I like how close this comes to admitting out loud that there’s an acceptable, normal background level of racism from the president he supports.

I don't have words for how good this is; brilliant idea, perfectly executed, no notes.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

“But doctor,” he said bursting into tears, “I am excommunicated Father Pagliarani!"

Whyyyyy. Duckworth? Whitehouse? It shouldn't be hard! Even f'cking Fetterman voted no!

The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.

Welp living in this semi-rural college town, with depression, in an area where winter feels like it lasts a month longer on either end, more likely to have time to shop late at night, I have been shamefully unwilling to give up my Amazon habit but can't do it any more, it's past time.

Look Bernie hasn't been great on some things lately but when he stays in his lane he can still do it pretty well, and this is most definitely his lane.

jesus fucking christ

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Look I'm not always the most realistic political mind but sure would be cool if Krasner were the one to primary Fetterman in '28

This is extremely good.

They weren't rookies The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed" My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

If you replaced whatever staffer is running Schumer's account according to his directions with an LLM trained only on ham-fisted parodies of him no one would notice the difference

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

Now I'm reading Erik Christiansen's Channeling the Past, before my students read it next week. CBS radio helped writers evade the blacklist; it ran some shows *without sponsors* which meant companies couldn't "pull ads" on shows with leftists who's ran afoul of HUAC. Not Bari White's CBS! 🗃️

Look, they're just have an LLM doing it now. The two dumb awful meathead guys that they had leave or get kicked out were named “Dan Bongino” and “Greg Bovino.” Looking forward to future former admin chuds “Ted Boltino,” “Joe Bormino” and “Frank Boxhino.”

Massive Russian attack last night ▪️In Kharkiv, 820 residential buildings are without heating, the power plant that supplied them with heating is seriously damaged. -20 °C today. ▪️In Odesa region, over 50,000 families are without electricity after the Russian attack. -12 °C in the region.

This is the same reason people stopped making hammers.

The Perseverance rover collected a core sample of what might be definitive evidence of previous organic life on Mars. That sample might never make it back to Earth because the 1,000-person mission to retrieve the sample, run of out the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was killed by trump.

Dominick Barlow imho

Look, they're just have an LLM doing it now. The two dumb awful meathead guys that they had leave or get kicked out were named “Dan Bongino” and “Greg Bovino.” Looking forward to future former admin chuds “Ted Boltino,” “Joe Bormino” and “Frank Boxhino.”

It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk. Again, if a single Democrat ever talked about punishing rural areas like this for ___, it would be a nonstop national scandal for months on end. But Republicans can treat cities & urban residents like this & 🦗🦗

He's like a cautionary tale for all historians to stay in their lane.

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

I testified Friday on the history of CBP and ICE's corruption and training problems. It's so much worse than you think. The population of CBP officers/agents arrested THEMSELVES since 2005 would be America's 4th largest police dept—larger than the Philly PD. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

The President should definitely not be able to sue the executive branch of the government while sitting as president.

IMHO impeach Kavanaugh & the other 5 justices who, true originalists, have (re-)established & countenanced racial violence by the state even against its own citizens. (As we've seen this past month also *political* violence, but that seems to trouble the Wise Median Voter more for some reason.)

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

I’m still stewing about this - just think of all the great scholarship being done by Ohio State faculty in religious studies, philosophy, the sociology of religion, etc. and instead of elevating that work and showing how valuable OSU research is, they promote these reactionary nitwits. It’s shameful

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Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Oh it's even better* than you're thinking, b/c the AI in question is an in-house “campus wellness” AI that admin is very proud to call “world's first campus wellness AI” (*better in the sense of “worse”)

Sign of the times: my colleague's colleague in Russia reports even the more clever VPNs now recently blocked. And I'm discovering that elibrary dot ru — a kind of JSTOR/Google Scholar type site for scholarship — is now blocking most (all?) IPs outside of Russia. Was working a week or two ago.

Serwer is such a phenomenally talented writer, truly.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Miller, or someone, thinks that the problem is only that Bovino's traveling fascist circus* was too repulsively clownish and that they just need a little bit of a tactical retreat and rebrand. Fortunately he is very wrong. (*not my coinage but can't find original if there was a single source)

Just landed in Minnesota for tomorrow's game. At MSP airport, they had a dog that was just there to be petted. That was his only job. He was very good at it. We need more freely pettable dogs and fewer untrained and unrestrained masked thugs who are beholden to neither law nor basic humanity.

Amazing turnout at the CEO centrist rally

w/ alt-txt

I mean it's fun to watch but it isn't really championship football is it

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

hard to fathom. this wasn't a crackdown, it was a nationwide massacre.

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

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Dave Guttenfelder is an amazing photojournalist who‘s most recently primarily focused on conflict photojournalism in Syria and Ukraine. Hes recently turned his talents to Minneapolis.