that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery. This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 — is terrifying. dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/

UMass abruptly canceled bottom surgery appointments for hundreds of patients with no explanation. Some had surgery dates booked a year in advance, others were scheduled to get revisions done. www.wgbh.org/news/health/...

Two (2) dates for this tour in February, and then it's gone again! Click thru ⬇️ for more details

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Real talk: Is this a thing we can collectively lobby? Friend's fiance died at **35** from colon cancer with no family history. Insurers are killing people for sport and profit. Caught my breast cancer at 36 because I started mammograms at 30. The recommended screening ages are a joke all around.

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.

My kid's high school has a block schedule, where they take four classes per semester instead of eight year-long classes. And . . . it's great? I kind of love it? There is a lot less pressure to have things figured out freshman year because you can double up on subjects you discover later.

You know which group of people in this country are heavily represented in eldercare? amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

thrilled to see my book in the Boston Review! “There is perhaps no better place to start in tracing the roots of this moment than The Migrant’s Jail, historian Brianna Nofil’s magisterial study of the mutual development of U.S. penal and immigration policy..." @princetonupress.bsky.social

interaction with customer service bot going great

A heartwarming tale of how even if you aren't subscribed to Google Nest their cameras still upload and save "about three hours" of video which can be recovered in the form of "residual data" from "backend servers," surprising even the FBI who claims to have previously believed it was impossible

The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

Big @bostonglobe.com / MassINC Polling survey out this morning. "They came to Massachusetts to cure disease. Now they’re packing up their labs." We surveyed NIH funded scientists in Massachusetts about federal funding cuts & policies. Here's what they told us. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

Alright I've got a million things to do that aren't this. It's really infuriating, every day, waking up in this reality. I don't know about others but I find doing any actual work extremely hard, these days. My brain just cannot focus.

Join us for a full day of WW1 history online! greatwargroup.com/product/onli...

[EVENEMENT]📅Vendredi 20 février 2026, 19h: rencontre autour de l'ouvrage "La religion des morts. Comment le XIXe siècle a inventé le deuil moderne" (Seuil, 2026), avec son auteur Guillaume Cuchet à la Maison d'Auguste Comte. Réservation obligatoire: [email protected]

Closing the El Paso airspace for 10 days with no explanation is just begging people to fill the information void with conspiracy theories.

from ARCANE BULLSHIT

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

For my newsletter this week I'm on the road, so planning to write a little sneak peek for our members at the reporting I'm doing from Portland and Lewiston. www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter

“One group stands out in having vigorously defended the rights of trans Americans: Blue state AGs have formed coalition after coalition, repeatedly filing lawsuits, amicus briefs, and official comments disputing the legality of discriminatory actions.” From @valorievandieman.bsky.social

Australia formally joins the UK and US as a member of Smol Bean Fascist Alliance

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

An agent told the teen to call her family and ask them to pick her up. But the agent said that if they came, ICE would send the entire family to Texas. The girl writes “My family decided not to come and pick me up as a result of this threat. ICE decided to take me to a hotel.” tinyurl.com/3nkf9sbd

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”

They kidnapped this lady, sent her to another state, lied about her, and put her through hell. This administration needs to face real consequences.

“'This just really underscores how far-reaching these systems can be,' said Phil Neff...Out-of-state law enforcement agencies conducting searches that are unrelated to campus safety but include school district security cameras 'really strains any sense of the appropriate use of this technology'."

Via @bookriot.bsky.social. 26 Queer Books by Black Authors Out in 2026 to Preorder Now Includes my forthcoming Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social bookriot.com/queer-books-... #BlackBookSky #QueerBookSky

I'm still looking for editing projects for March and beyond. Most recently, I've worked on a special issue of the Journal of East Central European Studies, a volume on 15th-cent. conquest for Amsterdam UP, and a couple of book proposals. Please RT and email me if your project could be my next! ✍️

It is very funny that Elon talks about building a city on Mars or a city on the Moon when we all know him building a city in Indiana would be an unmitigated disaster

🧵The Dakota and Lakota are now occupying space outside the ICE detention center at the whipple building at ft snelling. ft snelling previously held over 1,700 Dakota prisoners of war, including Elders, women, and children,

My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This 5yo child needs a bone marrow transplant. The hospital that could treat him is 35 miles away, but an Israeli judge has ruled that it is illegal for him to cross from the occupied West Bank into Israel because he is from Gaza (even though he isn't in Gaza). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

The historical parallel that immediately came to mind are the flood of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century filing habeas claims to free them from detention. The 2 books on that: @jnovkov.bsky.social what other historical examples come to mind of fed courts being flooded by habeas cases?

Today, of course, the anniversary of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ceded Quebec (among other things) to Britain.

Strangely, I do not have ancestors who fought in the US Civil War, but I do have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution (Quebec residents who said, “We’re shooting at the British? Cool, I’m in.”)

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Keep game stores safe for trans players. LGBTQIA+ people are such a pillar of the board game and TTRPG communities, but Harry Potter merch in stores funds JKR’s campaign to eliminate trans people. Ask your local game or hobby store not to stock this stuff. No HP them nights. No displays.

My daughter’s name is Amalia. The only thing that separates her from this child is that our family immigrated in the 20th century, not the 21st.

Unbelievably intense seeing these letters, videos, photos, and quotes from inside an American for-profit concentration camp for immigrant families. Look at this baby — she and her mom were finally released after the @propublica.org reporter asked questions