Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app)
@anineffablegrump.bsky.social
Iowa. Root beer floats. #YNWA. If martin buber and EM Cioran had a baby and it married Italo Calvino's punk rock estranged kid, and they had a kid. Middling. Former licensed attorney, video store owner and floor layer.
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Bram Stein and @josesole.bsky.social’s extremely thorough Fonts chapter of the Web Almanac is out: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts
#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
Fonts | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
Fonts chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering performance, design, and development trends for typography across the web.
almanac.httparchive.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Bram Stein and @josesole.bsky.social’s extremely thorough Fonts chapter of the Web Almanac is out: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts
#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
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“Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out ‘ICE out’ by using the sign for ‘ice’ and the ‘resistance fist.’”
Team USA snow sculpture in Stillwater removed over ‘ICE out’ messaging
The World Snow Sculpting Championship work by Team USA included messages spelled out in American Sign Language.
www.twincities.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 AM
“Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out ‘ICE out’ by using the sign for ‘ice’ and the ‘resistance fist.’”
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some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
Warsh post ever.
clearly this whole "release" is a White Warsh.
...i'll see myself out
...i'll see myself out
Trumps Fed Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is in the #EpsteinFiles
January 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Warsh post ever.
School shooter ideology is small scale or secular religious afterlife bs anyway, trumps horseshoe of godless boogaloo meeting white xian nationalism in suicide solidarity
All the muscular xianity folks islamaphobia is always a guy describing a projected version of islam they secretly envy
All the muscular xianity folks islamaphobia is always a guy describing a projected version of islam they secretly envy
January 30, 2026 at 9:18 PM
School shooter ideology is small scale or secular religious afterlife bs anyway, trumps horseshoe of godless boogaloo meeting white xian nationalism in suicide solidarity
All the muscular xianity folks islamaphobia is always a guy describing a projected version of islam they secretly envy
All the muscular xianity folks islamaphobia is always a guy describing a projected version of islam they secretly envy
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Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Do not underestimate how much this context adds to these arrests for Minnesotans.
We lost one of our treasured leaders last year because she was tragically murdered and the tactics are being repeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...
We lost one of our treasured leaders last year because she was tragically murdered and the tactics are being repeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Do not underestimate how much this context adds to these arrests for Minnesotans.
We lost one of our treasured leaders last year because she was tragically murdered and the tactics are being repeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...
We lost one of our treasured leaders last year because she was tragically murdered and the tactics are being repeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Between "clicktatorship" and "slopagandist," this has been a banger week for portmanteaus
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Between "clicktatorship" and "slopagandist," this has been a banger week for portmanteaus
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Sen. Graham says he's holding up quick passage of the government funding package "until I get guaranteed a vote on my legislation that would criminalize the conduct going forward" after criticizing states/local govts that don't cooperate with federal immigration operations.
January 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Sen. Graham says he's holding up quick passage of the government funding package "until I get guaranteed a vote on my legislation that would criminalize the conduct going forward" after criticizing states/local govts that don't cooperate with federal immigration operations.
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"To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers."
This one-star review of Melania is a five-star piece of writing if you ask me:
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chatea...
www.the-independent.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:34 PM
"To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers."
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
Hilarious CBS News just spent, like forever telling everyone the opposite on the evening news about the MN white house vibe shift
Oh well, nevertheless
Pivot tomorrow maybe
Oh well, nevertheless
Pivot tomorrow maybe
January 30, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Hilarious CBS News just spent, like forever telling everyone the opposite on the evening news about the MN white house vibe shift
Oh well, nevertheless
Pivot tomorrow maybe
Oh well, nevertheless
Pivot tomorrow maybe
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Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
Chess pieces are dolls/action figures, a chessboard is a dollhouse. Discuss.
It's a bad game on the merits that is coasting on several centuries of being renowned as an intellectual game for smart people and societies without enough wealth to fund competitors.
Chess is the perfect board game
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Chess pieces are dolls/action figures, a chessboard is a dollhouse. Discuss.
I like fonts
Personal favorite? Any Matthew Butterick font
Also, back in the day when i had spending money and a future, i bought the Harriet font from @okaytype.com who i also love overall
Kerning, man
I have a fonts folder if i win the lottery. Ligatures, son.
practicaltypography.com
Personal favorite? Any Matthew Butterick font
Also, back in the day when i had spending money and a future, i bought the Harriet font from @okaytype.com who i also love overall
Kerning, man
I have a fonts folder if i win the lottery. Ligatures, son.
practicaltypography.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I like fonts
Personal favorite? Any Matthew Butterick font
Also, back in the day when i had spending money and a future, i bought the Harriet font from @okaytype.com who i also love overall
Kerning, man
I have a fonts folder if i win the lottery. Ligatures, son.
practicaltypography.com
Personal favorite? Any Matthew Butterick font
Also, back in the day when i had spending money and a future, i bought the Harriet font from @okaytype.com who i also love overall
Kerning, man
I have a fonts folder if i win the lottery. Ligatures, son.
practicaltypography.com
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“Given that training for ICE officers has dropped down to about 6.5 weeks, TV/movies might be their biggest source of knowledge. It demonstrates that agents aren’t moving with tactical focus; they’re doing what they think will look cool and intimidating in photos.”
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
“Given that training for ICE officers has dropped down to about 6.5 weeks, TV/movies might be their biggest source of knowledge. It demonstrates that agents aren’t moving with tactical focus; they’re doing what they think will look cool and intimidating in photos.”
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
Organize a dinner party
January 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Organize a dinner party
Are the mental health resources in the room rn bud?
This is proposed based on a single crime committed in NC because the state should be able to look at petty criminals and upgrade them to functional lifers cause the state can tell i guess. Very preemptive minority report bs
This is proposed based on a single crime committed in NC because the state should be able to look at petty criminals and upgrade them to functional lifers cause the state can tell i guess. Very preemptive minority report bs
This deranged "3 strikes" (like baseball!) bill would allow a free for all to make every handful of misdemeanors a duct taped together 20 year mandatory felony sentence
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
www.who13.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Are the mental health resources in the room rn bud?
This is proposed based on a single crime committed in NC because the state should be able to look at petty criminals and upgrade them to functional lifers cause the state can tell i guess. Very preemptive minority report bs
This is proposed based on a single crime committed in NC because the state should be able to look at petty criminals and upgrade them to functional lifers cause the state can tell i guess. Very preemptive minority report bs
This deranged "3 strikes" (like baseball!) bill would allow a free for all to make every handful of misdemeanors a duct taped together 20 year mandatory felony sentence
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
www.who13.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
This deranged "3 strikes" (like baseball!) bill would allow a free for all to make every handful of misdemeanors a duct taped together 20 year mandatory felony sentence
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
"Holt said there are criminals in Iowa who continue to commit crimes despite having access to mental health and drug resources."
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America has a taste for means-testing safety net policies, and not investing in state capacity to manage the resulting complexity. We focus a lot on how this makes life harder for clients, but it also creates the conditions where private actors who offer to solve this problem can extract rents.
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 PM
America has a taste for means-testing safety net policies, and not investing in state capacity to manage the resulting complexity. We focus a lot on how this makes life harder for clients, but it also creates the conditions where private actors who offer to solve this problem can extract rents.
Really good
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Really good
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Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE.
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors
MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE.
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
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This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.
The administration is insisting that its masked goons are so emotionally stunted that words can launch them into a murderous rage.
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
January 29, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.