“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
If you think reading can be apolitical, you also profoundly misunderstand what politics is: the way we decide as a group how we live with each other. How we live with each other in the polis, i. e. the city/community
ANY aspect of life that affects or creates our lived space together IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL
Politics is messy because humans are messy. And your escapist literature isn’t going to allow you to nope your way out of being part of humanity
Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. On Thursday, those organizers and MN leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/register?utm_source=indivisible
Several US news publications have just been added to the Fediverse via Flipboard:
@curaffairs - US news, politics & culture from progressive perspective
@TPM - Progressive US political news site
@AfroLA - Los Angeles independent news service, Black perspective
@RacketMN - Independent news for Twin Cities area in Minnesota
@HellGate - Worker-owned news service for New York
@SAExpressNews - Local newspaper for San Antonio, Texas
@YaleClimate - Climate crisis news including how to fight it
Since we reached out to X about Grok attempting to unredact photos of Epstein victims upon X users’ requests, we’ve noticed Grok now refusing to unredact new requests. Bellingcat researcher Kolina Koltai reports: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02/10/grok-epstein-photos/?utm_source=mastodon
We reviewed 31 separate requests from users for Grok to “unblur” or identify the victims in these photos and the video from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5. The chatbot generated responses to 27 of those requests. See our video here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhD8OKxZBpk
A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?
With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?
And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??
This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.
•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••
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One of the biggest narratives around MN in the past weeks was that a bunch of PTA moms built out these incredible Signal-driven networks doing decentralized organizing of mutual aid work that has traditionally been invisible/feminine, with opsec that frustrated O'Keefe-style would be infiltrators.
This month on our Patreon we spoke with Trevor Ball about his work identifying less-lethal weapons used by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis, DC, and LA. Tune in to learn how to recognise this type of arsenal and how it's regulated. https://www.patreon.com/posts/149512042?pr=true
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
#News #trump #transportation #government #safety #ai #artificialintelligence #GoogleAI #google
Yeah no, a lot of folks have forgotten about the part where DHS is buying aircraft, armored personnel carriers, tanks, missiles. What you figure they gonna use that for? Would you like to imagine how the past 3 weeks play out if Kristi Noem has first strike capability anywhere in town?
I get that it sounds crazy - but uh, so is giving ICE like a 100 billion dollars - they're gonna be like the 8th largest army on earth after this.
The Moon is Waxing Crescent (27% of Full) 🌒
Front page of tomorrow’s Star Tribune.
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump administration concedes ...
Fossils of sea lilies can be found in rivers in England, and they were once believed to be fairy coins. They are also called "star stones" and are said to bring victory over enemies.
@BiancoDavinci #globalmuseum #fossils
Andy Borowitz is a national treasure.
#USPolitics #politicalsatire #AndyBorowitz https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/new-study-links-botox-to-pathological?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2337656&post_id=184430794&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=138cl&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
@StillIRise1963 Without ICE he cannot do this. Congress is taking up continuing funding this week. The calls are working. The 5Calls app makes this easy for newbies.
I’m urging everyone to call their Senators & Representative to demand the funding bill be used to rein in or defund ICE.
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
Grok CSAM isn’t a surprise it’s a pattern of history.
https://www.vox.com/culture/474772/grok-deepfake-porn-elon-musk
