national government who demand your papers, on pain of arrest, injury, or death. That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it.
Waldo Jaquith

The mainstream media believes the only opinion that counts is conservative. When a democrat wins the presidency they talk to conservative voters, when a republican wins they… talk to conservatives.
Oliver Willis

We are so far past the Rubicon that it isn't worth having a discussion anymore as to whether Trump is acting as an authoritarian. The only question is whether we have the strength and courage to get back to the other side.
Ryan Enos

“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court
Adam Serwer

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003. when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Barred and Boujee @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Why do ICE agents carry guns? 
Not one single report of them being shot at!!
Not one single story about apprehending anyone with a gun!!
Take the weapons away from the untrained, unrestrained, incompetent agents. Do it for public safety.
Roger B @felbert.bsky.social

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
Andrew Lawrence

We really don't talk about the [green infrastructure] sunk costs Trump squandered. Billions and billions and billions of both public and private dollars wasted bc he's still humiliated he got beaten by Joe Biden.
emptywheel

j.b. jones gas sign, houston, texas, 1977:


old roadside pics

the best 2020s espionage black comedy is about the construction crew on the White House ballroom gradually realising that they're *all* spies from different countries, except for one undocumented immigrant who has to teach them how to do things
Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social

The climax of the film features them having to break the undocumented migrant out of ICE detention when he gets grabbed.
Iris Meredith

Abolish ICE. The United States of America should welcome immigrants & refugees seeking freedom & opportunity from everyplace around the globe. Just like it welcomed my great-grandfather from the Russian Empire. If you love America, you love every single person who calls America home, bar none.
Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org

ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

If any private lawyer acted [as] disrespectfully [as Lindsey Halligan] towards a federal judge, we would be facing bar proceedings, court sanctions or both. The fact that Trump administration lawyers continue to act this way is a disgrace. It is time for judges to put an end to it.
Marc Elias

I love that we have four or five separate examples of ICE thugs directly threatening to murder dissidents by saying precisely the same thing (haven't you learned your lesson?), and it never fails to just make people virulently angry. They just refuse to believe it's not working.
ergopraxis

Just tried to donate blood in my Saint Paul neighborhood and wouldn't you know it, my heart rate was too elevated
canyon.mid

I can't believe shit like this needs saying, but, no, white men do not face discrimination in the US.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

I really want people without Minneapolis connections to understand. You might've heard that Minneapolis public schools went hybrid because so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen. *Everyone has stories like this*
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Shit is kind of bleak, but on the other hand, I had always kind of assumed that there wasn’t anything I really believed in enough to willingly give my life for and I guess I know that’s not true now.
Norm Charlatan

Republicans cut your healthcare to pay for a federal invasion of Minneapolis. ICE isn’t making us safer — it’s terrorizing our communities.
Ilhan Omar

More gold-toned signage has been added to the White House exterior. (It continues to look more and more like a memory care facility…):


Leah McElrath

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. 
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social [posted 6 months ago]

Target when an unhoused man wants to use the bathroom: “NO NO YOU’RE DANGEROUS”
Target when a phalanx of armed mall cops rolls up with their tiny, child-sized, scrotum-faced leader so he can take a tinkle: “yes, whatever you need sir”
Wes Burdine

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Agree with Garrett, with this footnote: In my memory, as a child watching news from Birmingham on our black-and-white TV, Bull Connor's squad was brutal in retaliation. But they didn't seem as clearly to be *provoking* or inciting a reaction. They were intimidators. CBP/ICE are provocateurs (Eg Reichstag)
James Fallows

Sean Duffy [Transportation Secretary] has nine kids. 
Thom Tillis is Toast.

