#ICE is LITERALLY in every corner of the Twin Cities right now. In case you don't know, here are the areas with the confirmed sightings as of 1/9/26 at 11:00pm: - Apple Valley/Burnsville/Eagan - Richfield/Bloomington - Midway/Frogtown - Como/Dale - East side/Maplewood - North Minneapolis - Shoreview Arden Hills - Blaine - Columbia Heights - Shakopee/Prior Lake - Inver Grove Heights - West St. Paul - South Saint Paul - Lakeville - Brooklyn Park/Brooklyn Center PLEASE stay safe! They are detaining and harassing US citizens so if you can help it, STAY HOME!

ICE is currently raiding an apartment complex near my home in Savage. Lots of children screaming. This is completely unnecessary. I'm certain these people being terrorized are hard working, law abiding individuals.

&S!#% &S!#% My brother's construction site was raided by ICE this morning and 6 people were taken (they came after he left to a new site so he didn't get taken, but some of the crew did). MN companies need to do a better job at protecting their employees. They know ICE is present visibily in the Twin Cities so they need to not send their employees to work until ICE ain't roaming the streets!! &$!#% &S!#%

Ice is on 24th right by the resource center just started beating on someone for being under a blanket @highlight And if you question me saying this I witnessed it with my own eyes! They headed Southeast. White Jeep wagoneer grayish blue I think Toyota minivan

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

Congrats!

I'm betting on a weekend at Bernie's situation with that golf photo today

Even if they did teach it now, the search engines are mostly broken. Search engine optimization did a lot to mess up search engine functionality for users in favour of selling ads and then Google broke boolean operators when they dabbled with a social media platform (Google plus).

I've heard Singapore describes as sa relatively benevolent dictatorship, if you're looking for ideas on how that might work

If you sign, don't forget to verify your signature by clicking the link that gets emailed to you afterwards too!

Petition in Parliament to demand security clearance for party leaders

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Transcript of Pope Leo XIV's first speech after election: ‘Peace be with you' In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo said, “Peace be with you,” and emphasized a message of peace, dialogue and missionary evangelization...

always wild when a Catholicism thread breaches containment and my replies fill up with people who are unfamiliar with Willett Catholicism lmao

as always, we will learn who this guy is through what he actually does, so I'm scrutinizing with cautious optimism; but there's lots to like in here:

It's the sense of aggrieved entitlement that gets me. You don't actually pay the rest of Canada's bills and even if you did for the moment, we still wouldn't owe it to you to vote the way you'd like

okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

Wasn't he really close to getting a parliamentary pension too?

Tim Huston, currently the Premier of NS is also expressing interest in leading the federal Conservative party. He's dodgy too, but less obviously so than Ford.

Depends, are the bagels Montreal style?

If you are worried about disinformation and media manipulation in this election give a pass to
@ctvyourmorning.bsky.social
They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
She is a truth teller.
CTV is not.

He moved there when he was six and was raised there, wasn't he?

Bulletin that said “butt dust”

Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday 😂

Hey @safety.bsky.app, please remove the offensive GIFs featuring the Canadian flag with "51 State" and others that promote annexation. 🚫 These are disrespectful to our sovereignty and to your 🇨🇦 user community. Despite previous requests, they remain up! 🗣️✨ #TeamCanada

Stanley park in Vancouver?

She'd be wearing glasses, i think

I'm glad you feel that way, more for me!

Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement - Wikipedia

So Canadians, can we please make rescinding the Safe Third Country agreement an election issue now?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%...

Important perspective in this thread.

56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025 Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.

Not everyone can run or sit on a board.

Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!

Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

Gmail settings after you turn off "Smart Features and Personalization." It reveals multiple categories that use Gemini AI as a default unless you turn it off, including: Grammar Spelling Autocorrect Smart Compose Smart Compose Personalization Nudges Smart Reply Desktop Notifications

Gmail settings after you turn off "Smart Features and Personalization." It reveals multiple categories that use Gemini AI as a default unless you turn it off, including: Grammar Spelling Autocorrect Smart Compose Smart Compose Personalization Nudges Smart Reply Desktop Notifications

How to turn off Gemini AI in Gmail:
• Go to "Settings"
• Go to "General"
• Scroll down + unclick all boxes labeled "Smart Features & Personalization" (For me there were two boxes to unclick)

Once I did that I rechecked Settings & found that no less than (10) different categories deployed AI 🤢

The bouyancy math seems to have worked out so far

A few that did actually happen recently:

🧵A THREAD 🧵

- Egypt eradicated malaria.

-Emissions in the EU plumetted by 8%, which means emissions in advanced economies dropped to a 50-year low.

- The Iberian lynx stopped being on the endangered species list.

I want a traditional Christmas this year - the kind where capitalists get visited by three ghosts who teach them the error of their ways

🚨 🚨 🚨Our director just told us that if the social media team can fundraise 30 million dollars, we can get a museum cat. 🐈 🐈 🐈 🚨 🚨 🚨

Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