Greenland... Iceland... England... Who knows. Hard to keep those North Atlantic islands straight.

Sauron called. He said, hey - maybe take it down a notch.

Europe: [Putting on fingerless gloves and flexing neck Looks up and sees Bessent there Opens a box and selects a gum-shield. Tries it on for size and comfort...]

It's remarkable how much contempt the nation's elites have for the people of the nation.

YOU SIGNED UP TO BE A MARTYR AS SOON AS YOU BECAME A CHRISTIAN!!! What do you think, "Pick up your cross and follow me" means? you get cool jewelry? "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." Dietrich Bonhoeffer - a Lutheran pastor who was murdered by the Nazis.

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Tell me you're white without telling me you're white.

I used to watch Buffy and think it unrealistic because you've got this one ordinary-seeming guy who hides all his evil, but he's got clearly evil beings hanging around him all the time. Wouldn't people notice? How would you maintain the image? Our "ordinary-seeming" guy in charge is Donald Trump.

Videos do not raise doubts, they extinguish any doubt. The car never touched the thug who murdered Ms. Good. It never touched him, never threatened him.

Minnesotans are making me proud to be an American. And Chicagoans. Los Angelenos. Portlanders. There is still some good in this country. And that's worth fighting for.

That's exactly what the Trump administration and the GOP are - a conspiracy to overthrow the republic. And it's been successful. So far.

ICE: group of thugs terrorizing the People, kidnapping anyone who isn't white, kicking down random doors, violating the law, spitting on the Constitution, assaulting and murdering. All in the name of christofascist patriarchal white supremacy.

Cartoonish levels of corruption. All of his assets should be seized and returned to the nation.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

False - the ICE agent acted deliberately and killed her intentionally.

What the actual flying freaking fuck? Besides the dishonesty at the BBC... Musk is told that sexually exploiting images are bad... He makes a fix... In the one nation that (presumably) made the most fuss about it... That consists of... HIDING THE EXPLOITATION!!! When do we storm the Bastille?

They can still do a lot of damage. The more push-back they get, the less damage they can do. The more we resist, the more we preserve.

Lessons learned - don't let any feds into your establishment.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Trump is doing a lot of things; keeping anybody safe isn't one of them. DHS threw a flash-bang into a van full of kids, for Christ's sake. The president cares nothing about the People's safety. He wants only subservience. He's not going to get it.

The American People? Is that the invisible couple in his head again?

Oh, look - the Trump administration finds a new way of being disgusting, disgraceful excuses for human beings.

Sometimes I'd like a little further ado. Not too much further - there's such thing as too much further ado of course, but a little further ado can sometimes be a good thing. You can't tell them that though - they'll give you further ado beyond any ado you even contemplated.

I disagree with this. I think that what Trump and Miller want is a population cowed into submission. No resistance - just quiet, intimidated compliance. Every quantum of resistance, every slowing down of a kidnapping, every bit of time wasted is an act of cruelty thwarted.

What Trump wants is a passive population that he can march over, bully and rob. If he's on his way out (please, God) it's because of the good people of Minneapolis. And Chicago And LA And DC And the rest of the nation, who won't bow to him, won't give him undeserved respect, won't submit.

Folks, Trump has brought the full force of ICE to bear on a mid-sized city and he can't even stop the demonstrations there. He's not going to be able to cancel the midterm elections by fiat or station his goons outside more than a handful of polling places.

Right now, the People of Minneapolis are protecting the right to film in public, etc. The People are protecting the First Amendment from the Gestapo thugs who are trying to nullify it. And the People, working together, are going to restore the republic. Despite the do-nothings in Congress.

This is some Buffy the Vampire Slayer looking stuff. Advertisement for a new episode of Supernatural or something - expect fangs, horns or black candles in a pentagram.

The citizens resisting DHS have accomplished a great deal - slowed the fascists, so protected many of their neighbors, showed BP and ICE that they aren't welcome, forced them to take time and energy from other communities and inspired the rest of the republic. Give 'em hell, Minneapolis!

General principal: anonymous federal officials are full of shit.

"Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now."

Every other state should shut down in sympathy.

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

Oh, Monster cheese... [That's what I call Munster, fyi]. A chunk of Monster cheese, some bread with hummus and a handful of grapes. Chase with tea. Lunch. Yum.

Yes, could we please get some politicians who know that pedophilia, racism, misogyny and murder are bad? We could start with that. Baby steps.

"The fear isn't stopping me from showing up." The definition of courage.

There's no training to make a brutal thug who would shoot someone in the face for no reason into a good public servant. Abolish ICE. Investigate and prosecute.

This stands to reason. The virtuous don't want to work for an authoritarian movement. And the movement doesn't want the virtuous working for it. Trump prefers those who will follow orders, give him personal loyalty, not think too much about consequences and use violence as a default solution.

Yes it's fucking dangerous - DHS is gunning people down in the streets. It's more dangerous to do nothing. The administration is going to burn the nation to the ground, sell off anything he can sell and put the money into his own pocket. Resist now, or we're inviting oppression.

Annie Lennox is underrated - marvelous, soulful voice. Sometimes I just have to listen to Eurythmics.

The feds can take on one sheriff. The feds can overwhelm a city for a while. They can't take on all the law enforcement officers, can't overwhelm all the cities - they don't seem to have the manpower to beat up on more than one at a time.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people. /1

Ya know... Cops really aren't supposed to kill anybody.

Representative Roger Williams can go fuck himself.

A propos absolutely nothing, there's no statute of limitations on murder.

Words.

Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen... Truth is the greatest love

Evergreen.