Kim McLarin
@kimmclarin.bsky.social
Writer, mother, teacher, baker, Baldwin acolyte and aspiring waterbender. Latest book is EVERY DAY SOMETHING HAS TRIED TO KILL ME AND HAS FAILED and, child, I know you know what I mean.
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Extraordinary woman
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Extraordinary woman
Black women have always seen through your shit and you know it.
January 27, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Black women have always seen through your shit and you know it.
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ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Reposted by Kim McLarin
One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us?
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Food Delivered With Dignity
In the current environment we need to raise a $7,000 a day to sustain our operations
givebutter.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us?
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Called Schumer last night. Calling Jeffries now.
Call Schumer's office today at (202) 224-6542. Then get on the phone to Jeffries at (202) 225-5936. 7/
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Called Schumer last night. Calling Jeffries now.
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Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If your husband stops beating you why not be happy he has stopped beating you rather than complain about those broken ribs?
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
If your husband stops beating you why not be happy he has stopped beating you rather than complain about those broken ribs?
yep
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
Saw this and it’s just wild
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
yep
Making it crystal clear for those in the back of the room that THIS is what government does, this is why government exists.
Reagan sold you a bill of goods.
Good, functional government (which this is while the current federal regime is not) is simply how we take care of us.
Reagan sold you a bill of goods.
Good, functional government (which this is while the current federal regime is not) is simply how we take care of us.
Our city has prepared for this weather, but please move with caution. A hazardous travel advisory is still in effect today. Stay safe, New York!
January 26, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Making it crystal clear for those in the back of the room that THIS is what government does, this is why government exists.
Reagan sold you a bill of goods.
Good, functional government (which this is while the current federal regime is not) is simply how we take care of us.
Reagan sold you a bill of goods.
Good, functional government (which this is while the current federal regime is not) is simply how we take care of us.
Reposted by Kim McLarin
Because, crazy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Because, crazy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
I'm so sick of these people who poo-poohed us into fascism.
The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
January 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I'm so sick of these people who poo-poohed us into fascism.
Praise God for being on good terms with good neighbors with snowblowers.
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Praise God for being on good terms with good neighbors with snowblowers.
It's really this easy to have integrity. It really is.
Why do so few people manage it?
Why do so few people manage it?
COACH KERR: “Their group (the Minnesota Timberwolves) was suffering. It was one of the most bizarre, sad games I’ve ever been a part of.”
(From Anthony Slater)
(From Anthony Slater)
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 AM
It's really this easy to have integrity. It really is.
Why do so few people manage it?
Why do so few people manage it?
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There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.
This gave me joy this morning.
In your eyes
I see the doorway
Of a thousand churches
The resolution
Of all the fruitless searching
youtu.be/iRSktm7GCmk?...
In your eyes
I see the doorway
Of a thousand churches
The resolution
Of all the fruitless searching
youtu.be/iRSktm7GCmk?...
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (ft Youssou N'Dour &
YouTube video by Johan Duner
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January 25, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This gave me joy this morning.
In your eyes
I see the doorway
Of a thousand churches
The resolution
Of all the fruitless searching
youtu.be/iRSktm7GCmk?...
In your eyes
I see the doorway
Of a thousand churches
The resolution
Of all the fruitless searching
youtu.be/iRSktm7GCmk?...
I feel so sorry for his parents.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
I feel so sorry for his parents.
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On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
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Local journalism matters.
January 24, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Local journalism matters.
The panic. People are wild.
January 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The panic. People are wild.
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It's a tell and a timesaver. Everything said after can be evaluated accordingly.
And foreign news use it now with no understanding of the source or original meaning, and without clarifying what it's used to mean now.
The worst are using it as a noun (e.g. backlash against woke). Cannot stand it.
And foreign news use it now with no understanding of the source or original meaning, and without clarifying what it's used to mean now.
The worst are using it as a noun (e.g. backlash against woke). Cannot stand it.
I would tell nonblack people to stop saying woke but they won't listen, they'll say no you can't tell us what to do! So whatever. Through appropriation you turned a commonplace way Black people describe our commonplace systemic oppression into a tool of hatred. Hope you're happy.
January 23, 2026 at 10:55 AM
It's a tell and a timesaver. Everything said after can be evaluated accordingly.
And foreign news use it now with no understanding of the source or original meaning, and without clarifying what it's used to mean now.
The worst are using it as a noun (e.g. backlash against woke). Cannot stand it.
And foreign news use it now with no understanding of the source or original meaning, and without clarifying what it's used to mean now.
The worst are using it as a noun (e.g. backlash against woke). Cannot stand it.
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Mike Johnson: "I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe. A lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just take care of that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life."
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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