Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

Three months ago I was hooting at the Metropolitan Airports Commission about ICE flights. Today they’ve sent me to holler at Congress. I’ll do my damndest to make you proud, Minnesota! #MNinDC

FEMA decision time for disaster declarations has more that doubled as of 2025. Previously 1 in 6 applications denied, now 1 in 4. Incredible new interactive dashboard from @andrewrumbach.bsky.social andrewrumbach.com/disaster-lab

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

Incredible, on-the-ground reporting from @gabydvj.bsky.social. It's easy to embrace the triumphalist "Minnesotans fought back" narrative, but the reality is that the Trump administration has done long-term damage

get you a partner that loves you as much as the united states government loves shooting down mylar balloons

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

In short, yes I know. My takes are second guessing normal behavior. The FAA was responsible and followed the script of what you need to do when you have undeclared/careless laser use. Consider it was a surprise to them too. DOD acted normal with “on range” behavior. That goes badly anywhere else.

new reporting from CNN indicates as many as 4 party balloons were shot down by this laser system in the El Paso area in the days leading up to this emergency TFR issuance x.com/NatashaBertr...

"Earlier this week, the anti-drone technology was launched near the southern border to shoot down what appeared to be foreign drones. The flying material turned out to be a party balloon, sources said. One balloon was shot down" absolutely incredible stuff

i both believe that there are some types of things that LLMs do that are useful and that it's patently absurd to say there's a 10% chance LLMs take away all white collar jobs and that we should act accordingly

The second TFR west of El Paso appears to still be active.

cool that DoD and FAA are beefing by proxy through anonymous statements in news reports, I am sure that's great for aviation safety

MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

forgot to mention, the TFR that came into effect 15 minutes ago is slated to last 10 days... can't really think of a similar situation in the NAS, very unusual

the last minute TFR situation (and resulting elephant-walk-esque rush of departures) in El Paso is interesting! from ATC audio, they received last minute notice of a TFR shutting down airspace within a 10NM radius of the ELP up to 18k ft... ATC themselves describing it as a total shutdown

Angleton-pilled. Asking to be "read in" to the children's schedule. Giving a Wife's Daily Briefing. Referring to episodes of the muppets as ELINT. PTA gossip is HUMINT. Burn After Reading packed lunches.

@rusty.todayintabs.com i will not stand for this ottumwa, ia erasure in today's tabs

really sucks the 4th amendment is "dead on arrival" these days

1/ Last week the Italian researchers who have been looking at vulnerabilities in the TCAS system put out a press release about their analysis of the "phantom" resolution advisories that happened near KDCA last March. (Image via Google Translate.) life.unige.it/comunicati-s...

My friend Debbie wrote this great thread about the context of Surya Bonaly’s famous backflip and the history of backflips in the sport as well as Surya’s prestigious career. A large account on here decided to only read every other word and dunk post and that’s why we can’t have nice things

so much for occupy mars lol

billionaire's row at moffett from earlier today

My IRL friend's dad, a Laotian refugee, was seized by ICE and sent to a concentration camp in El Paso. His family is fundraising to afford legal fees. I'd really appreciate it if you could help. gofund.me/383933317

billionaire's row at moffett from earlier today

📦 b o x T i m e 📦

Also partly due to the fact that there’s very little media left to cover it at all

USAF 1st Helicopter Squadron from JBA, callsign "Musel"... does gov't VIP transport in the NCR, tasked with evac of sr officials in a crisis Super common in DC, 4 up at once isn't unusual. When I lived there, almost always flew sans ADS-B. Post-DCA crash, they now xmit ADS-B with MUSL callsign

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

currently eating some of the cookies I got from a trans scout earlier this month—this could be you!!

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

oops i eated it all

Let's get the weekend going with some style. Slap ass and get running down those stairs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJY...

The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time

Hell yes!  Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally... arstechnica.com/security/202...

I recognize that this might make us seem like less “objective” journalists, but we have a responsibility as Americans. I, also, don’t really give a shit anymore. And neither does my team. We're joining the general strike tomorrow. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-join...

"A strategy of control uses terror tactics to create a violent resistance to justify its brutal subjugation and as an excuse to change laws enlarging the definition of terrorism and treason."

ICE is organized crime.

It’s 2026 and I get my main info from the “here’s how Aphex Twin makes samples” guy and the “use powdered dish soap” guy and the “here’s what planes are flying around the bay area” guy

while we're talking about PPE to protect yourself from state violence, your hearing is also vital this is a great video from @bennjordan.bsky.social about protecting yourself from Long Range Acoustic Devices, directed sound weapons first used by the military and increasingly used by cops

true service journalism... I am partial to half-masks w/ goggles for flexibility, but I do have a nice 3M full-face respirator that uses NATO spec canisters that I picked up during my journalism days and it is nice to have all-in-one protection

One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime in 2024. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did. Reporter Beck Klein examines OPD's overtime use through 1 officer's astonishing schedule, revealing multiple problems and raising big questions. oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

It won't surprise any of you to find out who exactly joined the Republican pedophile army newrepublic.com/post/205719/...

Not a single article online from any of the legacy L.A. media outlets about this today

There is the problem that the Democratic demands for DHS boil down to a more professional execution of fascism.

While Homan gives a press conference, ICE agents continue to swarm in South Minneapolis, with fresh abductions reported at sunrise

my colleague @sarahjeong.bsky.social did some service journalism www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

“Please,” I beg, barely restraining my giant menacing army of beweaponed goons literally drooling with bloodlust, “the rhetoric.”

Boyle Heights Chinatown Cypress Park East Los Angeles Filipinotown Frogtown (per video) Koreatown among others lataco.com/daily-memo-j...