A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders has great passages describing the hard work of cutting and weaving the wattles. Best of luck 🤗
While the US slides deeper into the Dark Ages, the European Medicines Agency has approved a vaccine that protects against both the flu & COVID.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
MPR: "‘Winning hearts and minds’: How protest signs shaped the anti-ICE movement in Minnesota"
“We don’t just want ICE out of Minnesota. We want ICE out of everywhere.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
After Covid is officially published.
It took 3+ years of reporting—hundreds of interviews & deep dives into more than 2,000 studies & reports—to examine what followed the emergence of SARSCoV2. #LongCovid. Chronic illness. Strained systems. Eroded trust. The risks we face if we don’t learn from it.
Star Tribune: "From ‘The Good Life’ to good neighbors"
'How Minneapolis' ICE resistance forged a new identity for the state.'
www.startribune.com/minnesotas-i...
NBC News: "Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters"
'Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.'
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It’s day 90 of the ICE occupation of MSP.
ICE is still here, terrorizing communities.
Today at the Whipple building, HCSO deputies violently assaulted and arrested protesters.
Meanwhile, Minnesotans are raising money and paying rent for thousands of our neighbors.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: We have survived this winter, the most difficult in all the years of the war. The Russians wanted to turn this winter into the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians. But Ukraine did not break. We have preserved our energy system.
1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.
The CDC says it's fine to resume normal activities 24 hrs after Covid symptoms are improving. A new, large prospective study with digital tracking shows recovery takes much longer than that www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
Two 11-month-old polar bear cubs nestle into the soft fur of their mom's side as she looks on, sheltering them from the falling snow. They're sitting on a frozen lake near a bank of bare willows.
A polar bear mom and her 23-month-old cub look on curiously from where they stand among rocks and snow in a dry lake bed.
It's #InternationalPolarBearDay.
It's getting close to the time when moms will be emerging from their dens with new cubs. Cubs stay with mom for 2.5 years facing many threats and challenges. Their biggest threat, however, is shorter sea ice seasons meaning less access to food. #mammals 🌿
Outfront MN has a moving to Minnesota program. They’ve been slammed and currently have a waitlist for financial assistance, but have advocates available to talk with folks about connecting to resources, accessing medical care, etc
www.outfront.org/contact-us
I'd say "failure" is the wrong word. "Intentional destruction" is more apt.
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
HCMC is the trauma center where Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the children from the Annunciation shooting were cared for. They have the 24/7 hyperbaric service other hospitals send pts to. They house the regional poison center. They are our safety net hospital. We need them! We have to support them
The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.
These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.
For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...
ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
I would also be bad at my job if I didn't say, hey, want to be a part of this amazing thing? go donate to a rent fund at standwithminnesota.com. maybe one of the smaller ones.
I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.
I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.
I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.
A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.
Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
A new lawsuit targets feds’ immigration observer surveillance: “Absent injunctive relief, Plaintiffs must either abandon their constitutional rights or accept being cataloged and branded as ‘domestic terrorists.’ That is a choice the Constitution does not require Plaintiffs, or anyone, to make.“
