The racist video posted by the President is perhaps the most egregiously racist thing shown in the White House since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. Here's an article from Denver's Black newspaper in 1915 calling for Americans to denounce such racist imagery.

Correspondence with Noam was really a let down.

I notice at the top it describes Wave 4 and has a date range of 1/31 to 3/1, I wonder what that means.

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

literally Midwestern moms

we know he won't bump his head on the way out

Nice

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

This queen raised a million bucks for charity by hiking 100 miles in drag [via @theguardian.com]

"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."

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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.