Veneer of Discipline
@birdpant.bsky.social
Born to be a house hippo, forced to be outdoorsy.
“You need to compliment the pretty ones even if they don’t do well.”
“You need to compliment the pretty ones even if they don’t do well.”
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Local police told her told her the South Dakota license plates on the hulking SUV in her driveway belonged to a different model car. “Swapping license plates has become a signature of federal agents” during the surge, despite a warning from Minnesota’s DMV to stop the unlawful practice.
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Local police told her told her the South Dakota license plates on the hulking SUV in her driveway belonged to a different model car. “Swapping license plates has become a signature of federal agents” during the surge, despite a warning from Minnesota’s DMV to stop the unlawful practice.
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They take and take and take and never give anything back
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM
They take and take and take and never give anything back
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we really need someone to run against dawanna witt for hennepin county sheriff
www.startribune.com/ice-hennepin...
www.startribune.com/ice-hennepin...
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
we really need someone to run against dawanna witt for hennepin county sheriff
www.startribune.com/ice-hennepin...
www.startribune.com/ice-hennepin...
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
February 4, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
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so folks, do we think it was cheaper to kill gawker from the outside, or to kill the wapo from the inside?
what gives a billionaire better bang for his buck
what gives a billionaire better bang for his buck
February 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM
so folks, do we think it was cheaper to kill gawker from the outside, or to kill the wapo from the inside?
what gives a billionaire better bang for his buck
what gives a billionaire better bang for his buck
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Q: Will you commit to officers in Minnesota ceasing broad ICE patrols, random citizenship checks of people of color, & the detainment of citizens?
HOMAN: We're doing targeted enforcement operations. But when we go to arrest targets, if we find an illegal alien there, they're coming
(Not a yes!)
HOMAN: We're doing targeted enforcement operations. But when we go to arrest targets, if we find an illegal alien there, they're coming
(Not a yes!)
February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Q: Will you commit to officers in Minnesota ceasing broad ICE patrols, random citizenship checks of people of color, & the detainment of citizens?
HOMAN: We're doing targeted enforcement operations. But when we go to arrest targets, if we find an illegal alien there, they're coming
(Not a yes!)
HOMAN: We're doing targeted enforcement operations. But when we go to arrest targets, if we find an illegal alien there, they're coming
(Not a yes!)
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HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY to Susan Collins saying Trump learned a “pretty big lesson” from his first impeachment.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY to Susan Collins saying Trump learned a “pretty big lesson” from his first impeachment.
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Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos had a bad divorce, so it became necessary to annihilate American journalism as a profession.
The layoffs at the Washington Post have begun, with newsroom leaders telling employees its sports and books sections will be 'eliminated in current forms' and its international coverage will be downsized
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos had a bad divorce, so it became necessary to annihilate American journalism as a profession.
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Maryland housing has become a ‘major’ problem, poll finds
Maryland housing has become a ‘major’ problem, poll finds
Decisive majorities of voters across all age groups identified housing costs as a “major” problem in the January survey.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Maryland housing has become a ‘major’ problem, poll finds
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
F Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
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Deepak Chopra, who has always impressed me as a "spiritualist" hustler, to Jeffrey Epstein: "God is a construct Cute girls are real"
February 4, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Deepak Chopra, who has always impressed me as a "spiritualist" hustler, to Jeffrey Epstein: "God is a construct Cute girls are real"
When a Dr prescribed pramipexole for my mother they said “it can cause some changes in behavior like lower sexual inhibitions” and my mother refused to take it.
“The idea that a prescribed, FDA-approved medication could cause a gambling addiction never crossed my mind — and when it finally did, no one believed me. Not my doctor. Not my psychiatrist. Not even my pharmacist. One laughed out loud.
Eventually, my therapist encouraged me to find a specialist.”
Eventually, my therapist encouraged me to find a specialist.”
I spent nearly 20 years on a drug for restless leg syndrome. It wrecked my life
After discovering a drug he took for restless leg syndrome caused compulsive gambling, J. Aaron Sanders found himself facing “existential questions of free will.”
www.statnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
When a Dr prescribed pramipexole for my mother they said “it can cause some changes in behavior like lower sexual inhibitions” and my mother refused to take it.
