Roses are red, Potatoes have eyes,

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Many of the mutual aid, churches and food banks are still delivering food today. Consider a donation to one. This is a great list: www.standwithminnesota.com

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.

If you say, “There’s nothing I can do” or all you do is criticize what other people are doing, without trying anything you think might work, the fascists already beat you, because you decided to sit on the sidelines. Resistant history to authoritarianism says there’s always something you can do.

I’m almost 50. What the fuck am I going to do with the next 20 years of my life, other than try my best to contribute what I can to moving the ball down the field for the people after me? I’m going to sit around and just be angry and scared? How much sense does that even make?

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Place an online order from some of the small businesses that will be closed! Closing for even one day is a big risk for some of them. E.g., order books from our local publishers: bsky.app/profile/port... Full list of business closures: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Anywho, things are messy. We are both complicit in terrible things while also being subjected to horrors. We perpetrate harm and also experience it.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

This is like playing the lottery. You won't win, but dreaming about what you'd do feels amazing and it passes some pleasant hours until you lose.

Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:

I hate that accurate descriptions of what’s happening here make you sound like those guys who say putting fluoride in the water makes you bisexual.

Young Woman Embracing a Thorn Bush — Kay Nielsen, 1910

thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017

What if Salo was Louis XIV themed

Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

The weakest, most inept administration in history, unable to work out how best to deal with a dementia ridden President, and deciding to just let him destroy everything and hope he just dies of old age soon.

The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

I feel pretty misunderstood by people living in rural areas, and yet mysteriously, this isn’t considered a problem. I’m sick of putting up with this idiotic display of obeisance to chucklefucks simply because they live in rural areas.

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My rage is pretty white hot these days, real surface of the sun shit. My anger is plasma fr

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

Respectfully, leaving abusive situations is not “letting the abuser win”. It’s a common, but deeply problematic way to frame any kind of abusive or hostile environment. “Just keeping taking the abuse” is deeply misogynistic

I posted these to insta yesterday because I really don’t know what else to do. A portion of these sticker sales will go to the ACLU. Keep each other safe.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Hey - if you have to use IG for work - especially at times where it’s critical to see people you care about and not algorithm slop, for now at least, this appears to be a means of keeping the garbage off your timeline… I’d rather everyone move here, but until then… #instagram #tips #fuckthealgorithm

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

I stumbled across a Twitter post from John Carmack about how all the game devs who left for silly ideological reasons should come back and all the quotes are like "this is a child porn site now bro." We made a huge mistake when we decided that guys who are good at computers are all-around smarties.

Get hopepilled. Get revolution pilled. Get "let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair" pilled.

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?

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

do the work not because you have to but because that's a life well-lived. live the fuck outta your life. the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't. make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.

the way you stay plugged in to movement work is by working constantly on community learning how to BE IN community is an individual skill actively working on your own accountability deprogramming the white supremacy, ego, misogyny you bring to the work it takes practice and you'll make mistakes

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Just for the recored: Seeing people hurt or killed, or looking at the remains of people who have been hurt or killed, robs you of the analytical faculties you need to make a sound judgment about how to react. A major feature of modern warfare is recirculating old atrocity videos to hype people up.