Meta is rebranding some employees as “AI builders” and organizing them into AI-native “pods,” according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider.
The memo described an overhaul of roles, titles, and team structures across a 1,000-employee team within Meta’s Reality Labs. It’s part of a broader, aggressive push by Meta to adopt small teams and use AI.
The pilot program was announced last month within the Reality Labs team that builds developer tools. Everyone in the division will now have one of three titles: AI Builder, AI Pod Lead, or AI Org Lead. That’s to encourage a shift toward a flatter organization, a structure that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has advocated.
“Our ultimate goal is to drive a step change in engineering productivity and product quality,” the memo reads. “To achieve this, we’re fundamentally rewiring how we operate, how we are structured, and how we support each other.”
When asked for comment, Meta referred Business Insider to comments earlier this year from Zuckerberg that 2026 is the year AI will begin to “dramatically change the way we work,” with projects that once required large teams potentially handled by one, “very talented” person.
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According to the memo, each pod consists of a small group of AI builders focused on specific outcomes, often working across disciplines. For example, engineers could take on design work, depending on the task. Some Meta employees have already begun referring to themselves as AI builders on LinkedIn, Business Insider previously reported.
These pods are led by Pod Leads, who oversee day-to-day operations. They are, in turn, overseen by Org Leads, who also manage performance reviews and oversee promotions — processes that will be supported by unspecified “AI systems.”
The memo said that the overall team size will remain the same under the new structure.
Meta laid off hundreds of staff on Wednesday, and this cut affected staff in Reality Labs, among other teams. A Meta spokesperson said the reorganization is not related to the cuts.
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Two years before our son was born, my partner, Liv, and I moved to New York City to immerse ourselves in the city that never sleeps. She was working full-time and pursuing a master’s degree at Columbia, while I was figuring out what it meant to be human after I quit my tech job.
We dreamed of the community and opportunity that awaited us in that glorious place of concrete and glass. After the loneliness COVID brought, I fantasized that we’d meet other adults who shared enough of our values to create a tight community in New York City, one that was more than just friends.
But everything changed after our son was born.
We moved to New York City to live our dream life
My sister-in-law, her boyfriend, and a handful of friends already lived in New York City. The region’s high population density came with the promise of new close relationships.
Within six weeks, we sold our house in suburban Maryland and moved into a New York City apartment, sight unseen.
Living in NYC is like gripping life’s volume knob with both hands and cranking it up past the breaking point. The city offers an unmatched variety of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings to the privileged people who can afford it.
Some nights over the next year, I sat on our windowsill, admiring the twinkling cityscape teeming with life. I was making new friends, but I wasn’t seeing a path to the fantastical relationships with other adults that I thought would come easily.
The question of whether or not to expand our biological family also hung heavily in my mind.
After an errand to the Financial District, I shared a transformative conversation with a tourist couple from rural Germany. We talked about their children, and I revealed my ambivalence about having my own.
The man’s response was warm and adamant: Having children is the best. There’s never going to be a right time. Just do it.
The author’s frequent meditation spot, overlooking Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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We hugged, took a selfie, and parted ways. Six months later, having learned countless lessons from the city and its people, Liv was pregnant with our first child.
Our priorities shifted after the birth of our son
Shortly after our son was born and I became a stay-at-home dad, our family reached a decision point. We could not afford to live in New York City and enjoy our preferred lifestyle. We needed more space and more help.
A house in my in-laws’ neighborhood was put up for sale at an attractive price. Liv’s desire burned for this home and the comfort of neighbor-parents, but I was unconvinced. Leaving my community and moving to Slower Lower Delaware felt like a massive downgrade.
As our son’s eyes opened and he began to crawl, my priorities shifted toward my growing family. Whenever my mother-in-law trekked up to the city to help with childcare, I felt rested and loved. If we moved, her love and nurturing spirit would be just down the road.
I chose to be excited about the move, focusing on the reasons it felt good, like the familial help, lower financial pressure, and quieter calm.
We bought the house and moved after our son’s first birthday.
An unexpected step toward a dream come true
I am fortunate enough to both love and like my family, including the family I inherited from Liv. With this type of love comes a web of commitment to the well-being of all members of our system. Societal norms make the depth of this commitment far more accessible to family than it is to friends.
