Alt headline: "Mission first. Safety always. But we don't take a bite outta crime." Also: "DC is not a deployment."

Spotted at the Minnesota State Capitol. A prosecute ice ice sculpture. A mind blowing vortex of art and material that dares the viewers to recall Marcel Duchamp. The father of Dadaism. The dada of dada.

"Screw the platforms. Ignore the stuff that you think sucks. Find books and art you love. Share them. Review them. Recommend them to friends. Make your own art. Share it. Hope it finds people who love it. What else can we do?" hell yeah @thelincoln.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

It’s like every possible bad thing possible is happening this year and it’s only February

So, a Republican President, a Republican Governor, and a Republican Secretary of State could not prevent Russian manipulation. Ok. Why did Trump roll out the red carpet for Putin? Why is US policy and strategy in Ukraine favorable to Russia?

Starts tomorrow Feb. 6, 2026! Veterans, sign-up for this FREE online poetry & music workshop today! Culminates in a public performance Apr. 11, 2026!

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

🇳🇴 “Ex-PM Thorbjørn Jagland offered to connect Jeffrey Epstein to Lavrov. 🇷🇺 KGB defectors had named him “Yuri” decades earlier.” According to ex-KGB major Mikhail Butkov—operating undercover in Oslo in 1990, “Jagland had been cultivated in the 1970s when he chaired the 🇳🇴 Labour party's youth wing.“ 🧵

Carpenter wrings maximum tension and dread out of a well-worn horror concept. buff.ly/1WBs72x

Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves #palestine #theguardian

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

In some autocracies, the regime uses intimidation at the polls. But its usually limited and in countries much smaller than the US with far fewer polling locations. The most common way to rig is by stopping people from getting on the ballot or by throwing out votes.

A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind/Solar Projects Federal agencies are delaying approvals for renewable energy projects on both federal land and private property at a time when electricity demand is going up. By Brad Plumer and Rebecca Elliott www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

I did not have "America's most effective anti-regime governor is a woke CIA agent" on my 2026 bingo card but here we are

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

You can buy my work as prints over at Inprnt. There's a mixture of sci-fi and strange tentacled lighthouses amongst other things. 5/n

Bezos Foster Kane: “You’re right, I lost $75 million last year. I lost $100 million this year. I expect to lose $125 million NEXT year. At that rate, I’ll have to close this place…in 1,200 years. SO, I’d rather gut the paper and spend $75 million on a Melania documentary" youtu.be/tzhb3U2cONs?...

Good lord

There's a VA townhall with the secretary this afternoon, the first such one since Alex Pretti was killed. The invite that went out to staff last week didn't mention him or Minneapolis, but did ask employees to submit questions. We'll see how that goes.

New: The Trump admin claimed it sent in hundreds of agents to raid a Chicago apartment building to nab Venezuelan gang members, but new documents confirm in the government’s own words what actually prompted the raid: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex.

On a bad day for Journalism, a very good day for a SCOOP by Patty at Task & Purpose.

She spent THREE phone calls doing this. For FREE. And they think we gotta pay people to say fuck ICE.

A chance meeting in a Quad-Cities bookstore sparked a conversation about how the Middle West contains multitudes of creative, free-thinking, loving fellow humans—and how speculative & hybrid literary forms can help us find each other! Book review of "Midwest Futures" in @littlevillage.bsky.social!

“This collection ultimately left me with a profound desire to explore my own Midwest experience.” —Kara Taghon, bookseller at The Atlas Collective 1801 5th Ave, Moline, Ill. atlascollectiveqc.com Full review in the JAN2026 issue of @littlevillage.bsky.social : littlevillagemag.com/book-review-...

This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise

Just ordered this! I've played/loved DAYBREAK (a cooperative climate crisis fighting game) and @owenbiesel.bsky.social says EARTH RISING is similar, so I am snapping this up! www.sdrgames.studio/products/ear... #cooperative #games #climatechange

I like the idea of requesting your library carry the game (EARTH RISING). People don't think of #libraries as having games (Library of Things), but they do! I should add these games to my Top 10 Solarpunk Books list for libraries! brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/for-librar...

so summary of events is: a cabal of rapist pedophiles and their enablers run america and deliberately destroyed the constitutional order to preserve their impunity do i have this right

The consternation is palpable. Already wildly unpopular, this places Adobe in a new category beyond chiselling and gouging, into actively destabilising the livelihoods of their own customer base.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

"Two clients Lawyer Eric Lee visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center....The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months."

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Monday issued an initial, public report on the death of Alex Pretti — saying he died from multiple gunshot wounds and classifying his death as a homicide.

When Trump testified in deposition on his NY fraud case, he estimated his net worth at $3.2B, which was wildly inflated. That was after a lifetime in business. Trump has now made $4.05B just in the past year - most of it from foreign entities. archive.ph/2026.01.31-1...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Did you say …Friday? #FridayFeeling #Horror #SciFi #Apocalypse

Great phrase Horribly correct

"ICE is nothing like the Brownshirts. One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency… for an openly fascist political party."

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

You know it's pretty galling that cops treat "you need to show your face and wear a name tag" as apparently too high a price for the License To Kill that they are given

Another reason why blocking data centers in your area is fun & necessary! Cursory poking around suggest that you might find blocking the data centers an easier sell locally than blocking the gas projects (which claim to create jobs & often come down to FERC permitting which is rubber-stamp)

Zelensky represents his country far better than Trump does his own.

Heard any interesting/heartening thing from the courthouse today. Jurors. Usually people do their duty but they’re a bit crabby about it. Judges can sense it. Not since the ICE invasion. Fewer absentees, fewer excuses, more commitment, more focus. It’s like civics matters & they‘re defending it.

A) Let's not have the retired generals be our spokespeople B) You don't have to have served to be a decent human being and respect the sacrifices and service of American allies C) FFS, Trump is a disgusting shell of a human being.

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

The circumstances of the FBI's raid to seize 2020 ballots in Atlanta yesterday were surpassingly unusual. An out-of-state U.S. attorney (not a line prosecutor). The deputy director of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence on the scene. Very not normal. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Oh wonderful.