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1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
February 4, 2026 at 11:52 AM
1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
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And this rules from Dan Helmer:
“have a VMI focused on producing qualified, capable military leaders of the future, not continuing to celebrate the traitors of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
“have a VMI focused on producing qualified, capable military leaders of the future, not continuing to celebrate the traitors of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
February 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
And this rules from Dan Helmer:
“have a VMI focused on producing qualified, capable military leaders of the future, not continuing to celebrate the traitors of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
“have a VMI focused on producing qualified, capable military leaders of the future, not continuing to celebrate the traitors of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
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It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
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A law that says you can have more than a billion dollars but once you do you can’t buy any company anyone has heard of
February 4, 2026 at 2:39 AM
A law that says you can have more than a billion dollars but once you do you can’t buy any company anyone has heard of
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Also worth noting, for those confused: VMI is not a federal military academy like West Point or the Naval Academy.
It’s a public *state* school that operates under the government of Virginia, and the *governor* is technically the commander-in-chief of the school — not the federal government.
It’s a public *state* school that operates under the government of Virginia, and the *governor* is technically the commander-in-chief of the school — not the federal government.
FWIW the enrollment at VMI is just a hair above that of the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech, and the commissioning rate at VT is substantially higher! @cardinalnews.org
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Pentagon warns it could take ‘extraordinary measures’ in fight over VMI’s future
Democratic state lawmakers have introduced two bills that could substantially alter how the Lexington military college operates.
cardinalnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Also worth noting, for those confused: VMI is not a federal military academy like West Point or the Naval Academy.
It’s a public *state* school that operates under the government of Virginia, and the *governor* is technically the commander-in-chief of the school — not the federal government.
It’s a public *state* school that operates under the government of Virginia, and the *governor* is technically the commander-in-chief of the school — not the federal government.
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Team Krasner here www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis
Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
www.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Team Krasner here www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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Starmer forced to admit he knew of Mandelson's continued relationship with Epstein after the first convicton when he appointed him ambassador. Eek this is a shocker.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
February 4, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Starmer forced to admit he knew of Mandelson's continued relationship with Epstein after the first convicton when he appointed him ambassador. Eek this is a shocker.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
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Division, a 4-year-old North Atlantic right whale, was found dead off North Carolina after a severe fishing-gear entanglement responders couldn’t fully remove.
He had already survived three earlier entanglements — underscoring the chronic human threats facing a species of only ~380 whales.
He had already survived three earlier entanglements — underscoring the chronic human threats facing a species of only ~380 whales.
Division’s final journey
Division was four years old when he died, a young age even by the shortened standards now applied to North Atlantic right whales. His body was found in late January, adrift off the coast of North…
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February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Division, a 4-year-old North Atlantic right whale, was found dead off North Carolina after a severe fishing-gear entanglement responders couldn’t fully remove.
He had already survived three earlier entanglements — underscoring the chronic human threats facing a species of only ~380 whales.
He had already survived three earlier entanglements — underscoring the chronic human threats facing a species of only ~380 whales.
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Bahceli and his party and its transformation in the process of his alliance with Erdogan is definitely one of the most interesting phenomenon in Turkish politics. Far-right doesn't exactly corresponds to the political tradition that it comes from. MHP is a proper fascist+
www.ft.com/content/6544...
www.ft.com/content/6544...
The far-right leader behind Erdoğan’s high-stakes peace plan
Turkish president’s push to end four-decade Kurdish conflict hinges on dapper, mercurial coalition ally Devlet Bahçeli
www.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Bahceli and his party and its transformation in the process of his alliance with Erdogan is definitely one of the most interesting phenomenon in Turkish politics. Far-right doesn't exactly corresponds to the political tradition that it comes from. MHP is a proper fascist+
www.ft.com/content/6544...
www.ft.com/content/6544...
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Bezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.
February 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Bezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.