In an alternate universe, there’s a version of myself whose hyperlocal community consists of friends and family, where our children have sprawling chosen families and roam freely between homes. In this imaginary village, shops and services are walkable, and what we make transcends money. I thought we might make this happen in New York City. Maybe it can for others, but it didn’t for me.
Perhaps that idealized universe is actually this one, only set a few years in the future. The open-door policy we happily share with my in-laws is a part of the dream made real.
As the US-Israeli war with Iran rages across the Middle East and roils global markets, a small subset of drone makers — ones who build drones to destroy other drones — are seeing an upside to the conflict.
Interceptor drone manufacturers outside the region told Business Insider of a surge in requests for demonstrations and inquiries from potential buyers over the past week, as the US and its allies scramble to counter Iran’s loitering munitions.
“Since the beginning of the war, we have been receiving daily requests from the Middle East, whereas previously it might have been once or twice a month,” said Jens Holzapfel, business development director for Nordic Air Defense. The Swedish startup is building a propeller-driven interceptor, the Kreuger-100XR, which is being tested in Ukraine.
New interest has overwhelmingly come from Gulf state governments or entities working with their defense ministries, although European countries have also reached out, the companies said.
Misha Lu, a spokesperson for the Taiwanese firm Tron Future, said international inquiries for its counterdrone products, which include a single-use quadcopter interceptor and net-launcher drone, have “effectively doubled” since the war began.
Almost all prospective clients were asking for ways to protect critical infrastructure, such as airports and power grids, he said.
Lu added that potential buyers are also largely shifting their focus from anti-drone jammers to “hard-kill” solutions, which rely on explosives or physical force to destroy drone threats.
Surging interest in Ukrainian drones
Heightened demand for hard-kill counterdrone tech comes as Iran has launched thousands of one-way attack Shaheds against the US and its allies in the Gulf region. Some of the loitering munitions have successfully gotten through air defenses and struck their targets, including US military facilities.
Key concerns in air defense against Shahed threats have been cost and quantity. Traditional air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles are limited in supply and would be too expensive to engage en masse against Shaheds, which cost $20,000 to $50,000 each.
The Iranian Shahed has been a subject of Western concern for years, as Russia used the drones to bombard Ukraine.
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A cheaper solution, pioneered largely by Ukraine, is to use first-person-view or small drones to catch and ram into Shaheds.
The Wild Hornets, the Ukrainian manufacturer of a popular interceptor drone called the Sting, told Business Insider that the company previously fielded one or two business inquiries daily, but since last week has received “several dozen per day.”
Sting production is still heavily dedicated to helping Ukraine fight off Russia’s locally built versions of the Shahed; Kyiv says Moscow has launched over 57,000 of them so far.
“These are requests, not what we’ve agreed to,” a Wild Hornets spokesperson said of the new inquiries. “Our priority is Ukraine’s defense.”
Another major Ukrainian drone maker, Skyfall, told Reuters last week that it was receiving foreign requests for interceptors and could produce up to 10,000 a month without affecting Ukraine’s needs.
Still, Ukrainian firms may have difficulty closing any such deals for now. A wartime law broadly blocks drone exports from the country, as uncrewed aerial systems remain the pillar of its tactical combat operations.
The Wild Hornets manufacture the Sting, a popular interceptor drone now used in Ukraine.
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Whether the ban will remain, however, is unclear. Kyiv has been exploring the possibility of controlled exports, seeking to promote its fledgling defense tech market and touting its wartime production expertise and ability to test weapons in combat.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also repeatedly signaled openness to assisting allied countries, including Gulf States, that request support and expertise against Shaheds.
So far, though, Zelenskyy has only confirmed that Kyiv is sending experts to the Middle East, without mentioning export sales.
Too much demand to cope with
For interceptor makers in other countries, the sudden demand is so great that most aren’t sure they can keep up with the influx of business. The technology is also fairly young, meaning some firms have yet to build out their production lines fully.
Agirs Kipurs, CEO of the Latvia-based firm Origin Robotics, told Business Insider that his firm is already working to fulfill existing contracts and may thus only meet a “limited part of the demand.”
