Is it the fact that a strong man wants to kiss him that makes him so manly, or is it that he's able to resist the temptation?

I'm sort of struggling to conceptualize Trump's concept of masculinity, which is that the alpha male apex is when very powerful, strong men want to kiss you but you say no thank you

If you are surprised by what SCOTUS just did, you need to revisit your premises about the Court and the political economy of constitutional litigation, which is very sensitive to the preferences of people who do not like market chaos even if the administration does not care.

*TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN BY US SUPREME COURT

There are still heroes among us — I know because I met them in Minneapolis. Read @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social & @eggerdc.bsky.social in Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/there-are-...

“These are warrantless, surprise arrests of law-abiding individuals who were approved before entering this country,” said attorney E. Michelle Drake. “This is exactly what the Fourth Amendment was concerned about.” (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Good morning, beloved. Pursue justice. Make peace. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

The “Board of Peace” in one paragraph, from @economist.com

When did podcasters decide they were the world’s ubermenschen. Where did they get this idea. You talk for a long time, it’s not that impressive bsky.app/profile/righ...

I’m pleased to have won a temporary stop to Trump's unlawful attempt to slash millions in public health funding to Minnesota. As long as his campaign of revenge and retribution goes on, I will do everything in my power to protect Minnesotans from his lawless actions.

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

ICE unlawfully arrested & detained Rümeysa Öztürk after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian op-ed as a PhD student. Her recent op-ed reveals the trauma she faced. Cases like this led the AAUP to sue the Trump admin in AAUP v. Rubio. We won the lawsuit & protections for non-citizen students & faculty.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

this is awesome. I'd like to see so much more effort from the state on this.

BIG NEWS! The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed the $7 million Small Business Resiliency Fund I brought forward with my colleagues. This will support activation and small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge”. 1/

NEW: On Feb 23, Blumenthal and Garcia will hold 3rd public forum on DHS abuses to receive testimony from an ICE whistleblower—speaking publicly for the 1st time—on "immigration enforcement training methods and policies" incl. "authorizing warrantless entry" to U.S. citizen homes

Andrew is the first senior British royal arrested since 1646. It did not end well for King Charles I.

This is where Minnesota toddlers are still being held. Even with parents who did nothing wrong.

287g agreements with highway patrols are, I think, particularly egregious because of their ability to make a lot of traffic stops for no real reason (does highway patrol do anything other than traffic stops?) www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

The executive jet that DHS says it needs has a “bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

The scanning stations are available 24 hours a day. More advanced scanners, funded by Watts Veterinary Services of Picayune, are expected to be installed soon.

ICE has stolen innocent lives & Americans’ freedoms Now the admin is working even harder to strip free speech rights & put more Americans in danger As @democracydefendersfund.org has said, Miller & Noem have to go & are in court to stop them 👇 www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/01.27.26...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

NEW from me: The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

I bought an emotional support eagle. I feel better already!

At U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, one former official said, “We were seen as the friendly, supportive side—the agency that tried to help people.” Under Trump, it’s become a site for easy arrests. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/etmGFe

30% of US citizens are pro-Christian Nationalism. Among the GOP it's over 50% mostly concentrated in the South and Midwest, which is where the Klan was from, so that tracks

" In a free society, the burden cannot be on us to prove our legal status on demand. Otherwise, we’d be a country where everyone — citizens and non-citizens alike — must be prepared at all times to prove their legal right to be here. We’d be a cliched “papers, please” dystopia..."

RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"

Remember that the GOP caucus was behind Nick Shirley coming to MN and making the videos that were responsible for the "surge'. The blood is on their hands.

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I told my kids that we can't go outside on President's Day, because on President's Day all dead presidents rise from their graves and grow to 100 feet tall, stomping across the countryside, roaring and shooting lasers from their eyes. But each has their weaknesses. Lincoln is afraid of theaters.

there should be an oscar for bluesky story arc and @notalawyer.bsky.social should win

Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians in air strikes across the Gaza Strip this weekend, days ahead of the inaugural meeting of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace.’

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

The weaponization of mass detention is the point. With Prof. Linus Chan on the vaporization of due process and @andreapitzer.bsky.social on mass detention and warehousing Amazon-style. shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

We continue to see no drawdown today with ICE activity in the Phillips neighborhood, Columbia Heights, and Shakopee. Our pressure is working as the Senate bill to fund DHS did not pass last night. Keep up the pressure by reaching out to your federal representatives.

right. Not just #AbolishICE: Instead: More Immigration. Immigrants Make America Great. We need more immigration. We are a pluralistic multicultural democracy that benefits from immigrants, and that's been true throughout our history. The US is a melting pot of talent and energy.

"While this “precision cycle” has at times advanced civilian harm mitigation, it also risks hollowing precision into performance—allowing visual credibility to stand in for legal, strategic, and ethical judgment," writes Christopher Fuller.

The ICE surge must ramp down as quickly as possible so we can get on with important recovery efforts, such as purging from public life anyone seeking statewide office who thought the federal government brutalizing Minnesota was a fine idea and just what we deserved.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Rand Paul to ICE officials on moments before Pretti's killing: "No one in America believes that shoving that woman's face in the snow was deescalation." Note that ICE officials then confirm it was improper for her to be thrown down.

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7