"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu Get out there and start falling on your ass!

Something every person in Minnesota knows: ICE agents are incompetent, unqualified, and highly undertrained. www.startribune.com/ice-fourth-a...

The SAVE Act requires citizenship ID to vote. It may be that some Republicans truly believe that lots of non-citizens are voting, but that is just not the reality. So who will the law impact? People without ID docs and people whose ID docs are not current - which is mostly women.

The Brits woke up today and chose justice.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

If you have been following the clumsy — no, pathetic — attempt by CBS lawyers to collaborate with the FCC in reviving the pointless "equal time" rule, using Stephen Colbert and his show as their playground... then watch him explain it from his POV. Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...

YES. I've been begging for this. They are running illegal detention facilities in office buildings. Municipalities shut down businesses all the time for health code or zoning violations far less severe than ICE's. Pressure your cities!

This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you.

“That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.”

If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

“I am too scared to drive my 5-year-old daughter to school in my husband’s car. I’m terrified ICE will detain me and our daughter will end up alone,” she said. “This is just as scary as the war in Ukraine, except now we don’t have Dmytro with us..." www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...

Once again, I feel the need to let everyone who voted for Trump know that you are terrible, horrible, irredeemable people. But more importantly, if you had the opportunity to vote against Trump and didn't, you're a useless asshole, and you should feel ashamed. www.denver7.com/politics/the...

Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

What is it like for Minnesotans in this moment? If you have some time, check out the essays in @literaryhub.bsky.social's Letter From Minnesota series: lithub.com/tag/letter-f...

Read “Tornado Warning” by @gwenekirby.bsky.social in Issue 22! Get your copy here: www.storymagazine.org/store/autumn... #fiction #shortstories

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

We are still over 2000 ICE ans DHS agents in Minnesota. In November there was 150. We have thousands and thousands of people living in de facto House arrest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Some residents in Northfield haven’t left their homes or apartments in a month because of fear of ICE. Volunteers help provide many of them with food and help get their children to school safely...“It’s just a complete and utter disruption of life,” Washburn said." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

"Bri, who is breastfeeding her own infant, posted on her social media that in addition to groceries and diapers and wipes, she could also donate breastmilk to anyone who needed it." 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...

Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

An armed protest called for tomorrow in Minneapolis is being labeled a “fed honeypot”: www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli... Site hosting the demo now says it will be rescheduled due to Renee Good anniversary + “two Proud Boys marches.” 2004 archive snapshot of site is seeped in post-9/11 praise for FBI.

If you are watching the opening ceremony on NBC, you won't hear the boos of JD Vance because NBC cut it. Corporations working to keep Americans in the dark about how unpopular their elected officials are. The White House reposted the censored clip. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...

It’s finally happened! In a perfect Derek Craven Day celebration, our Trailblazer conversations continue this week with thee Lisa Kleypas, historical romance royalty, who changed the game when she brought working class heroes to historicals.

Did I just order takeout for dinner so I can continue listening avidly to @fatedmates.net trailblazer episode with Lisa Kleyps?! YOU KNOW IT 🙌🏻 HAPPY DEREK CRAVEN DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE! 💝

Among the 300 layoffs was reporter Caroline O’Donovan, who covers tech companies and corporate accountability with a focus on Amazon. The once prestigious newspaper is now fully at the mercy of billionaire owner (and Amazon founder) Jeff Bezos. trib.al/rlWOHyn

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.

Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning

So Democracy dies in darkness was both a warning and a plan.

This is Duckworth's 9th yea vote for a Trump nominee, Durbin's 26th, Hassan's 46th, Kaine's 38th, Kelly's 34th, Shaheen's 53rd, & Whitehouse's 17th.