Grace Lovelace
@crowdsstops.bsky.social
Culture writer, PhD, child minder. Bylines in the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere
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Dunkin has bravely taken a stance in the war on protein
January 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Dunkin has bravely taken a stance in the war on protein
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May cause bloating, dizziness, chest pain, myocardial infarction, rash, skin infections near the perineal area.
The people in the commercial:
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The people in the commercial:
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January 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The Medication Commercial:
May cause bloating, dizziness, chest pain, myocardial infarction, rash, skin infections near the perineal area.
The people in the commercial:
🎵💃🏿💃🏿🎵💃🏿💃🏿🎵💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🎵🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿
May cause bloating, dizziness, chest pain, myocardial infarction, rash, skin infections near the perineal area.
The people in the commercial:
🎵💃🏿💃🏿🎵💃🏿💃🏿🎵💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🎵🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿🕺🏿🎹🕺🏿
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I get it: Billy Joel could write “We Didn’t Start the Fire 2” using just headlines from the past two weeks.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
Trump Is Worth $2.3 Billion More Than When He Was Re-Elected
News on the return of Donald Trump's for-profit presidency
www.1100pennsylvania.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I get it: Billy Joel could write “We Didn’t Start the Fire 2” using just headlines from the past two weeks.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
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I want to convey this in no uncertain terms. The citizens of Minnesota--an entire state--are terrified right now. The federal government is responding through greater force. The federal government is not looking at its own citizens as "citizens." They are looking at us as something to "break."
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I want to convey this in no uncertain terms. The citizens of Minnesota--an entire state--are terrified right now. The federal government is responding through greater force. The federal government is not looking at its own citizens as "citizens." They are looking at us as something to "break."
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Walking is better
Than running away.
And crawling ain’t no good at all.
—Willie Nelson, “Walkin’”
Than running away.
And crawling ain’t no good at all.
—Willie Nelson, “Walkin’”
January 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Walking is better
Than running away.
And crawling ain’t no good at all.
—Willie Nelson, “Walkin’”
Than running away.
And crawling ain’t no good at all.
—Willie Nelson, “Walkin’”
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If ICE and genocide and grift and tyranny weren’t enough, this alone should have fire running down every street in America.
This isn’t the way to live.
We do not have to live this way.
This isn’t the way to live.
We do not have to live this way.
Quoted in this Marketplace piece on modern price discrimination. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
Different customers, different prices: Companies use data for personalized pricing
Between surveillance pricing and discounting, it's harder than ever to figure out if you're getting the best price.
www.marketplace.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
If ICE and genocide and grift and tyranny weren’t enough, this alone should have fire running down every street in America.
This isn’t the way to live.
We do not have to live this way.
This isn’t the way to live.
We do not have to live this way.
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East Lake Street, Minneapolis
January 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
East Lake Street, Minneapolis
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The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.
As detention expands, conditions get worse, thanks to overcrowding and the chaotic transfers of people all over the country.
ICE detention has always had problems, but they're worse than ever now and the impact is clear. Deaths hit a record level in 2025, and 2026 is already looking to be worse.
ICE detention has always had problems, but they're worse than ever now and the impact is clear. Deaths hit a record level in 2025, and 2026 is already looking to be worse.
The detention system has grown so rapidly that already harmful conditions have worsened.
Thousands of immigrants arrested in the interior are detained in hastily built tent camps, where conditions are brutal.
More people died in ICE detention in 2025 than in the past four years combined.
Thousands of immigrants arrested in the interior are detained in hastily built tent camps, where conditions are brutal.
More people died in ICE detention in 2025 than in the past four years combined.
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.
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Not sure someone with this face and voice should call someone else “smug”
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Not sure someone with this face and voice should call someone else “smug”
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Whenever someone says they are “neither right nor left,” prepare to discover that they are so far right it will take your lovely breath away.
I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Whenever someone says they are “neither right nor left,” prepare to discover that they are so far right it will take your lovely breath away.
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I pulled up next to one at 10:17am yesterday an snapped a photo. By 10:27 the agents I photographed were in front of my house, along with another vehicle that met them there. It's a 10 minute drive from where I took the photo to my house - so they got the data *instantly*
bsky.app/profile/mitc...
bsky.app/profile/mitc...
Guys I think they're instantly getting DVS data.
Pulled up next to this guy on central going south in Columbia heights, followed him, they turned around, got on 694, crossed the river, and went straight to my house in Brooklyn center.
Pulled up next to this guy on central going south in Columbia heights, followed him, they turned around, got on 694, crossed the river, and went straight to my house in Brooklyn center.
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I pulled up next to one at 10:17am yesterday an snapped a photo. By 10:27 the agents I photographed were in front of my house, along with another vehicle that met them there. It's a 10 minute drive from where I took the photo to my house - so they got the data *instantly*
bsky.app/profile/mitc...
bsky.app/profile/mitc...
