Last month's storm, seen from the ground and from space.

I've heard from people in other cities "I'd like to see them try that in __!" No. No, you wouldn't. We have guns pointed in our faces in MN. I think you'd change your tune if this was happening to you, your family & your neighbors. Nobody knows EXACTLY how to do this. This is NEW to all of US.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

nice

Not only is this horrifying in its own right - imagine suddenly finding yourself without a valid licence or birth certificate - but surely even of the most complacent "LGB without T" gays can see, if they can invalidate a trans person's birth cert, what's to stop them invalidating YOUR marriage?

Important: Georgia Fort is President of the Center for Broadcast Journalism and was “one of two journalists in the courtroom when Derek Chauvin was sentenced.” Her arrest, and the others, are a targeted assault on journalism by a white supremacist hate group that has infiltrated the US government.

2016-2024: Donald Trump is a pathological liar who was impeached twice, found liable for sexual assault, indicted for 88 felonies, convicted of 34 of them and attempted an insurrection in broad daylight 2024 VOTERS: The election is about one thing: the economy. Also, I am scared of immigrants

You still got it

Asked a friend who is a top ag researcher if these historic research stations still have value: he says the ROI at these sites is estimated at 35:1 and they’re highly responsive to farmer needs. This seems like a mistake www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...

Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery, Mattawan, Michigan, USA #blueskymonday #photography #abstract #reflection #michigan

Don't know who this quote is from, but man...

"On the international desk, some editors have told correspondents not to accept some assignments that would take them to dangerous spots abroad after Sunday...The fear is that the reporters might be laid off while in personal peril."

If she thought this case was ever going to trial, she’d STFU

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

this is the apartment complex they shot at today...

If you are defining law for a country of 350 million people, you don't get to do it in secrecy. I feel like this shouldn't be a big ask but...

Great Star Trek comment!!

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

The conservatives used to shut down the government over a few hundred million dollars. Seriously. Yet Trump blows billions and sues the govt for billions and gets a “free” jet from Qatar that the govt will spend a billion on then let him take it with him… and not a peep.

There is zero future for the internal combustion engine but only the US auto industry, manipulated by Trump, is failing to acknowledge that. This will cripple US auto production for decades, ceding the EV market to China. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/e...

Early last year I approached Rep Gimenez with an offer to work together to protect immigrants in his district & mine. He rudely told me he had his own strategy & walked off. Apparently his strategy was to do nothing for over a year to actually stop this. Miami deserves better.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)

‘It’s a tradition’: Snowshoe artists return to winter carnival in Riverview #NewBrunswick www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...

Catnip in the snow 😻

We added a bill to the #DefendMIFreedoms pkg Wed - protecting Michiganders from illegal searches & seizures & #KavanaughStops -being pulled over or detained due to perceived race, language/accent, political views. HB5495 basically codifies the US Constitution 4th Amdmt in state law #MiLeg #Michigan

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

I think it's mostly a motivated reasoning thing but the uniformity of the rejoinder that being undocumented imputes you with some kind of indelible quality of "criminality" always startles me. Like no one thinks their cousin who caught a misdemeanor disorderly once is a "criminal," but

Remember how the DOJ said it needed all this extra time to protect victims? About that...

Confused? Let me help make sense of this. The American right’s claims about any constitutional rights only apply to them. There. Now you perfectly understand their claims on gun rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

#Michigan Republicans are pulling the same crap. Got mail this weekend trying to get me to circulate a petition for a similar state level restriction.

"Our government is being run by pedophiles!" - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social "So if you're concerned about the children, that might be somewhere to start." - @timmiller.bsky.social

If the Founders wanted a Christian nation, they did a spectacularly bad job. No mention of God. No established church. No religious tests. A secular Constitution by design.

Just in case you were wondering if Republicans are really as dumb as they've seemed to be of late.

"Remote cameras catch rare predator in Californian forest. There are only 500 left on the planet" — just look at this dude! www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

look whose life goal of not being rich and famous doesn’t seem so stupid now

Photo of last year's shared memory on the East Coast. Feel like temp is 20°, and my tropical sanctuary is frozen in green. Longing for the first blooms of spring. 🌱 #Flowerreport #photography

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social did focus groups with two sets of cops: Harris voters and Trump voters regarding the shootings in Minneapolis and the conduct of immigration cops overall. www.thebulwark.com/p/law-enforc...

Called it.

Don’t tell people ON HERE. Go tell people what we are saying is happening here. Make people uncomfortable with the truth of it. It’s so fucking bad.

I just drove past an abandoned car, with the doors open. (wrong side of highway, others had already stopped.) This is Minnesota. No one for any reason intentionally leaves their car on the side of the road w/the doors open in January Please understand: nothing has changed here. Please tell people

“In the space between yes and no, a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are….” — Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart Who among us has not pondered “the road[s] not taken” in our lives?

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college; Sex, Death, and Disease Machine Guns, Masculinity, and Modernity Excursions in Modern Mathematics Adolescent Psychology Biology for the Non-Major

/2 AUSA jobs tend to be EXTREMELY competitive. (Not to say they’re not occasionally awarded to morons for politics.) Having to advertise for AUSAs on Nazi-Pedoworld is deeply embarrassing. Also the notion you have to be politically loyal to the President to be a entry-level lawyer is loathsome.

Can we start over

Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.

Bill Ackman went after academic plagiarism even though his wife had plagiarized in academia. David Brooks said Epstein Files weren't worth looking at while knowing he'd met with Epstein. Team Trump campaigned on releasing Epstein Files knowing Trump was Epstein's confidant. The hubris is endemic.