Homeless people are not the only people who need homes. There are millions of people who’d like to move out of their parents’ homes, ditch their roommates, leave their abusive partners, or move to a different city but can’t because housing scarcity makes rent too expensive where they want to live.

I got out the hot water bottle for my bed tonight. It was 55 degrees in my apartment last I looked. You don't need to tell me that's illegal. I know it it's illegal.

If the "divide" involves arguing over an American-born artist singing in his native language, the native language of millions of other Americans in his home, an American commonwealth, it's not a divide over immigration.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Positions aside, she has utter contempt for the impertinent hogs called voters. Do not let this person have the lifelong eldercare she believes his her reward

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines.

The bad news: our amazing Chief of Staff and Policy Director @andrewdfine.bsky.social is leaving. The good news: He’s joining the Mamdani administration as Senior Advisor for Policy & Regulatory Reform to Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg! 🥳 Exciting news: We’re hiring a new policy director ⬇️

"For far too long we've treated our streets as places to store cars, instead of places where people live their lives, right? And as transportation chair, my guiding principle is that our public space should serve the public," said @shaunabreu.bsky.social.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

I believe the debate about whether Bezos is "obligated to fund $100m+ annual losses" misses the point. He intentionally expanded those losses by millions of dollars for basic corruption reasons, so that the Trump administration would be nicer to Amazon and Blue Origin slate.com/business/202...

Mike Cherepko retired as the mayor of McKeesport, PA. www.monvalleyindependent.com/2026/02/05/m...

honestly not a bad informal heuristic for vetting polls

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

I was anti-Adams for LG but now I’m pro.

it does seem that it is extremely straightforward that none of the January 6th pardons are constitutional

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

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so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈 New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:

They wanted to destroy society because the existence of a high functioning society threatens their ability to enslave and rape children

the alternative, which is "this is the world joe biden wanted us to live in," is actually vastly worse.

You need to go on Threads. The normie libs there talk about it.

When I go on Threads, the algorithm shows me so much about Trump shitting himself on camera the other day. This is the first mention I’ve seen of the topic on BlueSky since then.

10/10 ICE protest sign

“Donald Trump is hardly the only Republican pedophile. Dennis Hastert, Republican Speaker of the House, was a pedophile. Roy Moore, Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, was a pedophile. R.J. May, Republican State Representative, was a pedophile.”

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Trump's new pick for Fed Chair makes an appearance in today's Epstein Files release:

There is always a Streetsblog angle nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...

Party game for the weekend: Try to come up with a historical presidential scandal that Trump didn't top (either with new actions or breaking news about old/continuing actions) *this week*. Watergate? Iran/Contra? Any sex scandal? Self-dealing? Accepting bribes? Got all those. *This week*.

Ma'am you are spending 1/3 of your post-tax income on doordash

Hiding your identity/badge number and/or turning off a body camera should create a legal presumption of misconduct. It's arguably overkill but there's going to need to be a massive overcorrection after all this; even the not-explicitly criminal behavior is disgraceful.

Tickets that expire within a day, a surcharge for activating late, or service that may experience delays or cancellations. You get to pick two to deliver a good customer experience. Nothing wrong with a surcharge and expiry if you can guarantee 100% on time performance! But you can’t.

I don’t think this is a particularly hot take. As we keep telling a particular federal agency, wearing a mask generally indicates cognizance of guilt and an intent to do something illegal. Protest works best when done confidently and unashamedly

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

This was a ton of fun. Thanks @bikepgh.bsky.social. We love Pittsburgh!

Any Treasury Department employee involved in settling this suit- from Bessent down to the guy who prints out the check- should spend the rest of their life in jail.

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Part of the secret of how this works is that, if you are in the "founder" tier of guy, a bunch of stuff that you count as "work" is stuff an actual worker would get fired for doing on the clock

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

yesterdays apple news crossword TROTTING HARD

Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

using federal resources to illegally seize the goods of another country and then diverting the proceeds to accounts only the president can control is the kind of thing the framers would’ve seen these men hanged for

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 first funding bill under the next dem president has to reallocate like $100B from DHS to DOJ to staff up. i would take a 75% pay cut to switch from biglaw to throwing fascists in jail.