A black Mercedes crossover has been moving around our quiet St. Paul neighborhood all day. The driver (a white dude with a beard) parks and idles for a while before moving on and repeating the pattern. Many people have noticed because this is weird behavior for the neighborhood. 🧵 1/3

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Concentration camps:

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

The concept of “lying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Missouri teaches QBs life’s most important lesson: work smarter, not harder

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

America has concentration camps.

Can we please just have fucking healthcare?

“The plan’s $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data.”

Wait, they lied about this, too?

DHS is shutting down. Why? Because Democrats took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and ICE is lawless and out of control. We cannot fund an agency that is murdering our citizens, tear gassing school zones, and disappearing legal immigrants.

the "it's impossible to have a conversation about AI right now" folks need to grok that a huge volume of that furor is entirely justified rage at the fact tech oligarchs purchased an automated murder autocracy; rage that's good and useful and deserves a generous berth in the months and years to come

[through gritted teeth] the popular front against ICE includes NIMBYs

It’s going to be rich as the full extent of Trump’s cruelty spending spree hits the national debt to see Republicans suddenly discover we can’t afford things again.

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl...

Abolish and prosecute

But there’s no money for school lunch programs right

If you are wondering why both of these men have outlandish security details.

“regular person”

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It's wild that nothing we can dream up as a caricature of the Trump admin is nearly as ridiculous and inexcusable as the truth, which includes "the DHS Secretary fired a Coast Guard pilot because someone forgot her blankie but then rehired the pilot because no one else could fly the airplane."

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

okay that's quite enough external world for me today. good night yall

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

Was this supposed to make MN AG Ellison look like a badass patriot? Because that’s what I’m taking from it 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Hey friends! I’m trying to raise funds for a family in my neighborhood behind on rent. They have a 1-year-old and need at least one month’s worth asap to hold off eviction. If you can help, Venmo me any amount at @Terry-Horstman and I’ll post receipts as soon as funds are dispersed. ✌🏻 #AbolishICE

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

Reminder: @bradtabke.bsky.social is a Minnesota legislator from a district so purple our legislature stopped for weeks while GOP tried to steal his seat YET helped organize legal observers AND confronted ICE to protect residents (many ineligible to vote for him) AND helped stop a concentration camp

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.

ICYMI

My prayer for my neighbors: May you come home. May you be safe. May you be free. My prayer for ICE May you be defunded. May you be dismantled. May you be prosecuted. Amen.

I’ll believe it when I see it (they are lying liars who lie), but I agree with this sentiment. Regular people enforced the Constitution when institutions failed to.

New: Housing is shelter—not a financial playground for Wall Street speculators. Tenants must leverage our power in concert. Just as workers can withhold labor to halt production, tenants can withhold rent to challenge corporate landlords. jacobin.com/2026/02/tena...

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

Homan still calling observers "agitators" saying they are "doxxing" law enforcement. Saying he doesn't want to see any more bloodshed. The only one doing the killing is #ICE. EVERY case they have brought for "agitators" has been thrown out. #TheOccupation

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before. Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

Along with everything else, fascism's branch offices continue to conduct their war on women jessica.substack.com/p/kentucky-c...

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like the problem isn't SKYNET, the problem is letting amoral extraction class assholes apply half-cooked automation onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country that's too corrupt to have functioning regulators

I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people

it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours

as always the New York Times frames this catastrophe in a way that downplays the fact this is an extremely unpopular decision being driven entirely by corporate corruption that will avoidably kill untold millions of people

Fuck Meta, fuck Zuckerberg, fascism and corruption enabler.