Here's the thing: This was true in 2024. In the very same surveys where media shouted from rooftops that majorities supported "mass deportation" MORE people supported having people stay. But the latter didn't merit airtime. Chart credit: @mikepod.bsky.social

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

Can’t believe we are still doing this

All of #RollerDerby now turns its eyes to #Olympics speed skating 😅❤️🙌🏻 (ICYMI Erin Jackson came up thru roller derby in Florida before switching to speed skating! I've actually announced a game she played back when - grear jammer, unsurprisingly!).

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

NYT praises Holocaust II plan for “friendlier tone”

columbia, cornell, and northwestern could, with these precedents, start fighting now. knuckling under fascists is always bad, and the time to stop doing that is always right now.

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

Rad

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

Good thread

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

YES.

Why I'm watching figure skating right now. Our poor brains/hearts.

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

Just read @faineg.bsky.social refer to men's figure skating as Twink Show Jumping and now I can't think of it any other way. Absolutely perfect, no notes.

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abolish ice www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Terminally online “revolutionaries”: “read theory and burn down a Walmart” (does neither) Wine moms: commits arson on a possible ICE warehouse in broad daylight

Take Action! From now til Feb 17 5pm ET! Gender-affirming care is essential, life-saving healthcare. The federal gov't is trying to block hospitals from providing this care to trans youth. Sign now to oppose these attacks. mailchi.mp/translifeline/tlforgenderaffirmingcare

"The ghost story, in other words, will always, on some level, fail to capture the haunting, just as the algorithm will always fail to capture the life." Well this was brilliant. I always feel simultaneously smarter and dumber after reading Colin's work.

The blood of millions of people around the world is already on Vought’s filthy hands. And considering how paranoid he seems to be, perhaps he’s even dimly aware that he will burn in hell forever. He must be prosecuted, punished, and imprisoned.

harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your niece: admirable, family-oriented harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your girlfriend: romantic, possibly cinematic harboring girlfriend who is your niece:

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

There's still time to kill these bills, Wisconsin:

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

For those who don't know, this is a finding from 2009 by the EPA which stated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare

Worth watching this full exchange over on CSPAN. Johnson isn't even looking for answers here, just blaring right-wing talking points, blaming victims for their own deaths at the hands of ICE, and standing opposed to the exercise of 1st Amendment rights in the face of federal overreach.

BEWARE PHISHING: Multiple of my (academic) friends have suffered email hacks where they get an invitation to a party and are asked to login to one of their social media/email accounts in order to access it. This thing is like an illness that seems to be spreading a lot. Be on alert.

BEAUTIFUL AND COOL OLD SWORD ALERT

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Poll tax is back but everyone is now discovering it’s fascism

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Wisconsin's upcoming governor's race has big implications for trans rights. The state senate today passed a set of anti-trans bills that Governor Evers is likely to veto. But if the Evers, who's retiring, is replaced by a Republican, they're sure to come up again. spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

Ok this is fucking fantastic

The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.

NEWS: AIPAC has a new opponent. PAL PAC. As Netanyahu comes to DC yet again – while public opinion tanks on Israel – @votepalpac.bsky.social launches today, seeking to end the Israel lobby's hold over US politics. It's endorsing 4 current members, with more endorsements & primary challenges ahead.

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

"'They're seeing them undercover as construction workers, they're seeing them undercover as Uber drivers, they're seeing them undercover as like electrical workers or school observers,' Steadman said." Diabolical.

As Wisconsin weighs who should pay, another possible billion-dollar data center emerges wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/wisc...

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