it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
Sepia photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Native American women looking outwards with strong expression
Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again.” - Toni Morrison
But did you apologize?!?!! Mortified is not apologized?!?!?!?
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
He has an account here.
This is ok tho
He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.
THIS RIGHT HERE: Disgusting to the core of their beings.
Numerous videos support this. And if you think this is the price of legal protest, f*ck you.
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
If the sole purpose of ICE were to instigate a civil war, they would behave exactly like this.
Screenshot of the same exact copy from the post itself from Twitter, which I included in order to attribute the post to Eric Blanc, who has an account on BlueSky but does not appear to be active.
Per @ericblanc.bsky.social:
ICE can't function without their top corporate collaborators:
Amazon/Whole Foods
Target
Palantir
Every major hotel chain
Home Depot
Lowe’s
AT&T
Aramark
Eastern Airlines
Global X
Omni Air
Flock Systems
Dell
UPS
FedEx
Motorola Solutions
LexisNexis
Thompson Reuters
The facts simply contradict the lies put out by DHS.
Thank you for taking a stand @benniethompson.bsky.social This is a step, but please keep going. I don't know who is whipping votes in there for anything remotely relevant to the gravity of what America is facing, but I hope you can lead your colleagues to stand up and fight for all of us.
General strike is where citizens have power.
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
America enabled wanton killing over there. Now wanton killing is happening over here. They unloaded 355 bullets into Hind Rajab, and then they trained the people who unloaded their clips into Renee Good and Alex Pretti. So look alive. Starting now. Protect your neighbors. General fucking strike.
“Say his name!”
“Alex Pretti!”
This.
They use these on ICE flights, too.
“If one is honest about the history of the United States, it prominently features white violence, terrorism and revanchism, particularly toward Black people, Indigenous people and women.” — @sorayanadiamcdonald.com
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This is how you make change.
YOU take the lead.
You don’t wait for lawmakers to LEAD YOU.
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On patrol with Ice-spotters in Minneapolis
Lewis Goodall in the diary
I’ve been successful enough in my career to buy bidets, and recommend them. Usually we get this one, which is $40 and installs easily on any toilet. a.co/d/9KQdXzm Pays for itself in TP in no time.
NEW from me: Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
