Joe Davis
Politics, campaigns, psychology, sportsball, root beer floats. The Great State of Minnesota. The Lynx were robbed. I'll try and do less stream of consciousness here, but no promises.
- Reposted by Joe DavisI'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.
- “.. I’m sad for our country,” she said. “I don’t think that the escalation that we’ve seen, particularly in Minnesota, I don’t think it is. … ” She paused for another eight seconds .. “.. productive.” @nytimes.com #ALsen www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Joe DavisRENMAC: “.. While there is quite a bit of attention on AI driving layoffs, most of the reasons cited in this data set are about ‘closing,’ ‘economic conditions,’ ‘restructuring,’ and ‘loss of contract.’ AI is a comparatively small factor behind the January jump in layoff news.”
- Reposted by Joe DavisWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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- Yeahhhh so this guy can’t be around students and kids anymore.
- This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
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- 71% of Indys.
- A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a jump in disapproval of the agency among Democrats and independents, but Republicans are standing by ICE and the president. n.pr/3Zl5fOZ
- Reposted by Joe Daviswow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
- Reposted by Joe DavisThis morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
- Reposted by Joe DavisMy friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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- Reposted by Joe DavisThe point of getting a warrant from a judge is to get an independent assessment and minimize abuse. Recent polling shows Americans are sympathetic to this: almost half think it's worse for one innocent person to face punishment than for ten guilty people to escape it. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
- Reposted by Joe Davis”I am a prisoner in my apartment,” said the 30-year-old North St. Paul resident. “I am hiding in the shadows, not because I have committed a crime, but because the streets of Minnesota have begun to look terrifyingly similar to the war zone I escaped.” www.startribune.com/minnesota-re... (gift link)
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[This post could not be retrieved] - I don't care how ugly the last 3 minutes were, the #gophers won and let me tell you I needed that lil' hit of happiness from the insignificant things arena
- Minneapolis forever
- Reposted by Joe DavisA large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026
- Reposted by Joe DavisI taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
- Reposted by Joe DavisI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Joe DavisStriking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)
- Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Joe DavisI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Instead of listing DHS lies we might save time by listing times they’ve told the truth, if we can find them.
- Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by Joe DavisSuburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
- Reposted by Joe Davisthere's a certain genre of guy (and it is mostly men) who's good at X technical thing but assumes that means they're good at ALL technical things "data grifter" is a good term for this when it's someone who's good at building ML models but confidently makes pretty basic causal inference mistakes
- The intensity of the rage from folks here is still somehow being undersold. Nobody’s resting until they’re all gone and they bring our neighbors back.
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- Reposted by Joe DavisYou might think sports isn’t as important as other parts of the paper, but the WaPo covers sports like news — sports betting, political lobbying by leagues, accountability journalism even for local owners like Dan Snyder. No wonder the moneyed class didn’t like WaPo sports.
- Reposted by Joe Davisthe guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
- These constitutional rights don’t exercise themselves my guy
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- We’re winning. But we want it all.
- “Arresting a public safety threat from the safety of a jail” does Homan hear himself
- Reposted by Joe DavisBREAKING: ICE won't stay away from our schools. So we're suing the federal government to keep them away. edmn.me/4rBNI1b #iceoutmn #iceoutschools
- Reposted by Joe DavisAxios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
- Reposted by Joe Davisconcentrated ownership of major media outlets (traditional media, social media, or otherwise) by single wealthy individuals or families is a threat to democracy and the common good more broadly
- I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- Reposted by Joe DavisGOTDAM. That is the most Minnesotan thing I have ever heard
- What's refreshing about the normies getting involved is that they don't have the pathological desire to self-destruct of lefty activists lolsobcry.
- Reposted by Joe DavisRemember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.
- Reposted by Joe DavisHere’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature
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- Remember right when this happened and everyone said there was no freaking way the DHS version of events happened?
- Reposted by Joe DavisWhat a fucking hero
- Reposted by Joe DavisPop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
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- As always the best advice is “it depends on…”
- Reposted by Joe DavisImagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.
- Reposted by Joe Davishappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Joe DavisThis country isn’t divided between Democrats and Republicans. It’s divided between wealthy people who think it’s fine to do whatever it takes to amass money and power—including sucking up to known pedophiles for access to the elite— and the rest of us suckers who are not amoral monsters.
- Reposted by Joe DavisThe successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting. But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
- I know we're all stretched trying to cover all of the needs, but this one hits really close to home for our family. One of the wonderful people who helps take care of our lil' baby is facing a horrific situation and needs our support www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
- Minnesota Republicans on the bad site are spinning a poll where Klobuchar is +15 on all of their candidates and is getting ~15% of 2024 Trump voters as good news because she's "below 50%" (in a poll with 4.8% MoE) kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
- Reposted by Joe DavisA manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
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- Reposted by Joe DavisWoman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...
- Reposted by Joe DavisSadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
- Another one of the things that makes you sound crazy is describing Peter Thiel’s actual beliefs
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- Reposted by Joe DavisAgain, I have to laugh because if you say racism is central to the thinking of leaders in our society, people will treat you like a loon, but look at all the resources dedicated to racism.
- SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
- Best of luck to the Twins ticket sales rep trying to get me to spend a single penny on that team at the moment
- Wow, what great negotiating work 🙄
- Reposted by Joe DavisThis needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
- The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Joe DavisI don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.
- How is anyone getting their brain to function
- Reposted by Joe DavisThe entire minnesota delegation needs to be at Whipple by lunch.
- Have to be honest I would have preferred to send him off into the sunset with the absolute butt kicking he was about to get in November
- Reposted by Joe DavisThe Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
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