Recently heard at a conversation over breakfast: “The only thing the private sector has demonstrated it’s more efficient at is robbing the public blind.”

The environmental and social harms are clear but it’s also made students tune out, not knowing why they should bother learning or thinking. Now I have to tell them why uni is useful for THEM, beyond just feigning work to get a degree. I’ve gone analog a lot. They’ve actually liked it.

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

The White House plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four Democrat-led states, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

A review by Africa Is a Country. africasacountry.com/2026/02/a-wo...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

With a side of severe constipation and bloating.

First year winter sowing native plants. Over 35 species sown. Very fun project, and pretty low cost. Slowly converting more of our yard each year to native plants. Rewarded with all kinds of fascinating pollinators and birds. #SpringIsComing #NativeGardening

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Why are so many undocumented immigrants being held in detention for so long instead of being deported? Simple. The billionaires who own the detention centers get paid for keeping people here. They don't get paid for people who get deported. It's not about the law, it's about taking your money.

Patients don’t want to shop for healthcare. They want to know high quality care will be available and affordable without having to take the time to “do their research” to figure out where to go or what drug to take based on their pocketbooks. #UniversalHealthCare

Haven’t these kids and families and school staff been through enough??

Bill advances allowing Californians able to sue federal officials - including federal immigration enforcement agents - over violations of their constitutional rights #ICEOUT #CA calmatters.org/newsletter/c...

Even the children who have not been kidnapped are victims of the gestapo youtu.be/0Cw36_u3_7k?...

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Teen asked what a “sensitive new age guy” was and now my spouse is giving kid a history lesson and a music lesson in one fell swoop. Kid is sorry they asked the question 🤪. “Absolutely horrible” ~teen

“There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” abc7ny.com/post/ice-min...

Managed to find myself some red yarn. #MeltTheICE

Went to pharmacy to get generic medications. 2 meds through insurance was $40. Just looked up the retail price on goodRX, and out of pocket could have gotten same meds for about $20. Instead of regulating, we create work arounds that waste everyone’s time. We have the stupidest health system.

Make this make sense. How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Community vigil in 14F/-11C and lake effect snow to support all who have been terrorized, silenced, abducted, unlawfully detained, harmed and/or murdered by ICE. #Evanston #ICEOUT

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

NEW: Minnesota BCA was denied access to the crime scene. They got a WARRANT and DHS STILL BLOCKED THEM. So DHS doesn’t need a warrant to enter your house, but an actual warrant to enter the crime scene is denied?

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Lovely celebration of Northwestern’s newest Nobel winner Joel Mokyr, a lovely brilliant person who delighted the crowd and clearly had made an amazing impact on the institution and his fields of economics and history. Congrats Joel!

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

Canada is not playing…

Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!

Many Palestinians are tired of being asked to think and worry about antisemitism, esp because the spectre and accusation of antisemitism has been used as a racist anti-Palestinian cudgel. The same Christian nationalists who are the majority of US Zionists are also genuinely antisemitic. Both true.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

The lady in this photo is autistic and ICE agents dragged her out of her car as she tried to go to the doctor.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

The four Oglala Lakota men detained by ICE in South Minneapolis have been partially identified, according to a Tuesday night statement from Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says

House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin asks Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem: "How many pardoned January 6th insurrectionists have been hired by your respective departments?" tinyurl.com/2uw598pa

A timely and important analysis from my wonderful colleague @elhamhoominfar.bsky.social analyzing recent events in #Iran in wider context. Please share widely.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

It should go without saying but: the rise in hate-based crime & targeting of innocent people based on their perceived identity, perpetuated by hate groups, lone actors, influencers, or agents of the state, must be stopped.

In 2026, you CAN make this up.

A timely and important analysis from my wonderful colleague @elhamhoominfar.bsky.social analyzing recent events in #Iran in wider context. Please share widely.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Wtf wordle?!?