Phenomenal offering from @appalachianweird.bsky.social with all proceeds going to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. If you're not familiar with this botanical wonder, it is a thermogenic plant which generates its own heat to melt snow around it and get growing early. www.etsy.com/listing/4454...

The first person I donated miles for is safely home. That's a good feeling.

we should recognize that a lot of these overperformances would be flying under the radar were it not for @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org

Hard to know what else the district judges can do in these situations, which seem to keep happening, other than order federal officials' arrest for criminal contempt. Which federal judges, understandably, tie themselves in knots not to do. Who's gonna be the first?

This is correct. Voters tell pollsters they don't like the national D party because the D party doesn't fight hard enough. But it's still the opposition. Voters w those opinions won't vote R. (And the ones who vote in special elections still voteL: they're the ones who always vote.)

TIL Action Painting!, one of my fave Sarah Records bands, 1. still exist 2. took a break in part because the co-leader got so involved in left politics and union stuff (in a good, practical way) 3. released something last year, and it's good! oldbadhabitslabel.bandcamp.com/album/obh021...

End of the thread — I posted it on its own bsky.app/profile/tani...

This looks to be an extraordinary overperformance for Dems. With more than three-fourth of the vote in, the Dem leads by more than 20%.

Early returns in Louisiana’s special election: The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in. Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

my favorite thing about the superb owl thing is the sports fans hate it but the part where everyone posts owl pictures is controversial among bird photographers because people get too close to the owls

What loons teach us.

Cruel and pointless. Also I hope these horrible people are ready to lose some seats in Florida. Hard there to gerrymander your way out of losing Cuban support.

This is a mix of accelerating cognitive decline/disinhibition combined with Trumps continuing compensatory response to severe ego injury over his mounting unpopularity. It’s accelerating the collapse of that popularity. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

2/ here it is www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...

Lucas single-handedly destroying Youngkin’s legacy projects (sports teams in NoVa, suburban GOP that can win) was remarkable to watch

Almost a year ago @joshtpm.bsky.social posted: “The situation at NIH and for biomedical research in the US is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.” I can confirm that this remains true. It is today MUCH MUCH WORSE than the way everyone is acting in public.

DAMN

Yeah every observer I know gets this. I also can barely tolerate being near a road because I end up watching every single car, trying to look at the passengers.

Yes 100%. I know everyone loves the blockades and they’re fun and affirming to drive through! But they’re extremely easy to see and avoid. If the same folks paired off and watched a bunch of streets it would make a huge difference and you’d catch a lot more ICE

Look, the police are probably not going to let you physically block streets

Good. Note honest behavior from local or statewide officials in an R state (IIRC still the norm for Utah, though I don't live there: @annejamison.bsky.social does).

Calling @ctdems.bsky.social @indivisiblect.bsky.social etc. I can't read DeLauro's mind, but every D elected should stand against ICE, & it's time for generational change anyway. Filing deadline is June 6. www.ncsl.org/elections-an...

in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points: 1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024. 2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt, substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Better late than never (which is my stock response to all right-wing figures who realize that the orange guy's a menace, except for the right-wing elected who Express Concerns [TM], where my response is "Susan Collins is toast")

They're doing amazing work helping people who are already going through so much. This post from earlier this week illustrates what happens when they can't locate the family in time and the car gets impounded instead of returned to them.

How I imagine the sophistication of my research. How I present my research.

Reagan sucked for many reasons, but his *rhetoric* sometimes didn't suck. It was 90% hooey and hypocrisy, but his speechwriters really did generate helpful praise for America at its rare best, and Ds should learn from his speeches. Just not from his murderous policies.

I don't give a shit about the Olympics, but I will be cheering against the US except this one woman.

This is correct @politicalwire.com politicalwire.com/2026/02/06/s...

Team fight w state level wins over team don't fight.

Blood on so many hands.

One thing Dante got right: those who do evil sometimes don't realize it's evil while they're alive. The worst part of Hell is realizing too late the meaning of what you've done. (This is not a defense of Hell. It is a defense of the Purgatorio, though.)

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Yes, of course Epstein had extensive Israeli connections, but the Russian ones are just evidentially more extensive — that was where the money and trafficable women were

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

This is bad enough, yes, that I could even see this going differently en banc. Not definitely, it's the Fifth Circuit, but I could see the votes for it. From more at Law Dork, here are the reasons why 160 different judges have reached a different conclusion than Jones and Duncan:

The Michelin Man is a lunar exalt confirmed

No suburb is safe. No town is safe. No Minnesotan is safe.

THIS. They’re in the South Metro now, hitting Carver County & Minneapolis suburbs HARD. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. They’re detaining observers because ICE & CBP believe the real problem is people filming them, not that ICE & CBP is committing domestic terror. Less footage = less national news coverage.

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

Profiles in cowardice. Worse than Susan Collins, tbh, because Cassidy has training in medicine, and literally took a professional oath to know and do better.

Rosa DeLauro, who has served deep blue New Haven loyally since 1991, is now 82 years old. If she's not willing to stand against ICE/CBP right now she should maybe have a long conversation with her colleagues Jerry Nadler, Steny Hoyer, and Jan Schakowsky.

If I was a Democratic politician I would consider that the thousands of brave patriots in this city are America’s most visible and hardened cohort of anti-Trump resisters, and if you tell them you’re going to stand with ICE, they will never care about anything else you ever do again

I'll try it

Be aware!

Mamdani, obviously. Plot of episode deals with J.P. Grosse trying to strong-arm Kermit about the terms of the theater lease.

Traditional Family Values types are sort of like libertarians periodically you meet one who is Actually Serious about their principles and they’re always deeply confused that their supposed fellow travelers are lying grifters

Panic! at the social event in a loud bar where I can't understand anyone and also I've definitely met at least half these people and gun to head I couldn't tell you a thing about them because I'm faceblind so I'm just sorta playing along and hoping if I drink more things will be OK

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”