Just the fact that now in the United States armed masked men can go up to someone just pumping gas and say "are you a US citizen" should outrage every. single. American.
Ann Telnaes

Anyone who says "California is trying to take away your cars", has obviously never been here or is simply lying:


OB Cycler

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.... This shift isn't a framework that says it is legal to go out and shoot authorities; it is rather a recognition that, in conflicts between police and civilians, it is civilians who far more justifiably can fear for their lives, and civilians who are far more justified in defending themselves.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

DHS statements are 100% lies and propaganda. "Department of Homeland Security" is like East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi) using torture and intimidation to crush dissent.
I'm Not Really Mary Poppins

With a gofundme for [Renee Good's] killer, agents have financial incentive to kill
Faol Ragus

Today in "planes are unacceptably cheap and trains are unacceptably expensive": the return flight for my next Cambridge-Glasgow trip is sixteen quid. The whole thing is fifty. The cheapest comparable train is a hundred and thirty. Purely conscience-based modal shift might take a while, eh.
Roger @rogger.bsky.social

Hard to believe the Justice Department has any time to go after real crime with Trump using it to after all his political enemies
Dean Baker

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."
NPR

Being right about trump [in 2016, 2024] was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
Adam Serwer

Elon Musk is a greedy money-hoarding Nazi pervert. Quit Twitter. Sell your Tesla. Don’t support that fascist moron.


The USA Singers

Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained." This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it. "If only the Gestapo and Stasi had been trained better."
Brandon Friedman

Everyone knows if the victim belonged to the wrong Facebook group, then the armed goons of the government have every right to execute them in the street. It's called small government, people. Look it up.
Kevin M. Kruse

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
Aaron Rupar

the democrats are right, we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun
leon @leyawn.bsky.social

Democrats need to realize ICE isn’t just — or even primarily — a mass deportation force. ICE is also Trump’s most loyal internal security force which will be used to attack regime opponents and try to steal the election. They should defund his authoritarian capabilities.
Max Berger

Impeach Kristi Noem.
Minnesota DFL Party

Every Somali business owner I talk to is getting phone call/voicemail harassment from racists across the country, spurred by Trump’s vile rhetoric. I’ve heard them. A continuous stream of n-words and vicious threats. This is, of course, not even in their top 5 concerns right now.
Hooper @hoopermn.bsky.social

Why is CBP even in Minneapolis? The city lies outside the 100-mile "border zone," so even the absurd rules that apply in places like LA, Chicago, NYC and Boston don't apply there:


Marion Davis

It’s bizarre how Elon is basically a bigamist with multiple dysfunctional families.
Patrick Chovanec

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
Parker Molloy

People criticizing the lack of proper training that ICE have received, and arguing that “training reform” is required, might be missing the point that ICE is doing exactly what the Trump regime wants them to do in exactly the way they want them to do it.
Brent Toderian

The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times.
Maxine Joselow

We’ve gone from “it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital” to “the lesbians were mean to him”
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news

The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." 
Jacqueline Sweet

It’s been one month since 100% of the Epstein files were due by Act of Congress. Thus far they’ve only released .6% of them and are using murder and war to distract you from this fact.
God @thegodpodcast.com

Uptown:


Wedge LIVE

Jesus. This person's [analysis of the video] points out that Ross switched his phone to the other hand after he was criticized by Good's partner... to free up his firearm hand. Premeditated. The fucker decided to kill her wife to teach her a lesson, and made sure he was ready to shoot after a woman talked down to him.
atticus goldfinch

My crank opinion is that like 85% of the bad shit going on now would have been avoided if elites had held the line that it's the Gulf of Mexico.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social

Wondering who wins in a war between the United States and Europe? Putin.
Brent Toderian

At long last, we have created the tyrannical king from the classic declaration
CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com

The Powell video is a five-alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will
Micah @rincewind.run

Just when you think he can't shock or offend you anymore, he does. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob.bsky.social

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Charlie Thomas


Sunflower Fella

"The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity. Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important." –Joseph Stiglitz
Diane Ravitch

ICE’s latest low: pepper spraying a disabled woman in a mobility scooter that was not on, and was behind the line they said not to cross, well out of the way of the Whipple Building. Even more terrible things must be happening inside.
Dani Minneapolis

a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular.” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue
Micah @rincewind.run

i do think it has to be jarring for these racist ICE goons who were fed a steady diet of lies that Minneapolis was a violent Somali-run, crime-ridden city have been met with thousands of normie white people taking to the streets to defend their neighbors.
Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
Prisonculture

