Actually, the percentage planning to leave is down from before, and home prices are as high as ever. Just the same old death of Silicon Valley story. Nobody lives here anymore. It got too crowded.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"MAGA can’t understand the willingness of so many people to endure so much hardship and run so many risks out of a sense of civic duty and care for their fellow man. Surely, they think, there must be hidden paymasters and puppet masters coordinating the anti-ICE resistance."

Either these guys are so fucking stupid they don't know what a consulate is or they just don't care. It's a toss-up honestly.

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” Very insightful and true. This is why they hate the truth and need alternative facts so that they can reshape reality in their own image in order to gain freedom from consequences.

"To some people, the administration’s posts sound patriotic. Others might sense at most a faint dog whistle to extremists. Some posts may just look odd. But those well-versed in the abstruse codes of right-wing extremism hear klaxons." (Gift link.)

Cat returning from portal. AI-generated video. #ai-art #cat #portals

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Science: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social bit.ly/3M8yf9B

"Marketed to consumers under brand names such as Cuties®, Halos®, and Tango Fruit®, among others, the tasty, virtually seedless, easy-peeling fruit became a worldwide favorite — a convenient, healthy snack for consumers and a reliable, profitable crop for growers."

"... we watched agents repeatedly shoot a man who was already restrained. And the contrast between the damning videos and the blatant lies from Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino was too much even for many people who were still, for some reason, inclined to trust this administration."

Great headline marred by a lot of bothsidesism and hedging. (Gift link)

"The greatness will continue until morale improves." Original link: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Gift link

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

Read every word.

as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him

Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

"This is why I love New Zealand. People there are, for the most part, sane – as opposed to the United States, where you had a 62% vaccination rate, and that’s going down, going the wrong direction."

"As tensions mount and a sense of fear of detention by immigration agents permeates the state, vendors, labor unions and residents said they would participate in an economic blackout and gather at prayers and protests on what organizers called a “Day of Truth and Freedom.” (Gift link)

I loved these old cartoons in my high school history textbooks. I don't remember this one. It came up when I was searching the trope. That was the early 80s. I wonder if kids learn this anymore and even the 30-somethings of the Trump admin don't see that his ideas are old failed, imperialism.

Rhombic dodecahedron printed in different colors. Degree-three vertices are blue and degree-four vertices are red. Shown obliquely and aligned with lattice angles. #3d-printing #geometry

I'm sure he's heartbroken.

Minnesota residents share the fundamental ways their lives have changed since federal troops arrived in their state

"This doesn’t mean that official speeches must be mealy-mouthed and boring. Mark Carney’s speech definitely wasn’t. But Carney had a clear purpose: To rally other nations into solidarity against U.S. economic blackmail."

Stephen Miller really does have the mentality of a rapist, though his pathology runs deeper than that. Kudos for pointing out something that needs to be said.

"... what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

When @radleybalko.bsky.social writes that ICE is out of line even in comparison to police abuse, it's a sign to take abuse from ICE seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

“As the Trump administration ramps up the dehumanization of its enemies and moves the country further into fascism, the times demand an even stronger defense of the human dignity of all life, including Renee Good’s.”— @heidischlumpf.bsky.social

@mmasnick.bsky.social explains why techdirt is a democracy publication now and outlines point-by-point why the executive branch should invoke the 25th amendment with the support of Congressional Republicans. Ain't happening, though. Ds NEED TO SHOUT ABOUT WWIII. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/e...

The Onion.

Paul Krugman's latest musical coda.

"This might not exactly be sundowning, since it’s not clear that Trump is lucid and rational at any time of the day. What is incontrovertible is that he’s deeply unwell and rapidly getting sicker."

Face-centered cube packing. This is about as big as I plan to make it. A rhombic dodecahedron nested on top of four.

Face-centered cubic packing continued. I don't think I will print any more for now. #3d-print #geometry #crystallography

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

But wait! Is it made of squares or made of triangles? #3d-printing #spacestructures #crystallography

I just realized I already own this remarkable gadget for visualizing the true landmass of Greenland. High tech, huh? As an added bonus you might notice that Canada is in between. If you look very close you'll see Denmark is closer than anywhere in the US. Also Iceland is its immediate neighbor.

New printable. #3d-printing #math #crystallography #geometry

3d-printed ball and stick model of rhombic dodecahedrons sharing a face. It can be continued into a face centered cubic (FCC) packing, or "cannonball stacking" of spheres. Note the shadow cross section. If I had it to do over, maybe I'd study crystallography. #3d-printing #geometry #crystallography

I have a container of this left over from the holiday that my daughter bought. She's back in college. It's not what I'd spread on a bagel. I figured it out. It's cake frosting! In those terms it's actually pretty good. Maybe mixing in some vanilla extract would be even better. Now I need a cake.

"I am writing this to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government. If you are so moved, see below to learn how you can help."

It occurred to me that this is really the MAGA/ICE vision of America's future.

I can't stop chuckling at this.😆