Protesters carried a giant rendition of the U.S. Constitution through downtown Minneapolis on Friday, chanting "ICE out now." 📷️: Kyeland Jackson

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

What drove de-dollarization from 2014-24 was fear among a small subset of states that the US would use its financial capabilities to coerce them. What's driving the dollar "vibe shift" today is the unprecedented soiling of America's domestic & foreign policy reputation. 9/

Seems a bad decision to pick a city with a lot of social capital (i.e., a wide variety of active civic society organizations) that could be used as a basis of social mobilization. It seems that one thing that allows the right to rise is the decline of social capital. So you all join anything.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

It's not like protests work by themselves. They are part of a mobilization effort to organize so as to directly confront and stop injustices from occurring, to pressure elected officials to act, and to educate the public. Social movements are hard to do and take time to work as history shows.

This is so fucking haunting.

I am not sure more training is going to cure this type of behavior.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

An amazing story.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Sadly it is no more today.

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

my man dr oz getting wound up about a super obscure part of the inflation debate

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

In South Africa, there was a very strong civic society organization that allied all sorts of different types of groups called the United Democratic Front.

That's a difficulty with too many policies and that Dems think good policies make good politics without the tough work of connecting with voters.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect

An excellent article.

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's like going to the casino to pay your rent.

Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

There's just so many examples and types of blatant corruption out in the open that it's hard to keep up and one wonders how much we aren't seeing.

What about all the U.S. banana farmers who had already invested so much in infrastructure and training on the assumption banana tariffs would continue.

I wonder how many of these I do every day.

This is a lot of pressure for a poo.

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

This is the key for creating an accountable government.

I imagine this will just give the ad (which is in the comments) a lot more attention.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Isn't this trend kind of bad for Texas?

Adam Douglas Thompson, The New Yorker

What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

South Korea’s Lee says soldiers must never again aim firearms at the people, referencing martial law.

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

#newspeak is a bit depressing when seen in the wild.

Some good news www.wsj.com/articles/che...

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For the life of me, I can’t understand why the entirety of the American government didn’t see the trouble we were in, the moment flat earthers rose to popularity again. Buckle up, you guys. I’m about to explain why stupidity is the #1 indicator of an authoritarian movement. (a thread 🧵👇🏻)

Looks like some kind of threshold being crossed. Many suddenly vertical lines.

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this will never stop being my favourite @theonion.com article theonion.com/millions-of-...

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle… Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)