Worth emphasizing that this is not only an authoritarian regime engaged in a murderous campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing, it is carrying out this campaign while illegally covering up for a historically massive child sex trafficking ring because the leader was probably criminally involved
Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social

The moderate, centrist position is that being employed by DHS under the Trump Regime or ever being employed by ICE will be a crime punishable by life imprisonment. I’d suggest ICE take that deal while it’s still on the table
Hunter Dunn


sasjaastad.bsky.social

Anything Musk retweets with “Correct” is almost certain to be delusionally incorrect.
Patrick Chovanec

most inspiring shit for me at powderhorn was seeing everyone - elderly folk, people with mobility issues, little ass kids! trooping it over some of the iciest sidewalks and rutted out side streets i’ve seen in a min and doing it w the best attitude and composure and compassion 
jan rabari @bushyt0p.bsky.social

Money is speech, corporations are people, accountability is terrorism, technology is sentient, protest is illegal. Did I miss any of the tenets of 21st century US conservative orthodoxy?
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social

We literally don’t need ICE for anything
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The F-bomb that Mayor Frey dropped is more upsetting to mainstream media journalists than the actual bombs that Trump dropped on Venezuela.
Frank Conniff

I know punishing the state is a big reason ICE is here in the first place, but it's worth noting Minnesota would legit fall apart without immigrants making their lives here. We don't have net positive in-migration from other states, all of our recent growth and success is because of immigrants.
briguy @datbriguy.bsky.social

“If you call us murderers, we will have no choice but to murder you.” –paraphrasing Tom Homan
Sam Adams

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
Kevin M. Kruse

More postal workers die on the job every year than have died in the entire history of ICE:


Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social

“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania combined — and increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to 
@worldresources.bsky.social.”
Richard Waite

They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better." Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity. Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
Alex Schieferdecker

He hates Ilhan, he hates how Walz so easily humiliates him, he hates that Minneapolis burned a police precinct and haven’t rebuilt one, he hates that Minnesota put chauvin in prison for murdering George Floyd
It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen @queeringtherapist.bsky.social

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.
Paul Brand

I wish the media would stop calling it an immigration crackdown. That's not at all what this is.
Kurt Duerksen @darkchallenger.bsky.social

It's terrorism, by the strictest definition
Anthony In TX

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
Schooley

A collage of lichens on seaside cliffs. #Newfoundland, Canada:


Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social

So many white people are just now realizing that if they were murdered on the street in cold blood by a masked agent of the state, their family members would tell the media, “she just should have complied.”
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
Kevin M. Kruse

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didn't vote for him
Andrew Lawrence

the daily mantra forced on us all: "well, *that's* obviously stupid"
Tom Tomorrow

Basically anyone with a skin color darker than beige will need to carry their papers with them at all times. And yes this is actually what they want.
The Alternate Historian

The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
Sherrilyn Ifill

An Urban Arrow cargo bike has nearly the same physical footprint as a Smart car. While the car is marketed as "tiny," the bike is often labeled as "huge" by those used to traditional bicycles. This irony highlights how much space we waste on bloated, car-centric infrastructure.
American Fietser

How many cargo bikes could be parked in downtown street parking compared to all these oversized cars?


Jeremy Cole

The world’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam. The richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows.
Danielle Binks

I've been protesting shit since the damned 80's and every time they stop being peaceful it's because some dumbass cop has something to prove.
Joe Hill @dig-a-hole.bsky.social

Normal citizens not in a car and with legal right of way, still cannot use guns against drivers who are actually threatening them with deadly force. So far away from this. This is premeditated murder with impunity.
politicsofcars.bsky.social

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
Anne Applebaum

The first Nobel Peace Prize to be presented as spoils of war 
Dean Baker

Mamdani seems to be taking the approach of “what if I continue to be kind and treat people like human beings even after I’m elected” and i gotta say, it’s a bold strategy.
Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick

Sabo Bridge. 1.9.26:


smcgee

white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead
Faine Greenwood

Fort Snelling has been the advance guard of federal invasion in the homelands of the Dakota people since 1805. In the current “surge,” Fort Snelling is serving as the center of operations for ICE, the FBI, and other federal forces invading Minnesota.
Racket @racketmn.com

