Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

The people concerned about the trauma of kids seeing a protest at church are silent on the trauma of seeing people disappeared by secret police from school grounds and at bus stops

the stated economic theory behind DOGE was you could save a lot of money by cutting federal workers and kicking fraudulent recipients off benefits programs, but there just aren't that many non-critical federal workers and the vast, vast, vast majority of benefits recipients are legitimate

emily oster hasn't mentioned minnesota or ICE's occupation induced school absences at all on The Everything App btw

Ooh. Not a great start.

Snow days were the single best thing about school in the 90s. Just pure unbridled joy seeing your county scroll by on the screen or your parents sneaking in and turning off your alarm in the middle of the night.

Good morning! I am teaching in solidarity with Minneapolis on general strike today! So proud of my fellow Americans!

I get it but all the literature says 1. All reps overestimate the representativeness of callers 2. The number of calls needed to worry a politician is really low 3. All reps tend to overestimate the conservatism of their district but calls start to adjust that. Slow boring of hard boards

MEN filmed women without consent.

Resolved: no one should be on their work email at 7:15 at night.

I am just a small-town political scientist, & it’s a long way to November, but allow me to again note that it doesn’t appear that The Democrats actually need to do any of the things that Ezra Douthglesias or the Deciding To Win folks or the Crypto-Enabling Word-Policing Senators insist they Must Do.

A big step forward for WCK teams in Gaza! 🚚 We can now bring in delivery trucks loaded with fresh & frozen produce & protein from Egypt. This is a big step towards our goal of serving 1 million meals a day in Gaza & ensures we can keep supporting families with lifesaving meals. #ChefsForGaza

Here in Minneapolis, hundreds of clergy from all over the country have been deployed into the streets to participate in ICE/DHS watch. The hail from a range of religious traditions, and have come from all over. This particular group is in a heavily immigrant neighborhood.

Weird framing. How about: "A federal judge has rejected claims by a conservative group that Northwestern University's law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring"?

the problem with the EU is primarily in that both its enemies and its most fervent advocates seem to believe that the function of the EU is to ensure that the regulatory state is absolutely comprehensive down to the microscopic level, and that Germany is never responsible for anyone else's debt

I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Regardless of whether you agree with it, the law that would have banned TikTok — passed by the Congress, signed into law by the President at the time, and unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court — has been ignored for the past year. This headline is absurd.

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story (spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)

Today, Kansas City took action to protect our community’s priorities. A five-year moratorium on mass detention facilities ensures our focus stays on building businesses, homes, and schools, not large-scale detention centers.

L.A. Metro, the main transit operator for Los Angeles, just voted to oppose SB 79, a law legalizing the construction of housing near stations. You can't make this stuff up. Legislators should remember this the next time they come to Sacramento begging for more money. laist.com/news/housing...

Both of my local liquor stores are closed. Liquor stores. In winter. In Minnesota. On a Friday.

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

Positive morning post! I am grateful this morning for my job, my (astonishing) actually good boss, and the fact that my commute is currently one BART stop.

“don’t usually have”

If you're interested in WHICH businesses are standing in solidarity with the Twin Cities and how to support them (AltNPS apparently isn't), you can find a comprehensive list here: www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

Pelosi was lowkey right that in the balance of things it would have been for the best if Milley had just arrested Trump that day, i think that breach—while much more dramatic—would have been not severely worse than the Quiet Lockout we actually got

That last post about resistance in Minnesota is why so many of us get mad at people who say "we hate all Americans." Minnesotans are standing up against a government occupation and they are risking their lives.

Just shared this one Facebook, because I had to get the words out. Sharing here in case its in any way useful to you.

This is the kind of thing that justifies rebelling against a government - according to this own country's founding documents.

He will 100% do this.

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

Ideal conditions for a beagle. Less than ideal conditions for recording a podcast 😂📣 (sound on)

It’s really funny because my actual European friends are like “we are not doing so much better, we must all stand together against the rise of the far right“ and then some chronically online dimwit is like “When trump has a temper tantrum its every single American’s fault, we hate all of you”

One of the things people misunderstand about a good system of education is that the capstone payoff is curiosity, not knowledge. It is more important to learn to want to know things, than it is to learn some set of things.

Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos

Other countries might hate our government more than we do, but even in countries where Americans are thought of poorly, it does not come close to our domestic stats of 45% thinking another 45% are an existential threat

This is the second morning I've chosen to erase an intensely irritated initial post, and it's a clear sign that my first post of the morning must by statute be positive. I will hew to that from now on.

Now that I've added all my feeds to my timeline, I regularly get science paper titles that are absolute gibberish to me and it's fun. Most of them seem like good news!

"The spaces I spend hours a day in online all hate X! This is undoubtedly the viewpoint all over the world!!" Ok well when I was out in the actual world, most of the ppl I encountered werent remotely as fixated on that and, if they knew about it, had far more muddled thoughts. Funny how that works.

This account never misses.

Nuclear proliferation. No one is talking about it but it's definitely an issue that Greenland highlights. Every middle power in the world from Germany to South Korea to Brazil now has an incentive to secretly develop nuclear weapon capability.

The strays that Protestantism is catching here....

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

this is just conservatism, no understanding of the systems they benefit from and constant false victimhood

If only we could find the people responsible for this !!!