Minneapolis and Saint Paul, we see what the federal government is doing to you, and we want to help you survive it.

The sheer amount of faux history AI query hallucinations circulating lately, told as fact, is so dispiriting. People have always gotten bad secondhand info, always spread half-truths and myths, but the ease with which LLM "search" enables believable untruth to get generated and spread is terrifying.

20 bikers showed up in 30-degree weather to volunteer at LaBagh Woods this morning. Always great to have @oofd.org partner with us for a workday!

It is extremely plausible that y’all demolish this wishlist today. Get in touch with me or Bree if your group in Minneapolis has a wish list we can let people loose on. Maybe groceries or other supplies?

I've got about 15k set aside to get good politicians elected and I'm starting to think with Democrats like these, mutual aid would do a better job of helping my neighbors long term. Who's a Chicagoland politician you like who's willing to say and act on abolishing ice and defunding the police?

Well, in late August, the judge dismissed the case with prejudice anyways. This part of the ruling is an absolute gem. Just brutal. Keep reading, ya fuckin doorknobs.

i’m at plymouth church for their sunday forum with edwin of the immigrant defense network speaking now. there are samosas in the lobby edwin says we have about 3k ICE agents here and more coming. largest deployment of ICE agents in the country’s history

Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

I just filled this out and boy do I have strong opinions about how much I do not need "AI" on my Discord experience.

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I’m sorry, but it is wild to me that a resident should pay thousands of dollars to have a (public) sidewalk fixed.

If you’re a Minnesota activist and you need supplies like ice cleats, power banks, hand warmers, etc. in your fight against ICE, drop your Amazon list here or to emidly.08 on Signal and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and I have got you

Anyone in Chicago got any of these items lying around that they could share with Minneapolis?

Brick of Chicago is hiring a tour guide 👀

If you guys want some good news: my neighbors managed to source 10,000 whistles for Minneapolis

And those generally agreed outcomes in most situations in criminal court are in service of an oppressive system. Now we are seeing our courts expand the oppression. And so many lawyers are just agreeing. I don't know what you replace it with.

I asked a political candidate if they support defunding the police and they responded saying with current problems the increase in recent funding is a poor allocation of resources. And that's not a no, but it's also definitely not a yes.

a speaker says “it took 50 years of organizing against brutality to get this commission and now you are protecting the cops”

it's awesome that the best the city can offer to citizens who feel intimidated and brutalized by police on daily basis is a disorganized, glorified town hall in the same place i saw cindy lee play a couple months ago and just say "damn that's crazy".

Information I needed in advance of the primary

@durbin.senate.gov continuing to prove he is not meant for this moment

A well trained murder and kidnapping squad is not an improvement over our current murder and kidnapping squads.

And guess what? They get tons of "training!" The problem isn't training, it's the entire institution of sanctioned state violence.

Police training increases police budgets and police jobs Increased police jobs and budgets increase police power and resources Police power and resources increase violence So be very sure about what you are asking for and how expanding police $ makes anyone safer than community investments

the deference the media *still* gives dhs after months of straight-up lying isn’t much different from how it treats cops. despite decades of evidence that cops lie about literally everything, journalists are still more willing to believe, or at least repeat, the “official” line. why?

I'd say they SHOULDN'T be "allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said," but that's not the reality of how police shootings are handled in the overwhelming number of jurisdictions, red or blue, throughout America.

Please find a way to support your neighbors today, especially the people systems are persecuting and neglecting.

Transit app suggested I get off at state and lake today

Every day my life is threatened by an SUV and I have shot 0 people over it. Cops are the biggest babies in the world and it's our fault for coddling them. They need the stick now.

3D print whistles. Assemble whistle kits. Hand out know your rights cards. Take a shift at the ICE watch hotline. Offer to help manage a spreadsheet for your local mutual aid or community defense group. Walk kids to school. Raise money for resisters. Raise money for impacted neighbors.

As far as I can tell, that person died trying to comply with orders to get out of the way, but even beyond that, I am from Chicago, where people have tailed and blocked ICE vehicles and very intentionally gotten in the way, and you know what? They shouldn't be free to kill us for resisting fascism.

The federal government is at war with northern cities.

If everyone who sees a MIWHT image hit me up on ko-fi I would have an indeterminate amount of money greater than I have now. ko-fi.com/phineasx

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

I am already seeing reporters parrot DHS's version of the story, which is journalistic malpractice. Every story they spun about being under threat in Chicago was either seriously undermined by subsequently revealed evidence or outright proven false in court. Lying is ALWAYS their first move.

KARAOKE IS SO GOOD FOR THE SOUL! Like performing yes but also a good community in the room in troubling times. Boy howdy, what a balm.

Today in National Bean Day. Chicago has the best you can find.

1 like = 1 charity I gave to last year

This is going to be good. @lefttheprairie.bsky.social , @lizzyisi.bsky.social , @elizabethgomez.bsky.social are just the bsky usernames I know, but a great group of folks to answer this question.

More details at 20x2.org/chicago/

Thank you for importing content from the child porn website, but I'm really not interested. I need you to know that there's nothing I need to see from the world's prominent pedophilia website.

If another country did a Maduro on Trump, what are the odds that they would also be able to kidnap Melania? I think sub 1%