There is 1 federal agent for every 200 people in Minneapolis. More of us need to get outside tomorrow.
Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
Aaron Rupar

Gum blossom starburst. Corymbia ficifolia on a street in Thirroul:


Susan McCreery

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
Matt DeLong

In 2020 everyone was on edge watching for armed white dudes in out of state vehicles looking to cause trouble. In 2026 those same dudes now have Federal funding and "complete immunity."
Meh @noslracs.bsky.social

Have we really become so woke that we’re no longer comfortable with ICE shooting unarmed women and yelling “fuck you bitch” as they die?
NY Times Pitchbot

I will give Bovino credit for being willing to be filmed publicly so frequently in a town where even the median woman is a foot taller than him.
Carin @mrotzie.bsky.social

Closer view of Trump's pin of himself that he was wearing today. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty):


Aaron Rupar

ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
Chris Ingraham

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
Anne Applebaum

Our entire politics now is about our sundowning, failing, unpopular leader, whose powers are clearly ebbing,  maniacally trying to find ways to restore his STRENGTH, POWER, and MANLINESS. Like seizing Greenland; taking VZ’s oil; killing men in boats; terrorizing US cities; bombing other countries.
Simon Rosenberg

Republicans say you can't trust the government and they get elected to office and prove it.
David Ho

One of the (several) problems with the demand that bystanders and targeted people be immediately compliant with ICE agents is that fleeing ICE is incredibly rational. They’re violent, piggish thugs who disappear some people into horrendous gulags and shoot others in the face.
Moira Donegan

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change:


Zeke Hausfather

Song Sung Blue is a good reminder of how much Hugh Jackman visibly enjoys roles that a) let him sing and b) aren't Wolverine.
Cethan Leahy

Since last year, the Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder):
Protect them “no matter what." Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding [Zeteo story]
Prem Thakker

We are filling our concentration camps in the dark while they feel free to shoot us and leave us to die in the daylight.
Lori Lou Freshwater

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
Ron Filipkowski

all these people saying a car is a deadly weapon but won't do shit about cars as deadly weapons when it comes to actual safe roads
amityf

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. 
Erin Biba

Feels like we’re redoing Redemption except the red shirts control the federal government
Adam Serwer

Never, ever, ever believe the Trump administration's version of anything. They create their own version and repeat it, over and over.
Susie Madrak

Wish I was more surprised that a nearly 200-page plan from Heritage to save America by saving the family doesn’t have a single mention of paid family and medical leave or affordable childcare. It does have quite a few proposals to make it harder for women to leave their husbands…
Sharita Gruberg

At some point, we need a major cultural shift, started by legal intervention, in the militarization of the police. Even putting aside the masks, this stuff is needless and odious to democracy.
Ryan Enos

75-year annual snowfall trend. Snowfall is decreasing almost everywhere during this period. It's as if something has changed:


Climatologist49

Oppressed people just want to be left alone. There are no revenge plans. The obsession is not mutual.
Cheryl Lynn Eaton

People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1,280
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social

It took many many cowardly, cynical, selfish, short sighted decisions by ALL our national leaders for us to get to the point where schools have to be cancelled to protect our kids from fascism.
Ali Faruk @alifarukrva.bsky.social

ICE aren’t police, they are a terrorist group who take orders from a criminal traitor.
Ricky Davila

Oh also today, the US withdrew from every major international treaty for climate and environmental protection, violence against women and children, and peacebuilding. More than at any point in the past 100+ years, we are the baddies now.
Eric Holthaus

At the current show on Le Guin's life and work in Portland, visitors can try out her old typewriter. She bought it used in 1966, after she sold her second novel, Planet of Exile. She typed A Wizard of Earthsea on it, Left Hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed...


