This is a long one but it really shows the importance of sealidarity 🦑 🦭

New First Amendment violation incoming:

Always look for the union seal:

Free policy idea: if your unhinged behavior got you exiled from TrumpWorld during the first go-round, you should be banned from gun possession for life www.ms.now/news/noem-le...

The Creation of Adam

This is horrific

Note: I should have added "at worst" to the line about the fishermen. We don't know how many were actually even doing that. Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.

Thank you for this amazing and important thread showing how together, price discrimination (see @katiejwells.bsky.social incredible research w/consumer report) and wage discrimination will squeeze us all dry

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Could we please return to reality-based government?

Trump: We are officially terminating the so called 'endangerment finding'

Utterly foreseeable and deeply chilling. FTC hiring an attorney whose full time job will be to, as Chairman Ferguson put it in his leaked memo to Trump when he was trying to get the job, fight the “trans agenda.”

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

Wild things happening in the Texas Republican primaries.

A good (and obviously correct) outcome, but exclamation marks in professional writing are a scourge!

It's becoming clear to me that we need a Glass Steagall for news and information delivery platforms. No combination with other products or business lines.

A special team of prosecutors to investigate and indict ICE/CBP crimes is the moderate position.

Only 12 percent of Democrats think the party is too liberal on social issues, per new New Republic survey. In contrast, 34 percent think the party is too conservative on economic issues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I strongly suspect this same prediction is what motivated this op-ed/plea for Alito to whack public sector unions one more time before he retires thehill.com/opinion/cong...

My most unhinged belief is that if Trump decides Vance is too unpopular to remain his heir apparent, he‘ll nominate Vance to SCOTUS

i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)

I‘ve seen people guessing that this could backfire on the GOP by disparately impacting more conservative women (married women who change their name), but has anyone seen rigorous analysis of this question?

What if McCarthyism but even dumber bsky.app/profile/atru...

One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm) They shackled him. They held him ten hours. They kept his phone.

James: “I’m a legitimate demolition company. I’m not out scouring the house for important documents to destroy or to mess stuff up for the sheer joy of it”

I hope this is true, but I won’t believe it until I see it.

I watched two 16-year olds get abducted, I have not been able to get any organization to try to help them, I think about them every day, I read stuff like this and I want to puke

I would like to suggest that “8am at the airport” not the right time or place for Bobby Darin covers accompanied by an accordion

This employee was fired for explaining the school’s anti DEI policy in roughly the same language used by one of the trustees who adopted said policy.

solidarity w my new CWA siblings! 👠getting fired for union activity is despicable and sadly super common; the brothel owners claiming rights to any IP of any worker is truly disgusting!

Never ceases to devastate me how these people, who work harder every day than I ever will in my life, have to hide their faces and use fake names in these posts in order to slightly help their odds of not being kidnapped and sent to concentration camps by fascist cosplayers.

Some personal news

Speaker at Department of Labor Secretary's monthly prayer service: "Everybody has to work. Even at home, I expect my rabbit to work."

what is with these people and dogs?

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Doing nothing to dispel my belief that English people absolutely hate it when a dessert requires chewing

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

If you're an attorney in Minnesota, the MSBA is offering a CLE this Friday (2/13), at noon, about the latest developments in our communities' legal needs, and providing guidance on how attorneys in all practice areas can support efforts to meet them. Free for members mnbars.org?pg=events&ev...

DO IT

I wrote about Trump’s ideological deportation policies and their implications for free speech, including on university campuses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

while this is funny, the amount of resistance folks who think BLS is *already* a mere propaganda machine—instead of a group of dedicated public servants still doing the best they can, with the support of an institutionalist interim chief—is really concerning!

ICE has been active this morning staging in St Anthony so we still need people out patrolling our neighborhoods. I’m headed to the Capitol today ahead of session starting next week to work on the 70 bills we have around ICE.

“ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE.” @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports from a vigil honoring ICU nurse Alex Pretti, killed by federal agents—and on why @nationalnurses.bsky.social is escalating the call to abolish ICE.

NEW: We're suing Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem for being real jawboners about ICE. www.thefire.org/news/fire-su...

another entry in the "what WAS journalism" pantheon, this one always held a special place in my heart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5C2...

This piece of paper was, I kid you not, once held up to the camera on a television news broadcast as part of a traffic report, as they had been unable to get a cameraperson to the scene of the highway closure.

sigh

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A moving essay by my colleague Amna Akbar: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

how is everything so impossibly stupid