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As ICE surge ends, Twin Cities grapple with its impact The weight of the federal government has borne down on Minnesota in innumerable ways.

With the operation’s promised end coming, a dazed Twin Cities and Minnesota now step back and confront the big questions.

Obama continues to talk around the issue and isn’t meeting the moment

Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.

Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat

Sean Morales-Doyle: With the exception of blatant dictators like Xi Jinping or the MBS, most autocrats try to manipulate rather than cancel (or never hold) elections. That's the real threat from Trump. He wants to be sure that the voter turnout is as low as possible and includes only MAGA.

Russia took ~5k more casualties in December than Russia gained in recruits. In January, casualties outstripped recruits by ~8k.

As @phillipspobrien.bsky.social writes—with caveats that it may be a fluke or specific to those months—if Ukraine can sustain that, they can exhaust Russia's ware effort.

Carney gets it:

Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.

New photos give glimpse inside Iran’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests Exclusive: images and testimony from the January uprising, when Iranian security forces are believed to have killed thousands of men, women and children who had flocked on to the streets

The massacre in Iran: a photo gallery. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rubio next to Fico in Slovakia, talking about Europe: “We don't want you to be dependent on us. We are not asking you to be a vassal of the United States. We want to be your partner.”

US tariffed its partners while demanding larger % of GDP to go into defense to buy more military aid from US

Last points:

1) This road doesn't have to end in gulags, death camps and ghettos to get Britain to a really dark place.

2) Where the darkest roads of history ended up always seemed absurd to contemplate to those in the merely cloudy places they started.

Your first two paragraphs of this thread were, I thought, WAY too soft.
It picked up

Face it: our new allies.

He's going to stand next to Putin's pal Orban and hold him up as a model for Europe.

And the numbers who need criminal punishments, but will escape because...priorities.

by the way, this is going to become VERY relevant in 2029 given the sheer impossibility of having enough political capital to inflict punishments on Trumpers that reflect the sheer magnitude of their crimes

This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.

Why Gen-Z Is Rising | Journal of Democracy Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal—furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption—are rising up to demand change. But what happens when their movements succeed?

Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal—furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption—are rising up to demand change. But what happens when their movements succeed?

This isn't a purely philosophical or semantic argument about what "British" means.

Once you accept different tiers of British citizenship you gain a way to formally discriminate.

USSR documents famously had a "5th line" denoting ethnicity. Stalin's nationalist repressions used this as their basis.

I sort of wish Mitch McConnell were a younger man so he could bear witness, in a sound mind, to the horrors his choices have unleashed on the land

there isn't much classified for Natasha, Xiaoxiao, Carlota, Farah, Amélie, or Tamar left to steal that their bosses haven't already gotten elsewhere

Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs? A wonkish guide for the confused

New post about tariffs. Last week two reports found that foreigners have borne very little of the cost. But the CPI came in somewhat soft. Is there a contradiction? As I explain, no.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/who-is-pay...

That's small enough to be obscured in aggregate data by other factors, including data distortions from the government shutdown. If you focus in on prices tariffs should affect, the impact is clear. And the overall effect is close to what models predict 3/

This also implies that fears of a lot of tariff-induced inflation still in the pipeline are exaggerated. Most of the tariff hit to inflation has already happened 4/

this is a "y'all got jokes" moment considering that there is no more security discipline left in the US national security establishment anymore. The director of national intelligence is a foreign cutout, strike plans are shared on insecure group chats, teenage cybercriminals ran loose in gov

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists Labour Together, the group that helped make Keir Starmer leader, hired lobbyists who falsely suggested reporters were linked to Russia

This ought to finish off the Minister for Briefcase Wanking
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Minnesotas Flag whistle - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld Download this free 3D print file designed by OPE. Loud whistle with Minnesota flag. Do not rotate by 45degrees as it may result in hanging bridge.  pre-configurated layer height to ensure fastest...

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This one looks good too, and should print even faster because the filament only has to swap for those first few layers.

It is right in the Constitution, and the Prez has NO role, none, zilch, zero.