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"DOJ's National Security Division has almost 40% fewer employees than it did before Trump's term."

Today is day 142 of the ICE occupation of MN. More than 70 children detained during metro surge - each story is full of trauma and heartbreak.

To put it bluntly, this post is about how the fascists are scoring a victory in crushing liberty that could take decades, if ever, to reverse. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

Multimember districts now!

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Reading, hoping local #journalism @sahanjournal.bsky.social "Ramsey County weighs kidnapping charges against ICE agents who arrested ChongLy Scott Thao" sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

Confirmed ICE flight, Tue April 21, est arrival: 12:45 PM. Shackled detainees will board at Signature Aviation between Terminal 1 & 2. Observe from Terminal 1 parking ramp - gold 7 is best. Since Jan 1, we've tracked 90 flights through MSP, carrying ~3,388 people out of Minnesota.

Reading, hoping local #journalism @sahanjournal.bsky.social "Ramsey County weighs kidnapping charges against ICE agents who arrested ChongLy Scott Thao" sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

$108 billion in debt from this coming Warner Brothers merger will be hard to handle if everybody cancels their Paramount and HBO Max Extreme Plus subscriptions.

Today is day 140 of the ICE occupation of MN. Cases like these are why it feels like every Minnesotan is raising mutual aid rent relief. (You can help at StandWithMinnesota.com)

‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

can I get a hell yeah? Also, you should be supporting the hell out of this club. Get tickets! mnaurora.com/club/tickets/

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.

I, too, "strongly disapprove," but that is only because "abhor" is not an option in these longitudinal surveys

While we prepare for this summer’s America 250 events, today is the 251st anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first of which was colorfully depicted on this antebellum Boston bank note. Mount Vernon Bank, Boston, MA, $3, Oct 1, 18–.

Today is one of the most significant dates for the far-right, the anniversary of the Waco fire and Oklahoma City bombing:

Some techbros are more open about their politics than others. But the politics are pretty similar all round.

The quotation in the OP is an onion of nonsense. @audiosand.bsky.social clarifies an important layer.

In the early 1990s the GOP outsourced its thinking and messaging to Rush Limbaugh and the right wing radio world, and it has long ceased functioning anything like a "normal" political party would. It's a content creation operation wrapped around a transactional corruption machine for rich people.

Today is day 138 of the ICE occupation of MN. Halfway through the month, we are already hearing that the rent needs for May 1 will be high, as families emerging from hiding are struggling to find wok. You can help us get a head start on fundraising: StandWithMinnesota.com

Taking nicknames for this trio

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Tomás Chancalay makes it 1-0 Loons #MNUFC

Want some last minute reading ahead of #MINvPOR, we've got you covered #MNUFC

there is something especially brutal, as an Indigenous person, about watching corporate greed attempt to destroy one of the remaining pristine parts of your homeland

This is what happens at concentration camps

Interesting analysis of Target's decline. As St. Paulite living 1.5 miles from T1, the original Target store, this all tracks. How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/30/h...

According to ICE 35% of arrests are "collateral", but looking at individual cases "targeted" arrests wete not at all targeted. Abolish ICE.

Fuck these ghouls Staff At Minnesota Deportation Hub Received ‘Obscene’ Trump-Themed Challenge Coins Adorned With Skulls talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...

Metro Surge ICE agent charged with pointing gun while driving alongside vehicle www.twincities.com/2026/04/16/i...

Trump’s Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/01/t...

Ghouls: ICE labeled 1,300 arrests during Operation Metro Surge as ‘collateral’ minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/08/i...

This man is a petulant, evil, petty assed monster

The contrast to the rhetoric around teen pregnancy in the 80s and 90s is notable, the replication of the logic around reproductive autonomy during chattel slavery is disturbing.

Tomorrow night, Sarah Westbrook walks us through the Question Formulation Technique, a simple strategy that gets students generating and refining their own questions about any primary source you teach with. 7:00 PM ET. Register for free: buff.ly/L6ZHlRa

Vance says Chicago Manual of Style should be more careful when talking about citation formats

Confirmed ICE flight coming to MSP, Tue April 14, est arrival: 12:30 PM. Shackled detainees will board at Signature Aviation between Terminal 1 & 2. Observe from Terminal 1 parking ramp - gold 7 is best. Previous flights: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-... Track today’s flight: adsb.lol?icao=a8b479

The post-purge Board of Immigration Appeals is currently engaged in a revanchist project to erase decades of work carried out to make the immigration "courts" more like a real court (with due process protections and legal procedure) and not a body of bureaucrats mostly rubber-stamping deportation.

Really this whole project is like #WhyWeNeedHistorians101. #TalkAboutTheHumanities

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Colfax Massacre. Here is a reflection on how it has been misremembered. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

huh - so you're saying a President compared himself to Jesus, and it didn't go well?

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

Why Hungary Matters Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism. The most important one: Nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable. My new piece:

Mayor Mamdani came here when he was seven years old.

wrote a thing about the 25th amendment and impeachment and institutional change and stuff goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-instit...