It's a weird thing, I recall the endless shaming of women's bodies and sexuality by conservatives decades ago. Now they celebrate women's sexuality, within the confines of a highly patriarchal marriage with total control. A tough needle to thread, as many trad wives have discussed.
The President is going to steal >1 NSFs worth of money from the US government
seeing all the folks laid from the WaPo is genuinely sad. They have lost their jobs and a once great media outlet is accelerating its own demise. Bezos could have spent his money to support that institution, but he is choosing not to.
Girl.
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
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Does it matter if the land is stolen? Europe excludes people like crazy, former colonies they have pillaged. Is that fine because the land is not stolen? Can we just say "no one is illegal, period."? Stealing land from indigenous is wrong, but that seems like a different issue?
I think these are inspections of ICE facilities? If it's raids, they are missing quite a few. We had a huge one in Idaho a few months ago, it made national headlines, and that is not on the map.
A young Fred Korematsu
A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
this is up to 42 likes and I will not mess with that
great analysis
These guys are a masterclass in terrible negotiating
Everyone convo about this guy should be appended with #cava
Many people need help in MN foor rent, food, etc. People have not been going to work out of fear of being kidnapped.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
"Widely criticized" = 3 posts on X, the platform known for its commitment to human rights
It's missing Megan McArdle
As calls grow to abolish ICE, Alec Karakatsanis warns activists not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.”
"There's been numerous exposé's about the surveillance tech my company is building and what it is being used for, but it's now occurring to me that maybe I'm part of the problem".
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
Sharing this on behalf of my cousin and his partner who are teachers in St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are raising funds for the low-income families in their schools who are afraid to go out and struggling.
Thank you so much for checking it out ❤️
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welcome!!
lesson for every statistical consultant, too. "I don't know, but I can find that out" builds trust and credibility compared to the alternative.
"a known carcinogen"????
I heard folks are wondering about the shadowy cabal of billionaires who have been funding handwarmers in the Twin Cities.
Stay tuned, we have a new Twin Cities supplies wishlist dropping after dinner! Be the shadowy cabal you want to see in the world. 💓
"They took his handcuffs off and told him to stay out of trouble and once his citizenship gets revoked, they would come back to get him. The agents jumped into their vehicles and drove off while laughing." 😡
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Canadians understand us better than we understand ourselves
I live in a deeply red state and don't think I could agree more. The door is always open for MAGA folks, they don't want to walk in, don't want to burst their own bubbles. I have limited energy and want to use it to motivate allies to act, not try to win over people who delight in hurting others