Minnesota is the best of us.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

In California, the DOJ has deployed poll monitors in Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside, and Fresno Counties. In New Jersey, they’re stationed in Passaic County. Don’t let these voter intimidation tactics by the Trump administration stop you from voting.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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#Bluesky is a silly place.

Stop calling for resignations and start calling for arrests.

I put together a list of available tools for the #Bluesky platform. #BuildInPublic

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

I support NPR.

SeaWorld at night. #sandiego #seaworld #california

I am so excited for this! #kickstarter

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One week until launch time! I'm really looking forward to this one!​

Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

My biggest complaint with the new Superman movie is them giving Ma and Pa Kent southern accents. They're Kansans; they're not from the South! Other than that, though, fun movie!

This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here. Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest. And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away.

. Watching Grok morph into Mechahitler within hours of Elon “de-wokeifying” it is the best unintentional ad for content moderation I’ve ever seen. .

Interesting theory that recent LLM modells' use of the em-dash is tied to token minimization (and the scanning of pre-digitization texts). https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-emdashes-part-two​

An interesting and unsettling database of regulatory changes that have taken effect since the beginning of the current administration. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-regulatory-changes-in-the-second-trump-administration/

This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.

Along the theme of interesting data, here's a database of lawsuits challenging Trump administration initiatives. https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/​

Another interesting and scary interactive map: This one shows people disappeared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and where they were taken. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

This is an interesting interactive map of government fundings cuts and their localized effects around the country. Kind of scary, really. https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/​​

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

This is Alexandra.

How is your day going?

WestJet's preparation for takeoff/safely video is trippy. There's a giant lumberjack, a magic goose, a lake monster, a wand that turns cigarettes into chewing gum...

This is me.

My job is funded by federal grants. It’s a worrisome place to be right now, as the organization that issues those grants has just been eliminated by NIH. We’re scrambling to apply for a grant elsewhere, but the state of public funding is pretty abysmal right now.

Trump and DOGE are making devastating cuts to agencies and programs that serve the public — all in the name of rooting out "fraud and waste." Meanwhile, the regime is reportedly planning a military parade for Trump's birthday that could cost an estimated $92 million.  Hello?

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

So my morning has been trying not to think about the fact that this administration is now arresting judges they don't like, all while my son demands more stories about anthropomorphic fire alarms. How are you?

I'm laughing, but also crying.

He sent a woman to prison and took her visa for writing an op ed

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.

We’re not joking, Miller and his puppet Trump really do want to fill universities with Soviet communist-style political commissars. Check out the letter—

Breaking: Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen just announced he'll depart tomorrow (Wednesday) for El Salvador to attempt to secure the release of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "We must urgently continue working to return Kilmar safely home to Maryland."

i support any action that leads to the people in this video being put in front of an international criminal tribunal

Other people have already said this, but the next step is for courts to enjoin the admin from sending any more detainees abroad. There is no “oopsie we can’t” response for that. I’m not sure anyone in particular can be held in contempt in the current impasse, but that would be good too.

There will be lots of people who have previously been complicit who will find some courage, realize a line has been crossed, want to act. It’s gonna piss me off to welcome them but we’re gonna have to do it.

If you love your library, listen up…

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador: