Ryan O'Horo

Ok, moving back to this one. Let's get this funded. I'm in for $100. I can definitely vouch for @wrigleyfield.bsky.social

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.

I do not regret to inform you we are going to win

She's gonna show those little S.O.B.s

YouTube video by USCSB Deadly Dust: Explosions at Didion Milling

NEW USCSB SAFETY VIDEO LET'S GOOOO

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that's a pristine clapback, well done, 10/10 no notes

Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

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Incredible reporting from Street Sense on the trend of escalating camp evictions, with the city routinely clearing the same people repeatedly. In 2025, one camp was cleared FOURTEEN TIMES.

Evictions don’t end homelessness.

A wooden rounded Yellow Submarine in three sections large enough for people to stand inside sitting on a snowy frozen lake illuminated by two flood lights against the sunset sky

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I fear people are starting to give Jeff E. too much credit for influencing politics and culture.

He's going to be the architect of the Pyramids of Giza by the end of the year.

My thoughts are with the reporters today, and certainly not with the clueless media executives or the billionaires like Bezos who are too pigshit stupid to run a newsroom.

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison:

Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill"

Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

Oh. So they do understand why Black people want police to lose qualified immunity.

It's amazing how much clarity people suddenly have now that the children being harmed are not mostly Black.

Don’t mess with Minnesotans. When we’re not fighting ICE or providing food and safety for our immigrant neighbors, we willingly hang out outside in freezing weather!

There have been many reports of ice agents drunk driving after hours

Okay I'm definitely bringing this up at my next city council meeting

The large wooden submarine in three sections on a snowy Lake in the dark lit by flood lights

A large wooden submarine in three pieces lit by flood lights on a snowy Lake below a sunset sky

The interior of a wooden submarine with Windows and gray looking metal surfaces. Bits and pieces of interesting items

Nighttime mission

A very large crowd in the distance on a frozen snowy Lake against the sunset sky

Could easily be over a thousand people at the luminary ceremony on Lake Harriet tonight

A concrete overpass graffitied with the words ice my balls! Over a snowy bank

Local flavor

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel.

People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

i was already planning to do the steps outlined at www.abetterdfl.org/resolution at the caucuses tonight but holy fuck i *need* to do that tonight or else i'm going to spend the next week crying

House votes to reopen the government–setting up a fight over ICE The Senate and the White House will now negotiate guardrails for ICE and CBP agents after the killing of both Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services
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Walmart is officially a trillion-dollar company.

Today the retail giant joined the ranks of Meta, Tesla, Amazon and more to pass a $1 trillion market cap.

Meanwhile, starting pay at Walmart is as low as $14/hour, and thousands of its workers have to rely on SNAP and Medicaid.

How do you do fellow posters.

Stock photo of a man, smiling and crossing two fingers on each hand in an overlapping fashion

I just throw up one of these bad boys

Humbled tonight to find a group of people organizing in my neighborhood. It's a "sleepy" one, and I was worried no one else was seeing what I was seeing.

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Dig deeper. He went to defcon in 2013. There are travel itineraries for his entourage to travel from the ranch in NM, stay at Caesars, go to a Rod Stewart show followed by Mystere…

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