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Matthew Budman, book guy
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News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
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I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends!

gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
January 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
No, we got nothing in common
(We can’t dance together)
No, we can’t talk at all
January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
RFK Jr. racking up the wins
The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed

More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states
'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week
More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.
www.nbcnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Americans have seen the Greatest President in the History of the World in action for a year and they are not impressed
January 17, 2026 at 1:21 AM
From @status.news. Seems safe to assume that if there were *anything* newsworthy in parts 7, 8, or 9, @joshuajfriedman.com would have at least mentioned the highlights. Right?
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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During a hearing about the detentions of pro-Palestinian students, a federal judge said President Trump and top officials have a “fearful approach” to freedom of speech that would seek to “exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”
Trump cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says
“The cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge William Young declared.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
"It’s arbitrary, it’s cruel, and I defy anyone to explain to me how masked men leaving a six-year-old wandering the streets of a suburban town in confusion and tears should be the way we handle any problem, let alone one as complex as America’s relationship with immigration."
On Sunday I was eating ice cream sundaes with my son when he asked me and mom what ICE was. I stammered my way through an answer, not knowing that on the other side of town ICE was capturing people off the streets. Thanks to NJ.com for letting me write about it. www.nj.com/opinion/2026...
I told my blond 6-year-old he’d be OK. Down the street, ICE took away another 6-year-old’s ‘papi’
No one in New Jersey should spend any more time pretending ICE tearing families apart is far away.
www.nj.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.

See? We just need to talk to each other.
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
@debkossmann.bsky.social: “I do not want my tax dollars or Haverford’s resources to be used to support a poorly trained, unprofessional, and cruel secret police force that is our current federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.”

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Haverford Township bars police from cooperating with ICE in noncriminal immigration enforcement
A township commissioner said it is "not our role" to act as a federal immigration authority.
share.inquirer.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“The latent belief of the nativists vying to make America great again is that there is nothing especially interesting or consequential about the American project.” Vance, Miller & Trump claim “that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to”—that we're just animals.
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
"The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees." Government efficiency!
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋
January 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Of all the @postopinions.bsky.social links I will not be clicking today, this is the one I will not be clicking the hardest
January 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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More screenings of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, in NYC and other cities!!!
...plus Sunday is a screening with Loktev at the Museum of the Moving Image, all five parts: movingimage.org/event/my-und...

And more screenings (Nashville, Burlington, Berkeley, e.g.) here: argotpictures.com/film/my-unde...
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
While we're discussing Republicans' murderous misogyny, Facebook reminds me that five years ago today, Hogan Gidley informed us that Donald J. Trump is "the most masculine person to ever hold the White House."
January 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Not sure it's good how much I'm enjoying daily video clips of people yelling at ICE
This morning in Minneapolis, an ICE vehicle got stuck on an icy hill in a residential neighborhood. Agents had to push the vehicles out, some almost slipping in the ice themselves.
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
"Under both the first and second Trump administrations, the country has learned from watching Minneapolis that the federal government holds no regard for cities or the people who live in them."
Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"It’s unclear what evidence the new guidelines are based on."
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Well, I had to tell *someone*
#connections
January 7, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Whata Bod, Whata Bod, Whata Bod, whata mighty good Bod
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM