Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

Looks like bad news for #vaquita

Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees

Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Meet the Minnesotans who are headed to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy Jessie Diggins, Lindsey Vonn, two curling teams and 15 hockey players with Minnesota ties have earned spots on Team USA at the Milan-Cortina Games, which begin in February.

Best of luck to all of the Minnesotans competing on the world stage. You make Minnesota proud 🥇

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Dutch Queen Joins the Military Queen Máxima of the Netherlands enlisted as a reservist, the Royal House said, because the country’s security “can no longer be taken for granted.”

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands enlisted in the Dutch Army as a reservist, the Royal House said, because the country’s security “can no longer be taken for granted.”

Democracy dies in darkness

Anne Stevenson

Television

Hug me, mother of noise.
Find me a hiding place.
I am afraid of my voice.
I do not like my face.

From @parisreview.bsky.social

A young Fred Korematsu

A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:

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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.

Again, this is terrorism.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since 1958 and a Senator for 45 years. He is the longest serving Senator in office. He chairs the Judiciary Committee.

Isn't Tom Homan that bagful of cash guy?

These words demand attention.

“In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock

Take a moment, so much more…

People mocking the baggy suits for an easy laugh, but riddle me this wiseguy: how else are you carry $50K in cash bribes when you have been told to stop using your CAVA bag?

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

This is mind bogglingly mad. He is a charlatan.

ICE is terrorizing people in so many communities. Vile. The economy is hurting, if that is one metric that one pays attention to. Most importantly- this is domestic terrorism.

At the very least, Congress must disarm ICE, prohibit it from using racial or ethnic profiling, end arrest quotas, remove agents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits, and slash its funding. The Senate has the chance to rein in ICE this week.

Keep calling: (202) 224-3121

American biomedical science in 2026 Where we are, how we got here, and what to do next

New at Can We Still Govern: NIH scientist @markhisted.org reviews the damage done to American biomedical science in the last year and looks ahead:
"Scientists should not be political partisans, but they should be partisans for liberal democratic principles."🧵
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“We’re No Longer Having a Political Debate. We’re Having a Moral Debate.” The federal killings in Minneapolis have revealed some people in authority as cruel, lying cowards. The crisis has proven many other people to be generous, compassionate, and brave. Some examples.

Minnesota's leaders rise to the level of the state's people.

By me. (Most before paywall.)

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Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

Trump claims ICE's Minnesota raids — which have already killed two Americans — are justified to root out "fraud."

Meanwhile, he's pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters, including several who gave money to his campaign and Super PAC.

The "law and order" president.

I would like murders to the list of crimes committed by ICE. Accountability now.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

"I might not have felt the need to step away from academia had we aimed for a lower impact journal...success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers...its tracing a path that isn’t defined by what others expect of me"

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