i cannot stress enough that the phillips folks are freaking miracle workers. they are getting shit done, your money will move fast with them.

Excellent writing here, not to mention a beautiful story

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Sex scandals remain the universe's favorite way of teaching us the names of far-right fundamentalists

Today is #WorldCancerDay, so I'm resharing my essay for @statnews.com on the Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Wtf

In the #TwinCities #Minneapolis and #StPaul, protesters sing outside hotels that house ICE & Border Patrol: "It's okay to change your mind. Show us your courage. Leave this behind. It's okay to change your mind. And you can join us, you can join us anytime."

Alex Acosta should rot for all time.

10/10 ICE protest sign

The weird thing about growing old is that everybody else keeps getting younger

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

They did 3 recounts in Georgia after the 2020 election. One was done by hand. Our Very Special Boy is such a crybaby.

Public health denialism is soooo dangerous. We need the WHO, we need countries sharing data. bbc.com/news/article...

And that's why he shot her and then called her a fucking bitch.

I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side. But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.

w/ alt-txt

As a matter of practical reality, the idea that the minute Trump invokes the Insurrection Act all resistance is futile, Trump has won, Game Over is nonsense. That’s just regime propaganda. Let us not perpetuate it. Make them earn every inch of creeping authoritarianism.

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

This is “Operation PARRIS,” a top reason that DHS is in Minneapolis. The goal is to arrest 5,600 lawfully present refugees and take them to detention centers in Texas to be interrogated about their status. There is NO investigation first. They are arresting everyone; grab first, question later.

Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own. Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.

View from the scene

I need more of a break in between parsing videos

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

This is so bizarre I don't even know what to say. And then we get 'Law enforcement will continue. The memes will continue.' They are so weird. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Congress released a DHS funding bill that doesn’t rein in ICE nor significantly reduce its funding. Contact your reps to demand they vote no on any funding bill allowing ICE to continue its abuses: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-funding-for-ice/?source=group-ShortText

From the live blog: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem. The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:

Be right there, gotta groom my eyestalks

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

So Trump wrote a letter to Denmark saying he wants Greenland because they didn't give him a Nobel, which is awarded from Norway, is that right? Omg I'm so embarrassed right now.

Minneapolis can still laugh

Anyone who's done organizational trainings, on pretty much any topic, knows that training does not change culture, especially when the incentives to abuse people remain and the guy at the top loves violence.

This is really good and well worth your time.

Got this special and strangely affirming message on the package of my new phone case. I did in fact choose.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Former Yale professor Jason Stanley has been taking a lot of heat for moving to Canada. Why? Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

♥️ that black ice is on the people's side

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

A family member reports that the local news showed a video of Good's murder posted by Libs of Tiktok. The local news. If it's the same one I found, it's an overhead view that I haven't seen before, chopped to about 3 seconds and sped up so the car seems to be moving very fast. The local news.

Did you know: American Samoa is the *only* territory or state where people are born without automatic citizenship and voting rights. Few understand the fine print of this democratic exclusion. Many, including public officials and non-citizen American Samoans themselves, find it extremely confusing.

'Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.' Renee Good and her wife laughed at them.

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.

So yesterday ICE kills someone by shooting them in the face while they're driving, Vance repeats 'they have absolute immunity,' a bunch of times, and today CBP shoots two people while they're driving. Sounds a lot like someone's balls have just been itching to pull the trigger.

Not just affiliated with the UN. It includes UN Women and UNFPA, not the largest of the UN aid agencies, but the most woke. Proud to say I've worked for both.