I've been thinking a lot about how MN is a 1-party consent state and the double-edged sword of surveillance/security. Can recording the classroom/office hour meetings actually be a tool to protect myself (student says i said this? here's a video that proves i did not say that)? I don't think it is

Big story coming out of Kyrgyzstan: President Japarov just dismissed his second-in-command Kamchybek Tashiev from his position as head of the country’s security services The two had been effectively ruling in tandem since Japarov came to power in 2021 www.azattyqasia.org/a/33674147.h...

My halftime show. Also, adding to this growing thread. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTLXlAx...

sunday's mental state: crying in the car while public radio plays jimi hendrix's version of the star stangled banner from woodstock www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZ...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Five classes you took in college: The Problem of God (#hoyasaxa) War and the Environment Critical Geography Eastern & Western Cultures of Popular Perception Language and Power

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

They are all Black journalists and Black politicians. Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are journalists. Trahern Jean Crews ran for Minnesota's House District 66B. Jamael Lydell Lundy is running for Minnesota Senate District 65.

losing my mind with euphemisms this week. my college's moment of silence for "the problems" (cough ICE), a student set up a meeting to "apologize for my concerns" (she got a 0 for fake quotes on the first homework that was practice for in-text citation) spades are spades, call them such!

my college is having required professional development this morning. we started with a 20-second moment of silence to acknowledge "the problems" that "some of us are facing." ICE hangs out in parking lots around the corner from campus, students have been taken, and this is the extent of messaging

In addition to everything else disgusting and dehumanizing and about this bill, it makes it impossible for trans people to participate in Election Day in person in Kansas, a state where *photo ID is required to vote*, without threat of having their drivers licenses stripped from them on the spot.

And also: don't wait for ICE to arrive to start building unions of care. There are already people who need support in your community. Organizing to help them now means that they'll be better able to help others in the future, and that the union of care will be ready if/when ICE arrives.

This is a scheduled pogrom

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

ok fine emma goldman said it better. dance. tomorrow demand the next forty-five things we want. dance. bsky.app/profile/3fec...

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

Political Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).

double digit above-0 temps after days of double digit below-0 temps there was no sun, a real monday of a monday, the horrors are heavy, but dang: warm

When Mamie Till was on the stand during the trial of her son's murderers in 1955, the defense argued she had misidentified her son's body, was lying in order to claim insurance money for her son, & had staged the whole affair with the aid of Communists & the NAACP. Tills murderers walked free.

He’s dealing with people who, on a regular basis, voluntarily organize youth hockey tournaments and fandom conventions and pow wows and funeral preparations and caucuses and New Year celebrations and maybe this is also a misunderstanding of class, too

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

i know this is so so so beside the point but my college's learning management software just changed the layout overnight, mid-semester. it's such a mindfuck that my teaching job is actually just 60% clicking buttons and telling teenagers how to click buttons while the twin cities implodes

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

Absolutely insane song choice happening here

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

my god. this baby. his little self. there have been chapters this dark in US history before—that we moved through them makes it even more damning that we’re in this chapter now. nothing short of accountability, meaningful justice, and full scale government reform can move us fully out of this one

St Paul Parks and Rec really going through it

I held a 500-person virtual workshop on how artists can meaningfully support the work to get ICE out of Minneapolis. Here's what I learned. racketmn.com/how-can-arti...

Guy who's only read Thucydides, seeing another international crisis:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I'll point out that @mprnews.org has covered the fraud ad nauseum. We all know about it (thanks to public radio). No one is pro-fraud. It's bad. State and federal prosecutors have been prosecuting it. Both the governor and the AG have been investing heavily in fraud detection. There's no cover up.

Any and every reason to post the Irkutsk flag and its mysterious cryptid, babr the tiger-beaver. Local Buryats sent over the original flag with a "bar," the Turko-Mongolic word for "tiger" and the Russians in Moscow thought they had misspelled "bobr," Slavic for beaver, and this was the compromise:

The first 3 letters to the editor printed in today’s Minnesota Star Tribune, on MLK Day, were a *choice*: 1) do not say Abolish ICE 2) do not protest in a way that makes anyone angry 3) do not whistle; do not honk horns One writer suggests walking around silently holding a candle

ICE agents when a guy in a bathrobe standing out in -20 weather tells them to each shit

I love this whole column, but the high school student's quote is what really got me

Thinking about the woman who showed up after an ICE caravan drove off with observers carrying a bag of McDonalds + two Diet Cokes. This was an hour or so after Nicole Good was murdered. "I didn't know what to do so I brought burgers." I hope she's still plugged in, I hope she's warm today.

it's not just fox parroting this shit, my boyfriend's mom in new jersey watches msnbc religiously and told him she's concerned about "agitators" and people paid to protest. cable news is a nightmare for our country

We have some data. @davidjbier.bsky.social got data on just people with prior convictions booked into ICE detention in the first six weeks of the fiscal year. Only 5% had a violent offense. The rest either had no criminal record or pending criminal charges.

Dred Scott (of Scott v Sanford) was enslaved at Fort Snelling for years www.mprnews.org/episode/2022...

I’ve decided that making visible adjustments to the plan is really just an authentic way to teach about the importance of revision. “Look at me up here, fixing what isn’t working.” It’s a liberating attitude.

Good discussion by someone tracking social movements in Iran for years, Kadivar. “once a contentious episode begins, diffusion dynamics can accelerate participation beyond what structural conditions alone would predict—through inspiration, shared emotions, & the rapid spread of information.”

Worth remembering, as Trump tries to brutalize blue states over alleged TANF fraud: Mississippi's former welfare director ran TANF as a private slush fund, routing tens of millions to churches, wrestlers, and celebrity pet projects (including Brett Favre's)—while rejecting over 90% of poor families.

Some have pointed out that the whole letter would have fit in the alt text window, so here is a version with the whole letter in alt text.

Authoritarians use naming, blaming, and framing to discredit peaceful protesters + justify violence against them. Naming: labeling with criminalizing terms like “terrorist” Blaming: fabricating acts of protest violence Framing: placing protesters in nefarious networks pomeps.org/adding-insul...

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

So, let me see if I have this straight: foreign wars are actually domestic law enforcement against terrorism, and a simple accusation of terrorism has meant since 2001 that there are no strictures of due process or protection from extrajudicial killing, torture, or other lawless human rights abuse