HEY Y'ALL WE FINALLY INVENTED CHEMTRAILS AND IT'S GOOD FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

I am now raising rent funds for another Minneapolis family who has been impacted by ICE. For this family, the remaining need is $775. Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please help and share! Thank you 💖

Has anyone used a language learning program that allows you to customize the application like industry or topics?

For like 150 years Iowa had a reputation as a kinda hokey sorta-progressive Midwestern state with a good education system and a history of civil rights victories and in the last 10 years, the freaks have endeavored to turn it into fucking Florida. God I weep for the children of Iowa

This mother fucker.

i bet there are some anti vax white women who are absolutely shitting themselves right now

Quote drawdown going smashingly

Domino's!? In this economy!?!?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snicker... HWAT

Has anyone used a language learning program that allows you to customize the application like industry or topics?

I submitted a proposal for a public art project The Proposal was accepted I was awarded a grant and I made something really amazing that everyone loves.

Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com and with your help, we have now paid rent for four Minneapolis families affected by ICE. Let’s keep it going! Can we make it happen for a fifth family? Their total need is $2300. V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Thank you! 💖

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

If I was the editor-in-chief of Time Magazine, I probably would have put the people of Minneapolis on the cover instead of these Nazis. But what do I know about selling magazines.

I made this art panel from a sheet of OSB plywood. I love it because it reminds me of roller rinks in the nineties.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

Still bullying NWS MPX until they join Bluesky

January saw the most layoffs to start the year since 2009. Hiring was also at the lowest level to start the year since 2009.

Ok, moving back to this one. Let's get this funded. I'm in for $100. I can definitely vouch for @wrigleyfield.bsky.social

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.

I do not regret to inform you we are going to win

NEW USCSB SAFETY VIDEO LET'S GOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3b...

that's a pristine clapback, well done, 10/10 no notes

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:

Incredible reporting from Street Sense on the trend of escalating camp evictions, with the city routinely clearing the same people repeatedly. In 2025, one camp was cleared FOURTEEN TIMES. Evictions don’t end homelessness.

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I fear people are starting to give Jeff E. too much credit for influencing politics and culture. He's going to be the architect of the Pyramids of Giza by the end of the year.

My thoughts are with the reporters today, and certainly not with the clueless media executives or the billionaires like Bezos who are too pigshit stupid to run a newsroom.

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

Oh. So they do understand why Black people want police to lose qualified immunity. It's amazing how much clarity people suddenly have now that the children being harmed are not mostly Black.

Don’t mess with Minnesotans. When we’re not fighting ICE or providing food and safety for our immigrant neighbors, we willingly hang out outside in freezing weather!

There have been many reports of ice agents drunk driving after hours

Okay I'm definitely bringing this up at my next city council meeting

Nighttime mission

Could easily be over a thousand people at the luminary ceremony on Lake Harriet tonight

Local flavor

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel. People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

i was already planning to do the steps outlined at www.abetterdfl.org/resolution at the caucuses tonight but holy fuck i *need* to do that tonight or else i'm going to spend the next week crying

Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Walmart is officially a trillion-dollar company. Today the retail giant joined the ranks of Meta, Tesla, Amazon and more to pass a $1 trillion market cap. Meanwhile, starting pay at Walmart is as low as $14/hour, and thousands of its workers have to rely on SNAP and Medicaid.

Humbled tonight to find a group of people organizing in my neighborhood. It's a "sleepy" one, and I was worried no one else was seeing what I was seeing.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Dig deeper. He went to defcon in 2013. There are travel itineraries for his entourage to travel from the ranch in NM, stay at Caesars, go to a Rod Stewart show followed by Mystere… www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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