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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

this feels very STATION ELEVEN and not in a great way

all noblesse, no oblige

We The People, For The People, By The People! #mutualaid #nyc #bedstuy #harlem #wethepeoplenyc

Other alternatives to big tech or fascist-supporting tech that I’ve been using: Signal, Proton, Buttondown, Kagi. All pretty great!

👀

Bring on the asteroid

first rule of whistle goblin club is that you just keep talking about giving away whistles

This week Congress gets to view the unredacted files, so buckle up, folks. We're not only going to learn about the worst of the worst, but find out just how deep this coverup goes. If this ends without a dozen people in prison, we will have failed these women and as a nation.

Monstrous.

No cast listed at all on IMDb.

You say they're SAG actors. Prove it, motherfuckers. Give us their names so we can (A) find out if they knew what their voices were going to be used for and (B) boycott them permanently if they did.

I'm fucking done with all of this shit.

ARTS & ACTIVISM: comixaction.com • interferencearchive.org • nycplan.org

MUTUAL AID: anotherworld.nyc • wethepeople.nyc • mutualaid.nyc • blacktransliberationkitchen.com

Zine Fun! - gregpak.net I’ve started making zines! The first is “Find Your Organizing Home in NYC,” which I’ve just started distributing in the city. Read th...

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(reposting b/c i screwed up the URL before, whoops!)

This is fantastic and I am going to pass it on. Do you think you can add Pro-Choice, Anti-Misogyny resources to the list?

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

YouTube video by Apple TV Drops of God — Official Trailer | Apple TV

Drops of God. Season 2 just started.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_y2...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

This is scathing. Kash Patel and anyone else involved in this must be impeached.

Gift article:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.pAnP.FE6p37Nwd1TA&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

Rising Progressive Star Shakes Up Race for Los Angeles Mayor

LA: @runforsomething.net alum Nithya Raman is running for MAYOR, the best possible news you could hope for. There are few sharper leaders or fighters out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right,” one Meta engineer wrote in 2023 with a grinning emoji. [...] “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”

Opinion | It’s Quieter Now. People Are Afraid.

This is happening in Sunset Park as well. Local librarian tells me many fewer families are coming in. Businesses are suffering. The streetscape is a little less vibrant. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

I’m not sure how confident I am in a government that claims it can protect us from nuclear attacks but can’t locate an 84-year-old woman. We’re getting clearer briefings from TMZ than from the people allegedly in charge.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

the generative images during the olympics opening ceremonies when the country is ostensibly showcasing its unique culture is so fucking bleak man