Neighborhood life when ICE agents terrorize your city. #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I loooove a good @mrrablin.bsky.social Edutopia post!!! @edutopia.org www.edutopia.org/article/clas...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

A reminder that Bezos has zero financial need to layoff these journalists, and is only doing so because he wants to destroy the 4th Estate. Invest in independent voices. My human rights newsletter has grown to 160,000+ subscribers. No paywall. Paid sub optional. Join: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

“But what do you want Democrats to do….” I don’t know stuff like this?

I know I movked “make apps, not raps,” @itsthebrandi.bsky.social but I’m willing to let this one cook

There has been no de-escalation.

Wyden has a bill and has been putting pressure on Treasury to release records/files it's been hiding away regarding Epstein. There's no reason Bessent should be hiding financial records, tell congress to get those records.

Fox 9 MN reporter Paul Blume: "SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, 'The system sucks, this job sucks' to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep"

this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE

Today, for LGBT+ History month, I'm giving a talk - 'Hidden Stories of LGBT+ Scientists'. It's at 12:30 in the National Science Learning Centre on campus @york.ac.uk. You can also attend online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-sto... How many of my magnificent 7 do you recognise?

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

This made me weepy

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

With respect, ICE leaving will just mean they'll target kids somewhere else. ICE must be abolished. You can't reform evil like this, you tear it out at the root.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Body cams on ICE isn't going to change anything. It's just another way for them to gather images of people's faces so they can refine their lists. They won't increase accountability or prevent ICE agents from shooting people. They've already done it on camera every time.

The library? Yes, the library is hosting a series for Chicagoans to learn about Puerto Rican history ahead of Bad Bunny’s historical Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend.

The Monterey Park city council meeting last night went on for over 6 hours! Almost 100 residents spoke up and were heard. Clearly, nobody wants this data center. I have faith in this SGV community! www.yahoo.com/news/article... NodatacenterMPK.org

Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!! To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.

If you missed it last night, please please please read Gwen’s great thread about why snitching is bad, even when you disagree with a tactic someone is using

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

"Defund was, and is, important because pouring resources into the police creates a police state, for marginalized people first, but eventually for everyone. If you want to protect democracy, you need to develop and advocate for antifascist policies and strategies—even if...not popular initially."

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Great thread explaining why volunteers mass 3D printing whistles makes more financial sense than buying them in bulk!

I have lots of (former) math teacher friends who have been writing curricula. If you're interested in an awesome gig in this space, check out BEAM's current offerings (link: www.beammath.org/work-at-beam) It's a GREAT organization (check it out if BEAM is new to you!) #MTBoS #iteachmath Pleast RT

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

D&D GM: ...as the villagers perish, the lich hits you all for 75 damage. What do you do? Mage: Fireball. Max level Barbarian: Channel my rage into my axe! HERE I GO! Archer: Overcharged arrows. Called shots. Eyes. Cleric: Turn undead. Let's send him to HELL. Chuck Schumer: I cast "Stern Letter"

Seriously, it shouldn't be hard to identify the other reporters in the Oval Office and to ask them why they remain silent when the president of the United States verbally attacks one of their colleagues.

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Welcome to BHM! One of my favorite newsletters is this gem. I always learn something new and am grateful for the opportunity to push my thinking. www.28daysofblackhistory.com

Punxsutawney Phil predicted humanity would annihilate itself through tribalism and environmental indifference

Help your neighbors & share the new checklist in the chats activistchecklist.org/ice

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

This hero Unrivaled fan.

JFC ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE ALREADY REQUIRED. OH MY GOD. YOU ARE BEGGING FOR THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY REQUIRED BY LAW. GEE I WONDER HOW NATIONAL DEMS COMPLETELY LOST THE RHETORICAL BATTLE ON IMMIGRATION. IF ONLY THERE WERE ANY RECENT EXAMPLES OF THEM JUST ACCEPTING GOP FRAMING AND TALKING POINTS.

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the Montreal Canadians are hiding from ICE in their hotel. United States cannot host the World Cup. Nations must boycott this. Wherever you are in the world, write your politicians and say they should boycott all games playing in the United States, only play Canada/Mex.

I remember seeing these in libraries after the Patriot Act passed

NYT reports that the partial Epstein Files reference Trump at least 38K times. Haitians eating cats & dogs propaganda •MAGA: [clutches pearls] Somali day care fraud propaganda •MAGA: [clutches pearls] Trump 38K times in Epstein Files •MAGA: THIS PROVES NOTHING! White narcissism is a helluva drug

Or, and hear me out, we could tax corporations.

Wandering down the rabbit hole of journals published in constructed languages, are there chemistry articles in Esperanto? Klingon? #chemSky

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I have been worried about the census and this thread explains some of why

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.