Julie Phillips

TWO THOUSAND ICE AGENTS in Minneapolis and St. Paul RIGHT NOW. Minnesota Highway Patrol has 600 officers, Minneapolis PD has 600, and St. Paul has 550. WE ARE OUTNUMBERED and at risk from ICE.
DebraToTheLeft

DHS is what the Anti-Federalists had in mind by the way. Not cakes for gays, or payroll taxes. They were worried about an unresponsible federal gov't that could shoot a civilian in the street and get away with it like Redcoat. 
Lyndon Baines Johnson

ask your right wing people — is it worth it? is the power by proxy worth it? (cuz they don't have any real power, its a small club and they aint invited)
D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
Ken Jennings

hate it when the trump administration’s killing civilians abroad agenda is temporarily overshadowed by its shooting civilians domestically programs
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

Leavitt was wearing Ri Chun-hee's outfit today (photo via Getty):


Aaron Rupar

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me." you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
Micah @rincewind.run

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social

They spent all that time complaining about crime in cities so they could implement their solution of killing people in cities.
Kashana

it is the seventh day of the new year and we've got ICE murdering civilians, X gleefully producing CSAM/non consensual porn, the kidnapping of a foreign leader, the bluster around Greenland and the potential destabilization of NATO, and I'm sure you all will add more in replies.
Tom Tomorrow

Short of a Nice-style mass killing event, there's no legitimate reason for a cop to fire into a vehicle. Even if the driver is headed straight at the cop, it won't stop the car. This is why so many police departments prohibit it.
Radley Balko

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
Luke O'Neil

Someone once said that McDonald’s employees have better conflict resolution skills than police because, unlike police, they lose their jobs if they hurt someone.
Emerence @damemyniah.bsky.social

Which kind of land use is the most financially productive: roads, parking, or buildings? Looking at this comparison, it isn't even close. Info courtesy of our friends at Urban3:


Strong Towns

Something that strikes after watching the longer video: the other ICE agents at the scene worked more quickly to remove the officer that fired his weapon than they did to render aid to the woman he had just shot.
Matt Keliher

Masked unidentified man tries to enter a woman’s vehicle; she drives away, other masked and unidentified man not in any danger of the departing vehicle shoots the driver
Jonty Edwards

I won't share the location because it's already happened and over, but I am personally aware of a place where ICE raided this morning at gunpoint with absolutely no warrant whatsoever. This is a fucking invasion.
reed eliot

Minnesota is being terrorized by ICE. They are abducting people in 2 minutes or less from bus stops, cars, work. This is not enough time to check if someone is here legally. They are abducting and disappearing based purely on race. It was never about going after criminals, it's just terror.
Energy Chris

The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions
Adam Serwer

“Grok is generating at least one non-consensual sexual image every minute”
Mehdi Hasan

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad:


Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

one takeaway from the grok nonconsensual porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
Adam Serwer

Immigration, what opened up America’s potential as a true world leader, is being derisively recoined “reverse colonization” by the Nazis running the country.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations and venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.
Peter Gleick

My real question is — after losing their healthcare, paying $25 bucks for eggs, paying more in tariffs and watching trillionaires and oil companies thrive from pure, object grift, will white Americans still let racism keep them from happiness or is it worth it as long as y'all have someone to hate? For every Mamdani building things up, you have a Megyn Kelly burning things down. How is it not obvious today that it's white people holding themselves back and it always was? If there were no black or brown people, y'all would invent them just to be miserable. *the joke is, y'all did invent them.
@easybakedoven.bsky.social

The Abundance faction keeps talking about making clean energy cheap, as if that would directly lead to the phaseout of fossil fuels, but even the basic the economics of their approach don’t pencil out. All of the above is not a climate solution. More fuels will not get us to net-zero emissions.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social

The mass decline of carpooling and inter-city bus service, and the total domination of Americans doing single-occupancy car trips from 1970 to 2000 should be more aggressively studied. Did cars just get really cheap or gas or something? Or did Americans get more comfortable taking on auto debt?


idothethinking

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social

"Tough on crime" types are not really pro-police. They are pro-SOCIAL CONTROL, and (understandably) saw the police as a way to impose that control. But the loyalty is, first and foremost, to that control. And if the police get in the way of that, the support disappears.
John Pfaff

