This is awesome. Kudos to all the folks fighting the good fight in the twin cities.

Jeffries: "You think 18% approval is low? Hold my beer!" Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Why do people post the screencap rather than link to the damn article? I don't want to have to hunt down the stupid article just to verify it really exists, and so I can read it to see if the content matches the headline or the headline is functional lie. Just give the stupid link.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. "In its shadow is a young forest: red maple, white birch, and white pine standing like soldiers, their trunks uniform and straight."

I'm gonna wear out the wikipedia article at this rate

Earlier today someone asked why Ring is an issue, and I dug up the emergency clause on Amazon's site and explained how law enforcement could abuse that loophole, especially with the sort of bad faith we can expect from ICE. It seems the clause is being used. www.eff.org/nb/deeplinks...

A simple volume pulseaudio script for #linux. I use this heavily. Getting it to work reliably is tricky, so I thought I'd share. It uses "wob" to display a % bar on wayland. The argument is "+X" or "-X" to change by X percent. "mute" will mute. The script is in the alt text for copy/paste.

Ours are discussions of what we can do, what we are doing, what state we'd be in if a few more folks were doing everything we're doing, how else can we prepare, should we give up and bail to another country, and a bit of mentally preparing to die. Literally that's ~70% of what we talk about.

good afternoon skeeters, happy monday - drink water - take your meds - everyone looks good in a crop top - support & share mutual aid - pay sex workers - be kind to yourself and others - be excellent to each other

I poke at the LinuxOS (Not Android/Linux) cellphone situation again every so often. I'm close to making it workable. Except I absolutely require wifi calling, and for now you have to hack together a VOIP provider multiplexing to SIP. I've tried and never got that to be reliable. LineageOS for now

Hilarious fact about this document: James Earl Ray assassinated MLK jr. When asked if he acted alone, or was part of a larger conspiracy: *66% of white folk say conspiracy *100% of Black folk say conspiracy 100%. Because *some* white folk know about this FBI squad, but *most* Black folk do.

Marshaled (or... peacekeepered?) my first protest today. Mostly ensuring no-one blocked a driveway. Protest was a honk-and-wave style in Waitsfield and it went well. One person I talked to counted 178 people at one point, and figured that wasn't quite peak. The purpose here is to build momentum.

I'm not sure where this idea comes from that ICE and Border Patrol couldn't hack it in the "real" military. The data does not support this; in fact both of these agencies recruit heavily from the military. A very large number of Border Patrol agents and Deportation Officers are former infantry.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I read a book on forestry, went on a snowshoe hike through the forest with Angie and made it to our friends' house, hung out for a bit and played with their dog, snowshoed home, made icecream with home-made mint extract, and cooked a nice dinner. Enjoying life between fighting and processing.

The Black Panthers in Philadelphia have initiated armed community defense initiatives to counter ICE kidnapping raids within the city. (January 15, 2026) ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾

It is horrific to see radical law enforcement bring violent riots to children.

if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon

Join Indivisible Calais, Montpelier, and Mad River Valley for a peaceful protest on Monday, January 19, at 11 AM. Organizers are meeting at Mad River Green, Waitsfield, VT 05673 with energy and signs. Show up to support democracy and condemn fascism. Register here: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblem...

Security folklore of the morning is that no one should share URLs on Signal because it exposes IP addresses and people should use QR codes instead. Please don’t do this! QR codes are much less secure. If you’re concerned about link security, turn off link previews which you can do in Signal settings

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

I was very angry, frustrated and depressed that much of the left can't connect Renee Good to BLM. Then today I suddenly remembered that people are terrible and I hate them, and i feel a bit better. I got so distracted by politics that somehow I forgot. People here as any group... Any group at all.

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

My wife and I like whiskey and found a good VT brand. After Canadians dropped U.S. alcohol brands we felt we should too excepting small local. So we're doing all small local now. For fellow Vermonters we recently discovered Poor Farm. Whistle pig is an overpriced lie owned by folks in New York.

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

US history is generally taught as Plymouth Rock, blank space, War of Independence, blank space, Civil War, blank space, World War II, blank space, 9/11, so this checks out

historically accurate☑️

Any number over $1 and under $5 is $5 Over $5.50 is $7 and over $7.50 is $10. So, I disagree with everyone here. $7.60 is $10. $8 doesn't exist. $21 is $20, $22 is $25. $42 is $40. I never mentally round dollars down until that range.

