How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years

It has now been one week since a masked man shot and killed an American mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And for all intents and purposes, the shooter, and his accomplices, remain at large.

What a legend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

This is of course very bad. And I feel like not enough of you know that having a disability has been grounds for denying visa processing since the late 19th century due to supposed risk of needing public assistance.

Asked afterward whether he regretted it, Sabula said: “I have no regrets whatsoever.” AMEN, BROTHER! 🙏

Something folks can do in the coming weeks is to organize Ice Watch Training in your communities. There's an excellent resource that can help you to do this: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Get five people together in person or virtually and get skilled up together.

Bring back Tomorrow's World but it's just a single camera shot of a barren nuked wasteland and a tech bro cackling about AI in the windy distance.

Right now in Minnesota schools are canceling all field trips indefinitely because it isn’t safe to take students to science museums and water sanitation facilities with agents of the federal government hanging around

"I'm stopping for coffee. DM me your order" "I'm passing multiple stores before I pass your place. I'll grab whatever you want."

We are so far past the Rubicon that it isn't worth having a discussion anymore as to whether Trump is acting as an authoritarian. The only question is whether we have the strength and courage to get back to the other side.

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Acoustic guitars used to just be called ‘guitars.’ Then, we invented electric guitars. Oh no. Which meant saying ‘guitar’ wasn’t clear enough. So 'guitars' became 'acoustic guitars.' ‘Acoustic guitar’ is an example of a ‘retronym.’ 🧵⬇️

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

Oh he’s definitely more famous for being a racist and misogynist conspiracy theorist. Had heard of Dilbert, but never heard of Scott Adams before he said Hillary Clinton’s mere presidential *candidacy* would lower the status of men.

The protests are getting larger, the crackdown more violent.

This article struck me as one of the best analyses of the underlying economic and policy issues that have pushed America to where it is now. Funny how right to repair sounds so simple. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'" Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).

We probably shouldn't underestimate how humiliating it would feel to have been chancellor for *two months*, never get to do anything, get demoted by the doomed new regime and then sacked from even those lesser roles. Zahawi reached the top of politics, and then his career *immediately* went to shit.

Whoooooo remembers the 140 character post limit on Twitter

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

Ashley st Clair currently to the left of half the 2028 dem field

Since there’s an influx of new users, I think now would be a good time to remind everyone to add alt-text to your images.

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

I am here and trying to use Bluesky more! There are certainly far more Simpsons memes than on the other place. Do please add me to the relevant lists/starter packs etc

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

You have heard of Renee Good, but may not have heard of Keith Porter, who was shot & killed by an off duty ICE agent an NYE. Our hearts are with his family & anyone impacted by ICE. Below is a GoFundMe for Keith’s daughters so please donate/share around. ICE needs to go Link: gofund.me/c2aea3587

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

I don’t think people realise how awful it is in Ukraine right now. Yesterday my friend posted how it’s -9 and because of the power cuts - due to Russian attacks - she has no heating. This is in Kyiv. And this is the day after a mass missile & drone strike killed four people.

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

😢 At night, the Russians massively attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, inflicting new strikes on energy and civilian facilities. Two men and a woman were injured. 😡 Russia hits Kharkiv with missile. There was a hit on the territory of a garage cooperative.

“History teaches, but it has no pupils.” —Antonio Gramsci

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🗣️ ICE Out For Good Join us in the streets this weekend

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."