Destroy the ability of public equity firms to destroy companies and communities. This seems like a good start: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

There will be jam tomorrow. (WE PROMISE!) Therefore, throw all your jam in the trash today.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Tom Homan lied. #ICE is still in #MPLS. Don't stop until ICE is abolished. Patrol, Observe, Support, and Stay Viigilant. Someone was abducted at 10 AM on 2/12 by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

EXCLUSIVE from me: A group of 40-plus Catholic Democrats have issued what amounts to a theological rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent theological defense of Trump’s immigration agenda, outlining religious principles they suggest compel them to reform ICE. religionnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut buttondown.com/theswordandt...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, Alex and I are back with a look at who's in those theater seats in the 1910s and 1920s - according to Hollywood. We've got Mabel Normand, Snub Pollard, and Harold Lloyd to show us around. We kick off at 8pm Eastern over on stream.place. Join us, won't you?

No kid of mine is going to college and waste my money on a useless major like computer engineering! Study something practical, like art history or anthropology, so you can get a goddamn JOB!

My feed on various social media places is now jam-packed with GPT generated ad-stories about "quiet, dignified death" and it's making me puke. So terrible, the writing, the click baiting, the whole thing, and it's all because I posted about my mom's death, so it's even more maddening.

From Steve Sack, now retired but for a long time the cartoonist of the Mpls. Star-Tribune.

In Middle America, I found out that masked Federal agents can shoot citizens for no reason with no consequences.

DEI and LGBTQ programs are being gutted at public universities across the state. Now, progressive Christian student ministries are ensuring those programs live on. https://religionnews.com/2026/02/05/as-universities-shutter-dei-offices-christian-groups-open-their-doors/ 

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One of our editors has some fiction AND non-fiction in this one! If you liked "The Feast of Saint Ottmer," Contra Amatores Mundi, or his Warhammer stories, you'll probably like this story too. Back the magazine and get cool stuff!

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In 2023, a Bronze Age sword was found during excavations in Nördlingen, Bavaria. Non-destructive analysis now revealed new details about Bronze Age craftsmanship. 👉 www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_...

The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt. Why? For 2 yrs, Oklahoma oil regulators delayed basic tests that could help them find out. Read @nickbowlin.bsky.social latest for @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social!

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It’s day 72 of the ICE occupation of MSP. We received some DMs after yesterday’s post asking how to help with rent relief: check out the rent relief funds at StandWithMinnesota.com

Reposting -- Namoi Kritzer is keeping this list up to date.

Humbled and astounded to have Michael A. Stackpole's story, The Warlock's Champion in the first issue of Swords Against! Magazine. Come join the party! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

MAGA dimwit Peter Navarro accidentally admitted Trump-MAGA's claim about immigrants taking jobs is a scam. And as @pkrugman.bsky.social notes, not only is job growth down; *manufacturing* jobs are also down. The whole MAGA story is in collapse. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2064...

The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962

Ohio Republicans seem to take pride in being the most corrupt state in the union.

I saw this take before I had to run and teach today, so I've had 4 hrs to build a head of steam about it. Still, I'm gonna try to be nice. All due respect, I expect better from people who have all the resources in the world to research a thing AND a giant megaphone with which to share knowledge. 1/

Note to non-Minnesotans: St. Paul is not Minneapolis

NEW: ICE is crashing the US court system in Minnesota. Thanks to Trump's push to detain an unprecedented number of people, and its attempt to kill bond hearings, petitions to secure people's release from custody have skyrocketed. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Bud Cort: March 29, 1948 – February 11, 2026. Omnia mutantur; nihil interit. youtu.be/H1tRB7-aBr8

Remarkable: Trump's deranged threat to block the bridge connecting Detroit to Canada is backfiring, giving Dems a big issue in 2026 races in Michigan, which could help decide control of Congress. Michigan Dems tell me they'll use this against Republicans big time: newrepublic.com/article/2064...

New story from me @lightspeedmagazine.com, maybe the bleakest I've ever written. It's about: -AI’s effect on teaching literature -what literature can (& can't) actually teach us -trans fatherhood -the road to hell being paved with white saviorism www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me. I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874. If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Friends, media coverage of ICE in Minnesota has de-escalated. ICE hasn't. Residents are still being assaulted and detained every day. They need us now more than ever. Read their stories 👉 www.standwithminnesota.com/testimonies Donate if you can 👉 www.standwithminnesota.com/ Spread the word. 🚫 🧊

These chucklefucks are going to stumble into a nuclear war just by falling over their own feet. And you'll notice the report says "drones," plural, but they shot down only one party baloon. Can't shoot straight even with a death ray!

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

report from St Paul: "Very bad car accident involving ice agent who left the scene"

“The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it.” ~Carter G. Woodson, father of #BHM

I would conservatively estimate that 90% of literary discourse online is driven by people who literally do not read what they're pontificating about. They complain about contemporary fiction, literary fiction, genre fiction, postmodernism, YA books, whatever that they just do not read.

Breaking MS NOW: In a major defeat for Mike Johnson, 3 House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress' ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs. The final tally was 214-217, with 3 Republicans joining Democrats in opposition.

Wormwood: not living up to the hype.

The Great Tolkien Reread continues today with "The Old Forest". In which Frodo and the other hobbits encounter evil trees, and I offer my first (but by no means last) defense of Tolkien's nature writing as an inextricable component of his worldbuilding.

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

Today only, and I think US only, my World Fantasy Award winning Victorian sentimental novel about dragons who eat each other is on sale for $2.99 as an ebook There's also a super-cute mini-hardback www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...