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It often feels like you can't get a lot of leverage against big companies like this, but I that law firms en masse walking away from Westlaw would be a huge hit, and firms large and small should consider it. Law schools too (I say, regretfully, having had full WL access for teaching for 15+ years)

Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed. • Pennsylvania Capital-Star States Newsroom conducted a 50-state investigation examining state and federal budgets, as well as the tax records of crisis pregnancy centers, finding that while the magnitude of public funding for t...

Twenty-one states funneled nearly a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money to crisis pregnancy center organizations between fiscal years 2022 and 2025.

In Pa., Gov. Josh Shapiro terminated the state's contract with its crisis pregnancy network in 2023.

From @statesnewsroom.com

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

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

How Bookbinders Helped the Nazis Track Holocaust Victims Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

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.

If you know anyone who needs coverage for damages of Operation Metro Surge, this may be of interest:

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

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

I love the mecha turtle on its back. #GHWP

The Racist Beginnings of School Vouchers | NEA From segregation academies to universal “choice,” the hidden history shaping today's voucher expansion.

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.

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

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.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

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)

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.

Major corporations bankroll "America First" propaganda Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil are spending millions to promote events supporting Trump and his divisive political agenda.

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...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

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

Another reminder that this is still happening:

AOC 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.

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...

Immigration detention passed 70,000 in January • Stateline Despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Minnesota, ICE arrests were down slightly in January compared to December, according to new data. Immigrant detention nationwide reached a…

"An increasing percentage of detainees, 74%, have no criminal history, data shows."
stateline.org/2026/02/05/i...

This is magnificent.