What's happening here? Do we think the Epstein Files were altered to target Trump's enemies? To confuse issues and obscure who really was committing serious abuses? Deflect blame? Is Gates lying? I'm wondering if they're flooding the real information with false information to confuse everything.

I don't know if you have noticed or not but there is something different in the air Wherever I go now people are kinder, more generous, more interested in the well being of others. Broad smiles & open eyes. People are seeing each other. Actually listening to the answer after asking, "How are you?"

Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."

The character of the monsters running America can be witnessed in every way they treat another human being. * Imprisoning children * Hunting the most vulnerable * Raping children (Epstein Files) * Vilifying empathetic people * Threatening allies * Spreading hate * Exploitation * Public homicide

Vampire-like stories (likely something much scarier) will be told for thousands of years about how morally horrible the wealthy ruling class in America is today. ... That is, if we can survive another century with literal monsters pushing humanity and the Earth toward destruction.

It's bizarre to wrap my head around the fact that so many people of "faith" follow leaders like Trump who show no mercy or love. Many are people who love the same Jesus I love. What happened? Perhaps they think how you believe, where you're from, and how you look matters more than loving people.

In the history of humankind, how many governments have been led by people who act this evil?

“Minnesota's nickname is the North Star State due to its motto "L'Etoile du Nord," which was adopted in 1861. Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨ Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.” - Mari Talkin

Hey, Kingdom of Denmark, Minnesotan here! I'm so sorry and embarrassed about Trump's threats against Greenland, undermining NATO, your sovereignty, and everything. Minnesota is pretty upset with Trump too, and I figure we could team up. Any ideas? Solidaritet med Danmark. Vi står sammen. 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

ICE is tear-gassing, kidnapping, and jailing toddlers. It cannot be reformed. Everyone responsible for this must be removed from positions of power and ICE must be abolished.

Guys, it's not pretty. I've read quite a fair bit already. Unless you have an iron constitution, please don't read the details, even though I think everyone should know... ANYONE who still supports him after this should be burned at the stake. Our world is a cesspool.

I feel like calling all of this state-sponsored violence "Trump's immigration policy" really sanitizes what people are protesting

Is undermining democracy, manipulating elections, forcing through model legislation, ICE killing civilians, and the grotesque behavior revealed in the Epstein files enough to say billionaires shouldn’t exist? Do people lose all sense of human morality once they reach a certain socioeconomic status?

The movie, Melania, is currently getting a 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes! (The Popcornmeter.) Not AI bots writing reviews or politically motivated stacking going on here!

Found today in my targeted Facebook advertising algorithms: Canadian immigration! I'm honored, lol!

Let's shout out a cheer for the fabulous, ubiquitous, audacious, courageous, and ferocious... whistle!

When the knitters and grandmothers join the resistance, Fascism is going down. Worn in the Norwegian resistance against Hitler by teachers, students, and regular folks, the knit hats spoke of solidarity. The shop now selling the traditional anti-Nazi hat design for $5 has raised over $400,000.

This is an interesting reflection on how coercive power leaves an empire isolated with no allies. The author likens Trump's diplomatic folly to the aggressive stance of the late Aztec Empire.

🔥 ALHAMBRA, CA: “Don’t give up. Don’t give in. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” Original: www.instagram.com/reel/DUI-mOZ...

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

A board-certified forensic pathologist's response to ICE lies about a victim's injuries: “I almost think one doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall..."

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

It’s happening! ICE Nazis have gone too far for many conservatives, and small-town Minnesota is pushing back. Let’s hope this translates into meaningful political change.

In 1215, the Magna Carta drew a line: power is not absolute. For 800+ years, people kept advancing that truth through community, courage, and protest. That community force is Democracy, a verb we live and perform. It's advanced. Tyranny relies on brute control. That’s outdated. Democracy lives!

Hearts resisting government oppression do so out of love for neighbors. What do ICE and Trump have? Luke 10:27 (KJV): And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

I'm reflecting on a comment from a speaker at the Minneapolis rally. "We're the only ones who are going to save us." Under attack by our government, it means Congress won't protect us. Systems have ceased to function. We rise together in unity, hand-in-hand with neighbors, or apart we perish.

Activists responding to a reported ICE abduction in Minneapolis discovered a car abandoned, riddled with bullet holes and flat tires. (1/30/26)

Us Minnesota Liberal Snowflakes ... don't mind the cold. :D I literally had 5 layers of underwear on at a Downtown Minneapolis rally today. (Two classic underwear-- the inner layer Marino Wool. Boxer shorts over that. And covering that, two layers of long johns.)

Minnesota is a culture of many diverse people revealing a collective morality in real time. We are organized. We care for our neighbors. We love one another. After what I have seen, I truly believe Fascism cannot stand where communities unite In such solidarity. From today's rally:

My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

Empathy and compassion serve the highest form of morality: love. Whatever this is, ya know — government men with guns kidnapping children from schools, is very much the opposite. Meanwhile, 5-year-old Liam Ramos is detained in squalor, depressed, asking about his family, friends, and mother...

Our freedoms may crack from a terrible government. Yet our society's heritage, history, and people "proclaim liberty." A reflection on the Liberty Bell: On its first ring, it cracked. (1752) Melted, recast, it cracked again in 1846... Crack and all, it remains a global symbol of American liberty.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

Seen in my friend's apartment: "Hey neighbors! If you are afraid to go get groceries, please take what you need." Many in Minnesota are in hiding, afraid to leave home, unable to work or send kids to school. In the midst of terror, moments and sights of beauty appear as people help one another.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Satire: Any 2nd Amendment folks out there want to help out with our tyranny problem? I mean, you've been itching to use those AR-15s, talking about this forever. There must be a gun fanclub that didn't drink the Kool-Aid and join ICE to beat on black and brown people and kill liberals. Bueller?

By murder and cruelty, the US Government has committed high crimes against the sacredness of all people. This, to countless of us, is a crime against our life force: against God. This treason extends beyond the People they've rounded up and murdered. It's an attack on the Planet and our Creator.

A treasonous, hateful government utterly betrayed us all into violent, White Supremacist dictatorship. An entire party, lacking moral center, bows. Corporations and billionaires cower to fund it. TV reports obscene lies. Nurses and mothers are shot protecting neighbors. Time to cast out this EVIL!

The Pretti family’s heartbreaking request to all of us: get the truth out about our son. Alex was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA whose last act was to protect the woman next to him. We will not let this Administration spread lies.

Some of us are going to be shot dead in the street but many more of us are going to piss on the admitted random pussy grabbers grave.

Alex Pretti's last act as a human being was to protect the vulnerable.

And now . . . the National Guard called under Gov. Walz is assisting Minneapolis Police. I hope their orders are to protect residents from tyranny. (Otherwise, I'm not sure how this makes anything any better.)

So, hypothetically, if you were to make a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message over an overpass, you’d be putting in the letters backwards. And, again hypothetically, you might want a template for that. Hypothetically.

I sincerely wonder: Do people (like Kristi Noem) who go on television to spin, lie, and speak as apologists for public executions in Minnesota really have a clue? Do they realize they are the Nazis in our time, to the world, to our communities, and to all of history? Do they understand anything?

Reality distortions abound. We just watched NBC Nightly News present an ambiguous-sounding story with unclear details about a guy with a gun killed by DHS, with Kristi Noem's lies framing it all. Meanwhile, Minnesota witnesses, the Governor, the Mayor, two Senators, and more recognize an execution.

Faith leaders are stepping up!

Is ICE off the planet too much to ask?

Alex Pretti, a Minnesota ICU nurse who dedicated his life to helping, was executed today in cold blood on a street I regularly visit. “He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express ... his care for others..." This is the act of a tyrannical government without boundaries.