Mueller Park, Minneapolis: 5 months ago (Operation Metro Surge) and today (Wedge Cat Tour)

Cat tour stream twitch.tv/pkmncast

Minneapolis friends, I'm sorry to go. I've been extremely grateful to give into this community over the years, and this time I have an ask, as I am going into this summer with nothing but a plan for moving forward. Anything, however small, you are able to give is greatly appreciated.

little point of Minnesota pride here: "All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."

Was Crow Picnic good? Hell yeah brother Food was shared, trinkets swapped, and caws exchanged.

One life regret: stepping out for dinner during Kvelertak's set.

Not just him.

Watching Andor for the first time and it's fucking me up a bit. The hotel on Ferris is the Whipple Federal Building.

Via a press release, Cedrick Frazier, candidate for Hennepin County Attorney, has laid out his plans to prosecute ICE agents. My take: a lot of this is just an explanation of how prosecution works, but it's very important for Frazier to explain that to the public. And there are a few notable items

Psionics permitted area.

I don’t have an MBA so I don’t know what they’re teaching over in the business school, but in policy school we learned that it’s bad if your negotiating partners think you’re a fucking liar.

if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?

Weird but true: Shortly before the ICE surge, MPD added policy language about federal immigration enforcement to include a "duty to intervene and duty to report." But somehow we got through the last several months and MPD never intervened, never forwarded any cases to the county attorney's office.

Apparently Minnesota police officers are “afraid they might get arrested or something worse” if they intervene when ICE agents are doing crimes. Meanwhile they let thousands of unpaid, unarmed Minnesotans go ahead and intervene instead. Their cowardice is breathtaking

Good job, Angie. Now stop campaigning.

Regime change must start at home.

Any word from Walz or Frey on what THEY have done is stolen fucking valor. The end.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Oof, men's and women's losing gold to the USA hurts. Made them work for it at least.

Stump speech 🪵PARTY

Their response is always something like “You make it sound bad!”

Just learned about how Canada felt the need to clarify that, legally, saying sorry is not automatically an admission of fault.

I'm constantly getting surprised by entire dimensions that have been invisible to me.

My 15yo loves hearing who the day's crew involved; usually colors and Pokemon are strongly represented.

Vancouver Before Christ by Raft of Dead Monkeys

Players' schedules have changed, and a couple seats have opened up, so if you want to get in on a samurai murder mystery with a side of forest adventure, we are now meeting at 11am Central on Tuesdays!

Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan on the same team is like if you dropped Messi into the 2002 Brazil team

They could've randomly picked almost any one of my neighbors and they would've been more qualified to be interviewed by Klepper than dollar-store Carcetti.

Well, obviously we can't have that. We have to pay massive amounts of overtime to police who failed to arrest the most blatant criminals for months.

Pretty sure Aisha meant her words in a "we wouldn't be doing this if the need wasn't so goddamn significant" not a "we need to be restrained in using city money to meet this moment," Jacob

I'm a Milf Drone Goth?

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

Keyword: "starts"

We are facing a humanitarian crisis here. Each passing day we learn of new neighbors who haven’t left their homes and have fallen through the cracks. Lots of people aren’t connected to mutual aid networks. Just terrible suffering caused by the federal government.

Your constituents lives have been turned over entirely because of a federal occupation. That you’re pulling your punches because you’re worried about it becoming a constitutional crisis is overlooking what is already happening. You need to at least communicate that you understand what is happening.

Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

For every true, principled libertarian (and I know several) there are dozens of grifters, hacks, and illiberal corporate cucks.

We are living through a movement moment whose workings must not be wholly visible, even though the movement itself must be visible. That's complicated. Fashion will be part of it.

We are one of the local game developers featured, with our Cy_Borg one-shot, Speed Run; all assistance welcomed! Funds go to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

RPG Session Prep Day! In the next 10 days, I'll be running 10 distinct campaigns/one-shots.

“Pattern of life” People saying “hey, we don’t normally have 3 blacked out jeep wagoneers idling with masked men in tactical vests on our block”

Federal immigration officers detained two people inside the Hennepin County Government Center after their court hearing on charges of criminal sexual conduct. The chief public defender for the county said the detainments were unconstitutional.

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

I have been trying to frame this for non-Minnesotans; asking what they can do. If you have $100 to give: $20 to formal orgs $20 to legal aid work $20 to emergency rent funds $20 to the next (underfunded) mutual aid ask you see. Give $20 to a Minnesotan and tell them to buy some great local food.

The last family I raised money for rent for: I didn't meet (they live in the same building as a friend), and my friends gave money to see them avoid eviction, not knowing the family or their neighbor. I am humbled and grateful to have been part of such a chain of trust.