The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

The problem is not that we can’t impeach the president. Although we can and should. The real problem is that we can’t impeach Stephen Miller because we never elected or confirmed him.

Make America White Again is very clearly the slogan, the movement, and philosophy at work here and the press is still shy about asking about it “a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”

I can't repeat this enough.

Watching 28 Days Later (2002), it’s been so long, to catch up with the sequels. Look, a young Brendan Gleeson.

Henry Mancini performing "The Pink Panther" theme, with Tubby Hayes on saxophone, live in 1964. #smlpdf #sheetmusic #Noten #partituras #spartiti 乐谱 樂譜 sheetmusiclibrary.website

I know Radiohead’s “Everything in its Right Place” is used a lot on shows, but it would’ve been a absolutely perfect in AppleTV’s Dark Matter (2024) when the guy is trying to find the door to the right universe. A great show worth watching. Better than the book. And Chicago looks great.

Damn good question.

You can not convince me that this administration isn’t trying to do as much damage to American society as humanly possible.

NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.

Instead of having to travel to various capitals to reassure foreign leaders, these US lawmakers could just impeach the mofo.

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

I grew up in Minnesota Right now nearly every person I know there is doing all they can to support their community This is who we are in the United States as much or more so than the violence in headlines May our leaders lead on an alternative future where we lean into the best of ourselves

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

Ella poses for a Dr. Zhivago shot. Then scampered around the snow. 🐶🩷❄️ #NYC

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Emily St. John Mandel is talking about Station Eleven with Velshi now.

While birding Peru's Manu Road, I got a glimpse of a Versicolored Barbet, which is only found in the Andes. Beautiful! 💚💛❤️ #Barbet #ManuRoad #Peru

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

It absolutely is.

Walz comment, via NBC: “The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Good. The courts started with this in Chicago and continued to tighten the leash, so hopefully more will come soon.

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Criminal investigations for nothing but speech; the administration’s contempt for the First Amendment could not be more clear.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand. "ICE presence has disrupted all aspects of life in Minnesota, and led tragically to the death of Renee Good. It’s the outcome of government overreach that favors force over legitimacy."

Impeach immediately.

Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.

Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself. (h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) newrepublic.com/article/2053...

out of my way—gotta go bully someone for their peace prize

1,000 Ways to Lie: The DHS Story

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

He had multiple opportunities to prevent this and deliberately pissed them away.

Look at this absolute queen

JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights. The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday. It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.

Thom Yorke on the cover of Musikexpress. I can’t read German 🤷🏻‍♀️ but good photo.

U.S. citizen, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she was brutalized by #ICE on Tuesday. "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled," she said. Read what happened next. ⬇️

A cartoon by Joseph Mirachi, from 1974. #NewYorkerCartoons