“Obviously, we will not be able to meet all requests, as we are still scaling up production and building toward full output capacity,” said Kipurs, whose firm builds drones deployed in Ukraine and an autonomous interceptor used by NATO forces.
Jiří Janoušek, a representative for the Czech firm TRL Drones, said his company recently received multiple requests a day for its fixed-wing interceptors — a short-range drone and a larger jet-powered system that are used in Ukraine.
TRL Drones is increasing production capacity to accommodate new requests, Janoušek said, but has had to “carefully prioritize incoming opportunities,” giving preference to customers who already know their operational requirements and are ready to move quickly.
“Supporting Ukraine remains a core priority that continues to utilize a portion of our capacity,” Janoušek added.
Lu, of Tron Future, said that his firm is “fully engaged” with all the inquiries it’s receiving, but is still working on scaling production.
One of Tron Future’s interceptors on display at an aerospace and defense show in Taipei.
Tron Future
Demand from Taiwan and East Asia has recently doubled, too, he added, with inquiries from Taiwanese law enforcement and military agencies reaching double digits.
There is concern about China’s own delta-wing drones, Lu said, such as the Loong M9 and Feilong 300D. Both appear highly similar to the Shahed-136.
Chinese industries have long supplied drone components to both sides of the Ukraine war, and Lu said it’s clear that the People’s Liberation Army is learning from the battlefield there.
“So we know that in a conflict scenario across the Taiwan Strait, we will also see similar saturation attacks where cheap drones of various classes mingle with missiles,” Lu said.
I remember arriving in Leavenworth, a town of about 3,000 people, and immediately feeling like we had stepped into an entirely new country, despite being just a short three-hour day trip from Seattle.
The drive itself revealed just how varied Washington’s landscape can be, moving from familiar surroundings into farmland and alpine scenery.
Despite visiting in early April, right before wildflower season, the setting still felt storybook-like, with open fields nearby and snow-capped peaks in the distance.
Downtown Leavenworth leaned fully into its Bavarian theme, from German restaurants and beer gardens to a quirky nutcracker museum. Even the exteriors of everyday places, such as grocery stores and coffee shops, matched the town’s aesthetic, completing the immersion.
We stayed at Abendblume Inn, a small bed-and-breakfast with a distinctly European feel that overlooks the Cascade Mountains. It famously serves up breakfast aebleskiver, Danish pancake puffs often dusted with powdered sugar or served with jam, to make the Euro experience feel complete.
Perhaps my favorite find was the local reindeer farm, where we could pet and feed the animals. Although Leavenworth is known for its Christmas festivities, visiting out of season revealed a quieter version of the town that felt just as intentional.
Ukraine’s large-scale drone war is pushing Western militaries to treat small drones less as high-end equipment and more as expendable ammunition that isn’t meant to come back.
US Army and British Army officials, as well as a NATO veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, told Business Insider that effective drone warfare requires sending large numbers forward — and accepting many will be lost as a routine cost.
Maj. Rachel Martin, the director of the US Army’s new drone lethality course, told Business Insider that the conflict shows that “if you’re going to flood the zone with drones,” especially in a combat situation where electronic warfare is heavy, “you’re going to lose a lot of drones.”
She said it’s a “transition from the army of old,” where a lost drone was “a significant emotional event” that was reported to senior leadership. In Ukraine, it’s different. “Drones go down all the time.” There, losses are typically shrugged off, rather than investigated.
Drones are key to Ukraine’s fight, and the idea that many will be lost is understood across the military.
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That shifting mindset is shaping how Western militaries train.
Lt. Col. Ben Irwin-Clark, the commanding officer of the British Army’s 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards, told Business Insider that his battalion has changed its training to allow drones to be damaged or even destroyed to reflect battlefield realities. “I absolutely think they need to be disposable because otherwise you’re not training realistically,” he said.
Not high-end equipment
Jakub Jajcay, a former special forces member from Slovakia who fought in Ukraine, told Business Insider that if NATO militaries want to start using drones for real missions, they “need to get used to the fact that they’re basically expendable material more akin to ammunition or fuel or gasoline, things like that, rather than specialized high-end pieces of equipment that need to be looked after.”
