Remember that time like, uh, two weeks ago when MPD chief O’Hara went on WCCO to single out “East African kids” as a core problem in Minneapolis? Can’t imagine why that came to mind again.

In October, I attended the @empirefiles.bsky.social LA film premiere for their new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy. By far, one of the most crucial topics & reporting of our lifetime. A must-watch! For The Southlander newsletter, I wrote about the film ⬇️

Minneapolis mayor Frey and St Paul mayor Carter on tv at 1:30p to offer empty statements without action or plan with ICE skulking around this morning to hunt Somalis.

The magical thinking amongst a broad swath of people that if only person X or Y went away some significant change to status quo would be achieved. Terribly corrosive and exhausting. I am getting too old for people whose dreams and imagination extend no further than nibbling the edge.

hi everyone. I know need everywhere is acute right now. but @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social in my hometown has a need for about $900 worth of supplies for hygiene kits for unhoused people. I think we could cover that. would you join me in making a donation at the link?

I'm deleting the ice incidents thread because enough of us have seen it & I can't stand to have it blowing up all day. They're extremely active in South Minneapolis 12/1 & 12/2 with several verified incidents of people being taken, even leaving kids in vehicles in this cold. Look out for people.

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Hegseth trying to bus the Admiral doing boat strikes, the White House trying to bus Hegseth. Media, and the alleged opposition party, fully wrapped in that story while obfuscating the true purpose; collapsing Venezuela on behalf of US oil companies. Send them all to the bottom of the ocean.

when I tell people I do climate and political work and people just say “why?”…not really as a question, just as a statement of how useless they think it is

The actual joke is any US politician being held accountable for crimes against humanity.

Last 3 hours to join Blanket Friday, our alternative to the consumerist hellscape designed to lull us into genocide denial in the us settler colony, in Palestine, and everywhere empire extends. All powered by workers in hellish conditions. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...

Nevermind that a reporter told me about cases they've encountered in which Venezuelan immigrants have used the CBP Home app to "self-deport," only to spend months in detention instead. It goes without saying that they also never received the promised $1,000 from DHS.

These are screenshots from an actual DHS press release that just went out offering "self-deportation" as a "gift" to "illegal aliens" this holiday season. This administration is truly repugnant.

Could not tell you how many nights in my life inevitably involved Jumbo’s.

3pm bourbon for the bourbonhole.

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NEW for Ten Four: ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life. Part 1 of many this week! latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...

Funny how I’m seeing articles about stingy (broke) Gen Z and Millennials not spending enough for Christmas, while ABC News is telling a more generic story that spending overall is up. They’re also using it to push retailers prioritizing AI, because of course.

A couple neighbor dogs figured out I always have treats in my pocket so now when they see me they’ll sit at the fence until they get one.

A 5 year investigation into an LAPD shooting revealed that an officer with LAPD’s Community Safety Partnership shot at crowds of partygoers in South Central LA. After suing for records twice, footage & documents showed... inadvertent.substack.com/p/the-blue-h...

In a precedential opinion, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirms the dismissal of a transgender woman's discrimination case against a Catholic school, ruling the 1st Amendment protects the school because declining to employ trans people "affects the faith and mission of the church itself." #MACW

The Office of Police Accountability found that SPD's violent overreaction to a May protest in Cal Anderson was neither violent nor an overreaction. Case closed! www.divestspd.com/p/no-justice...

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Creeping on one month without a cig but if you dropped a carton in my lap I’d be double fisting them today.

Reminder that it was the Democrats who normalized the kind of extra-judicial warfare that the Republicans are now escalating in the Caribbean (among other places).

I see we've entered the part of the news cycle about the anti-trans grifters where cis people have read trans people posting about how this was obviously an attempt to get a trans teacher fired and are now saying it as if they came up with the idea Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Of course local news is shilling Ring cameras as a holiday gift, because morning & afternoon broadcast news is little more than a home shopping network. If they can do vertical integration for their business partners in policing even better.

Couldn’t get dad to turn off the tv and go to bed until 2am. Old dog didn’t settle until 3am. Cat with the usual 5am wake up. Dad back at the booming tv at 6am. Milk run for mom at 7am. 15 minutes of guitar with cat hanging from the headstock the entire time. My life every day, folks.

Persistent surveillance & geolocation, and specifically Flock (which is party to an integration with Ring camera and Axon BWCs) is becoming so pervasive that police departments in Minnesota issued grants to landlords to install ALPRs at apartment complexes this year.

NEW: Portland releases ‘community surveillance database’ of ICE/DHS vehicles, made searchable for anyone to use. The database was compiled from careful community research. Notes agents have been observed swapping plates. ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei...

That they’re in the Philippines is low on my list of concerns. They could be in whatever US city you choose and it would change nothing. That corporations & cops built and continue to expand a pervasive, multilayered & aggregated surveillance apparatus is the core problem.

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Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather. NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.

KSTP just informed me that Minnesota is in a statewide lockdown due to roving Somali gangs. Because the president said so. They reported it with a straight face and with no rebuttal. Our news media, folks.

Weird how everyone is saying they missed out on gym time due to the holiday. What? You didn't throw hands with your racist uncle?

Tension implies this is a mutual conflict. Reality, which has been admitted to by the peace prize winner who wants a coup to install her and recently a House GOP member, is that it’s a singular effort by the US to steal Venezuela’s vast oil & gas reserves.

The “that’s illegal I’ll see you in The Hague” crowd cracks me up when they’re so earnest about it. Whom will be enforcing such a fate? Those enforcement institutions are willing partners in crime.

Why are people humoring one of the most quietly nefarious US corporations? There is their enthusiasm for the “DEI purge” which people have focused on recently. But Target also runs, I thought infamously, a massive surveillance and “law enforcement” operation which predominantly targets black youth.

Fortunately for dog the winter storm appears to be shifting focus south to mostly pound on Iowa. The cold is still coming but the overnight snowfall has been light.

I just got an update on this fundraiser, if anybody is able to donate.❤️ (1/2)

My old desert dog really hates cold and snow. Walks along the ocean in 50F was the edge of his tolerance. If this forecast holds and we do get a 27 hour winter storm he is not going to be a happy dude.

Ugly storm inbound. As far as I know this tiny town has one homeless person. I don’t really have the cash for it anymore but got him a room for three nights. He wasn’t made to watch his stuff get trashed, threatened with arrest, or told to die. It’s that easy. So, what’s wrong with our governments?

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🚨 COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 At LaGuardia Airport, there are several rumored and one confirmed ICE arrest of domestic travelers. If you are at risk of detention or not sure, exercise caution while traveling. Make a safety plan in case of detention and consult an immigration attorney.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts