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Something I’ve been doing with my time post-occupation is picking up trash. A big box of bags, a picker, and a bag ring will run you <$50, and you can do a few square blocks in under an hour. Just a few mornings a week and my neighborhood is decidedly not filthy.

Jump scare seeing a major media outlet describe the federal government as having “lied”

We should obviously get rid of Daylight Saving Time, but I do think we should keep a twice a year reminder that time is fake. Don’t get attached

This is a Boneshaker Books zine section appreciation post

brass solidarity band covering sounds of blackness “hold on (change is coming)” at the abolish ICE festival taking place across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in minneapolis

Good afternoon from the Pretti Memorial Block Party

Yesterday I observed 15 shackled detainees being loaded on the ICE Air flight at MSP. In this clip, as the last one hobbles on, staff put away a full-body WRAP restraint, which had been laid out next to the airstairs. ICE Air & WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig... Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-...

Senior ICE official says he thinks Kristi Noem was fired because of the Minneapolis protests, a sentiment I heard from other DHS officials www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-public...

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

After Bovino randomly stopped his convoy to assault a park in Uptown, I remember people on the ground wiping pepper spray out of their faces, someone shouting that there were bullets in the snow, and then the gas clearing and there was Jason Chavez with a big, resolute smile helping people up.

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Sunset at the Alex Pretti Memorial

Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to walk the streets of Tehran. See the people whose lives are being treated like chess pieces. They are—in the Biblical sense—your neighbors.

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

Exactly the same idiocy we saw in Minnesota. "We sent 2,000 agents and people are filling the streets? Send 2,000 more. Wait, that's generated MORE resistance? Gas, arrest, intimidate, kill with total immunity. Huh, seems like people are only getting more intractable... uh, nevermind, abort"

Good morning from the goon squad

The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol commander, made disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota during an immigration operation in the state.

Frankly, we've seen enough: it's time to fire all the cowards who toadied to Trump and disgraced their institutions in the process. CEOs, lawyers, university presidents. Clear them all out, replace them with people who stood firm. Remake our society with leaders who have principles and courage.

If I ever say “y’all” 100% I’ve been bodysnatched. Take the shot.

peggy flanagan’s campaign manager on twitter reporting that angie craig is down 13 points in the minnesota senate primary with 75% of voters saying that her vote for the laken riley act is disqualifying, which would certainly explain her suddenly apologizing for it just days after standing by it

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Why We Struck Iran www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-we-str...

"As Minnesotans, we are all just beginning to understand the scope of what we’ve just experienced at the hands of the Trump administration — an outright occupation by aggressive, unaccountable federal forces..." I actually understood it instantly Angie but maybe I'm just built different

Eventually the Trump regime will collapse, because it’s built on a single rotten, 79-year pillar. When it does, the army of cranks who have tried to shelter under the boss’s seeming impunity, in order to commit crimes of their own, will have nowhere to hide. We must scour them out of our society.

Picking up trash in the blocks around the Alex Pretti memorial this morning and found two munitions thawing out of the snow

With turd thrown across bedroom, baby signals a shift away from the era of wanting binky

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

REQUEST: The people caretaking the Alex Pretti memorial are looking for archival storage boxes/materials to store the room full of memorial items they’ve preserved. Does anyone have a lead on where to get some?

Not sure if this is related, but ~100 vehicles were seen leaving the Whipple yesterday around noon…

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

“We have friends everywhere” The Rebel loon rises on the Wonderwall home opener tifo

Discussion in a Whittier rapid response strike force meeting has just turned to a certain regional corduroy jacket

Four closed airspaces in one photo: Ukraine, Iran, Sudan, and Yemen.

Tunnel boring machine.

The Iraq War had durable support across the Republican base, bipartisan support in Congress, the help of dozens of countries, and corporate and media buy-in. It took years of war to crack. This is a general waking up to call saying “uh, sir, the president is asking to see the button again sir”

Minnesota United's CEO explains—intentionally or not—why the most effective resisters of the federal invasion are decentralized networks and small orgs, rather than big powers like corporations and universities: "It would just add to the volatility. And I [didn't] want to put a target on anybody."

US citizen abducted in Minnehaha in south Minneapolis at 9am this morning

Just heard the Minnesota budget is forecasted to have a ~$3.5 billion surplus

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

In the market for a tracksuit and need a second opinion: Option 1 or Option 2

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders. "ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

I would do neighborhoods. A dark blue bomber jacket that just says WHITTIER in collegiate letters

Keeping an eye on what may be a budding romance in the Signal chat 👀 good luck, kids

Seems like the savvy immigrant who does not want to get kidnapped by the secret police should do anything they can to avoid paying income taxes. Not the incentive structure I would create if I were in charge of the federal government!

A major inflection point for The Beatles’ career was a right wing American radio host finding an old Jon Lennon interview in which he praised Jesus and lamented that Christianity was no longer attractive to people and turning it into a culture war attack that became part of why they stopped touring.