Every American needs to watch this:

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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

😢

Absolutely gutting.

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice."

Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

From your lips to any deity's ears!

at a gas pump, kneeling on his neck until he apparently loses consciousness, and then kidnapping his limp body.
Word is that the woman and the gas-station man were targeted as ‘known activists.’ ”

(Cut & paste to share, please.) [5/5]

(What is the lesson? “Don’t drive?”)
—ICE kidnapping a white American teenager from a Target parking lot (the boy is a curbside-pickup employee) and dumping him in a Walmart parking lot eight minutes later, bleeding and bruised.
—ICE agents dragging a white American man from his car [4/5]

why he’s “following them.” When the man explains that that he’s just trying to get home from the grocery store, stopped because there’s no room to pass, and had no way of knowing he was even behind an ICE car, the agent says “haven’t you learned anything from the past few days?” [3/ 5]

screaming white American woman out of it, kidnapping her, and leaving her wrecked vehicle partially blocking one of the busiest streets in the city.
—An unmarked ICE vehicle blocking a residential street. When a (white, American) man pulls up behind it, an agent demands to know [2/5]

This is horrific. Sharing from Lorna D Cervantes: (Today’s eye-witness report from Minneapolis)
“Things I’ve seen with my own eyes as of 11:23 AM Pacific today, January 12, 2026:
—ICE ramming a civilian car through a red light on Snelling in St Paul, dragging an injured, [1/5]

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum

Trump threatens to intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters "We are locked and loaded and ready to go," the president said on Truth Social early Friday, after economic protests in the Islamic Republic took a sharply violent turn.

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny.

www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

Huge gratitude to Jennifer Barber, whose insightful and beautifully written review of my Turned Earth and Rosanna Warren's latest, Hindsight, is up at On the Seawall! www.ronslate.com/on-turned-ea...

miss you and wishing the same for you, dear Alina! ❤️

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I love this question! Let me see if I have something. I have a couple of workshops that I do on sentences, might be some fun stuff in there. Some of the material works best in a classroom, but it might give you some ideas. Hit me back if I don't share something in the next day or two.

living in 2025, almost 2026:

My feelings exactly!

@tisserand.bsky.social saw this on the evil site, thought you'd be interested/horrified.

I love this poem so much.

It's actually Occam's Razor to assume that in the age of Trump, RFK, Musk, etc.

It's writers like you that made me cancel my subscription to @theathletic.com.

Thanks, I received that text and blocked the number. Glad to know it was in fact bogus.

Trans friends, I am very sorry and very angry that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. I refuse to link any stories about it here.

Fellow cisgender folks: please call your senators.

I needed to read this. Thank you.

When I was young, I *hated* nihilism. It mattered terribly to me that nothing mattered. I wanted to *make* things matter, somehow.

Now that I'm old, I'm resigned to the fact that nothing matters--and there's nothing I can do about it, except exactly what I would do if things mattered.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”