I am just without words - OVER A TSHIRT UNDER A BLAZER?

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

as always - very telling to target people going through the legal process they deem the right way because they don’t want them here either.

The Prairieland defendants deserve your attention as this piece lays out because it’s going to be this admin’s framework for targeting political enemies that is already echoing out from this case - ie their refusal to remove online posts about Marimar Martinez in Chicago labeling her a terrorist.

MDC to Broadview to Whipple to the next major operation - the plan is always the same: excruciate people into losing hope and then submission.

The email indicating how in March 2025 they realized they could start emphasizing training to arrest more for “assaulting” an officer after it quadrupled in the first two months of Trump 2.0 would really catch my eye as something to pound with FOIAs for training materials throughout the last year.

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.

Benjamin Shepard’s book, “On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting,” documents four decades of wisdom about the importance of friendship in political movements.

This breaks my heart

If you are wondering how the secret service checks a cement mixer:

How it feels to have two consecutive 60 degree sunny days in February as a midwesterner:

BREAKING NEWS: We just submitted a court filing challenging excessive use of force by federal agents at Portland ICE facility. #orpol

I am not having the worst day for creatures at the lake perspective check.

finding a quiet corner of the lake to sit and ponder but seemingly every wearable-blasting-speaker jogger walker or bicyclist is finding me and slowly driving me insane.

Both Trump and Biden have given public comment equivalent of syllabic drool but sure this is totally fine. Misogyny is such an ever present and under acknowledged element of our society being so stuck where we are.

The thing that annoys me the most about the fear of “attacks” federal agents face for their families is not literal - what they actually fear is social exclusion and ostracization. They were afforded privileges of existing among decent people and now they are left with only themselves when truthful.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

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The myth of America as a white nation is a tawdry fiction, and an obscenity, and while those who promote that myth will never be sneered at as “activists”, there is no shame in being an activist for the messy, shameful, painful but honest version of our history.

Bovino apparently trying to vacation at Mammoth Mountain and getting refused service is giving me some extra life zest today.

Sundays are for the gulls - and one adorable red-headed woodpecker.

It is honestly upsetting to feel like the occupation/terrorizing of Chicago in the fall of 2025 is unknown or forgotten to many people compared to MN. I’ve got amazing solidarity with anyone facing this but it hurts how we were blamed for some of the violence against us and our resistance minimized.

Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

Isle Royale webcams are always good to bookmark. www.nps.gov/media/webcam...

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem. Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social

Paris on the prairie

southwest side Valentine’s Day date taco crawl success - though it morphed into a general Central American food crawl instead because everything sounded good and was good. Featuring stops at Xocome Antojeria and Tacos & Pupusas Esperanza.

if he just asked each of those CEOs to donate $1 million to a rent fund, we would be able keep people housed but no we will get a concert and merch and more dramatic portraits of jacob

happy My Bloody Valentine's Day to all my shoegaze homies 🙏🤗

The actual, often physical, attacks that federal agents have taken against religious expressions and gatherings in the past year had been quite staggering. I’m often left wondering about the spiritual lives right now of those being detained and what services are offered now compared to pre-2025.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley. They’ve been locked up for 130+ days. I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

I am going to make it through

Make perjury punishable again

out: wine moms in: kerosene moms

feeling quite strong in the lapsed catholic department today with this ruling that the first exercise of religion permitted inside this facility in months is a service in reminder of grief.

Injustice Watch judicial voting guide is live 2026primary.injusticewatch.org

I think this is really what gets me as someone who hates reality television we’re basically living through a Bravo administration and it’s just degrading to be subjected to this everyday.

A glass of wine so big it would kill God

I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

who has the uncensored vulgarity version plz - though this is also funny.

imagine debasing yourself by working for these people and everyone you meet just fucking hates your guts while you’re working that job.

Because they’re liars. It’s inconsistent because of the lies.

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

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

How any society functions can be judged by how they treat people in jails and prisons. this current administration was trying to send former federal death row inmates to ADX Florence “supermax” for the fact that Biden pardoned them and targeting immigrants in jails via even more 287(g) agreements.

"Minnesota is less of a sanctuary state." I don't see how this isn't Homan getting what he wanted.