lot of people who feel like their fundamental liberties are assaulted when traffic-calming measures delay their commutes by 20 seconds seem to have no problem when the feds just throw someone in a box for 8 hours or 2 years, because if you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about

Just a reminder that at 8AM ET, Peacock kicks off Gold Zone coverage. A great way to watch lots of different sports.

The family detained by federal agents in a Portland hospital’s parking lot is headed back to Oregon after being released from immigration detention in Texas. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/06/f... by @miamaldonado.bsky.social

“We’re staying away from federal dollars because we don’t trust them, especially right now.” - Joseph Yracheta, executive director of the Native Biodata Consortium Bhattacharya talk a lot about trust. But the actions he oversees lead only to its deterioration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

We can be even more specific here: Black voters. These are all majority-Black cities.

When I applied for a policy fellowship (successfully) three years ago, my policy brief was focused on what regulating the monopolies during the rise of genAI has to look like if we actually value the dignity of work and people over corporations/billionaires. 3 years later and we've only accelerated

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Day 1 of the Oregon Legislative Session and I am already a stress ball. Guess the high baseline stress doesn’t help??

Athens, Rome, and Hollywood (Myth in Movies) Shakespeares Tragedies in Film Sociology of everyday life Transmission electron microscopy American politics & government Five college classes, gosh Colorado College was my happy place

Why even have a constitution

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

WE ARE GOIIIING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!

The baby with pink eye is playing harmonica while this stupid Rams drives ears up an entire quarter . I think I need to burn the harmonica and close my eyes til the end of the quarter

Aren’t we a defense team? wtf.

This video shows Donald Trump’s lawless federal agents again out of control. The Senate cannot vote to keep funding this. Every single agent complicit in these horrors should be put on trial at the state level for real accountability.

The work being done by these observers of ICE to document, illuminate, and share what is being done in Minneapolis, in below freezing temperatures, given all that has transpired is so remarkably courageous. They are being killed for that courage, as ICE further reveals their cruelty and cowardice.

I mean all of this is crazy, but the penmanship thing. She obviously is lying through her teeth, but the signs being "well written", what, is everyone an illiterate slob? Its millennials who used to doodle block letters and artsy nerds who use adult coloring books and enjoy making protest signs.

I'm about twenty minutes behind the press conference. Q for Walz - "what are Minnesotans to do?" Walz is fucking furious as he speaks. "They ask us for peace and we give it and we get shot in the streets coming out of a donut shop."

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

How the US settler state came to be, how they think it will be maintained.

I feel increasingly confident the orders to execute are coming from the top (e.g. Miller). They were furious about yesterday and wanted a public execution in response.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

48 hrs since I weaned my toddler and I can't say I recommend the hormones, but every picture I see out of the Twin Cities today is making me cry. Let your community be a model for us all <3

“I’ve been telling them I’ve been having cramps and they told me I have to have a referral to see the doctor,” Cecil Elvir-Quinonez told me. “I’ve been telling them every day, and they just say I have to wait.” She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.

An Alaska Native Corporation has been inking lucrative contracts with ICE, but now its shareholders are pushing back. As tribes and tribal entities drop ICE contracts amid public backlash, Bering Straits Native Corporation may be next.

these guys are clearly fans of Nazis and the KKK and cops and slave patrols and it will not kill us to admit that they too read history and synthesize ideas and they just read it for different things because they are morally bankrupt

On March 28th, the Crosslake connection will open. It's the first time in the world that light rail will cross a floating bridge. TCC was proud to lead the ballot measure campaign in 2008 that made this extension from Seattle to the Eastside possible. In 64 days, we’ll see you on the train!

Lets make Jensen Huang sad!!!

I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

🚨BREAKING🚨- There's now a proposed Avalos/Dunphy/Smith amendment to tonight's resolution that looks suspiciously like a compromise! ⤵️

MAX to Amtrak, Amtrak to Link. Such a 🚞🚊nerd kind of day. Started by jogging onto the MAX, no greater thrill than just barely making your train!

I ❤️ indie coffee shops on the ave

On Tuesday, Trump cut off $2 billion in mental health and addiction funding, much of which is critical to Seattle orgs. In response, I joined colleagues to demand the $$ be restored. Last night, it was. I’ll keep fighting against harmful cuts like these. www.npr.org/2026/01/15/n...

NEW: The Trump admin unexpectedly canceled almost $2 billion in funding for substance use and mental health. Organizations today are forced to lay off staff and scale back lifesaving services, like opioid reversal medications for first responders. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The American Nazi Party.

next to the historic Fort Snelling. ICE operates there because it is still federal land. In the winter of 1862-63 the fort was a concentration camp for Dakota people. As a punishment for the Dakota War, tribal members were rounded up, marched to Ft Snelling, detained and exiled from the state.

Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have been held by ICE since Thursday. The unhoused men were picked up during an ICE raid and despite advocacy from their tribe, three have not been released. The place where the men are being held (the ICE facility in Minneapolis) is

“It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to right a historic wrong,” said board member Rashelle Chase-Miller.

The state of Minnesota is suing the Trump administration, calling widespread federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities "a federal invasion." https://cnn.it/3LJgMEq

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Brb liquidating my retirement savings don’t worry about meeeeeeee

Congratulations to John Roberts

This month has been great for my running. Highest mileage in months. Managing anxiety in part with long distance running has its upsides during dark times??? Getting fit 🙃🙃

Americas favorite epidemiologist, nutritionist, pediatrician, behavioral psychologist who is actually …an economist

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.

Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.

A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned. This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE. ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...