Naomi Ruff

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.

Thoughts on this:

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What a great analogy

Ooh, I’d watch that!

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

<chef’s kiss>

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors!

standwithminnesota.com

Hmm, seems like a good reason to boost the recognition.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Billy Bragg - City Of Heroes Listen to City Of Heroes by Billy Bragg.

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Thank you—I needed these today!

Black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of a Nazi SS officer Henrich Himmler wearing glasses. He is dressed in a decorated uniform with visible insignia and ribbons. His expression is stern and formal, consistent with official documentation photos.

Long ass thread but my fingers are somehow not hurting this afternoon. 🧵1/

We’ve been here before. Nazi death camps weren’t the result of “bad guards.” They were engineered by architects: Himmler (system), Heydrich (policy), Eichmann (logistics).

#NaziArchitects
#Noem
#Miller

Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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Lines that go straight up in charts that track disease = VERY BAD.

Thank you for the continuing reminders. We should never look away.

Gives me hope!

people aren't protesting because they want to make a point, they're doing it because they feel like they have to. because they've been forced to. because circumstances are totally and completely intolerable

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

I feel so seen!!

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

“I looked around and nobody was saying anything, so I didn’t either.” Use your voices folks! Sometimes it only takes one to get things started.

I like this @angryblacklady.blacksky.app. As my colleague Tom Saenz says, “we have to use the whole Constitution.”

im getting disturbing reports that donald trump is doing exactly what he said he would and the results are exactly as disastrous as everyone said they would be

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

My specific experience is with NIH, but I’ll stand up and say it:

The people who work at NIH are together one of the great wonders of the world. US biomedical science, cancer cures, dementia research all are built on their talent and dedication.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

White Jews (esp those with structural power)

complicity with white supremacy was never going to keep us safe

it has never kept us safe

it will never keep us safe

can we all please just get the fucking memo

that solidarity is the only. way. home.

and the only way out for us all

please already?

Where are all the “originalists” on the 1A protections for a free press??

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats