Dan is so right on this. And these national newsrooms are also the same ones allowing anonymous federal officials to announce their plans through them. Most journalists rarely use anonymous sources. But for some reason it's common practice in DC reporting, and I think the public is worse for it.

Andersen Middle School is home to a large immigrant and children of immigrant population. 53.8% of the population is Latino and the Midtown Phillips Neighborhood is home to a large immigrant community. gofund.me/a84173725

ICE is looking for 5,600 refugees in Minnesota — legal immigrants — whose Green Cards are still in process. And these aren’t simple “re-interviews.” It’s guns drawn, detentions, and flights to Houston: www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5... #OperationPARRIS

Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...

A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...

I just stopped by here to use the term poop deck.

Some protesters were having fun using the crosswalk whenever ICE vehicles came out. Hennepin County Sheriff solved that by driving into the crosswalk and... backing into the protesters

You'll want to watch the toilet sled's spectacular crash into the crowd. youtu.be/WavjZtuHyiQ?...

Always love a good bus cat

Level 9 challenge: A single big business in the Twin Cities to do something to recognize the occupation.

The TUMS regional sales manager for the Midwest is gonna have a record quarter. Stress levels through the roof and The Whites aggressively switching their diet to immigrant cuisine.

“Sherburne County sent her back to Fort Snelling, and Fort Snelling released her yesterday after we talked to her attorney, (a federal public defender). I said, ‘(They’ve) been holding onto a U.S. citizen for over 48 hours. What’s the deal?’ He said, 'Everyone I know has resigned.'”

blueberry fields in january

Another long term climate site in Alaska dies. 😡 #akwx #Climate

Authorities are advising folks to stay inside. A CHUD WATCH has been declared for the downtown area. Taylor Dahlin and I will be providing live coverage and raising money for a good cause until every last chud is accounted for. Check back with us here. We'll see you at 1 pm.

I have been waiting to read about the boston massacre and the murder of renee good.

veterans protesting at the whipple get it. listen to this guy talk about taking military history and recognizing the trenchcoat bsky.app/profile/thet...

Huh, Homeland Security lying again, who would have thunk it?

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

Bike porn

Abolitionists called them Vigilance Committees.

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

Mischief has been distributing whistles for a while now. Pretty obvious DHS is targeting them for this like with Wrecktangle on Monday.

No one knows exactly what to do, what will or will not work, or how anything is going to play out. We’re figuring it out as we go while trying to still do our jobs and take care of our families. All we need is support, not advice

Oh, ICE lied about shooting someone, I'm getting the vapors. Tell me it's not true. Fucking liars

Wouldn’t Hungry Hungry Hippos technically be considered one of the Hunger Games?

My son just saw a Waymo make an illegal left turn at this intersection from westbound Franklin onto southbound East River Road. Apparently they can't read traffic signs.

I moved to Minnesota when I was six and cannot do a Minnesota accent.

Big ol' list of all the things. mn-ice-witness.org

ICE arrested him today when he went to check in with his lawyers.

I'm going to have issue a correction: Fraud me once, clemency, fraud me twice, pardon.

She’s a U.S. citizen and was on her way to pick up seizure medication. ICE has detained her anyway for the past 50 hours at the Sherburne County Jail. www.twincities.com/2026/01/16/f... #NasraAhmed #StPaul

Remember that ol' Bush Jr nugget: Fraud me once, clemency, fraud me twice, clemency.

I see the Strib is trying to sow division among resistors.

Finally wrote up a more detailed explanation of my idea for a 100 Justice Supreme Court

The Minnesota State Board of Investment, which manages the state's pension investments, owns 1215 shares of Palantir valued at $166m. The SBI includes the Gov, Auditor, SOS, & AG. The Palantir app gives ICE a digital map populated with "deportation targets." newrepublic.com/post/205333/...

Worse than zero response, collusion.

Statistician thinking that MLS is allowing for more overdispersion to all using Generalized Additive Models more.

Which side?

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

Local guy tremendously impressed that the Smitten Kitten is doing all of this amazing mutual aid work but also now skeptical about earlier claims that they don’t have the capacity to run a gloryhole.

The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.

I disagreed a lot with @minnesotareformer.com in the past year because I feel they haven’t been tough enough against authoritarianism, but editor JP Coolican delivers a wallop to Blois Olson‘s smug complicity that‘s a must-read. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/w...

the nobel peace prize is basically meaningless if you haven’t taken it by force.

For every ICE arrest that draws a crowd with cameras and whistles, there are an untold number happening quietly when no one is watching.

So, a case study in how weird things interact. In a discussion about the idiots who bought that Dune art book, thinking it gave them the copyright, someone posted this meme from Cobra Kai: