Kate Harding

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Good point. I forgot the 47th amendment, "one in, one out"--if you let in ONE five-year-old, you'd have to kick another out. I mean, how many five-year-olds can fit in this thing? (America, that is.)

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

Good questions!

It is interesting how often abusers say “yes all men” without nearly as much pushback from the “not all men” crowd as a woman who has dared speak about gendered violence

Perfectly said, Emily. It's the "I'm just saying what we're all thinking" tone, which is fucked up if he's wrong and much worse if he's not.

can’t not hear and see:

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

ICE observer says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face Global Entry and PreCheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA PreCheck privileges revoked three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration.

Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.

And 26 years ago, we declared it was eradicated in the U.S., but now it's back. I don't want to take a 5% chance of immune amnesia or being a vector that kills someone else. 🤷‍♀️

Police Who Tear-Gas Abortion-Rights Protesters Could Induce Abortion Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion

Every time I see images of tear gas filling the streets, I think about how it has been linked to spontaneous abortion. Fascists will prevent people from getting abortions while endangering wanted pregnancies. It’s reproductive control and coercion.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

Pinning it this time: If it's been a long time since your last MMR booster and you don't want to bother with a titer test, you should be able to just get the booster at a drug store or walk-in clinic.

• And, finally, here's an opinion that goes beyond mere livable streets issues (and, uncomfortably, puts me in NY Post territory): Mayor Mamdani stance towards homeless people freezing outdoors right now is uncharacteristically complaisant. Fourteen people have died in the cold, and conditions remain life-threatening. He needs to bring people inside, even if he has to do so against their will. Many more will die otherwise - and 50 new single-room units, that the Times reported, are not enough. So that, plus the problems we mentioned throughout today's headlines, means we have to reset the Mamdani-O-Meter back to zero (from a high of 17 days). Sorry, mayor, but the safety of all New Yorkers is too important:

“Why won’t Zohran just kidnap people”

nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/m...

I was 10 seconds away from posting that. Great extremely online minds.

"If I can't have you, no one can" is the credo of almost every abuser.

He's even tattooed his name on the building.

Study shows Operation Metro Surge costs taxpayers $18 million a week North Star Policy Action, a progressive research institute, released the study Thursday.

18 million per week. That’s what we are collectively paying to hunt and kill people in Minnesota.

I never wanna hear that we can’t afford to take care of our fellow Americans ever again. Healthcare. Education. Infrastructure. We can afford it all.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

the things is that evolutionary psychologists et al who promote a biologically essentialist (ie sexist and racist) view of humanity would be wrong and bad on their own terms without them spending all their private time hanging out chatting about torture with their rape daddy billionaire, and yet…

ICE illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...

Lawyers say ICE's practices of quickly moving detained children out of state makes it impossible to know who's taken and to get them access to legal counsel. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The young Muslim woman detained in a locked Whipple bathroom with three men said she never thought this could happen to her. She saw America as a land of opportunity after a childhood in a refugee camp. She hopes to become a nurse or a flight attendant. Her criminal record, she said, consists of one speeding ticket. With Whipple's holding facilities filled, the woman said, agents eventually moved her to another locked bathroom by herself. There was an air vent at the door's bottom. When she saw federal agents' footsteps, she banged for help. On her third night of detention, agents took in two new detainees: an African immigrant and her 7-month-old baby girl. She said the immigrant told her they had been detained as the mother took her baby to a doctor to be treated for influenza.

"When the woman arrived, she was screaming and crying and yelling, 'My baby is already sick!' " she recalled. " 'I don't want my baby to die!' " The next morning, she said, the woman and baby were moved from the bathroom. It wasn't until her fourth day of detention when the young woman was allowed to use a phone at the facility. When she heard her mother's voice, she burst into tears. On the fifth day, agents drove her and two other recently released detainees to a light-rail station near Whipple. They took off her handcuffs and told her to call an Uber, even though she didn't have a phone. She borrowed one from another detainee. As they released her into the cold, she recalls their simple words: "You are good to go."

“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!

This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.

Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

I keep thinking about the difference between the feds who chaotically unloaded teargas on thousands of people after a few minutes of chanting vs. the crowd, which moved slowly and carefully even while people were choking & blind from gas. People looked out for each other & didn't panic. We will win.

This is a country that cannot imagine the abolition of youth prisons and jails.

On a business-focused level, I keep thinking about how many rental cars, car windows, hotel rooms, and front doors have been damaged or destroyed because of arrests and actions by ICE, but how many people can't get insurance coverage to pay for these actions as well as for physical injuries.

I’m so old I remember when it was illegal to condition civil service hiring on supporting a particular President or tyrant.

Chicago has 3 regional libraries and the South side one is named after Dr. Woodson. The library is home to the Vivian G Harsh Research collection which is the largest collection of African American history and literature in the Midwest.

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