Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

District courts anywhere outside the 5th should not follow it. Honestly, not even sure district courts within the 5th should follow it.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

the voters of a rich suburban district outside New York City just voted for a Sanders/AOC-endorsed labor organizer who wants to abolish ICE

Literal outside agitator

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

The Waitangi Treaty Grounds this year were packed with diversity, and Te Ao Māori News wanted to hear what drew some non-Māori to Waitangi.

This is why I can't understand the incrementalism. There's horror shit happening to kids in these places. Horror shit. OK? That has to matter. The longer we wait the longer these kids suffer.

This is my friends’ 73-year-old dad. He was protesting against DHS’s murder of Alex Pretti when ICE goons broke his jaw in three places with a flashbang grenade. “I wanted to go [back to protest] this morning. … they need to be told that what they’re doing ain’t going to happen here.”

Admittedly this has been a bit tough the last couple of years but I was (for reasons) reading a lengthy Reddit thread consisting of people complaining about Tucson, Arizona - and I sort of remembered what I love about this country.

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Trump is jealous of a five year old boy because he captured the public's attention

Not the main point, but to my energy geek pals who continue advocating for state or federal laws that preempt local authority to approve or block projects: Maybe consider that local authority is the main lever that's (at least so far) enabling communities to block ICE from building prison camps.

After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, the 3,200 workers at VW Chattanooga have won a tentative agreement that provides 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more. 🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...

I think it has a very specific role to play in particular situations but I do frankly wish academic settings would move away from general gestures toward "lived experience" in panels and the like

Moonrise over the Andes. Santiago, Chile, December 3, 2025 🔭 #photography #astrophotgraphy

This is one of those meso-level policy shifts that would utterly transform this society. (100% support)

It’s weird to me that democrats are demanding body cams (useless) but not demanding all the children in camps be released. They could call it the Liam Act. Why are they not doing such easy slam dunk work?

What's going on with Maduro? Like....they just whisked him off to New York and quit talking about it

Just remember that when Chicago was barely an outpost, detroit was the industrial center of "the west"

I have no idea what this means, but it popping up confirmed something I was thinking about the other day: menstruation is the last great taboo topic. People talk about sex in public *constantly*; pregnancy and childbirth increasingly; menopause somewhat.

difference between a lot of technological advancement now and in the 19c is that the latter hurt a lot of workers but at the same time, really did improve people's lives on the user end (including workers). now, much of it hurts workers AND makes user's lives worse.

On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression

An interesting thing about the Grange is that it was the brainchild of an early generation of young idealistic DC bureaucrats (with farm backgrounds mostly - fairly prosperous), modeled explicitly on the Masons, and then really *did* become an organic Upper Midwest agrarian movement

Crime headline of the day.

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

August 16, 1884 – May 25, 1962 is kind of a great lifespan, from an observer's perspective anyway

When I got my current job, I made a reasonable-sized donation to the University of Iowa to show my appreciation for all I received there. I will never give them another cent, obviously.

It's unbelievably depressing that my formerly beloved alma mater has been flushed down a massive toilet by its stewards. The below looks worse than university of austin, or whatever it's called. Meanwhile, they shut down the Geology Library (the best part-time job) and numerous other gems.

Notable.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10

Crazy that Greenbacker Peter Cooper's grandson became a banker

FYI Cooper Union was founded by the one and only Greenback Party presidential candidate (Peter Cooper)

I actually appreciate how the weather this winter has tracked classic farmer's almanac turning points pretty closely.

Maybe the divorce rate is lower because there is less time to divorce before the guy dies?

This is my case. I'm lead counsel for the Plaintiffs. I was in Springfield today. I cannot tell you how happy we are.

That’s the thing about the future:it doesn’t exist yet. or, in fact, ever. Because when it does exist, it’s the present. The future (the new « present ») will be shaped by our actions and attitudes now. We don’t get to make it up « from scratch » but we CAN contribute to its shape and form.

In post civil war massachusetts, the farmer was relatively close to the banker (due to incumbency, geographic proximity and kinship ties) - in terms of the larger national economic hierarchy. In michigan, the avg businessman was relatively closer to the worker - in the same larger picture

Trump's threat to India is Russian penalty for "secondary tariffs". Biden didn't do secondary sanctions on India because of fears of blowback on social stability in US & Europe if gas prices rose (i.e if Indian refiners stopped processing Russian crude and re-selling to west) x.com/70sBachchan/...

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

ICE is still here, surrounding schools in Columbia Heights today after Liam was returned. Noem announced that ICE will be issued body cameras. This shows that we’re winning & that we can’t let up. Let your representatives know you don’t support funding ICE and that they need to leave immediately.

This is really not a comment on anything contemporary, but -having been immersed in various late 19c economic policy debates recently, found myself wondering: what exactly do people pay for when they pay for "housing"? (A major cost in any estimation of household budgets)

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social

As far as I know, Michigan is the only state besides Mass to have elected a Greenbacker as governor (Josiah Begole)

i've found, in life, that the same people who consider naming abuse to be "boring" also consider being racist or sexist to be edgy

1/4 Rep. Kelly Morrison, is a practicing M.D. Her description of conditions in the Whipple detention facility are horrifying. Here is a rough transcript of the video she just posted. @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social

So now people -including kids- won't get access to sun or fresh air or movement either, I imagine. Imprisoned in cages full-time - while sick?