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The school assignment prompt: When I grow up, I want to be... How Daniel L. completed it: Carried away by owls. Plus a drawing of him being carried away.
January 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Join our team! The Invisible Institute is hiring an investigative reporter to join our team and work alongside our staff to report on police abuse, state violence, and official secrecy in Chicago and beyond. Apply by Feb. 15th!
The Invisible Institute is hiring for a full-time Investigative Reporter — Invisible Institute
The Invisible Institute is hiring an investigative reporter to join our team and work alongside our staff to report on police abuse, state violence, and official secrecy in Chicago and beyond.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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catconlan.net
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota January 16, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dylan Manshack, Comms | dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033 Member remains in ICE custody in Texas MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37002, as part of Operation Metro Surge. While the circumstances of his arrest are not clear, we know he has been transferred to an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an advocate for all workers. And he is one of dozens of Minnesota union members who have been detained in recent weeks. The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests since the surge began in December, according to an MPR News report. But the agency has not provided details about the people arrested, such as how many were charged with a crime, how many face deportation, and how many were subsequently released. “The Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild stands with our member and his family as they face an uncertainty that is all too common in our state right now,” local president Nick Woltman said. “Like all Minnesota workers, our members deserve to feel safe in their communities both on and off the job.” “The detention of a Guild member in Minnesota amidst the chaos created by DHS is heartbreaking and infuriating,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “My heart goes out to his family, who are now without their father and husband. As a union, we commit to fight for each other as stewards of our communities—especially in times as dark as this, while federal agents continue to target working families.” ALT TEXT CONTINUED IN NEXT POST
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
rozphy.bsky.social
do you guys think my cat has ever considered throwing up in just one spot at a time instead of 2-3
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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garyalexander.bsky.social
42% for abolish ICE without an iota of mainstream elected Democratic buy in, this could be over 60% if they tried even a little.
polltracker.bsky.social Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 4d
YouGov poll - In the future, would you support or oppose...

Eliminating ICE as a federal agency?
Support 42%
Oppose 45%

Reducing ICE’s size and funding
Support 48%
Oppose 37%

d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
🥹🥹 good job little guy you are very invisible now 🥹🥹
k-hermit.com でんか @k-hermit.com · 5d
This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!

It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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samd.bsky.social
need to take a step back and call out how fucking embarrassing it is that so many CEOs and institutions have supported Trump
January 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
rozphy.bsky.social
🚨 big one for the local nerds: Brick of Chicago is hiring a tour guide www.brickofchicago.com/hiring
Brick of Chicago — Hiring
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January 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Hundreds of people have packed into Chicago's Thalia Hall tonight for a community listening session on CPD collaboration with ICE/CBP.

Police district councillors who gathered petition signatures required to hold tonight's hearing are opening by thanking the community for showing out.
January 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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samthielman.com
About god damn time.
Furious Democrats threaten government shutdown after Minneapolis shooting
"We can't just keep authorizing money for these illegal killers," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
www.axios.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.
January 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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sammyroth.bsky.social
Fascinating and important new research: Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine www.psypost.org/some-men-may...
Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine
A new study finds that men who are anxious about their masculinity are less likely to care about climate change. They may view environmental concern as a feminine trait that threatens their image.
www.psypost.org
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
rozphy.bsky.social
I've already RTed The Americans and The Leftovers, which are both incredible, but I think my actual answer is The Good Place. I watch the finale every time I need to cry and it always works
redoubters.bsky.social Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 11d
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:

What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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bedubble.bsky.social
The Americans series finale is fantastic.
redoubters.bsky.social Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 11d
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:

What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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sydney-bauer.com
It’s the leftovers series finale and it’s not even close.
redoubters.bsky.social Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 11d
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:

What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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funeralpig.bsky.social
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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thewizardofboz.bsky.social
"Pope you need to do better"
January 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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secretmalcolm.bsky.social
There should be one day a year when cats can talk and we can understand them
mdruker.app Michael Druker @mdruker.app · 11d
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 AM
rozphy.bsky.social
bro they made a ballet out of Eugene Onegin??? joffrey.org/performances...
Eugene Onegin
joffrey.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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atherton.bsky.social
Among everything else, congestion pricing does something exceptionally rare and good when talking about transportation in the United States: it puts the costs on drivers, to the benefit of everybody (even including the drivers willing to pay for it, who get a better experience from reduced traffic).
samratner.bsky.social Sam Ratner @samratner.bsky.social · 12d
Jokes aside, this piece is great and congestion pricing is amazing. Shoutout to everyone who worked so hard to make it happen, and feh to Kathy Hochul and everyone else who worked so hard to make it not happen.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
telling my boss I can’t come back to work because I’ve discovered the joy of doing nothing
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
A thing I learned this year: It takes surprisingly few emails/calls to get a rep's attention.

As a strategy, it's probably more effective per person to call Congress than it is to protest.

Our leaders love to ignore us, but they do actually get worried when enough of us overwhelm their phones.
celestepewter.bsky.social Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 14d
Because the more people call, the more you inspire others to call, the more electeds will pay attention.

Right now, if everyone says: not going to call, not my problem, then it's a death spiral of apathy. We have to break through this.
grumpyoldprop.bsky.social Ben of TFRY @grumpyoldprop.bsky.social · 14d
And what will that do?

They don’t listen to us.
January 3, 2026 at 11:01 PM
rozphy.bsky.social
you’re looking for your Pam Beasley… I’m looking for my Aragorn Son of Arathorn… we are not the same
January 4, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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mattenloe.bsky.social
If hollywood wants more movie ticket sales they should simply make more heist movies
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM