I just saw a post that mentioned how to turn off something that slows down google drive. (Sorry I can't find the post, to repost it.) Go to settings, manage apps, and turn off the AI junk. I hadn't really paid attention to whether it had slowed down. But I'm glad to have turned off the AI crap.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

They are still very much present in Minnesota. The statement that they would withdraw was just optics. They want money for ICE.

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

AI, like the billionaires pushing it, is Evil.

Yes, it's still happening.

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

Yay for mathematicians. (And so sad that the biggest use of math is in military endeavors.)

The U.S. Department of Defense has barred military personnel from enrolling in courses at many of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. A leaked email is said to contain the full list of affected schools. Shared by MeidasTouch.

Removing Maduro was just the first step. Now, US oil companies are angling for a total restructure of the Venezuelan state to ensure that human rights and labor laws never get in the way of extraction. This is what modern-day colonialism looks like. populareducationblog.substack.com/p/what-oil-e...

I seriously have no idea why it’s legal for Trump to sue constituents as President

Not only did I get this comment from the medical examiner, I carefully read the police statement and got the indictments myself. This helped me not make the mistake a person with a huge platform did: repeating an error from a local crime reporter :) www.autonomynews.co/second-kentu...

She calls this “creative nonfiction”; it is not. And the fact that not every reader even understood it was fictional means something in the presentation of it went horribly wrong.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Hegseth blew up another boat and killed more people. We have no idea who they were or what they were doing because it’s just “trust me, bro” while we kill people.

Dr. Kirk Moore did not deny giving fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and throwing out vaccine doses. “All that stuff is true,” he told @sltrib.com and ProPublica. He also repeatedly made the unfounded claim that the vaccines were “bioweapons.” (Published Dec. 2025)

UBI isn't a magic wand. It's ditching the idea of a ratty, overstressed, utterly ineffective "safety net" over a gaping void, and creating a stable foundation to BUILD UP on, instead.

“Konstantin, 4, a sociable boy, is often frightened by loud noises and guards, his parents said. He once cried for hours after a small toy airplane was confiscated.”

journalism as a profession should be noble. on balance it is net monstrous

Am I to understand correctly that for years progressives have lost the fight on green energy initiatives because we would be costing thousands of American jobs in fracking and coal, but now AI is being funded to take over our jobs entirely and we can’t unite on universal basic income?

"They had Marimar Martinez on a dangerous activists list before they shot her" and "NIH is out of the business of pandemic preparation" and "they taunted the hungry children at Dilley with Thanksgiving food for the jailers" and "a lot of those empty PDFs are abuse videos" was all today

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

It's just a manuscript, printed at lulu.com. But it makes me so happy. (You can't see how thick it is, but it's definitely too long. It's 450 pages. I plan to cut at least 100 pages.)

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Yes!

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Here’s the thing: All non-violent political movements are engaged, at some level, in a contest of persuasion. In such a contest, images matter. Optics matter. Always.

Interesting quote from David Graeber.

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.

Some personal news

Black residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have won a major environmental racism ruling, with an attorney saying the decision acknowledges a public health emergency rooted in slavery-era land use and pollution.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Army veteran who lived in U.S. legally for over 50 years deported after ICE arrest

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before. Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

I went to the same dentist for years in my 20s and 30s. I left because he made disparaging comments about women, and I called him on it, told him he was being “sexist.” I remember his assistants freezing as I said the word. Funny story! He’s in the Epstein files!

It wasn't enough to ruin SNAP in all the ways most discussed like work requirements. EBT tech is outdated and they refuse to update it, making it easier to steal SNAP, and where they used to issue more funds in response to theft, now they don't and victims are just screwed. UBI would be far better.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

As usual, I'm having lots of fun writing my book. I've blogged about my progress here. mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2026/02/mino...

The post from @katemanne.bsky.social

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever. By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...