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.
amy artworms brown

In a nation ruled by supremacy and all its many sabotages of the public good, every act of repair is a defiant act.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

schools banning cellphones but encouraging chatgpt are not schools that in fact care about children's mental health
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

Do we think things can get dumber?
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

should probably be a bigger deal that the vice president's favorite intellectual is a dull nazi
Adam Serwer

"Acquiring" countries has a name. Invasion and colonization. Real Democracies don't do that. Only dictatorships and authoritarian governments, also monarchies do. The warnings have been there for over a decade.
quick13

The U.S. is a rogue state which should be sanctioned and condemned by the international community for our flagrant violations of international law and the peace of the world. We won't be, because imperialists tend to stick together.
ElieNYC

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.
Dave Weigel

this is how every outlet should refer to X:


Marisa Kabas

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
Aaron Rupar

Waymo’s track record of ~130M autonomous miles looks good [in terms of safety], but Americans drive 123M miles *for each death*. This major study by Rand Corporation concluded that we’d need 100s of millions or even billions of miles driven before knowing how AVs compare to human driving.
David Zipper

If presented with an otherwise legal presidential order to attack a NATO ally, U.S. military officers should not disobey — but they should resign en masse.
Patrick Chovanec

The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social

“I need 185,000 kids to die every year so 27 other kids get less excited about trains.” –RFK Jr between mouthfuls of raw yak meat
Rob Delaney

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by postmodern academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
Moira Donegan


PJ, Sports Enjoyer @ptros.bsky.social

Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.
Marc Elias

Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
Mark Jacob

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Iron Spike

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Republicans ban books for fear a fifteen-year-old might read The Bluest Eye. Meanwhile, the GOP's biggest donor has built an international salad shooter of child porn and Nazi propaganda, and Republicans are silent.
LOLGOP @thefarce.org

Apparently the NYT can take a firm stance that Biden is too old and should be forced out of office, but needs to be neutral on the US starting 4 simultaneous wars (including one against NATO).
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025. For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
Yale Environment 360

Gotta keep making art so here are some Mia drawings + a pheasant:


rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social

Birkenstocks are shoes for people with no expectation of running away
Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
Ryan Marino, MD

I really dislike how much attention people are paying to Minnesota nationally right now. Please pay attention to [rolls dice] Delaware instead.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social

“Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana.”
Leah McElrath

my sense is this: not only are trump and rubio and hegseth lying to the public about the purposes, impact, planning, etc of the attack on venezuela. they are lying to each other. they have no idea what they're doing or where this ends.
David Kaye

The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
dan sinker

Past time we have a discussion on how much of a threat to national security these same rich men are. They add nothing, while actively ruining lives, killing indiscriminately, and running up the national debt on lies and broken promises to their advantage.
Kaerick

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable:


Bill McKibben

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
Otto English

According to the Wall Street Journal, the overpayment rate for the food stamp program in Minnesota is one-third less than the national average. Maybe the right's star journalist, Nick Shirley, can figure out what Walz and Minnesota are doing right.
Dean Baker

CBS: Controlled By State
BostonJoan

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
leon @leyawn.bsky.social

one thing about congress that's become very blatant in my life is that they actually kinda enjoy the executive bypassing them all the time to do military shit. this way, their fingerprints don't have to be on any of it. preferring a lack of responsibilities and accountability to their own power.
Colin Spacetwinks

Today with all the shit in the world today I am grateful that there are places I can take my queer kid where he is welcomed and gets to see queer adults who are healthy and happy. I am grateful for the sense of community that largens the circle of love in his life.
Hecate @danademaster.bsky.social

When Trump says it won’t end up costing the United States to illegally invade and “control” Venezuela because of the value of their oil, he means there will be a massive public cost, but that’s ok because private companies and oligarchs, including his family, will make a ton of money.
Brent Toderian

When I think about how we use oil in America, the picture in my mind is an SUV idling at a suburban Starbucks drive-thru, and going to war for that is just so frivolous.
Qagggy!

