let them all out even if we are pretending there are dangerous people in DHS custody - dangerous people leave custody ALL THE TIME for FAR LESS compelling reasons the race to build warehouses is an artificial urgency it's an admission of guilt genocide by containment & neglect is still genocide

There’s always a place for you on Solidarity Street. Solidarity with our union siblings at @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #UnionsForAll #UnionMemes

Today is also the anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. February 19—not a great day in American history!

It's funny how adding sugar to coffee results in the most disgusting combination ever (imo, ymmv) but adding sugar to Assam tea is fine

...but I'm all out of whales

@marccold.bsky.social If I adore Gogol + think I'm falling in love with Tolstoy + have enjoyed all the Chekhov I've encountered + respect Dostoevsky even though he's a lot of work + thought Pushkin was too (Romantic era?) for my personal taste, what is your guess about how I might find Turgenev?

Hillary Clinton saying she met Ghislaine Maxwell only once or twice means I guess: 1) she’s lying 2) she invited someone she barely knew to her daughter’s wedding in an aisle seat out of the kindness of her heart 3) seats at Chelsea’s wedding were purchasable

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I think this is the core of it. People have been working on “AI” for more than half a century. I don’t want to concede that the tech is defined by the fascist financiers anymore than I concede that the Internet is defined by the fascist financiers. Investors aren’t inventors! Reject their platforms.

"A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so that the Nazis could detect anyone with Jewish ancestry." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

In what could be the “largest rent strike in the US in the last 100 years," a coalition of tenant + labor unions representing over 25K workers are threatening a mass rent strike in the face of the ongoing occupation by ICE. www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

This tech news is giving me too many existential thoughts for a Tuesday night

It's Feb 2026, and 49% of white people in the US approve of the way Trump is handling immigration. In case you're thinking that means that a majority disapprove? Nope! 4% are "Not sure"🤡 Some of y'all really believed that the percent of white people that support ethnic cleansing would drop lower.🤷🏿‍♂️

Let me tell you what happens when they can’t manufacture enough parts for critical medical equipment: the companies will exit making that equipment and your insurance company will say “too bad, do your best to keep it working”. Phillips did this with pediatric ventilators.

brb gotta go preorder the next Starling mindtrip

I do wonder what impact this is going to have on med-tech availability and pricing. I hope I'm wrong but I fear it is yet another way of causing preventable deaths

As Operation Metro Surge ramped up, disabled immigrants found themselves facing additional challenges, including disruptions to their caregivers and anxiety about communicating in high-conflict encounters. Written by Shubhanjana Das

All right, time to crochet a blanket while listening to someone read me War & Peace like it's 1912

Ohhhh. If a machine can't read your PDF, a machine can't harvest your PDF for the slop factories. I've been wondering why that new digital accessibility regulation hasn't been overturned yet and that (plus the regulations-as-selective-cudgel element) would explain it.

Quizá el mejor Don't Dead Open Inside que he visto hasta la fecha

The quote is correct. She says “migration” “went too far” and that it needs to be addressed. Idgaf if she says deportations should be conducted in a ‘humane’ way. Moments earlier she celebrates that her husband and Obama deported more people than Trump to applause in the room. Don’t defend this.

this is a good thread on Hindutva and religious studies. the only modification I would make is that "religion" is not only "western" or Abrahamic but modern, and specific to the religio-racial regime of secularism of the Anglo-Protestant world system. what do I mean by this gobbledygook? well....

It’s day 76 of the ICE occupation of MSP. ICE is still here - we still have vastly more agents on the ground than we did in late November. And those agents are still kidnapping our neighbors and terrorizing neighborhoods. Stay vigilant, and let’s pay rent for March 1 for everyone who needs it.

Since December 2025, “Operation Metro Surge” has had a devastating impact on Minneapolis. It’s disrupted our local economy, broken families apart, and worsened already existing disparities our neighbors face. An additional 76,200 people citywide may now be experiencing food insecurity. 1/

Unless Trump has approved the repeal of the federal Sioux-Dakota Removal Act of 1863, legal authorization for this is still on the books where I live. The South Dakota legislature couldn't even agree to ask for a repeal until last year. (MN comes in not much better: 2009)

Indulging myself with books and snacks today

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

Kind of want to go through our collection and specifically weed titles by authors in the files. It's fireable, but is it weedable? Bye bye Chompsky, adieu Brian Greene, see ya never Lawrence Krauss

Routine services at my local health clinic were disrupted yesterday because so many HCPs were out sick

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

This comes two weeks after the Council of Europe banned conversion therapy. The right wing and activist press like the nyt have worked hard to promote the false narrative that transphobic policies are sweeping Europe. They were pushing a lie. Europe speaks for itself

I see that we are entering into the french protest phase of things.

One of the best parts of paying off my student loans was the feeling that if I ever need to look for a new job, I won't feel constrained to only looking in libraries and other "relevant" fields. (I know that's an imaginary constraint but I would have had to process those feels, and now I don't)

I still miss Comics One

Clear cookies & site data regularly. Removes stored identifiers and session data. Forces advertisers to re‑assign new IDs, increasing friction and reducing longitudinal profiling.

This company is so uniquely toxic and awful.

@christinemmoe.bsky.social I think WOODZ is doing a pop take on a classic rock theme for this album!

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

Time to tap the sign.

those private, unregulated schools that, among other things, don't admit disabled students or provide accommodations that are legally mandated* in public schools *they're still not provided as widely as they should be in public schools but this would just make it worse

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

And this is the end of my allowed social media time for today. I will leave you with a Betty

Jennifer has already paid one rent! Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

minnesota is still being terrorized by ICE. it hasn’t stopped and from local reports has gotten way worse. it isn’t making major headlines anymore and we know why. ABOLISH ICE !!!