Americans are more pessimistic about the economy now than they were during the pandemic. apnews.com/article/cons...

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Bruh

MEET THE JUDGE: As federal judges in MN lose patience with Trump's ICE surge & growing defiance of court orders, they're led by Patrick Schiltz, a GW Bush appointee who pushed for Bork's confirmation & clerked twice for Scalia. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

If the procedure is Nirvana, the prep feels like Cannibal Corpse.

today’s NYT! bsky.app/profile/plun...

Grill is cured. Tomorrow we smoke.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Respectable white people are suddenly shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line.

Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it.

Colonoscopy scheduled. Get checked.

“…mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.” - Joseph Heller

I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti. No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate. Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.

Finishing my ☕️ before grading and class (students sharing independence reading and enforcement in international law aka Read and Share) and someone has thoughts.

Just realized that going to the super bowl means another year of being marked safe from having to watch the seahawks on hard knocks

BREAKING: Chief Judge Schiltz sets a contempt hearing for Friday in one of the hundreds of habeas cases in Minnesota pending as a result of Operation Metro Surge, ordering acting ICE Director Todd Lyons personally to appear in court and face contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once.” — @adamserwer.bsky.social

From what I'm seeing on my socials, they done pissed off and radicalized every single nurse in the United States that wasn't already pissed off and radicalized.

hegemonic suicide. just absolutely gutting

Homan was the architect of family separation, the biggest immigration enforcement debacle of Trump’s first term. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

"At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed." #NationalParks 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Tomorrow we cure the new grill. Which I've not done in the past but new Diva.

Pretty noticeable in Kalispell I think

Want to see our fundamental rights as Americans according to the Bill of Rights? Like…the right to peaceably assemble (i.e. protest?) Here you go. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Signal is also infinitely better for sharing cute videos of your children or cats with your friends

When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

State terror and betrayal. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

I’m a doofus but in less than 2 years I’m gonna graduate law school. And then this doofus will go prove that what those federal agencies are doing in our name is immoral, unethical, & illegal…and within the statute of limitations. So i speak out now, so they will hear me then

I’m a doofus but for almost 9 years now I’ve been working with my neighbors, solving their crimes, their murders. I’m a doofus but I know that what the federal agencies are doing in our name is immoral, unethical, & illegal. So I speak out now.

I’m a doofus but I actually am a federally certified law enforcement training officer, as well as for the state of Georgia. Worked lots of crimes. I’m a doofus but I know that what the federal agencies are doing in our name is immoral, unethical, & illegal. So I speak out now.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Hundreds of Montanans gathered in front of the Gallatin County Courthouse on Sunday afternoon in the wake of Alex Pretti’s killing by federal officers in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 and in response to the Trump administration’s immigration policies writ large.

The only difference between Homan and Bovino is that Homan understands that you keep the human rights violations out of public sight so people have plausible deniability to say “they didn’t know” later

Couldn't resist buying this one. lol #GoHawks www.simplyseattle.com/collections/...

I'll tell you something else, if he has two brain cells to rub together and the survival instincts of green algae, he will roll the fuck over on Secretary Noem and anyone else who he took direction from as "commander at large" when the pendulum swings in the other direction

They took away his right to post. Not sure there's a bigger punishment in the MAGA universe.

For @newyorker.com, I chatted with @ichotiner.bsky.social on why it's currently so difficult to hold federal officers accountable for violating our constitutional rights, and why state criminal prosecutions are a tricky — but by no means impossible — option: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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...

Today’s dirt road view from my little part of Montana.

if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:

The goal in the Trump II admin is to never be more of a main character than Trump. He poasted too close to the sun.

Dude is literally being sacked because Americans remembered who they were and that scared the hell out of them. Do not stop.

They're hoping sacrificing him will save Noem. It shouldn't

When all of this falls apart, it's your duty as an American to remind these people of all the sycophantic, mealy-mouthed nonsense they brought into this world in order to justify terrorizing communities.

My Lai happened in 1968, but a coverup meant the public didn’t learn of it until 1969—well after the anti-war movement supplanted any vestiges of pro-war fervor.

"If public knowledge is absorbed into proprietary systems that the public cannot inspect, audit or meaningfully challenge, then access to information is no longer governed by democratic norms but by corporate priorities": schneier.com/blog/archive... #ethics #internet #AI #democracy

"Users showed little caution and were rarely skeptical of the guidance they received. In fact, many believed #ChatGPT was less likely to show bias, make errors, or provide inconsistent advice compared to a professional therapist": www.scu.edu/news-and-eve... #ethics #AI #health #research #highered

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.