Good Things Friday (359) and Link Love
January 16, 2026
1. A fundraiser to help support immigrant parents & families in south Minneapolis who are facing hardship—and in some cases eviction—because they can’t go to work. From Nicole Chung.
2. This individual has really been going through it. We contributed weeks ago but his campaign hasn’t gotten any traction. Can you pitch in a bit?
A story
The Teleporting Disaster Fairy
by Rati Mehrotra in Uncanny Magazine
From Sept: Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS
This is lovely: Local Woman Has Hobby: Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Pigeon Paintings
WTAF: Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It: American Samoa is the only U.S. state or territory where people are born without automatic citizenship, and without the right to vote in state, federal, and most local elections anywhere outside of American Samoa.
Unlike people born in the other U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoans are classified simply as “U.S. nationals”—a sort of limbo state that acknowledges they are American by birth, but still denied the full rights and privileges of citizenship.
Wired: How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
Jay Bhattacharya being appointed head of the NIH makes me sick. Will make all of us sick, TBH. As does RFK Jr, of course, but if I started naming each of them individually this post would never be done.
Pure evil: Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
Matthew Cortland: Trump Regime Can’t Stop Minnesota From Prosecuting (And This Isn’t CSI)
The article that Jamelle Bouie is responding to: Five takeaways from the Reuters interview of the genocidal pedophile rapist
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.