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
Naomi Klein

For those keeping track at home: Since Christmas Eve the United States has bombed or carried out raids in Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and now Venezuela. And Congress' response has ranged from nothing to support.
Nicholas Slayton

He just wanted his own version of this photo:


The Alternate Historian

60 years ago, the Washington Post  would have put "IMPEACH" on the headline of an extra edition.
Mr. Snoofers @lardog.bsky.social

Trump's threat to bomb Iran made something clear to me in a way I hadn't yet formulated: His conception of US military force, like his conception of the federal govt, is now entirely personalized. It is a power to be wielded not on behalf of US interests but on behalf of his personal whims.
Judah Grunstein

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
emptywheel

Venezuela is a sovereign country, not a non-state actor. It is not developing any offensive capabilities that would threaten US safety. There has been no argument to Congress—the only entity that can declare war—that the United States must undertake military operations. This is beyond illegal.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

On this day in 1895, federal authorities imprisoned 19 Hopi leaders at Alcatraz Island on sedition charges for opposing the U.S. government's forced education and assimilation of Indigenous children:


Equal Justice Initiative

this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.
Faine Greenwood

Yeah uhhhhhh I'm not sure there's any precedent at all for a war that literally just didn't have public buy-in, or a material effort at generating same? In like, all of American history??
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
Adam Serwer

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
James Ball

this is blowing my mind:“bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT
Barred and Boujee @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Sunrise, 1916. By Georgia O'Keeffe:


womensartbluesky.bsky.social

While I'm supportive of the protesters in Iran, it is a tad annoying to see protests of tens of thousands treated by our media as a sign of pending regime change, while 6 million people showing up to No Kings last year was treated by the same media as being barely newsworthy.
The Alternate Historian

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
Kat Abughazaleh

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
Ben Goldfarb

Every single American should be outraged at [the closing of NASA libraries]. Correction, every single inhabitant of planet earth should be outraged by this. What's next? Fake moon landings? Flat earth? Science is not partisan, it's the search for truth.
Graeme Devine

Trans people were not born in the wrong body. They were born in the wrong society.
Jessie Gender

I do think it's funny that billionaires spent untold amounts of money and influence to turn CBS News into a propaganda organ and their chosen herald's big idea is to run the network like it's a high school newspaper in Anytown Indiana
Ian Boudreau

I get a lot of crazy looks when I say self-driving cars are designed for lawbreaking. But it’s 100% true.
David Zipper

It’s so wild to me that socialists are held to a standard of “don’t spend too much money” [on personal things] and not Christians who are literally commanded by Christ to eschew wealth. 
I know that train left the station a million years ago but still drives me crazy.
Wes Burdine

Dementia is a helluva drug:


Malcolm Nance

as we head into this so called "new year," let's all take a moment to remember that andrew cuomo is not the new mayor of the city of new york
Tom Tomorrow

Just remember: All the available resources of the federal government are being used to keep this corrupt, child-raping piece of human garbage alive. Meanwhile, 40 million Americans just saw their ACA healthcare premiums triple or quadruple. Another 80 million on corporate healthcare saw them double
Denise Wheeler

Does anyone else feel like there's a deep level on which they simply don't *get* nationalism? Like whenever I hear nationalist arguments or complaints, I keep waiting for the part where they explain why whatever they're talking about is supposed to be a bad (or good) thing, and...
Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social

I have gotten used to local psychos in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area being obsessed with Somalis, even though Somalis only represent 2.5% of the metro population (100,000 out of 3.8M). Local racists gonna racist. All of MAGA being obsessed with Somalis is super weird though.
Patrick Fenelon

Happy 2026! Japanese New Year stamps from the 1960s/70s:


Present & Correct

Woohoo! Chickenpox vaccines are on the menu in the UK - finally!! They reduced cases, hospitalizations and (rare but real) deaths from the disease massively. And the worries that it might increase shingles risks (which were honestly based on very limited data) turned out wrong. Adults benefitted as well, and shingles rates began to fall.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Thomas Paine was a controversial figure even in his own lifespan, but the fact remains that he was a seminal influence on the Revolution, full stop. Which is inconvenient for some conservatives, because Paine was basically a radical who, among other things, wanted to tax the very rich.
Jack Jenkins

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Mark D. Levine

Happy New Year, friends:


Laura G Mitchell