He said when he was serving in the military for his home country, “drones were very specialized pieces of equipment.”
The drones were fairly expensive, he shared, “and there was always a sort of bureaucratic process” in using them. Sometimes, only designated individuals were allowed to use the drones.
Ukraine uses small drones differently from the way that Western militaries did in previous conflicts.
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If something happened to a drone, “that would’ve been a big problem in training. If we had lost a drone, somebody would’ve been in big trouble for that.” The war in Ukraine shows how poorly that peacetime mindset fits large-scale combat.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has featured drones on an unprecedented scale. Ukraine says roughly 80% of its strikes are carried out using drones rather than other weapons. Many never reach their targets and are lost along the way, though.
Cheap drones worth several hundred dollars have destroyed weaponry worth millions. But many of them don’t have any effect. A report last year from the UK’s Royal United Services Institute said that “between 60 and 80% of Ukrainian FPVs fail to reach their target, depending on the part of the front and the skill of the operators.”
Some drones are jammed or disrupted by electronic warfare, while others are shot down or get their cables cut. Sometimes they’re knocked out by soldiers on their own side.
Many of the drones on the battlefield are single-use, designed to explode when they hit their target, but many of them are destroyed, damaged, or disabled before they even reach that point.
Jajcay said that even drones designed to be used again and again “have a lifespan of maybe a few dozen missions at most.”
He also said that drones failed “all the time,” and those losses were expected.
Allies want to learn as much as possible from Ukraine’s drone warfare.
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The West is changing its view
The US Army is recognizing and learning from these dynamics in Ukraine, as are other Western militaries, as they incorporate the idea that drones cannot be treated as overly precious assets into their drone warfare training and doctrine.
Maj. Wolf Amacker, who leads the Army’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Tactics Branch at the Aviation Center of Excellence, told Business Insider that out of the thousands of drones used daily, only around 30% of them hit their targets, while many others don’t have a significant impact on their targets.
The Army is learning that lots of drones need to be sent forward.
Irwin-Clark told Business Insider that the way the UK sees drones has also shifted. He said “every time there’s an iterative change in technology in the battlefield, everyone gets very excited about it and the ownership of that asset tends to be far too high.”
The US Army is training troops for drone warfare.
US Army/Leslie Herlick
He said that often when a new and powerful technology emerges, senior leaders will try to tightly control it, arguing that because there are only a handful available, only a select few should have the authority to decide when it’s used. The assets are carefully protected, at least initially. Later on, trust is imparted to soldiers to handle technology previously in the charge of higher-ups.
That pattern, Irwin-Clark said, is “exactly what’s happening with drones.”
His battalion wrapped the first drones it received years ago in bubble wrap, “and we didn’t fly them very often,” he said. “When we did,” he continued, “we made sure we flew in the middle of a field with nothing, no obstacles around.”
Now, his battalion is deliberately crashing its latest drone delivery into targets, while looking at how to make repairs. “It really doesn’t matter if we break them,” Irwin-Clark said.
The US is coming at it the same way. Martin, who previously commanded a Gray Eagle drone company, said her course takes into account that “drones crash. I’ll say that to the day I die having owned drones as a commander: drones crash.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said last year that the defense department needs to view small drones as consumables rather than “durable property” — more like ammunition than valuable equipment. It’s a change that Jajcay described as “a step in the right direction.”
Western armies were using various drones in warfare before Russia’s invasion, often using them as surveillance platforms or tools for launching missile strikes. Small drones weren’t used the way they’re being used in Ukraine, but the US, UK, and others are learning drone lessons from the war.
Martin said the ongoing conflict in Ukraine shows that even when you lose drones, it’s ultimately “still cheaper than employing missiles on specific targets.” That’s an equation the US Army can’t totally ignore.
“They’re cheaper, and you’re not putting human lives in danger” to carry out the mission, she shared. And the Army knows that “they’re going to crash. It’s going to happen.”
I’ve seen multiple articles lately about the boomer avalanche — all this stuff people have — and their kids not wanting it. I’m not a boomer, but at 46, I’m already aware that I have too much stuff.
Three recent events made me think about the burden our possessions would place on our kids if something happened to us. So I started decluttering so they don’t have to deal with my stuff.
I helped my mom downsize
The first event was helping my mom downsize.
She moved from a 2,000-square-foot townhome into a much smaller rental home. Doing a pre-move assessment, it was clear that all her stuff wouldn’t fit in the new place.
The author’s mom downsized from a two-story, 2,000+ square-foot townhome to a 900-square-foot home.
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She saw it as an opportunity and spent two months purging, donating, and selling items.
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When scoping out storage spots in her new home, my mom shared that she has a stack of boxes of stuff from her mom’s house. She doesn’t want it, but doesn’t feel like she can get rid of it, and has been holding onto it since her mom passed over 10 years ago.
My kids made sure grandma didn’t get rid of her little rocking chair. They both have memories of climbing on it at Grandma’s house. It’s now in our living room.
Sometimes, there are memories wrapped up in stuff
Decorating our house for the holidays was the second event that confirmed we have too much stuff.
Every year, my husband goes into our crawl space and hauls out a full 19 boxes of holiday decor — trees, lights, ceramic villages, wrapping paper. Our house ends up covered with holidays.
This holiday season, the author started a new tradition, donating decorations her family no longer uses.
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This year, when decorating, I decided to downsize and packed a giant box with ornaments, tablecloths, mugs, and random decorations we haven’t put up in years.
During this process, I was reminded how important it is to check before donating. My husband noticed a few decorations from his mom in the “donation box.” We’re keeping them. We may not display them, but there are memories in those figurines.
I asked my kids what they wanted us to keep for them. Stockings, our Advent calendar, and the holiday village — each of them had items they associated with their holiday memories. These things will never go into the donation box.
Our stuff can be so valuable to others
During our remodel last year — event three — my youngest and I learned how much the things we have sitting on a shelf can mean to someone else. My child’s donation of stuffed animals made a huge difference to volunteers and children at a local soup kitchen.
The author says she has way too many tablecloths.
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We had a repeat experience this year, but this time with tablecloths. I have too many tablecloths. The last count was over 20. Even if I can’t get laundry done for weeks, that is many more than we need. I challenged myself to get rid of half of them.
A friend who volunteers at a shelter and soup kitchen happily took the donation. A few weeks later, we learned those tablecloths had a new life as blankets for a family of four who were living in their car at the time.
I have a process to downsize my wardrobe
Remodeling our house was the most eye-opening demonstration of how many things we have. Our storage space is still crammed with stuff that didn’t make it back into the house after the remodel.
Finding a place for everything during the renovation was a huge challenge. We quickly realized we couldn’t fit 50% of our belongings (three bedrooms and my office) in the other 50% of our house.
Hooking hangers on seat belts maximized space and kept the clothes in place when driving.
Trisha Daab
Taking up the most space — the items in my closet, which filled my entire soccer-mom-sized SUV.
So today, for every new thing I add, I donate at least two items. I’ve designated a section of my closet for things I haven’t worn, and when the seasons change, anything in that section goes. And — the most fun — I invite friends to come “shop” in my closet.
Some things are my memories, not my kids’
In my office are multiple items that remind me of my grandma.
One of my favorite memories is being at her house, spending hours poring over her high school and college yearbooks.
Yearbooks from my grandma’s high school and college years are items I won’t be getting rid of.
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When it was clear the end was near for her, she had me take those yearbooks from the nursing home. She barely remembered who she was, but she remembered how much those books meant to me.
Seeing those yearbooks evokes memories of her, keeping her alive in my mind. But they are my memories of her, not my kids’.
And that’s really the thing, isn’t it? Wrapped up in all this stuff are memories and maybe a bit of guilt about getting rid of it.
So, I will keep cleaning out that closet, clearing out the storage unit, and reducing our holiday decor, but one day, my kids may have to get rid of those yearbooks.
A second fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis on Saturday has further inflamed tensions in the city.
Immigration agents, in full view of filming protesters, tackled a 37-year-old man to the ground before one shot him multiple times. City officials said in a press conference on Saturday that the man, who they believed to be a US citizen, had died at the scene.
