Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

Had my retina lasered this afternoon (non-recreational) so possibly my vision will return to something approaching normal in the coming weeks

My colleague @michellemgriff.bsky.social wrote about Republican dissonance on Operation Metro Surge:

NEW: After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist @peterdicampo.bsky.social saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

A woman just died in a Bloomington jail, so of course the Bloomington mayor is gonna endorse Angie Craig, the woman who voted for the Laken Riley act and emboldened ICE to hold onto detainees indefinitely

Been working on this for a while and I'm finally pulling the trigger and starting to actually publish a long series of blog posts: Why AI Sucks and You Shouldn't Use It Wheeeeeeee! secret.works/blog/njfjvrf...

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Please know that ICE in Minnesota isn’t a last month thing. It’s a now thing. And at Nick Universe?

Great thread, well worth reading the entire thing

just one moment of celebration for getting a major donor to move $3 million dollars this week to rent funds now if only there were more than one generous super-wealthy person and the news hadn’t moved on from this entirely predictable crisis

A whopping 71% of young voters oppose Trump's war on Iran, while only 21% support it, and a solid majority of young voters say Trump's war is making America weaker, per Quinnipiac data provided to me: newrepublic.com/article/2076...

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

The Atlantic sucks for a reason.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

I have experienced many types of anxiety but it turns out that eye anxiety has its own special vibration (derogatory)

This applies to everything, for the record. The theme park. The video games. Fanfic. All of it. JKR owns Harry Potter. Singularly. It is HER franchise, full stop. Even if you try and justify whatever fan-created works you like as not giving her money, it still promotes the franchise as an entity

I'm guessing that there is at least someone who doesn't know this so: if something weird os going on with your eye, don't go to the ER. They will just send you to an ophthalmologist.

In my @ms.now column from Sunday I noted how every time there's a vote on trans issues in congress, the NY Times runs an opinion piece calling for Democrats to abandon trans people. For the SAVE America Act, they ran two. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Coconuts

How can this go on for another 3 years?

one of the things about ICE guys is that they are extremely lazy. They will not lift a finger unless they get to oppress someone. So I think this is going to go really well

America is a post-revolution nation and the sooner the discourse shifts—if it even can—the sooner we can stop this—if we even can

If Americans aren't taking pictures and heckling these goons at airports me and an entire state of Minnesotans are going to be extremely disappointed!

Donald Trump is the reason you are waiting for 6 hours on line at the airport. I hope that helps.

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

"Feed the Poor" Seen on a Marines recruitment office in NYC

A reminder to support your Librarians! www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Date at the Como Conservatory, saw some glorious sights

Season 2 of "Deadloch" is 1. not set in Deadloch at all 2. even wilder and funnier than the first season

Hey, it’s the vernal equinox! It’s springtime! Ha. Sure, the days are going to be longer than the nights now, but if you’re from any northern climate zone, you know that it’s more light than heat. 1/21

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social i ate some raisins | | View full thread | LinuxGlen @linuxglen.bsky.social I didn't say Daniel Tiger was feudalist. I said *the Neighborhood of Make-Believe* is clearly aligned with paleofeudalist thought. | Neil Media @neilmedia.bsky.social You're still accountable.

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A first-time candidate who came onto the scene as a young TikTok’er getting over 25% in a crowded primary against other elected officials seems like an objectively strong electoral performance, whatever your thoughts on the candidate might be. She did something right with voters:

Our 6-pound sable cat and our 12-pound Chihuahua mix--who cannot remain within 5 feet of each other without a fracas erupting--have created a way to play together: she knocks things onto the floor that he is not supposed to have, and he chews them to pieces I'm a bit annoyed but not really, TBH

the emerging, precarious equilibrium in the Straight of Hormuz is pretty much precisely the single outcome that decades of US military and foreign policy in the Middle East sought to prevent sherwood.news/markets/iran...

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

This is amazing, actually

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting

It would mean the world to me if you could boost this. I know things are hard for everyone, and there is so much need right now. As I understand it, they were initially handed a $10k bill.

There are a lot of things that can be said about the Friedman piece on Minnesota but I think for me it boils down to: if you're talking to Frey, uncritically, about what has happened here, you aren't even trying to get the real story.

It wasn't 18 inches, or 12. But it is very pretty.

Mayor Frey talked about the impact to small businesses and over $15 million in rent that could not be paid to landlords (monthly) in this story. He won’t tell you that behind closed doors his administration pushed back against us funding small businesses, legal assistance and rental assistance. 1/

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.