Our GDP per capita in 1887 was at best ~$8,200 in today's money and the economy grew at a rate of just 1.74%. We were about as wealthy in 1887 as Colombia, Moldova, and Equatorial Guinea are today with a sluggish growth rate lower than Trump's pre-pandemic years or any of Biden's years in office.

State Department diplomats well after WWII were not infrequently & derisively feminized, insinuated to be queer, etc. “cookie pushers in striped pants” The State Dept was a major source of casualties in “red scare” that saw more folk ousted for being queer than being communists.

there is in fact no constitutional or legal mechanism for anything like what we would call martial law in the united states

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

During break-up with now ex-boyfriend, #Florida woman discovers his bomb-makng materials in garage, calls cops. www.fox13news.com/news/explosi...

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So due to medical shenanigans (some kitten randomly peeing blood, and a skin infection), I have Potats on the extended stay plan. They’re eating me out of house and home. If you’re game to help keep the monsters fed- we appreciate it. They’re eating a case of food in 3-4 days 😳 1/

Trump’s attack on science, research, and education is laying down a Chixulub iridium layer in the historiographies of all academic disciplines that in future years will mark the simultaneous extinction of numerous lines of American intellectual inquiry.

Is anyone else getting Peloponnesian War vibes?

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

That’s… wow. Huh.

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I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

This beautiful child, an American citizen just like his parents, is being bullied because Donald Trump is a racist piece of shit and white supremacy feels emboldened to act without shame. This hatred is taught and it is wrong.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

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.

On my "For you" machine learning feed by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social ... A common theme popping up is smol Bsky accounts either making earnest or joking skeets about how frightening it is to be informed, watching US news. That it totally fair, and valid! So, timeline cleanse!: random chuckles, ed.

We have the most backward-thinking anti-people politicians in the entire nation. Just in case the situation of the state in every ranking is not enough proof: 1819news.com/news/item/ho...

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

NEW and first on @techcrunch.com -- OSHA says SpaceX didn't properly inspect a crane before it collapsed last June while cleaning up Starship wreckage at the company's Starbase site in Texas. The agency's probe into the accident turned up seven "serious" violations: techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/s...

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/l...

First commercial space station assembly in progress arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. trib.al/i7dkhL4

A librarian who is also a serial killer chooses their victims from a pool of people who say things like “You need a degree to be a librarian?” “How nice, you get to read books all day!” and similar phrases. 📚📜

The Danes answered our call after 9/11 and lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan, which is a casualty rate equal to our own relative to their population. The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme

Die Hard on a oil rig converted into a resort, but the venture capitalists the terrorists expect to kidnap and blackmail are just an assortment of Scots attending a high school reunion.

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Has anyone done a survey of public libraries and whether/what kind of video games they have available for people to borrow? 📚

Where is ll this 21st century fear of communists coming from?

The clear answer is no.

Looking After the Archivist: Reducing Risks of Secondary Trauma is an online workshop put on by the Scottish Council on Archives and hosted by Anna Sexton. More info and free registration linked below. 🌈🗃️ #archives (no affiliation)

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Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some computers from shuting down

In an unhinged letter to the Norwegian prime minister, Donald Trump falsely claimed that there are no documents indicating Denmark's claim to Greenland. In fact, the US signed a still-binding 1917 treaty with Denmark to certify that it would not challenge Danish control of Greenland.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

NORAD announces its aircraft will arrive at the US base in Greenland, and because of EVERYTHING GOING ON, has to stress repeatedly that this is a routine, long-planned operation that the Kingdom of Denmark is aware of. x.com/noradcommand...

This is disastrous. Call your reps. It doesn’t matter if you don’t live in Florida, call them because a rise in HIV cases there from these cuts will affect us in every state, and if Florida is having to make these cuts, your state might have to as well.

The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

@vienna_official today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress. @pan_slav_posting wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok

I grew up cooking rice with salt and bay leaves. Day-old rice gets used for fried rice.

This guy still has a clearer and more compelling message than anyone who has spoke out about Minnesota before or since.

lol if this is true every bar regulator and district judge is about to get so much more work

National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP) National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

A legal observer has reported a violent encounter in a Minneapolis laundromat parking lot where an ICE agent allegedly assaulted a young woman for filming. The agent reportedly slammed the woman’s face into a car hood. While pinned, the agent allegedly told her, "I will shoot you in the head."

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

US archbishop for the military: an order to invade Greenland would be an unlawful order, and it must be disobeyed. This was cleared directly with Pontifex maximus, the first pontiff in a century who is also a canon lawyer.