Unpopular opinion: Writers who boycott and/or publicly criticize other writers for using Substack, while they themselves post on Meta, have seriously lost the plot. Sometimes I feel like we're back with the 90s punk rock purity police. All the platform choices suck, my friends.

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That’s why ALT is so great, it helps everyone!

I was arrested at home by NYPD detectives and charged under a stalking law for sending faxes to New York City's chamber of commerce

Kayla Cromer Official@kaylacromer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.

Appreciate this lifting up of Giuffre's courage. But real justice and accountability for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor would include accountability for his part in her tragic death.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

I'm back from a week of vacation with a report on the next wave of the Defiance: The Singing Resistance. It's easy to join; it's addictive once you do it; and it converts rage into loving action. Link below: open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

This Machine Quells Fascists

All across the nation, there's a new vibration, spreading from Minneapolis and traveling at the speed of song.

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He gives a special mention this week to ten dogs who were rescued by a neighbor from empty apartments "after their humans were disappeared by ICE"

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 6mo ago

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

A truly impressive list of Minnesota businesses and organizations that will be closing for tomorrow's anti-ICE strike > bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike

First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.

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A remarkable sign of the times: Legendary nonviolent resistance scholar and trainer @mariajstephan.bsky.social will be on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social tonight to discuss "what nonviolent action is, why it works, and how to take part in this growing broad-front pro-democracy movement."

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

A remarkable sign of the times: Legendary nonviolent resistance scholar and trainer @mariajstephan.bsky.social will be on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social tonight to discuss "what nonviolent action is, why it works, and how to take part in this growing broad-front pro-democracy movement."

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding: 1: ICE must leave Minnesota now. 2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable. 3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget. “These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

So far this morning, I have swept the Lowe’s and harbor Freight for ICE and stood in the freezing cold trying to get my /Democratic /senator to prevent funding ICE. Lotta ICE this morning!

Indivisible Brooklyn@bkindivisible.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A message for @schumer.senate.gov from Day 3 of our daily Chuck pickets! Join us Thu-Fri @ 8 & Sun @ 12 outside his BK bldg + Fri @ 230 outside his office — & call him (212) 436-4430! @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

Why do so many Democratic officeholders, candidates and political operatives keep following the same playbook, the one that says that if they want to win elections they have to raise tons of money, spend nearly all of it on targeted media... (1/n)

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Douglas Farmer@douglasfarmer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Minneapolis can still laugh

I'LL TAKE MY HORCHATA WARM CUZ FUCK ICE Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Douglas Farmer@douglasfarmer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Take a moment to enjoy the joyous dream some of us spun out seven years ago, when we went to the White House and handed out an edition of the Washington Post depicting T's downfall after a massive popular uprising. It's a dream with real lessons for today: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

On Dreams and Pillars

What would it take to bring this nightmare to an end?

lakauffman.substack.com

🧵 Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House and distributed copies of the Washington Post with a dramatic headline: UNPRESIDENTED - TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS The paper was a work of fiction, created with @theyesmen.bsky.social

🧵 Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House and distributed copies of the Washington Post with a dramatic headline: UNPRESIDENTED - TRUMP HASTILY DEPARTS WHITE HOUSE, ENDING CRISIS The paper was a work of fiction, created with @theyesmen.bsky.social

On the dream of bringing him down, and how Democratic leadership keeps serving as a pillar holding him up: My latest, about the fictional WaPo we handed out at the White House seven years ago today, and its lessons for the current moment. lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

On Dreams and Pillars

What would it take to bring this nightmare to an end?

lakauffman.substack.com

Seven years ago today, a small team and I fanned out in front of the White House to distribute a fictional newspaper that imagined Trump’s downfall after a nationwide popular uprising. It was a dream, yes, but one with lessons for our current nightmare: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-dreams-...

On Dreams and Pillars

What would it take to bring this nightmare to an end?

lakauffman.substack.com

So appreciate this incredible, thoughtful review: "a thought-provoking, polyphonic collage which manages to engage authentically with nuanced issues while also leaving the reader feeling optimistic and empowered." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older

We Will Rise Again manages to hold many apparent contradictions within its pages.

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Many attending a Chester village board mtg Monday night correctly called it a “concentration camp.” Attention is high and public opinion is shifting rapidly against ICE’s operations and existence. This isn't just NIMBYism anymore, it's fierce moral outrage. (2/2) open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

ICE is Feeding the Whirlwind

Plans for new concentration camps to hold ICE detainees, on top of the assualt on Minneapolis, are triggering rising local opposition and creating new potential fissures in the Republican base

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A report from Chester, NY, where unofficial word that ICE is planning to build a new mass detention center in a former Pep Boys warehouse has turbocharged local activists already more in motion because of Renee Good’s murder and the attack on Minneapolis. (1/2)

Heartbroken? Disgusted? Alarmed? Join your neighbors at an "ICE Out for Good" event this weekend, organized by a broad coalition of groups including @indivisible.org Event list here: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913... #ICEOutForGood

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize

Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and...

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