I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

ARTE

The Senate votes tomorrow on DHS funding. @5calls.org makes it easy to call your Senators and Reps: 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

Dexter. Worst series finale ever. And then they fucking reanimated its zombie ass?!?

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

EGG ROLL UPDATE: he play

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

The most essential foundation for rebuilding will be official, codified, binding recognition that constitutionally legitimate government ceased on Jan 20, 2025 and everything since then has been null and void. No sustainable system worth having can be built on anything less.

Just donated cookies! And I've sent this link to every single person in my address book, if we all did the same, just think about how many girl scout cookies could be delivered to schools and protest groups in Minneapolis! And just think about what we could do for these kids who need a break!

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

You know what to do

This. Remember they cut healthcare for this.

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

Neighbors woke up at 3 a.m. and drove 800 miles to show support for Roberto Orozco-Ramirez at a court hearing Wednesday. “The community responded more than I ever thought,” his son said.

Liam is sick with fever & shows extreme lethargy, according to reports from his parents—he did not wake up throughout the entire visit from his representatives—this child is clearly experiencing severe shock—he should be in an emergency room, not squalid rooms with moldy food and contaminated water.

we’re right about ai too

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

Being a historian of vaccination in 2026 means living with a constant churning in your stomach because you know exactly how bad it used to be and you also know how much work and time it took to build trust in vaccines

I’m struggling with how to promote this one, so I’ll just say I hope you read it and that it makes you feel less alone.

If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter. Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

What… the fuck?

Emergency kitten- Eggy

YOU ARE AN OBLIGATE CARNIVORE! GET AWAY FROM MY COOKIE YOU LITTLE CHAOS GOBLIN

Seriously this is worth bookmarking. Congress uses these tricks all the time. It's from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, created by the CIA's predecessor.

There isn’t any indication that immigration activity has changed in Minneapolis. In fact, this afternoon, federal immigration agents began staging at Holy Rosary Catholic Church located in East Phillips. This activity is disgraceful and creates an unsafe environment for our neighbors. 1/

Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists: X Instagram Facebook Threads WhatsApp TikTok Substack Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

The last supper scene from M*A*S*H when they sing Suicide is Painless

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Well this is just a distraction from the fact that they're murdering people in public.

ICE has violated judicial orders 96 times in Minnesota alone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org

TL;DR there is a role for you in this work that is at a pace you can handle. Find your lane.

There’s a reason they threaten legal observers They don’t want atrocities documented The “woman in pink” single handedly destroyed the DHS narrative. She made sure they couldn’t blame Alex Pretti. She made sure we all saw agents assault a woman and kill Alex. That’s courage.

"masks off" sounds fine, but will be disobeyed and will be used to pass laws forbidding community members to wear masks. Body cams are a scam that just gives ICE more money to film the atrocities they're proud of. Renee Good's killer filmed her killing.

Haven't seen the details, but "require ICE to coordinate with local authorities" sounds a lot like "authorize local cops to help ICE kidnap people."

These are Minnesotans. We want them to come back. We want this to be a place they would want to return to.

"There's nothing they can do, they're the minority" OK THEN ASK FOR *MORE* IF IT'S ALL ASPIRATIONS AND SIGNALING ANYWAY YOU FUCKING DOLTS

After negotiating themselves down to a weak opening ask they've negotiated themselves down from that (jettisoning 1. DHS complies with state investigations, 2. CBP restricted to border, 3. No ICE in schools) Like a marzipan dildo, that's how useful these people are.

Today’s ICE watch included a stressful little chase where we chased a car on to the highway while a journalist in the backseat literally typed out his story in case we got arrested

yeah keeping the gestapo from terrorizing children in school was a little extreme

Charles. Chuck. Chaz. Chuckles. Disband DHS and abolish ICE or lose elections until you do.

Temeraire!

This month alone has been nonstop assault on the rule of law of this nation and the rights of the people in it

i think the new york times might actually be inappropriate for lining bird cages because it might make the birds transphobic