An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Jfc for a nanosecond I thought this was the Onion

I’m becoming socially conservative in that I’m becoming a real tightass about civic virtue & honor. Fuck your boyfriend & his husband wearing dogsuits in private if you want, I don’t care at all, but I’m becoming pretty humorless about people feeling they have no obligation to any civic project

About an hour late to THE NEWS and easily 70% of people on this site were joking/fantasizing about THE MOMENT being toilet adjacent. So I guess we've got that going for us.

I do love the musical stylings of Malort & Savior.

Independents are +12 on abolishing ICE

Look who just endorsed the January 23 Minnesota-wide shutdown to protest the federal assault! “No work, no school, no shopping.”

Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.

Freedom is a Collective Endeavour: some thoughts on Minneapolis open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

Because so many people being detained by ICE are forced to leave their cars where they were captured, my hometown is pausing the towing of “abandoned” vehicles. They are taking so many people away that the city has a crisis of abandoned cars…

On Feb 25, Advances editorial board member & author Maureen Meyers will be leading a continuing seminar on Writing Cultural Resource Management Reports on Time and in Budget. Sign up here! saa.org/SAAMember/Ev...

Just popping in to report that if you wear your “Chinga La Migra/Chinga Tu MAGA” shirt to the Burbank Costco, the reactions will be positive (and if you’re wondering I got the shirt, I don’t remember, and for Christ’s sake you’re literally on the internet right now).

Thank you so much. Save your spoons. I added alt text.

per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

So apparently a hot take, but I liked the last season of Stranger Things.

Thats...not good

NORAD had to announce that it's not attacking Greenland.

The "worst problem you've never heard of" is the leading cause of Black land loss in this country. Over the years, it's seen Black families stripped of hundreds of billions of dollars in land. It's called "heirs' property." From the ProPublica archives:

What a career! Geodesy is the science of determining the shape of the earth. Precise Orbit Determination requires an accurate geoid model of the gravitational field of the 🌍 . (Can be shape or density fluctuations.) Dr West pioneered both POD & active radar measurements of ocean heights from space

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

It was a surreal and infuriating juxtaposition with the stream of horrors in the news from Minnesota. This is being done for no reason, just a pack of traitors and bootlickers attacking their own country.

replace rfk jr with this guy

Also just on the merits, "take a position that seems like you believe something rather than incomprehensibly mealy-mouthed bullshit" seems like the right path for low-info Trump voters.

This is how I remember that time as well. My soul hurt every single day

There's one bucket you vicadin in an opossum suit, and it's ending fucking fascism @schumer.senate.gov stop letting Trump terrorize my friends at home and abroad

Extraordinary article from the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. But I’m going to say this again, where are the Democrats saying that any illegal or forced annexation of Greenland will be reversed as soon as they take power. Why aren’t they making this clear www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Your doomposts do not impress me. They do not make me laugh. They do not make me feel like you are on my side. If you wanna curl up into a ball and die, go do it on your own time, and keep it to yourself. I want to interact with people willing to put in the work to fight.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

THREAD. Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democrats, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the policing industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE “training” and tech would address any problem that any person of good will has with what ICE is doing.

Chile’s government has ordered mass evacuations as forest fires up to 23km-wide burn through Chile, threatening communities across the Biobio and Nuble regions.

Look at this beautiful hawk I just saw!!

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

This is a centuries old lie by those in power, whether right or left. By claiming its "outside agitators" those in power can deligetimize claims made by protestors and try to maintain status quo. It's never outsiders, and when it is it looks very, very different.

I've been out of academia for nearly 8 years at this point, but academic publishing has a long tail, so here's a brand new article I'm a co-author on, dealing with the genetics and migration history of people in medieval Berlin. 🧪🏺

im just *begging* the international community to nut up and sanction the United States

If you're in the Gainesville area on January 28, come hear me speak about my research on the International Space Station!

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems. The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡 1000 troops have been there since March 2024

(h/t Amelia Buttress)

"At Gov. Walz’s direction, the Minnesota National Guard have been mobilized and are staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies. ... are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, ... supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully."

"ICE KILLS!'" Seen in Minneapolis

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ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

This is literally the best thing I have seen all week.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Death toll in Iran protests over 3,000, rights group says reut.rs/3YJLu3f

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.