Approval for Donald Trump now on 39%, lagging far behind Joe Biden and every other modern president.

It's easy to get inured to this. But it's genuinely shocking. These are just untrained, hyped up hooligans terrorizing people.

Oh…oh, no.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Return CBP to the border" Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?

I learned so much about making a fortune as a content creator from Eliza! Be SURE to visit her IG and swipe through the post here.

“This is a preschool you stupid motherf*ckers!” (From Somali Snaps)

Wow— “Cardinal Tobin told hundreds of faithful gathered online that now is the time to say no — no to violence, no to indifference, and no to funding the U.S. government’s own “machinery of death.” www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...

Anyone ever say to you when you're talking about banned books some version of, "Well if you want the book, just buy it!" The Freedom to Read Project broke down exactly why that argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny:

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Analysis | To avoid being murdered by fascist militias, liberals must look inward.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

all men are welcome to be scared of me—encouraged, even

these guys are LARPing like siege commanders talking about "supply lines" rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store

Amen.

Never forget, we are nation that was founded by over turning a tyrant.

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

Well, the new fig trees are wrapped in old sheets and buried under leaf mulch. Let’s see if they endure this arctic blast.

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

An important thread. Click through to the end.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

Here’s hoping for all snow and little to no ice in central Virginia.

As anyone who did National Writing Project or worked on a writing across the curriculum effort at their school will tell you, low-stakes writing is vital. It leads to the ideas and connections that emerge in better drafts. Writing IS thinking.

A year after Trump, US science is a shadow of itself. To understand the devastation and vandalism, check out this new set of visualizations of the cuts for a bird's-eye view of the utter destruction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The list of things no one can avoid has grown to death, taxes, and AI.

@statuscoupnews.bsky.social interviewing this woman in Minneapolis right now who said she came out of her home, wearing whatever she could grab to protect herself from ICE agents. You do what you can, with what you got.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

I typically only respond to correspondence if it’s in the form of a handwritten letter composed on an oak desk by candlelight using a quill dipped into a bottle of ink, enclosed in an envelope with a wax seal, and sent via raven, so no, I’m afraid I didn’t “see your email.”

So good, @ilhanmn.bsky.social 🏆 🤡 LINDELL TV: “Are you worried an investigation could lead to your deportation?” OMAR (laughs): “Oh, you’re one of those people.” 🤡: “Are you at all concerned?” OMAR: “Do I look concerned? Do you just ask stupid questions? Is this your thing?”

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Trump and Rubio are doing such a great job running Venezuela that the U.S. is now warning Americans to leave Venezuela to escape armed militias. And they want companies to go to Venezuela? No way companies will do that. Trump’s Venezuela operation is a disaster. www.foxnews.com/world/us-war...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles. Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

"In Jan, I’m not voting to send redistricting to voters just to reinforce the status quo. We can get 8-3 w/ the current maps. 10-1. Right @SenLouiseLucas?" - VA Sen. @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/01/a-ne...

BREAKING: Multiple sources report that Border Patrol agents shot a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon this afternoon. Their identities and conditions are currently unknown.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

We call this the hidden curriculum, kids.

You should read this, fellow intellectual workers.