There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Jane Krakowski
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
"As someone whose kids won’t die fighting in the war, it’s important that you understand the flimsy, morally bankrupt justifications for war, and why it’s vital for you to throw more of your children's lives at this one."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Like the problem is only that Kansas retroactively canceled people’s licenses. Like if they’d just blocked future changes, or forced people to “correct” their documents at renewal, that would’ve been fine.
It wouldn’t be fine.
Yet another example of “the cruelty is the point.” Making people change their ID is already cruel, but giving no notice or grace period is evil. I’m gobsmacked.
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
This thread is a great explainer of what is going on in Kansas.
It's been a few years since I've followed what's happening in the quilting world but I've always thought you could tell the state of the country by what the quilters are doing. They proved that theory correct this year. Go checkout the #quiltcon posts. Powerful. Creative. Just what it should be.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:
This isn't my newsletter's usual beat, but I had to write something jessica.substack.com/p/mens-hocke...
Us women's hockey team 2026
"unfortunately we have to invite the women too”
And the way there are dudes shrugging their shoulders "it's just a joke, it's not that deep".
The fact misogyny is so casual is exactly why women are pissed.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
Scraps of multicolor print fabrics sewn together as the start of a quilt top
Scraps of blue and grey fabrics sewn together as the start of a quilt top
Adventures in crumb quilting #quiltsky
Thank you!! I am a beginner, and finishing this was a big achievement for me. It’s not perfect, but i love it!
16-square baby quilt. Every other square is blue and white strip. Four of the blocks have a grey and white star. The other four are grey and white pinwheels. A Tortie cat is lying on the quilt.
I finished a baby quilt just in time for the shower! Cat-tested, cat-approved.
#quiltsky
Taupe and cream striped fingerless mittens
This week’s #showmeyourknits is hands! 🙌
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.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
I am glad I ended the Mystery Musikal where I did because it is a perfect winter scarf! 🧶
Imagine being made to spend 11 days inside a coffin. Imagine being made to spend more than a day inside a box barely two feet large in any direction. Imagine having to curl up, unable to extend any of your extremities, in the claustrophobic conditions of such a box, for more than a cumulative day. You can see pictures Abu Zubaydah drew of himself in the small box. Now imagine this being done to someone you love. I say all this because the following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday into the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
This was the most dignified photo from our shoot 🐈⬛
Tortie cat licking her nose and sticking her head through wrapping paper
Tortie cat with her mouth open (teeth visible) sticking her head through wrapping paper
Attempts at holiday photos of my cat 🐈⬛
