Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

It should not be difficult for Democrats to flatly say immigrants are awesome with no caveats.

If you're wondering why the Dem Party just seems inept, I think this is the best explanation. There is no party. There is a fundraising machine masquerading as a party.

This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

if anyone has a good source for how to send funds to star trib writers for coffee, pizza, gas masks, hand warmers, power banks, etc, pls share

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side

I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.

House Dems’ decision to not whip against the ICE funding vote looking more brilliant by the day.

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

a new third thing

We've got a chicken pot pie variant with mashed potato topping (instead of pastry crust) lined up.

Roses are red, Potatoes have eyes,

“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...

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@sampotts.bsky.social is at our local supermarket, where the meat section is nearly picked clean in advance of this weekend's storm. Lots of chili in the works, I'm guessing!

I don't know why it's so hard for Dem leadership to say this, and why they aren’t saying it over and over again, every fucking day.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

of all the things that need to be done by dem politicians, voting against funding ice is going to be among the easiest and if you dont even have the stomach for that, man i dont know

I refuse to accept anything other than the resignation and immediate retirement of all of these fucking corporate candy-ass Democratic cowards. They’ve lost the right to do anything but get out of the way and live in disgrace for the rest of their days.

If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.

The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.

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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.

It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”

Made a batch of veg-ish red beans & rice tonight, not fully veg because I used chicken stock, but I also threw in a dried guajillo chile and a handful of chiles de arbol to the pot of cooking beans, and maybe this is the deep-winter way forward? Earthier, smokier, spicier, it satisfies deeply.

Did one of the marching bands in the championship game just play the Orcs theme song from LOTR The Two Towers, or do all marching band songs sounds like that when slightly muted by the announcers?

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

When I was a grad student in my 20s, I travelled to Islay, Scotland, relying on free hotel breakfasts and then soup for lunch & dinner. At the local outdoor market, the fishmonger asked what I was planning to eat with the loaf of bread I'd just bought. "Oh, this is dinner!" I said cheerfully. (1/2)

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Breaking news: New baby alpaca born a few hours ago. So we moved the moms & young ones to another prairie so the big boys—male llamas and horses—don’t play too rough with the baby. Please accept our timeline cleanse as you battle to preserve the 250-year old experiment of American Democracy.

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

The lack of anger is offensive to me. This isn’t some theoretical debate in some bougie poli sci class. Mothers are getting shot in the face in broad daylight. If you aren’t going to go scorched earth over THAT, you need to resign immediately.

Van Hollen for senate majority leader when

Would like someone to explain the "File Under" decision here.

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

An extraordinary photo, in a gazillion ways. Be sure to read the alt text for added detail.

We refer to my mom as Nana Prosciutto to the dogs, after a visit ages ago when she won them over with, yes, prosciutto. NP made a cameo appearance today and the pups couldn't get enough of her.

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