Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

Looks like bad news for #vaquita

Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Best of luck to all of the Minnesotans competing on the world stage. You make Minnesota proud 🥇 www.startribune.com/meet-the-min...

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands enlisted in the Dutch Army as a reservist, the Royal House said, because the country’s security “can no longer be taken for granted.”

Democracy dies in darkness

Anne Stevenson Television Hug me, mother of noise. Find me a hiding place. I am afraid of my voice. I do not like my face. From @parisreview.bsky.social

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop. Again, this is terrorism.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since 1958 and a Senator for 45 years. He is the longest serving Senator in office. He chairs the Judiciary Committee.

Isn't Tom Homan that bagful of cash guy?

These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…

People mocking the baggy suits for an easy laugh, but riddle me this wiseguy: how else are you carry $50K in cash bribes when you have been told to stop using your CAVA bag?

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

This is mind bogglingly mad. He is a charlatan.

ICE is terrorizing people in so many communities. Vile. The economy is hurting, if that is one metric that one pays attention to. Most importantly- this is domestic terrorism.

At the very least, Congress must disarm ICE, prohibit it from using racial or ethnic profiling, end arrest quotas, remove agents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits, and slash its funding. The Senate has the chance to rein in ICE this week. Keep calling: (202) 224-3121

New at Can We Still Govern: NIH scientist @markhisted.org reviews the damage done to American biomedical science in the last year and looks ahead: "Scientists should not be political partisans, but they should be partisans for liberal democratic principles."🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...

Minnesota's leaders rise to the level of the state's people. By me. (Most before paywall.) fallows.substack.com/p/were-no-lo...

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

Trump claims ICE's Minnesota raids — which have already killed two Americans — are justified to root out "fraud." Meanwhile, he's pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters, including several who gave money to his campaign and Super PAC. The "law and order" president.

I would like murders to the list of crimes committed by ICE. Accountability now.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

"I might not have felt the need to step away from academia had we aimed for a lower impact journal...success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers...its tracing a path that isn’t defined by what others expect of me" www.science.org/content/arti...

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

A hero. I once listened to him in medicine grand rounds..both informative& inspiring. He is missed.

This hit so fucking hard today.

ICE believes they have a hunting license to kill Americans like Alex Pretti. Senate Democrats need to shut down DHS appropriations, instead they should work with Republicans to #FundHealthcareStopICE to end this rogue and lawless agency. Do it for Pretti, a healthcare hero.🩺🩻⚕️

🧵A doctor was nearby when ICE murdered Alex Pretti. He immediately tried to go to Pretti, but ICE wouldn't let him, demanding to see a physician's license. They eventually allowed him to approach, but instead of administering CPR, ICE was counting bullet wounds. They didn't even check his pulse.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This year is the 20th anniversary of the initial approval of the HPV vaccine, and January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Sadly, 2026 is going to be a year of disinformation about the HPV vaccine.

AOC reads Vance and his whining to filth.

Stand You've been sitting much too long There's a permanent crease in your right and wrong

I think I’ll federal employees of the FBI should do the same as a matter of fact, maybe all government offices

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

NYT EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

We need a global boycott of the U.S. Don’t attend the World Cup. Demand that U.S. matches be moved to Mexico and Canada. The only leverage that works is money and ego. With no meaningful checks from Congress or the courts, change will only come through worldwide pressure. We need the world’s help.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”