How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
what are we doin here man
24.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 534 🔁 64 💬 34 📌 2
Bookbinders and restorers in the 1930s and ’40s helped the Nazi regime create a database that was used to persecute and kill Jews and others who were deemed racially impure, a British researcher has found.
24.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 100 🔁 46 💬 14 📌 5If you know anyone who needs coverage for damages of Operation Metro Surge, this may be of interest:
16.02.2026 05:37 — 👍 59 🔁 45 💬 0 📌 0
Bringing this thread back. Outstate (meaning outside the metro) Minnesota is getting hammered right now.
People continue to forget N. Mpls.
If you have links for NOT Minneapolis (except North Minneapolis), drop them in the original thread as a reply.
Replies and quotes open there.
Just coming here to inject some positive vibes by way of a way to support small businesses in Minnesota
23.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 46 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
The problem with standing up to tyranny is that, if you're successful people will say you overreacted.
and if you're not successful, there is zero comfort Inn saying "I told you so"
It's like nesting dolls, but cooler #GHWP
21.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love the mecha turtle on its back. #GHWP
21.02.2026 03:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vouchers were first used after Brown v. Board to avoid integrating public schools. Today, they still operate outside the civil rights and accountability standards that guide public education, and a new federal voucher program could divert $50 billion from public schools nationwide.
18.02.2026 21:49 — 👍 25 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
19.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 2502 🔁 1084 💬 64 📌 36
I’m 1st gen Norwegian-American and have been reconnecting a lot recently. It’s remarkable to me, as an American, how little of the winner/loser mentality they have, compared to here.
Your success doesn’t depend on someone else’s failure whereas that’s so built in here you don’t think about it.
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)
12.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 7272 🔁 956 💬 132 📌 110
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Thinking about this more and I genuinely think they should do it. Pick a specific date, fund 1,000 block parties around the city, advertise it a month in advance, welcome tourists to come and eat and party with us. It would work!!
Corporate sponsors can have their name in 6pt type on some list.
1. Internal documents reveal that Freedom 250, which purports to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, is a vehicle to promote Trump and "America First" propaganda, including election conspiracies
Major corporations like Mastercard and Deloitte and spending million to bankroll this effort
Want to learn more about #IceOut in MN? Here's a starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...
11.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE.
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware
09.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 1594 🔁 372 💬 34 📌 12Another reminder that this is still happening:
10.02.2026 01:42 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
10.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 38571 🔁 13790 💬 798 📌 562
As a movement to ban books reaches the front doors of libraries across the country, librarians find themselves on the frontlines. Watch @independentlens.bsky.social @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
on the PBS YouTube Channel and PBS app starting February 9.
www.pbs.org/independentl...
"An increasing percentage of detainees, 74%, have no criminal history, data shows."
stateline.org/2026/02/05/i...
This is magnificent.
06.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
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