Why do you people lie like this? 👮🏻‍♂️"Show me your f*cking hands n*gger, or I'll blow your f*cking head off!" is what I've been told more than once. A Black immigrant is still more likely to be pulled over by cops and killed for being Black, than pulled over by ICE and killed for being an immigrant.

The guy who shot and killed Good is one of the trainers. With over 10 years of law enforcement experience, SWAT experience, and a NG tour in Iraq. When I’m talking training, I’m doing it to show people that these are terrible officers by comparison to national standards. Training won’t fix this

My first experience with ZFS went pretty smoothly. I migrated my server's data to 2 mirrored drives by installing one drive, moving the data to it, then installing the second, adding it to the vdev, and letting it resilver. That let me move the data from the old data drive without a 3'rd drive bay.

One of the first machines I programmed on only had static RAM for storage. If you swapped the 4 double-A batteries relatively quickly you could keep your data. We never had the tape-deck for permanent storage.

My wife and I spent yesterday morning shooting skeet in our field. We were chucking the clay pigeons by hand. It was our first time using our (purchased used) mossberg 12 gauge and a fun way to get comfortable with it's operation. Now is a great time to pick up a gun. Lefties can buy them too.

Fun fact: your local fire departments, EMS, and police are not required to provide services to federal buildings or lands except in rare cases when there is a specific written contract

Renee was killed by ICE in Hennepin County, where Klobuchar was County Attorney. During the time that Klobuchar was County Attorney, cops killed 30 people. How many charges did she bring against these killer cops? A) 30 of course! Murder is murder. B) Only 15? Half ain't bad. C) 5?😮 D) Zero?🤦🏿‍♂️

I'm becoming pessimistic enough about government for accelerationism to start making sense. But, since I don't think nearly enough people understand why what we have is bad and what we need to build instead, and suspect the result would likely be worse, I'm also too pessimistic for accelerationism.

Contact your reps about abolishing ICE. The link includes a pre-filled letter. You can just send that, or write your own. I added some text about police in general, and the need to completely rethink all of law enforcement as well as disbanding ICE. actionnetwork.org/letters/2444...

🤷🏿‍♂️Um... It already is a daily occurrence? There were only 6 days in 2025 that US cops *didn't* shoot a person to death. These shootings mostly happen at traffic stops. Again, some things that happen to Black people every single day, only become seen as horrific when they happen to non-Black people

It's interesting to think that there started being a fairly insistent left wing strain in American politics since the W Bush administration which has only grown - and one of the dominant forces in US politics making sure it didn't win wasn't Republicans, but Dems. Hence leftists being sick of them.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

I feel like this is a really critical question right now. For all our reps. Walz is out there saying "we're not going to take the bait" and he'll mobilize the MNNG if PROTESTERS get violent. But ICE has ALREADY KILLED SOMEONE (multiple someones, in multiple states now). How many is "enough?"

Thing is, there are LOTS of genuine progressives working w/in the Dem “establishment!” It’s *beyond* irritating that Online Lefties think everyone working in party politics or nominally w/in “the system” are all Manchin-loving corporatists. We’re not! Change is hard, some folks push from the inside.

I had to enable "adult content". I didn't realize I hadn't. I don't want to see the video. It's important we know what happened, but it's not important to intentionally traumatize ourselves. But I do want it to show up and have the option to click it. I want to choose what to see case-by-case.

My FJ's been throwing codes about the secondary air injection valve on the left side. It's frozen shut before, but it wasn't resolving this time so I finally took it apart. I'm not entirely sure how it works, but that definitely looks broken. I have a new one on order so I can pass inspection.

I have rarely read something that I identify with so strongly (the quote in particular).

Gentoo Linux continues to take what I see as the right path. First they ban LLM contributions (there are details), and now they are moving from github to codeberg. I love this distro. LLMs lwn.net/Articles/970... github -> codeberg linuxiac.com/gentoo-2025-...

An interesting thread. I joined my local indivisible and found that while I'm happy to take part in actions, I neither feel inspired nor knowledgeable enough to have opinions on organizing actions. I'll continue protesting and getting into peacekeeping, but I intend to try town government.

NEARLY 50% INCREASED RISK OF NEW AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE. Do you know how HUGE an effect that is to find?

Are you *sure* this wasn't invented for kinky purposes? No really, just how sure are you? I don't believe you.