@ordinant.bsky.social
Tech writer. #Leguminati. Remember Tim Snyder's first rule: do not obey in advance. Moscovia delenda est.
Legislative nerds will also note that House Republicans are using a Senate-passed bill (on a different subject) as a vehicle for the new SAVE America Act.
That is being done for procedural reasons in the Senate. /fin
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
08.02.2026 05:06 โ ๐ 12954 ๐ 7401 ๐ฌ 128 ๐ 267swarovski crystal shrek
if you buy this someone should take the rest of your money and give it away
08.02.2026 01:32 โ ๐ 1510 ๐ 189 ๐ฌ 73 ๐ 104๐๐๐๐
07.02.2026 19:21 โ ๐ 4450 ๐ 2301 ๐ฌ 222 ๐ 107They looked for โDon Tโ in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of โdonโtโ
07.02.2026 19:56 โ ๐ 8340 ๐ 2679 ๐ฌ 262 ๐ 176I know there are fires everywhere we look. Sorry to bring your attention to one more:
07.02.2026 18:02 โ ๐ 84 ๐ 77 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 10Stumbled across the post of person sharing how everything happening in Minnesota now feels and that they donโt think anyone in the world knows how itโs affecting them physically and mentally. So I just wanted to say, as a Ukrainian. I think I do know. What I see in Minnesota reminds me very much of
07.02.2026 19:38 โ ๐ 180 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2If "many fewer" is followed by "than," it could be OK. But like you, I would write "far fewer" with or without "than."
07.02.2026 19:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A survey with ground-penetrating radar as used by archeologists might well uncover the girls buried there.
It would be a very long and probably expensive process, but who's counting?
The point is not to charge JE with murder, too late. Could charge Ghislaine and also identity the missing girls.
Kyiv.
We had one hour of electricity and were told weโll get about 1.5-2 hours a day (yes, out of 24 hours).
The boiler heated water,
I washed my hair,
charged the EcoFlow (not fully).
Thatโs all.
These are the consequences of russian attacks.
A wonderful Truffaut homage. How many of these have you seen?
07.02.2026 19:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.
06.02.2026 23:29 โ ๐ 21639 ๐ 5584 ๐ฌ 2437 ๐ 497I quite often post the map showing approximate flight paths of Russia's missiles and drones after the worst attacks.
This time, Ukraine is almost invisible under the multi-coloured lines - I don't remember it being that bad before.
To save the men and scare off the victims.
Next?
"'The pastorsโ group that Iโm in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
has anybody gotten confirmation yet from Mike Johnson that he hasn't seen the post?
06.02.2026 18:55 โ ๐ 14959 ๐ 1812 ๐ฌ 685 ๐ 125Are they going to also "blame a staffer" for Obama permanently living, 24/7, rent-free in his head?
#pathetic
Bad idea. ICE is pre-funded by the BBB. Also, CBP is just as bad if not worse and also pre-funded by the BBB. Severing ICE gives away any leverage we have to shut down the rest of DHS. We should be demanding to defund ICE/CBP of its BBB money and shut down ALL of DHS if they donโt agree.
06.02.2026 03:53 โ ๐ 6412 ๐ 2161 ๐ฌ 356 ๐ 149Iโm the former Secretary of State of Missouri. Hereโs what Trump means when he says he wants to โnationalize elections.โ
06.02.2026 18:43 โ ๐ 91 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3This is overt racism. Full stop. Thereโs no โmisinterpretationโ and no excuse. This is who he is, who heโs always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And thereโs a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.
06.02.2026 08:26 โ ๐ 15258 ๐ 5186 ๐ฌ 1961 ๐ 763โ๏ธโ๏ธWithin the next 48 hours, Russia may strike a massive attack, probably on the energy infrastructure of Kyiv and the region, โ ERadar
โช๏ธRight now, several Tu-95MS aircraft have taken off from the Far East and are heading to the Engels airfield to be equipped with cruise missiles;
Anyone who still thinks Trlmp is not openly working for Russian interests, please study this chart.
06.02.2026 18:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Greetings from Kyiv
and a warcoffee after the workout.
The repairman fixed the windows, and I hope the little warmth we still have will now stay inside the flat.
1,126 high-rise buildings on the left bank of Kyiv (where I live) remain without heating after the latest russian attack.
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
ICE was already PREFUNDED for 4 YEARS in the OBBB passed in July. The money is in a slush fund. So if you give away the rest you give away everything. Do these people think we are stupid? They must.
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WHAT in the sweet Lord's name is the "electric room"?
@rokhanna.bsky.social and Thomas Massie need to press hard to get Elon subpoenad to answer that and dozens of other questions. At penalty of Federal contract cancellation for a no-show.
"I regret being named in the Epstein files" passes as accountability and justice apparently.
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