The shooting occurred as thousands of protesters converged in downtown Minneapolis to rally against the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge, which has flooded Minnesota with ICE agents since December. Tensions have been high since officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good on January 7.
Caught in the middle of all this are the city’s small businesses, which are typically grappling with a quiet January.
Dan Marshall, the owner of Mischief Toys in neighboring St. Paul, said he usually spends the month cleaning up after Christmas, painting the walls, and doing his taxes.
This year, though, “that’s not what we’re being called to do,” he said. Marshall co-owns the toy and game store with his wife and daughter.
Instead, he said the store has distributed about 4,000 3D printed whistles, which Minnesotans have been using as an alert and protest system against ICE. Marshall said that the store has also served as a space for the community to come in, relax, and process what they’ve been seeing.
“Retail feels totally different right now,” Marshall said. “It feels like a way of connecting with our community that we haven’t really felt before. It’s very raw.”
For small business owners in Minnesota, it’s been an eventful — and not necessarily lucrative — January, as they instead turn their attention to supporting their communities.
Many businesses are also opting into a possible income hit on January 23, when unions and faith leaders are calling for a suspension of work, school, and shopping to protest ICE’s actions. Local news site Bring Me The News compiled a growing list of over 200 local establishments’ social media posts about their plans to participate in the economic blackout day. Some have said they plan to donate that day’s revenue; others are shuttering completely or opening as a free community space.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a January 20 press release, “Since President Trump took office, DHS has arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota, and we are NOT slowing down. Our law enforcement officers are saving countless American lives.” ICE did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
In a statement, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that the Trump administration’s immigration operations “have resulted in countless dangerous criminal illegals being removed from the streets.”
“Making American communities safer will create an environment in which all businesses can thrive in the long term and their customers can feel safe,” Jackson said.
Catzen Coffee, a specialty coffee shop with an attached cat lounge, will not be doing business on Friday, but plans to open for those who need a space to hang out — free coffee and cat cuddles included.
Catzen owner Vanessa Beardsley said that the irony of being a business owner and opting out of business for a day never crossed her mind; not making revenue was never part of the calculus.
“We’ve got to do what we can do right now,” Beardsley said.
A topsy-turvy January
“January always sucks,” Matt Cole, the owner of Oh Yeah! Cookie Company, said. “As a business owner, especially in retail business, people spend a lot of money in December and November, and they usually don’t spend a lot of money in January. So January is always a month that’s hurting — and now it’s really hurting.”
National Retail Federation’s spending data shows an average drop in retail sales of 17.3% from December to January over the last five years. January through March has also typically seen the lowest average monthly employment for small businesses across the past few years. An analysis from consumer research firmConsumer Edge of credit and debit card data found that spending in theMinneapolis-St. Paul metro areaby households earning under $100,000 has tracked lower than the national average over the four weeks ending January 10.
This year, Cole estimates he’s donated around $300 worth of cookies to groups distributing treats to kids who can’t go to school amid ICE’s presence. He said that if he does make any money right now, he’ll donate 10% of his sales. The full-time role he works in addition to his homemade baking business has been keeping him afloat.
Cole isn’t the only one pivoting from normal business.
JP Pritchett, the owner of adult store Smitten Kitten in Minneapolis, said that they usually devote January to ramping up for Valentine’s Day, which they described as the “Super Bowl” for adult stores.
“Typically in January, we’re ramping up inventory, getting the store stocked, just getting ready to do commerce,” Pritchett said. “But this year, I don’t care about that. Nobody cares about that.”
Instead, Pritchett said, “We stopped all regular business and created a free store inside Smitten Kitten where people could come get food or send a trusted friend or neighbor to come get food, toiletries, lots of diapers, formula, baby wipes — all the things that are really important to sustain life if you’re in hiding.”
Marshall, the owner of Mischief Toys, said that after promoting the store’s whistle distribution, he received a notice from ICE requesting verification of his workers’ employment eligibility. He said that shuttering on the 23rd sends a message “that our community is much more important than our bottom line,” which he believes is a positive.
“We’d like to sell toys,” Marshall said, adding that he’d prefer to spend January cleaning and painting “because it’s so damn cold here,” but with heightened tensions in the city, “we’re going to step up as much as we can.”
