This is Minneapolis: Walking to school + delivering toilet paper to a neighbor sheltering in place. Walking home + picking up some laundry to wash for a neighbor sheltering in place. Making dinner + trying to raise legal funds for an abducted neighbor’s family.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

💯 So much energy in our state goes to shutting down proposed fixes for serious problems vs working to find better solutions. I don’t support the exact language, but will vote Yes bc the proposal I do support (& filed) went no where, like tax relief, transfer fee & more. Past time to do something.

NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program: Massachusetts. Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Trump's America. Culleton "said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions."

My neighborhood school collectively fundraised over $100,000 to support our neighbors with rent and bills this last month. Now we need to do it all over again for March. PLEASE HELP! Every family we're working to keep housed & fed has elementary aged children. gofund.me/aac122499

Hey @unlikelywords.bsky.social - this fucking WORKED.

An ad I just got on Instagram… As I sit in a city where PTOs have become central mutual aid organizing hubs - supporting neighbors with food, transportation and fundraising literal millions* of dollars in rent to keep our neighbors housed. ($2 million this month according to MFPS)

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

I dunno, feels like Billy Tauros work. It’s super weird and I can’t tell what point it’s trying to make. Seen on a trash can in Davis, about the right spot for it. What is Mayor Jake supposed to have lied about? #somerville

I still care as much about bike lanes as I ever did there's just a lot going on.

I believe this is more than @massgovernor.bsky.social has done?

🧵 At 3pm ET today, I'll be live-posting highlights from the public forum for @lawfaremedia.org. This will some witnesses' very first public appearance and the only one for Brent and Luke Ganger, who do not plan to do any additional interviews. Follow this thread for updates as they happen 🧵👇

You know one thing Macron and other French officials could do regardless of how this investigation goes is STOP POSTING ON X. Even out of pure self-interest!

French offices of X raided as part of investigation into child porn, deepfakes, officials say | Click on the image to read the full story

🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/port...

The most important part of the Rehmet campaign (in my humble opinion as a local political scientist whose opinion nobody asked for) is that Rehmet ran as a union man. Rehmet is a union president, and this was an unapologetically pro labor campaign.

San Diego Unified School District has quietly embarked on a massive program to build educator housing. The focus has been on maximizing the number of units affordable to staff, not on deepest means-tested affordability. voiceofsandiego.org/2026/01/29/w...

The anti-ICE/CBP rally in Chicago's Daley Plaza has grown significantly in just the last half hour. The crowd is spilling out into street; I'd say there's over a thousand people here at this point.

From 2017. Imagine this in every major US city at once…

Need unambiguous statements of support by everyone — from Walz and Klobuchar and Smith to Schumer and Jeffries— for state and city law enforcement standing up to lawless DHS.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Latest WHCIS PTA fundraiser / timeline cleanse. #Somerville Click the link to nominate your pet or cast a vote. Check out the replies for the contestants. givebutter.com/CfLdZn

The Winter Hill Community Innovation School is holding a fundraiser for our school. Submit your pet's photo for a donation of $20 and they can win a prize!

You may have heard that "social security is going to go bankrupt." Many younger people assume social security will not be there for them when they retire. In my latest paper I correct the record. SS is not going bankrupt but we'll need to revisit it soon 🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Extremely unusual that the Bluesky team is working late on a Sunday night to verify Canadian political parties and elected officials who are rumored to be mulling over a coordinated X ban with Australia and the UK. When there's smoke, there's fire.

Most dystopian stuff I saw last week (always a competition) - Renee Good haters sharing a fake rap sheet that listed her age as 35 and her birth year as 1980. It was the low quality that got me; audience so ready to believe "she deserved it," doesn't care if the math on the hoax doc is right.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

The least that @massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social @massltgovernor.bsky.social could do is stop posting on X and direct their agencies to do the same.

The least that @massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social @massltgovernor.bsky.social could do is stop posting on X and direct their agencies to do the same.

A lot of people are a little puzzled that @jamellebouie.net and I do a podcast about political thrillers in the 1990s, but if you ever doubted that Harrison Ford movies were relevant to understanding US policy...well

They’re all posting their statements on the child porn platform? That’s a wild choice.

Machado must not have agreed to the American looting of Venezuelan oil

I remember the real-time discourse about how this, and later the Mission Accomplished speech, were powerful moments that would live forever. Now people only cite them to make fun of them and warn about repeating them.

Follow the new mayor #somerville

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

Huge thanks to @unlikelywords.bsky.social for helping our school out. Hit the link , reserve your pint, and if you wish suggest a name today! A thread of the proposed names so far…. #somerville givebutter.com/nbkIMK

That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked

I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...

"On Sept. 26, Ramirez Sanan, 50, was accompanying a family member to a court hearing in Chelsea with her son in the backseat. A group of multiple unmarked vehicles surrounded and blocked Ramirez Sanan’s car two blocks from the courthouse, and eight armed and masked officers surrounded the car."

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

Last chance!!! And if you’re in #Somerville come say hello at Winter Hill Brewing tonight. Drawing now at 6:45 PM

Presidency-ending stuff if Congress had any moral decency.

Where Did the Demand Come From? We at Somerville YIMBY talk a lot about the need to supply more homes to solve our housing shortage. But supply is only half the economic equation. We also need to ask ourselves where all this demand came from. Why have we seen such large increases in the cost of…

Selling ice cream for charity to celebrate our birthday today. Open at 2pm. While supplies last.

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal