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.

Jury rejects idea that Uber is not responsible for drivers' actions: "A federal jury in Phoenix on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a passenger who said one of its drivers had raped her, setting the stage for thousands of similar cases around the country." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.

Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

‘The “imperial boomerang” — a theory increasingly discussed online — describes how superpowers develop violent systems of control and surveillance in colonial territories, only to later turn those same tactics inward and use them against their own citizens.’

Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Saw this tonight and it is really powerful

The Hind Rajab Foundation on Wednesday filed a complaint in the US seeking a criminal investigation into war crimes and genocidal acts by Adi Karni, a former Israeli army sergeant, during Israel’s war on Gaza. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260204-hin...

Guys you gotta take reindeer organs

When we choose our politicians based on how many rich people they went to high school with, this is the result. I have been on food stamps. I know politics isn’t a sport. It isn’t about scoring points on cable news. Politics is our actual lives. But I am building the campaign funding on the fly.

When Health Insurance Costs More Than the Mortgage kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NEW: Records also show DHS rushed Mobile Fortify out after abandoning its own facial-recognition oversight rules. Central privacy review was sidelined under orders from a Project 2025–linked former Heritage Foundation lawyer now serving as DHS chief privacy officer. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

oh bitcoin "lost its value"? does it not still provide a way to get people to stop talking to you at social events?

#NMGov Michelle Lujan Grisham has now signed the Immigrant Safety Act into law www.koat.com/article/new-... The three House Dems who voted against it all sit in seats that went Harris+14 or better. The candidate filing deadline for the Democratic primary is March 17.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

This is what Harvey Weinstein did, when he hired Black Cube to investigate Ronan Farrow. It is catastrophically bad for anyone involved in politics to be doing the same thing. It is also: very fucking stupid indeed.

"boys will be boys" they shrug as the boys in question beat us all to death

Didn’t all of this come to a head because he was sleeping with his brother’s window and he had a gun around her small children?

A teenager who was detained for 49 days over his friend’s killing at a SEPTA station contends police “buried” footage that showed he was innocent. Now he’s suing the city and transit officers.

New Mexico's legislature just passed a bill that bans local governments from joining ICE's 287(g) program *and* from hosting detention centers. On to the governor. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

“(This is how men behave.)” It is not how men behave. It is how creeps behave. I swear to god, nobody is as eager to torch the reputation of men as men are.

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After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.

A thing that’s perhaps not great about the Facebook algorithm: I’ve been checking my local meteorologists pages a lot. Thanks @capitalweather.bsky.social you’ve been awesome! But Facebook thinks “you’re interested in weather,” and now shows me random meteorologists’ posts from all over the US.

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

“For Enrique and Maria Elena, it resembled a long, slow-motion goodbye… “He said he would go after criminals, and we don’t consider ourselves criminals,” Maria Elena said of the president, adding, “We consider ourselves working people. It turns out, for him, we’re all criminals.”

For those looking at Tom Homan's offer to MN sheriffs -- it's called a Basic Ordering Agreement. In essence, to skirt state law, DHS pays $50 in exchange for sheriffs to hold people 48 hours past their release date. It's not really a contract; it's like a warehousing agreement for bodies.

The attacks on pro-choice speech are ramping up—especially on college campuses. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

Because he is dead, and regardless whether you think he was an angel or not, it didn’t have to happen. www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...

What a full-circle moment: In 2014, Black NYT writer John Eligon called Michael Brown a Black victim of police, "no angel." He took so much heat, "no angel" became shorthand for how Black people are blamed for their own deaths. Now, a white POTUS is using that for white victims of state violence.

“The Federal government has ben clear that they are not conducting an investigation into Renee Good's death. But we are,” Moriarty said. “We require these records as part of our ongoing thorough investigation into her death at the hands of a federal agent, Jonathan Ross.”

Ohrdruf was the first concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops. It was the first time the U.S. Army became fully aware of the horrors of the Holocaust. The three highest ranking US officers in Europe - Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton - all visited it to personally witness the horrors.

Same, Senator. Same.

Bitcoin slides below $70,000 as silver drops 10%: There is a palpable sense of forced deleveraging and margin calls rippling through the more speculative corners of the financial system. #bitcoin #gold #markets

Something tells me the Clintons could do serious damage to Trump

“The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice.”

The earlier belief in Berlin and other capitals was that Russia wouldn’t be able to threaten NATO until 2029 or so. There is now a growing consensus that such a crisis could come much sooner—before Europe is in a position to fight back www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Last year, I emailed Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, Sendy Soto, as well as spokespeople for both Soto & Mayor Johnson, six times. I wanted to understand their approach to evicting unhoused Chicagoans from the shelters they build to survive. No response. chicagoreader.com/news/housing...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

"We are reminded that leadership is not only about policy and power, but about character, conscience, and the recognition that all authority that all authority is ultimately accountable to God. We are honored to welcome Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs"

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag

That last line really sneaks up on you

At this point, some leaked videos might help.

Newsletter is out! Democrats love appealing to swing voters by talking about supporting fishing. In Virginia there's a bill that would increase fish populations for the entire Atlantic coast, but they're running out of time to act radio-free-america.beehiiv.com/p/democrats-...

A quarter of the "Mass Deportations Now" party thinks ICE has gone too far. This is a good time to remember that a handful of Republicans in Congress could end this at any time.

I'm no PhD economist, but did a massive, cross-sector tax hike on consumer goods and industrial precursors make doing business in the US more expensive or less expensive? Explain it to me like I'm Peter Navarro, Howard Lutnick, or Scott Bessent.

”I am a prisoner in my apartment,” said the 30-year-old North St. Paul resident. “I am hiding in the shadows, not because I have committed a crime, but because the streets of Minnesota have begun to look terrifyingly similar to the war zone I escaped.” www.startribune.com/minnesota-re... (gift link)