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The senate vote confirming Tulsi.

Only McConnell was the R voting against.

www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Patriotic job re-training into Trump’s big beautiful manufacturing boom.

Observers should bring job counseling forms.

Absolutely every behavior people offer as "proof" that their phones are listening to them 24/7 is 100% explainable by cross-site pixel tracking and location services! We have known for years that ad networks do this!

Waffles discourse of Bluesky never fails.

When forever chemicals contaminate drinking water, private well owners may be the last to know The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

Millions get their drinking water from wells that are rarely tested for “forever chemicals,” leaving rural America at risk and in the dark.

The change over at the 1:02:00 mark had me shouting in agreement until the end.

Whole thing worth it.

True.

One thing that can be disorienting to many is the sheer volume people with professed libertarian flavored stances (majority?) or even self-identified Libertarians revealed as enjoyers of state violence on perceived enemies.

Or put on libertarian cosplay to excuse being a public asshole.

As a onetime small-l libertarian, used to have a good radar guessing at principled libertarians taking stand. But not since before Trump 1 did it work, a big reason I had to deconstruct from being.

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

Wait. Huh.

Ammon Bundy is mad at ICE?

Did not expect that twist!

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Pardoned auto shop owner freed after rare government reversal Fong Khang spent seven days in detention despite being a legal resident and receiving clemency for past crimes.

Trump was waving around the photo of a fully-pardoned immigrant business owner, as a “worst of the worst”?

Then the feds *THEMSELVES* filed the order to release as a big “whoopsie”!

Great local reporting.

www.startribune.com/pardoned-aut...

Almost 4 years into this full scale war and Russian tankers are now using NATO territorial waters in order to avoid being attacked by Ukrainian drones.

You read that correctly. Russians hiding behind NATO, because they lost control of the Black Sea.

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let’s see if the Sunday morning shows Trump stooges are confronted about the de-escalation lies.

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...

Kinda cool but the red makes me wince and flinch.

www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...

"Chanting “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” sure feels more righteous when thugs have overrun the streets of your city than it did in the ’90s, when that chorus was just as likely to seized by fratty malcontents looking for an excuse to collide with each other."

Texas May Be Losing Its Grip as America’s Fastest-Growing State

Domestic in-migration sharply drops in Florida, Texas & the South as a whole. Meanwhile the Midwest has positive domestic in-migration for first time in two decades. [gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

'Sinister Minnesotans' T-Shirt Show your solidarity with the Sinister Minnesotans refusing to back down from the ICE agents currently polluting their great state with brutality, lawlessness, and an obvious dependence on testosterone supplements. Net proceeds from the sale of this T-shirt will be donated to local organizations doing their part to keep Minnesotans safe and send ICE agents home to ruin their own fucking communities.

Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773

The level of solidarity and organization in the Twin Cities is a goddamn inspiration. We should all be taking notes and following suit.

Cartoon showing Melania poster with graffiti reading I REALLY DONT CARE DO U? The words from that obnoxious jacket she wore in 2016

good New Yorker cartoon today.

Gotta update the chart

Clancey’s Endures Threats After Customers Misidentified as ICE Owner Kristin Tombers says she's receiving firebombing and death threats after a heated mix-up at her sandwich shop and deli made national news.

This is a great piece from @deardara.bsky.social about how even the best of intentions can lead to things spiralling out of control in MN right now. And how the nationalization of outrage can destroy a small restaurant

mspmag.com/eat-and-drin...

Yup.

We got communication that Monday and Tuesday schools are closed while teachers and staff prepare for remote learning.

Did he ever … work at a company?

DISGUSTING

Walser Automotive charged with tax evasion in alleged scheme to sell new cars as used Walser allegedly avoided paying around $350,000 in state sales taxes for vehicles brokered through Montana shell companies.

Waste fraud abuse from the dealership-owner class. As expected.

www.startribune.com/walser-autom...

Because he’s a geographical illiterate and is not aware of Panama City.

The North remembers
bsky.app/profile/mcbr...

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Woman injured in car crash with federal agents in Minneapolis Federal agents were pursuing a driver when the three-car crash took place.

Federal agents were pursuing a driver when the three-car crash took place.