Mina Li (she/her)
@codenameminali.bsky.social
Taiwanese-American SFF writer. Fierce with a touch of Midwestern niceness. Profile pic by Lisa Sterle. Opinions are mine.
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iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
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A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
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Again they're telling you the plan. We can stop them. But we need to start by acknowledging that their goal is not to hold a free and fair election.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Again they're telling you the plan. We can stop them. But we need to start by acknowledging that their goal is not to hold a free and fair election.
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Besides being a transphobic ass who hates the homeless, he was married to Kim Guilfoyle! You don't think the Rs have every piece of oppo they'll ever need to sink this slimy fuck? She knows where all the bodies are buried. You are straight stupid if you run this asshole for the big job
i think most (not all) of the "you must vote for Newsom" people are just Newsom supporters who want him to win because they like him and his policies, not because they have high minded ideas about harm reduction.
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Besides being a transphobic ass who hates the homeless, he was married to Kim Guilfoyle! You don't think the Rs have every piece of oppo they'll ever need to sink this slimy fuck? She knows where all the bodies are buried. You are straight stupid if you run this asshole for the big job
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Nathan having a bad skate at 18 and coming back at 22 is not the norm. Few people can maintain top form for 4 years. Injuries add up. Age adds up. Most people cannot maintain figure skating form for that long.
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Nathan having a bad skate at 18 and coming back at 22 is not the norm. Few people can maintain top form for 4 years. Injuries add up. Age adds up. Most people cannot maintain figure skating form for that long.
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So I want to say something about something I see people saying: that Ilia is young.
What I am about to say has NOTHING to do with emotional maturity and everything to do with longevity in figure skating.
Ilya is young in every way but one: figure skating age.
What I am about to say has NOTHING to do with emotional maturity and everything to do with longevity in figure skating.
Ilya is young in every way but one: figure skating age.
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 AM
So I want to say something about something I see people saying: that Ilia is young.
What I am about to say has NOTHING to do with emotional maturity and everything to do with longevity in figure skating.
Ilya is young in every way but one: figure skating age.
What I am about to say has NOTHING to do with emotional maturity and everything to do with longevity in figure skating.
Ilya is young in every way but one: figure skating age.
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king in brown hoodie
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
February 14, 2026 at 2:29 AM
king in brown hoodie
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
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My name is mud in this business. Hey fella, would you like to buy that name?
Exclusive: Casey Wasserman is putting the talent agency that bears his name up for sale after the latest Epstein revelations.
Exclusive | Casey Wasserman Putting His Talent Agency Up for Sale After Epstein Fallout
Wasserman has said he “never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” and told staff he felt that he had “become a distraction” to the firm’s work.
on.wsj.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
My name is mud in this business. Hey fella, would you like to buy that name?
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![KABAS: So many comparisons have made between the current state of US immigration terror and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and I've seen some say that kind of seeks to absolve this country of its own history of racial terror and genocide. In the hearings this week with ICE and CBP and USCIS, you said you have “no respect for inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol.” How did it feel to publicly and explicitly draw that connection?
REP. RAMIREZ: I knew that I was going to make them very uncomfortable. I'm not talking about just the DHS directors there—I meant my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And I say this often, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the willingness to act despite the fear.’ I'm a little scared [in that moment], because if I'm being blunt with you, every time I speak there's a death threat. And yet I thought it was so important, as a daughter of immigrants, as a proud representative of Illinois-3, as someone who has been calling out what they do, to be able to look evil in the eye and call them what they are.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreieyek3u7oka3cei3fdsxn2u7wyxj64s6uxl5kk7dx5zuu3wqr4vue@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
www.mprnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
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Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off
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RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.
Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers--career scientists--when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM
RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.
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your moment of calm?
February 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
your moment of calm?
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Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
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INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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I thought this was so weird it had to be fake so I went to his timeline and couldn't find it, then I looked under his replies and he literally said this in reply to someone who was like "you better start telling folks daily that you're a great swimmer"
absolutely batshit WILD a sitting congressman just posted this. folks, we’re getting closer and closer. don’t stop putting on pressure.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I thought this was so weird it had to be fake so I went to his timeline and couldn't find it, then I looked under his replies and he literally said this in reply to someone who was like "you better start telling folks daily that you're a great swimmer"
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If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.
February 14, 2026 at 4:10 AM
If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.
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Yeah everyone who is involved this admins anti-immigration terrorism has to face some consequences, long prison sentences for the people at top as a minimum.
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Yeah everyone who is involved this admins anti-immigration terrorism has to face some consequences, long prison sentences for the people at top as a minimum.
since last year. been beating myself up about it, especially now that my health issues are fading more and more into the background, but...::gestures widely at everything::
Anyone else struggling to write right now? Like, I know the concepts, I have an image of how the come together, but I sit down to do the work and I just… can’t?
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
since last year. been beating myself up about it, especially now that my health issues are fading more and more into the background, but...::gestures widely at everything::
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I guess they also fired everybody at the Washington Post who knew about Yuri on Ice.
Ilia Malinin, the only figure skater to land a quadruple axel in competition, isn’t interested in Olympic gold medals as much as a revolution to pull figure skating away from your grandmother’s doilies and into the world of younger people like himself.
Can a man make figure skating cool? Ilia Malinin wants to find out.
Entering his first Olympics, the American is aiming to do more than win a gold medal. He is trying to reshape a sport’s future.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I guess they also fired everybody at the Washington Post who knew about Yuri on Ice.
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
one of the few bright spots of 2016, my personal Annus Horribilis
If you want to learn about how figure skating works via the medium of incredibly charming gay anime, may I STRONGLY suggest "Yuri on Ice" (which is available free on Youtube)?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zo...
Yuri!!! on ICE Episode 1 | Easy as Pirozhki!! The Grand Prix Final of Tears
YouTube video by Crunchyroll
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February 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
one of the few bright spots of 2016, my personal Annus Horribilis
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may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]
February 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]