Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Whittier! I’ve been there. Fascinating place. Stayed two nights in the towers. Our rental had a sauna in its living room. 1st time I ever saw one! Anyway, this is a powerful article. You will learn a lot from it. Read it.

I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.

“And the conversation Is end-stopped when The shell cracks her Car window, does its Dumb duty, Brings silence To a poet’s mind.”

Stop calling us killers or we will kill again

“You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.” - Gail Mackenzie-Smith 🎭

TIL: “A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others.” But put that in the Book of Useless Information for we live in ruleless times, where institutions and norms mean nothing, especially when it comes to America’s Tyrantosaur Vex.

The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it

This is Christian Miranda Romano. He is a teenager and an American citizen. Last year he said his goal was, “In five to ten years, I want to be taking care of my mom and siblings”. Yesterday, he was working at a Target in Richfield, MN when ICE kidnapped him (link to video below).

“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.”

New polling from Civiqs finds support for abolishing ICE has reached a new high. Other polls have shown a decrease in the agency's approval rating, and broad anxiety about agents' use of force to accomplish Trump's agenda www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

"Unconstitutional" is in the party of the beholder

Total growth in non-farm payrolls, by year: 2016: +2.3m 2017: +2.1m 2018: +2.3m 2019: +2.0m 2020: -9.2m (covid) 2021: +7.2m (covid recovery) 2022: +4.6m 2023: +2.6m 2024: +2.0m 2025: +0.6m

“the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.”

Note: This move not only cuts out state access, but it undermines one of the most concrete changes that came out of George Floyd's killing here in Minneapolis in 2020, which is the BCA Force Investigations Unit, created to restore trust in investigations when law enforcement kills civilians.

Obstruction of justice by… the US Department of Justice

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The no-angeling is already in full swing.

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If you're going to justify the state executing an innocent person, at least take off the cross.

“And then they started coming on the property of the school and pushing people and tackling people and shooting pepper spray and pepper balls. And they handcuffed two of our employees.”

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

"If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States will intervene to save them... Well, who will save us, the American citizens, when Trump's masked soldiers are killing us?"

Today, the US government advises every citizen to build a disaster kit. According to a 2023 FEMA survey, 51% of Americans are in some way “prepared for a disaster.” This helps explain why the prepping industry’s market cap is forecast to reach nearly $300 billion by 2030.

The Guard will be in MN by the weekend @tjeerdroyaards.com

BTW for those with no clue what I'm referencing, and to make clear I'm not just referencing Christmas in Ethiopia, see this nice explainer.

Melkam Gena!!! We thank Yegena Abat for leaving some simple gifts for Son.

MCCLANE: Drop it dickhead. It's the police. TONY: You won't hurt me. MCCLANE: Yeah? Why not? TONY: Because you're a policeman. There are rules for policemen. MCCLANE: Yeah. That's what my Captain keeps telling me. [smashes left forearm/elbow into Tony's face before some forever sleep for Tony]

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“The end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, founded in 1968, begins a new era in public media, with local stations across the United States fighting for survival… [T]he long-term future of public TV and radio is far from certain.” 🫩

When Donald Trump was criminally indicted the U.S. government didn’t start running the Trump Organization.

He is starting wars between naps, ffs, and still nobody will say "the Emperor is naked".

“Run Venezuela” = “Steal Their Oil”

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

The World Policeman, now with qualified immunity

“WHY AM I THE ONLY AUTOCRAT HE DOESN'T LIKE?”

The most unlawful POTUS ever deepens his unlawfulness. What a disgrace to the Constitution and international law. And for what? Hubris, baby. Hubris.

Seventy years ago, Jonas Salk and his team worked in a lab between a morgue and a darkroom to develop the world’s first successful polio vaccine. A filmmaker who made a documentary on Salk’s work explains why forgetting life before vaccines has real consequences: buff.ly/VYpqOy4 #vaccineswork

Dovetails with his view of the U.S. Treasury, which he treats as his personal piggy bank