production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Listen, nobody's perfect, I'm just saying that maybe someone shoulda realized that "live" has two different pronunciations

Who stole his teeth

What if this is what we paid for when we paid our taxes What if we all got to have a home

"Donald Trump--not having asked to be born, and who, in that sense, cannot be charged with the credits or demerits of the corporeal existence God has gifted or cursed him with--posted a racist video of Kamala Harris and Barack Obama as monkeys"

Paid rent for the ninth family of the night and am going to bed before I set off any more alerts 😅 More to come tomorrow!

I’m now ready to face some under-the-breath muttering from a flushed face dude in a company polo shirt at the airport bar.

Address tech debt? Maybe next sprint. Alt text: a worker at a utility pole that has a truly terrifying amount of cables coming in and coiled up

This weekend is DRONE NOT DRONES ❤️✊

We now have a $5000 match offer from an anonymous donor! In coordination with standwithminnesota.com and with your help, we’re going to pay rent for as many Minneapolis immigrant families in need as possible. I will post receipts! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Thank you! 🌷

At today’s City Council meeting, we unanimously approved $500,000 in additional funding for immigration legal services. We also approved $1,000,000 in rental assistance with a 9-4 vote. A spokesperson for Mayor Frey said he would not comment on the proposal until after we take it up. 1/

I'm in for $100. Who else?

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

😂 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

Sneak peek! Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will feature a brand new, limited edition t-shirt *only* available for the fundraiser. All profit will be donated to rental assistance funds for folks in East Saint Paul, MN who have been impacted by the federal government's siege there

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

A gut punch with today's ICE Air flight at MSP - I thought we were going to make it the whole day without a flight for the first time since January 5th, but one popped up this evening. 66 detainees boarded today - the most we've seen in the last ten days. 3,137 are represented on this graph.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

New Asher White album out today! asherwhite.bandcamp.com/album/jessic...

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

I know we all understand it on this app but it bears repeating, all day, that the "unrest" in Minnesota and elsewhere is armed federal agents attacking people left and right, and local residents trying to protect their neighbors from said violence.

Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…

This is such a good, concrete example of how The Alternatives We Build Can Be Better, Actually.

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap

Oh word?

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

HE KNEW.

We are going to win. LMAO.

The first customer for relational databases was the CIA. The surveillance program they tasked a Silicon Valley start-up with building was given the code name Oracle. That founder of that company, given the capital he needed to scale by serving U.S. intelligence operations, decided he liked the name.

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

This account from someone a few blocks away really gets at the sudden escalation. This was a family outing to a park on a relatively warm Sunday afternoon — kids on bikes, the family meeting up with grandma. Now you have to explain tear gas and police brutality to your 8-year-old.

In which @tressiemcphd.bsky.social scares the shit out of me. “ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

Short story prompt: Suburban kid in 1952 gets a porcupine from the local pet lending library

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter

Remember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute

“Metro noted that modern updates to the home include underfloor heating to cover the bodies, a bar area and a hot tub”

Lol oh no

A note from our editors:

God damn that's a photograph

cops: knock knock me: do you have a warrant cops: ma'am we'd like to finish the joke me: judge who

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Rent is due today. Throw a couple bucks in if you're able. Venmo: renthelpmpls

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I honestly can't tell anymore