Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

It's the "Year of four Emperors" www.pbs.org/empires/roma...

Again, there are no moderate Republicans. This is one of the most extreme voter disfranchisement bills in American history.

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

A 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”

Thank you to @maddow.bsky.social for giving me the time of day last night. Thank you also to the THOUSANDS of folks interested in using our data for good. There's one other way you can help us, and it's by not giving us your money.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

My favorite team just lost, but at least I get to read about my second-favorite team's win from @beesbreakdown.bsky.social on @beesottedbrentford.bsky.social: beesotted.com/bees-breakdo...

Hard enough watching Tottenham right now (the 12 who aren't injured), but having to listen to an announcer who clearly despises the Spurs just rubs salt in the wounds.

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Today's pick: The Ghent altarpiece (1432) - Jan van Eyck. The Ghent Altarpiece with open panels. Top row, from left [..] #art #VanEyck www.artbible.info/art/large/317.html

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Ched Myers to speak about his new book on the Gospel of Luke and "Sabbath economics" that resist the idolatry of wealth, greed and war.

The Trump regime wants you to think its campaign to harass and terrorize people in Minnesota is over. It isn't.

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store. He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day. This is a diseased society.

A new concentration camp appears to be opening a few miles from where I teach: www.ajc.com/politics/202...

❤️ Rally for Public Health Workers in Atlanta, GA❤️ Public health workers protect us all! Join us to recognize the anniversary of firing of CDC probationary employees and lasting harm to next generation of public health workers. 🗓 Feb 10 | ⏰ 5:30–6:45 PM 📍 CDC Main Entrance (Clifton Rd.) 1/2 🧵

Wait, a Trump cabinet member lied about something?

This is the most corrupt administration of all time, and everybody knows it.

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Brilliant: "Extending our hand to the stranger among us." "Each of us has been a stranger at one point in our lives" "let us offer a new path...defiance through compassion." As Howard Thurman said, we are all indebted to a vast host of others. Let us treat all others with that same compassion.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

My wife thinks this clip from This Boy's Life (1993) explains a lot about MAGA.

At National Prayer Breakfast, Hegseth Says US Soldiers Gain Salvation by Dying for ‘Christian Nation’

Brilliant: "Extending our hand to the stranger among us." "Each of us has been a stranger at one point in our lives" "let us offer a new path...defiance through compassion." As Howard Thurman said, we are all indebted to a vast host of others. Let us treat all others with that same compassion.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teaching my class on Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community again this semester. This week we discussed his book, Jesus and the Disinherited, and the book's role in the Civil Rights movement. Minneapolis came up today during the discussion of the chapter on/against hate.

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Crushed tomatoes. Had to laugh when I saw this.

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

@beesbreakdown.bsky.social is out with their analysis of the tactical aspects of the Brentford win last Sunday (my warmup match to watch before the Spurs played Man City). It was a nail-biter--Brentford were down to 10 men for most of the match. beesotted.com/bees-breakdo...

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

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

This may seem a minor thing among the other horrors of the Trump administration, but these murals are a national treasure. I also almost used one of them in one of my @thevcs.bsky.social exhibitions. Do not destroy them (@nytimes.com): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

The federal government is just disappearing children.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

On this day in 1846, Alabama began statewide convict leasing, a practice later used to re-enslave emancipated Black people criminalized by unjust laws.

“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2 KJV And that’s red letter text, by the way.

All of the Legacy Sites in Montgomery are this impactful and important. If you haven't been, go as soon as possible--and stay at each one a long while to learn and reflect and grow.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Why are they protecting monsters?! Unredact this now!!

I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it