Not even fazed, anymore

The perfect Star Tribune headline doesn't exis...

Bored on a long flight so here’s my philosophy on sharing links here. If I pay for a news site & get gift links, you get as many as I can give. If I pay but no gift links, I will use archive.is & breech your paywall. You‘re already getting my money, don’t be assholes about letting me market you. 1/x

So good, and I swear it made me think of the resistance in Minnesota. Stick together or hang separately.

Great thread walking through these complicated details with clarity.

DFL guv straw poll; if you were in Minneapolis & thought “How did Amy Klobuchar win 70%+ when my precinct was a boiling cauldron of dislike?” the answer is, you’re in a (sizable) bubble: under 30% in Mpls Senate districts 60 (NE Mpls) & 62 (S Central); ~40% in SD 61 (Lakes/DT); barely won 59 (N).

Ben Garvin has always been a deeply moral journalist. I really spreading the word about what’s really happening here. And Uncle Chucklefuck at the end just sounds like a moron. (PDF if you hit a paywall: nwa.pressreader.com/article/7695...)

The Uptown Association said pre-construction that pedestrianizing Hennepin Ave (adding center medians) would make it impossible to hold the Uptown Art Fair again. We knew that was silly, motivated by knee jerk hostility to a safer street design. So it's nice to see them admit it.

I think I speak for everyone when I say fuck this guy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT? @kare11.bsky.social @kstptv.bsky.social @mprnews.org @janashortal.bsky.social @dbrauer.net

I can feel the raw milk seeping from their pores

I hope this is real. It’s a gorgeous image. #BadBunny #LiamConejoRamos #ICE_OUT

On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. Our photojournalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering events in the days surrounding Pretti’s death. This is what they witnessed. Read more: https://propub.li/3ZjL7wH

My goal as a parent was always to raise better men than me I just received a video from one son of my other son juggling dildos outside the Whipple Building There are many things I could have done better but I can't really argue with the results

Tfw a career of busting up families just gets to be too much

Sorry for being back on my bullshit, but it’s wild watching the We ❤️ Mpls guy nominating Jacob Frey for the Nobel Resistance Prize while ripping anyone who criticizes Frey ally Dawanna Witt for playing footsie with ICE.

Read today that dogsledding was an Olympic sport in 1932 & thinking it never should have left.

Camouflage yoga tights

NY Times with blow-by-blow on the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office being hollowed out www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u... and the larger DOJ staffing issue Bondi’s idiots have wrought: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u... (both should be gift links)

Coincidentally, this also happened to the Timberwolves

We know Homan is a liar fronting liars to lull us into letting them terrorize innocent people, but now he’s telescoping his timeline to a couple of weeks at the price of …Frey & Walz sending a sternly worded letter to us all? At least he’s negotiating with himself … kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

NBC just Bari Weiss’d JD Vance getting booed

This is a lovely start to the opening ceremonies, but it’s no Gojira. youtu.be/5hTMYk7orHw?...

Bought a big-ass Minnesota flag today, they are flying out of Ace Nicollet Hardware

Find myself occasionally saying in low growl “ICE ouuuuuut …”

Wanted to give everyone a ”good news” update: the teacher has been released and is back with their family. Thanks to everyone who helped with this fundraiser, you were really great. (Good news in quotes because I can only imagine the trauma this family is dealing with.)

This is great! I know everyone’s putting their back into mutual aid, but Mercado Central‘s could still use some love: www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

Props to Strib reporter @maryjowebster.bsky.social—sounds like they're going to revise the story.

Statement by the mayor of Mahtomedi, MN, asserting the need for law enforcement actions to be taken legally and in support of peaceful protests. Mahtomedi leans centrist to conservative and skews wealthier than the metro at large. www.mahtomedimn.gov/m/newsflash/...

Friend who's part of a neighborhood watch group says their car was just surrounded by ICE. Is fine but obviously rattled.

Me: oh hey, the Winter Olympics are on, let’s watch Me 2 minutes later: oh right, ads exist

Data in @startribune.com's story on eviction filings is totally incorrect—does not account for expungements, which makes past year #'s artificially lower. They also didn't speak to tenants or advocates, but of course Cecil Smith w/ landlord trade group is quoted. www.startribune.com/eviction-fil...

Finally got to the end of the transcript and there’s a huge discussion over who exactly is *adding conditions of release* when detainees are being ordered *unconditionally* released by the judges. Le says it’s the field office supervisors…and names David Easterwood of Cities Church fame.

A racist White nepo man, two infinity-scarf White women, and two xenophobic “FBA” Frey allies.

So if this happens (yay!) the Wolves gave up Dillingham, Miller, 4 2nds & 6-8 spots in this year‘a 1st round for for a NAW replacement, ~$20m cap relief, and a $10.7m trade exception, plus additional benefits of falling below an apron level to get better players this summer. Tim Connolly is clever.

There are a lot of heroes in western Wisconsin, but they are struggling with the challenges this article capably captures

New Zealand, vastly exceeded my already high expectations

Especially in Minnesota.

Remember. All this focus on sheriffs and access to county jails. We have actual numbers and we’re taking fewer than 100 people with ICE detainers statewide. THIS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LYING WHEN THEY FRAME THIS AS A MATERIAL MOTIVATION.

Immigration Law Center of Minnesota is so grateful for your generous donations. So much so they’re asking for help supporting other organizations doing important immigration work. Please check them out and do what you do. Thank you! www.ilcm.org/other-organi...

Witt: ”I am well aware that if I make the decision to notify [ICE about inmates subject to deportation], it could hurt my chances of being re-elected. But at least I could look at myself & say that I did what I thought was right to keep people safe.” However, she admits Homan might not honor a deal.

Good deep dive into Mobile Fortify, the app ICE is using for facial recognition in Minnesota. It’s not even close to pinpoint accurate, but the point is to add to Homeland Security database, where previous privacy constraints have been removed. archive.is/BkzdV

“A specific beach in 1991” omg

Jon is the best (and MPR has been fabulous)

New-ish dryer started knocking a few days ago as it tumbled clothes; repairman today showed me the mummified mouse that has crawled in the stuck-open outside vent, its arid corpse stuck in between two exhaust fan blades, whacking the side of the dryer as the fan whirred.

Two dative covalent bonds snuggle between a ligand and a single metal atom, thereby forming a ring structure Chelated Rivalry

Hey babes who’s the DHS attorney assigned to this one…just wondering

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

From the Land of Sky Blue Language

Well, today we learned it takes 20 ICE agents to change a tire.