Spending time today going over to twitter, unfollowing folks. People stay there because of the numbers, but the numbers are false, so I'm doing what I can. I'm also going to block some bots and make some reports as needed. Good trouble I can do from my desk.

I’m going through some anticipatory grief these days for my sister. Does it count toward my required allotment of grief? So I’ll have less after she dies?

Minnesota is grieving. But we’re resolved. The support we’ve received from across the country has energized us, and given us hope. It’s time for the federal government to draw down their forces and let us get back to allowing freedom, opportunity, and security – for everyone.

Just saw a typo and I thought, "Well I know AI didn't write that." And wondering again how the world will change as authenticity and trust become valuable commodities. Or at least I hope that happens. But I thought Covid would awaken respect for science so my record isn't good.

Congrats & thanks to everyone involved in Shrinking. The first episode of season 3 was darn near perfect. Enough clever humor to make me feel like I was a sophisticated consumer of art rather than the silly sentimental sniffling human I am. Thanks @cjhoke.bsky.social (only writer I found here)

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Prepare for white hot rage www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

Free Liam.

Starbuck's CEO Brian Niccol may have the longest history of extraordinary pay ratios, having made more than 1,000 times median employee at his company for 10 years (prior to Starbucks it was a Chipotle & Yum Brands). This year Nicols comp of $30.99 million. The median employee earned $17,279.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

This is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”

I haven't seen any news reports confirming this, but we have been helping an immigrant who was transferred to a privately run ICE detention facility in Arizona who reports there is now a measles outbreak. So the incompetence and malevolence of ICE and RFK Jr are colliding with human lives at stake.

The hollow corporate response to the Minnesota killings open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Trump hopes to change the topic of conversation today with his parents in Iowa. I think the chances are pretty good that it will be changed back to his evident decline and dementia as additional reasons he’s unfit for the office.

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

I wish everything at Davos gets the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment.

Let’s focus on this case next

Vote-no campaigns by investor orgs using exemption solicitations (via PX14A6G filings) are effectively dead - as are follow-up solicitations from shareholder proposal proponents that own less than $5 million in shares #CorpGov

You have to find humor where you can

Did only enough digging out from the storm to exhaust myself, but each time I used the shovel reminded myself that I getting rid of ice. So that felt good.

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

Enjoyed the escapism of @louberney.bsky.social's "Crooks" today. It was a cross between a family sage & a crime story. Crisp writing, fascinating human characters & relationships, interesting glimpses of history & just a touch of madcap. It was a hoot.

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

A slight humor break: When my son was 14 he once told me I shouldn't refer to water bottles. "It's 2020 mom, bottles can be filled with whatever they want." The kids are going to be okay.

"Last year, 32 people died in ICE custody, exceeding any yearly total since 2004—including the pandemic years. ProPublica found that at least 170 American citizens have been caught in ICE dragnets and spent time in detention."

It's a good day to remember that Bondi's career started in Florida where she was AG. The 2008 conviction and super-lenient sentencing Jeffrey Epstein received wasn't directly under her watch, but my recollection is she was involved in supporting/denying all the sordid awfulness of Epstein & crew.

Once again, Will Bunch is why I am now a Phildadelphia Inquirer subscriber.

Makes sense that more of America is tuning in to what is happening in Minneapolis than to other Trump caused horrors. We’re a country that watches “Law and Order” more than it follows polities. So,a question: How many of you know how Pam Bondi rose to political prominence?

Thinking tonight of something I read in Wright Thompson's "The Barn" about the jury who found Emmett Till's murderers not guilty. "The jurors bought the story because they’d long ago given up logic and common sense. A cult is built on believing the absurd if the absurd justifies the cult.”

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

John Mitnick, who served as General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term: “I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. “Impeach and remove Trump—now.”

This is a tragic and damning revelation that adds to an alarmingly long list of reported abuse and neglect immigrant detainees are suffering as this administration's extreme immigration crackdown has flooded detention facilities. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So mad I'm going to twitter just to fight. Here's what I'm posting: Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Anyone still believing the absurdity that ICE is helping or that Trump is a good leader is on attrocity road. Educate yourself.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him. He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

This is what our nation has come to!

I'm a Mennonite liberal & not a fan of 2nd ammendment. I would be open to the idea of making it a crime to carry a gun. But the consquence would be fines service for having one. I'm the most anti-gun person you can imagine & I don't think having one should be punsihable by death.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

We’ve had Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse. Can we call this one ❄️ DYSNOWPIA ❄️

I don’t think I’ve ever been as genuinely frightened about a weather event as I am of this one. And I don’t know how much of the answer is really about the weather

Looking at posts from Minneapolis really does give me the feeling of, "We're going to make it after all."

I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.

Again, 18 U.S.C 111 clearly states you can observe and you can record their behavior. You are protected in doing that. So them threatening to add you to some database is not within their legal purview. All they are doing is building a case against themselves in the future.

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.

Sometimes I worry that people don’t trust science anymore. But I was just at DC Costco and they sure do believe in weather forecasts