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This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
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Swarming is working. 20 cameras in their face every time they step out of the truck. None of them are having a good time out there.
The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:
January 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Swarming is working. 20 cameras in their face every time they step out of the truck. None of them are having a good time out there.
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“organized gangs of wine moms are using antifa tactics” listen to yourselves
January 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
“organized gangs of wine moms are using antifa tactics” listen to yourselves
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Also, they‘re not as scary as they think they are. They are, however, hated, and they will be hated more the more they try to scare people into submission.
minneapolis is under siege and it is taking basically all of ICE’s manpower
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
January 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Also, they‘re not as scary as they think they are. They are, however, hated, and they will be hated more the more they try to scare people into submission.
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“It’s gonna infuriate people more which means there’s gonna be more incidents like this. Can I have my bag of cash now?”
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
“It’s gonna infuriate people more which means there’s gonna be more incidents like this. Can I have my bag of cash now?”
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Two days ago I watched a woman lay a single red rose down in memorial. An ICE goon came over, picked it up and put it in his lapel. Then he used it to flirt with a female goon. They were all laughing. She had been dead less than 24 hours and they were desecrating her memorial and laughing about it.
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Two days ago I watched a woman lay a single red rose down in memorial. An ICE goon came over, picked it up and put it in his lapel. Then he used it to flirt with a female goon. They were all laughing. She had been dead less than 24 hours and they were desecrating her memorial and laughing about it.
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Yesterday I documented how DHS lies all the time and suggested you not trust their claims, in case you did.
Opinion | Kristi Noem and DHS do not deserve the benefit of the doubt
Philip Bump: The Department of Homeland Security and its leader have an honesty problem — and the numbers prove it.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Yesterday I documented how DHS lies all the time and suggested you not trust their claims, in case you did.
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In 2005 I got the flu so bad I couldn’t fly to family for Christmas. Have faithfully gotten my shot as soon as available every year since—and never had it since.
Even when shot isn’t as on target as they hoped—like this year—it greatly reduces symptoms and spread, including in your own household.
Even when shot isn’t as on target as they hoped—like this year—it greatly reduces symptoms and spread, including in your own household.
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
In 2005 I got the flu so bad I couldn’t fly to family for Christmas. Have faithfully gotten my shot as soon as available every year since—and never had it since.
Even when shot isn’t as on target as they hoped—like this year—it greatly reduces symptoms and spread, including in your own household.
Even when shot isn’t as on target as they hoped—like this year—it greatly reduces symptoms and spread, including in your own household.
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In a video message to Germany this morning regarding their prosecutions of doctors who have violated public health laws during the pandemic, RFK Jr. said:
“Your doctor is serving…unelected technocrats with no medical training and anybody can see the danger in this system”.
Has he even met himself?
“Your doctor is serving…unelected technocrats with no medical training and anybody can see the danger in this system”.
Has he even met himself?
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
In a video message to Germany this morning regarding their prosecutions of doctors who have violated public health laws during the pandemic, RFK Jr. said:
“Your doctor is serving…unelected technocrats with no medical training and anybody can see the danger in this system”.
Has he even met himself?
“Your doctor is serving…unelected technocrats with no medical training and anybody can see the danger in this system”.
Has he even met himself?
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Allowing the executive branch to arbitrarily defund individual states would, in effect, unravel the Union itself. But that's where the US is right now.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Allowing the executive branch to arbitrarily defund individual states would, in effect, unravel the Union itself. But that's where the US is right now.
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Man I really underestimated how bad it’s gotta feel to get verbally abused through a bullhorn by someone with a Minnesota accent
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 5:10 PM
Man I really underestimated how bad it’s gotta feel to get verbally abused through a bullhorn by someone with a Minnesota accent
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I understand why people think protests are a waste of time. But they’re the only thing that give me hope anymore. Elected Dems are still voting for Trump’s nominees. They insist pointing out Trump’s fascism is bad strategy. They offer vague promises things might be marginally better years from now.
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
I understand why people think protests are a waste of time. But they’re the only thing that give me hope anymore. Elected Dems are still voting for Trump’s nominees. They insist pointing out Trump’s fascism is bad strategy. They offer vague promises things might be marginally better years from now.
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Not The Onion.
Though these days, it's hard to tell.
Though these days, it's hard to tell.
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
www.huffpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Not The Onion.
Though these days, it's hard to tell.
Though these days, it's hard to tell.
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I’m watching the Ken Burns series on the Revolutionary War and it’s pretty radicalizing just 30 minutes in!
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I’m watching the Ken Burns series on the Revolutionary War and it’s pretty radicalizing just 30 minutes in!