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There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

Also for every DSA and DSA-friendly Minneapolis politicians. They were the only ones in the streets doing the work.

I am wary of any politicians doing a victory lap today before we’ve seen on the ground that ICE has left. Their surety makes me think that they negotiated something and I think they owe it to us to be as transparent as possible about what that is.

The actual workers of the USPS are one of the very few things I feel mostly-unconflicted patriotism about.

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up to create a remote execution vulnerability in notepad.exe

“and me? i never even opened my eyes!”

A thrifted woven scarf is a pretty great piece to try it out for yourself; low stakes! Probably very visible, but fun!
If you want to spend a TON of money, near-invisible repair is possible. It's magical, but a ton of work & skill. (See, e.g., www.instagram.com/reel/DNgYQun...)

Tagged in by @gospodyina.bsky.social - totally fixable, but as others have said, fixes will be visible.
If you want a pro, look for garment repair tailor/seamstress - they may refer, but they should know somebody.
If you want to try yourself, library events +/- online videos.

They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.

Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.

Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.

Everyone was doing it, but it turned out to not be a good fit for a rural museum. The grant could have been spent on other things.

Huh, hadn't occurred to me that being a walking explosion for stdzd math test reliability might've been protective in so many ways.
Mostly it resulted in many confusing "how'd you pass that, you're bad at math?" and "how'd you get such a low score, you're good at math?" conversations from age 11 on.

Oooh, yes.

For those less motivated by stories, perhaps carpentry or sewing.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Document Number Date Filed Description Download PDF 106 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney Isabella M. Oishi. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663387 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 105 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney David A. Kolansky. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663357 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 104 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney Abbe David Lowell. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663338 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 103 Feb 10, 2026 NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE for Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback

A NYT story. Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups. A picture shows Joe Thompson.

Look at who is PHVing Abbe Lowell and team into MN to represent Don Lemon.

You are one of my -most- thoughtful colleagues in this space.

I agree it's not a particularly useful question. If "I don't use it" is part of your spectrum, then you and I are (as I feel like we usually come out) pretty nearby in our takes.

Minnesotans’ moonshot to cover rent for their immigrant neighbors - MinnPost The need for emergency assistance for rent is bigger than a GoFundMe, but that’s not stopping residents from trying.

hey it’s us!

The responses to the original post were all over the map.
Though at least generally -thoughtful-, go library people.

Colleague recently asked: how do we get AI skeptic librarians on board, since it's here & our values can mitigate?
I recall similar Qs about voracious expansion of data collection about our users; never saw any indication that libraryfolk presence mitigated anything.
Refusal is good, actually.

Federal agents abducted two people in Uptown, Minneapolis this morning at 6:45am. Boxed in their car in the middle of a major commercial street (Lagoon) and smashed out their window.

Yes to niche enthusiasm!
But cringe bandwagon "enthusiasm", too.

Colleague recently asked: how do we get AI skeptic librarians on board, since it's here & our values can mitigate?
I recall similar Qs about voracious expansion of data collection about our users; never saw any indication that libraryfolk presence mitigated anything.
Refusal is good, actually.

Took apart the oscillating fan in my bedroom, dribbled some 3-in-1, reassembled, now it spins with no squeaks.
Something's off with the oscillation, so at some point I'll have to rearrange cables or something, but for now, brief triumph over planned obsolescence, entropy & ennui.

I can’t emphasize enough that you should talk to students about this. You’ll both learn why this kind of ad is effective (through the generally low skepticism of ads younger folks express) but also you get to watch the light go off as they realize what the downside is. It’s really interesting.

Seward Elementary School Staff Inspecting a New Television Donated by the PTA (1951)
Source: Hennepin County Library

I will continue to argue that these surveillance companies are overplaying their hand with all this dystopian shit. They don’t imagine a world where people reject it and their vision of the future.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

:/
you're not wrong.

New mutual aid option just dropped (OK, maybe it didn't just drop, but I just found out about it): a direct aid fund run by Shir Tikvah. Takes donations by credit card or ACH.

www.yesodfund.org

No, some of us just can't keep that much liquid inside. I can't believe they didn't give you antinausea meds after the first time throwing up!
I still hate it tremendously, but with Zofran all things are possible.