Historians:
April Fools' Day was a bittersweet holiday where very online people could briefly hope terrible posts were a joke instead of--simply and predictably--actually terrible.

Moment of silence for Kristi Noem’s career

I will go back to Target when they launch their new FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP FREE PALESTINE collection, with all proceeds going to ARM THE DOLLS 501c3, their bathrooms are ALL GENDER and they stop selling Jordan Peterson books.

Meanwhile in America...

y'all landlords are planning on showing up to this en masse tomorrow to give comment how putting money in their pockets is more important than keeping people housed while they're in hiding from ICE. please email and then show up tomorrow if you can.

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

holy shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

They've also been documented as driving several vehicles without current tabs.

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.

GoFundMe is allowing a fundraising campaign tied to the potential legal defense of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good, to remain online despite what appears to be a breach of the platform’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.

#AltCitizen assignment y’all 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

i do think it has to be jarring for these racist ICE goons who were fed a steady diet of lies that Minneapolis was a violent Somali-run, crime-ridden city have been met with thousands of normie white people taking to the streets to defend their neighbors.

B @BFthoughts • 1 hour ago In this video, it seems obvious why an officer could fear she was going to run into him with her vehicle. Wow! I hadn't seen this angle. He had a reason to feel threatened. It is done. :

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

This is the video.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

I did not have Gustavo Dudamel/LA Philharmonic/Cynthia Erivo/Purple Rain on my Coachella 2025 Bingo card

But thankful it happened

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shown here cosplaying as a real police officer.

The head of Homeland Security lost her badge, passport, & $3k in cash. Her reputation for being an ineffective cosplaying figure head remains in tact.

Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported Two young travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be the highlight of a long awaited world adventure. Instead, their arrival in Honolulu ended in handcuffs, jail, and deportation.

When Germany is giving travel warnings about the US

Germany’s updated travel advisory now explicitly warns that “entry to the United States is at the sole discretion of U.S. border authorities.

About to write a doctoral thesis on the century of American politics that took place over Easter weekend of 2025

- the president posting falsified evidence to deny due process
- the secretary of defense leaking classified information for a second time
- a congressional rep posting a public meltdown

Oh wow!

I am going to give a talk on the physics of punting (with an actual physicist) at CONvergence in Minneapolis in July that they already had to move out of a normal conference room to the big auditorium due to demand, and I highly doubt the NYT is going to send someone to cover it

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know with @alanayzola.com.

Full guide: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Fuck yeah, MN!

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Minnesota state Sen. Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor Bloomington police say Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. He was booked into the Bloomington city jail and remain...

State Senator Justin Eichorn has fought against the equal rights amendment and against trans rights for years, claiming all along it is to "protect children" from the queer community.

I hate that this stuff is so often a projection of their own sick desires to harm others.

PSA: if you’re trying to read an article behind a paywall, you can also open the link in a private browser to get around a paywall on anything but if using Chrome this trick works too!

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Rep John Larson - Connecticut: