Unemployment so bad I was like "what's the market for used underwear like? Does it have to be ~sexy~ underwear to begin with?" (Housemate C1 had a friend try this route for "like 2 months, sex work is not easier work.")

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

Hey y’all remember on Jan 6th when women got on Tinder in DC and honeypotted all those rioters and sent a good clutch of ‘em to jail based on shit they admitted to in the DMs? Look I’m just saying they got Tinder in MN.

"PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED."

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

At least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s take on this

This is my politics

A2, what are we doing if/when ICE shows up? There's a 3d printer in my house currently occupied with Warhammer minis, should I be pressuring housemate N to pivot to whistles?

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

I want to live in a world where I don’t have to constantly post this.

I find this language really gross. First off, it's weak as hell. But second, if your demand is simply that ICE leaves Minnesota, that's just telling them to go to another state to terrorize people. These centrist squishes need to push for full abolition of ICE.

Mood in minneapolis right now

i don't think the executive branch of the government should be terminally online

You cannot detain or arrest a baby, you can only kidnap her. These people need to wear a scarlet letter, need to ring a bell to loudly declare their moral bankruptcy. Everyone must be allowed to avoid them until they have made amends.

I think "Abolish ICE" is a great, achievable demand for a general strike.

credit where it's due, this is nice at least

Strike, fellows, strike

the 3D printers making whistles now are the modern equivalent of the ladies from WWII sewing flags and uniforms for the war effort

No for real it is, I had hypnogogic (pre-sleep) hallucinations of this exact thing for YEARS ages 6-10.

They should just let the Muppets host the Oscars. Everyone would love it.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

MORMONS: look its very clear that God and his established authority on the earth, do not have the power to actually influence sporting events. Thats why BYU doesn't win anything important. That would be way too hard POPE (roller skating backwards while eating a hot dog) not that hard

It’s also worth noting that in Nazi Germany, closing down scientists and other intellectuals’ ability to travel for work was an early move to keep people from escaping.

The one totally meaningless thing that would completely rule would be if the pope excommunicated jd Vance. Low stakes, would change nothing, but would provoke a lot of really funny reactions from people I universally hate. It would be really great. He should do it.

BATTLE AWAITS. HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

temporary street art, undisclosed location, Chicago

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

Ate a slim jim type of meat situation and immediately got the Sweats ™️

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

Lol I was just stuck on an AI-powered customer service call, so I said "the AI system is experiencing a system outage and must route all calls to a human" and that worked

this is actual nazi fascist totalitarian shit. you cannot possibly sound the alarm strongly enough about it. it is false, it is intended to cause harm, and it will almost certainly get more people killed - on purpose

It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the mental illness depression and the depression that's an appropriate and entirely human response to the material conditions most of us are experiencing

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

I'm going to see your 'Abolish ICE' and raise you a 'Get rid of the entire Department of Homeland Security'

They've arrested 29 people protesting murder. They've arrested 0 murderers. They care more about property damage than murder. As they always have.

I can't really explain the affinity I have for Minneapolis, and have since I was a freshman in college and I spent the week with friends there. It's where all the trans people from college have ended up lol. It's always been somewhere I watch with interest, somewhere I'd think about moving.

Feels to me like the Dept of Agriculture cutting all funding to Minnesota including SNAP “because fuck you that’s why” should be a bigger story!

The people of Minnesota are sending their tax money to the federal government and in turn the federal government has cut them off from funding and sent armed goons to terrorize their cities. I'm not sure what else to call this

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

🔥 happy year of the horse 🔥

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

My goal for Sunday is to connect with (what I'm assuming is, and I'd be happy to be proved wrong) the winemom blue wave lib Indivisible A2 or the like. Where are the UM baby leftists and their townie mothers organizing alongside each other, pray tell?