Good Things Friday (363) and Link Love
February 13, 2026
1. A pink manta!
2. A friend’s willing to be the guinea pig on this crocheting pattern for me. I bought this for them to try first and tell me how tough it really is before I commit to buying yarn and trying to figure out how to crochet again. I learned more than 20 years ago but I only ever learned the one stitch and that baby blanket is STILL a WIP tucked away somewhere.
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology. She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it. “Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons. Activists fighting a similar warehouse got even more unlikely support from Roger Wicker, the Republican senator from Mississippi who also happens to be the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Wicker wrote a letter to DHS secretary Kristi Noem a week ago, and Noem has since reportedly agreed to halt work toward that detention site.”
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Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents?
Action: Donate to HavenWatch who are on the ground helping people being released after ICE steals their wallets, phones, and anything else of value.