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Zito
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“It is all one to me where I start — I arrive there again soon enough.”

Buy my book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-minotaur-at-calle-lanza-zito-madu/21461997
Midwest supremacy. I apologize for all the bad things I said about Minnesota and it being the Milhouse of the region.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.
A "subject profile" of Öztürk that was prepared "for/in collaboration with HSI Office of Intelligence" cites her profile on the Israeli-based website Canary Mission on the third page.

It also includes her op-ed.
January 23, 2026 at 6:49 PM
“She tells us in Spanish that migrants can’t use corporate rideshare services because there have been reports of Uber drivers taking people directly to ICE.”

A country of snitches.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West
What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced u...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
He’s wonderful, like an older version of Arthur from Fire Force
My favorite character in Sentenced to Be a Hero so far is Norgalle, "mad king" and champion of the working man. I wrote about him and the third stellar episode here: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Welcome back to the stage of history
new for 2026: we are introducing fistfight fridays. no subtweeting. you MUST engage the person that you are mad at online in irl blood sport
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
My hair lady is the funniest person I know. Every time I’m there, she’s either talking to or talking about some guy she’s seeing and she’s so ruthless. Apparently they got into an argument and he tried to blame it on her not saying “I love you” and her response was “boy, go to hell”. I cackled.
January 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I’m not sure this is fair. He does turn it up and down but I think everyone does the same with their personality. It’s not like this movie is aimed at Black audiences particularly but you can see through his trajectory that he’s finally feeling comfortable enough being more of himself publicly.
January 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM
He wants to be me so badly
A dad on patrol this morning is showing off his new egregiously expensive ice-fishing boots that he justified “because I’m standing out here all the time.” Dudes are going to continue rocking until morale improves
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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This lineup is exactly what the Academy votership overhaul several years ago was going for: More room for genre. A year when the huge, popular movie with the black cast ISN'T the surprise "Oops" omission. And a more international look--nineteen nominations for foreign films this year.
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Coogler believing in and taking over Michael B. Jordan’s career to turn him into a big movie star is going to be such an incredible story years from now.
‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations

See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Communities are rising up to stand against agents of the state roaming the streets and going door to door kidnapping everyone from children to elders and the best these losers can come up with is to not fight back because it may lead to some other violence. Cowards through and through.
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 12:39 PM
They don’t fear any of that because their entire idea seems to be to frame themselves as the lesser of two evils by remaining quiet or offering the same flaccid ideas and reforms that have failed a million times before.
Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
January 22, 2026 at 12:36 PM
“We have a tendency to keep asking whether a threshold of no return has finally been crossed. The answer is yes – but not because Trump is operating outside of historical precedents for US racism and imperialism, which are not hard to find.”

www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Cooked country
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I would have made a great viscount
January 22, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Everyone in NYC is trying to scam you
January 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM
“Israel continues to be members of both UEFA and FIFA and any discussions on the absurdity of this is yet to arrive on the agenda for administrators, despite calls from footballers, fan groups, journalists and large swathes of civil society.”

www.newarab.com/opinion/how-...
How fans made Palestine impossible for sport to ignore in 2025
From football to cycling, in 2025 fans turned sport into a moral battleground over Palestine while institutions stayed silent, writes Sanaa Qureshi.
www.newarab.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Really can’t understand why they would nuke the whole data ecosystem like this. I imagine it has something to do with gambling/prediction but really such a disservice to the game and the history and culture of data building and sharing in sports, especially football.
FBRef was not only a brilliant resource generally, it made so much WoSo data available that couldn’t be found elsewhere. Absolutely gutting for fans, data nerds, and those of us who feel these things shouldn’t merely be the preserve of people with lots of money
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“In the most profound and basic sense, the engineers of our current situation, cultural and otherwise, are our enemies. They want to make money from us, not build a better world. They take the things we make and use them to replace the makers.”

- Lydia Kiesling
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Minneapolis schools are closing because non-white families can't go outside and Senate Dems are like "ok but you gotta buy some body cameras for ICE"
Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE:
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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I think it was @hels.bsky.social who spoke recently about how all the protein/fiber snacks are to give consumers permission to eat "badly" by making it plausibly deniable they're eating "good." Anyway I just got emailed about a company making protein ranch dressing.
January 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM