Members of our collective, and more than 20 others who turned out against surveillance, weren't allowed to speak at tonight's city council meeting. Here are the unheard remarks one of us had prepared.

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

29 people shackled people boarding the ICE Air flight at MSP today, on the 97th flight of the year here in Minnesota. The bizjet taxiing past is N93VP, which belongs to Värde Partners, a Minneapolis-based investment firm. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

20 yrs ago I was full-time, $15 / hr for 37.5 hours a week. I could rent, go out with friends + save for a downpayment. That's impossible now. The jobs aren't there + purchasing power has been destroyed. Without my income being tied to corporate revenue + my wife's union backing, we'd be drowning.

On a different note, man is anybody gonna primary Coons? Because "he voted for Epstein's buddy that Trump picked to run the Federal Reserve" seems like a potent attack line

for the same reason they still haven't let reporters set foot in gaza

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Breaking my "not reposting substack links" rule cuz this is especially heinous shit

It's something they attempt every day, and often succeed at, but this is particularly disgusting. Pedocon theory undefeated

"kept secret from the jury" should be grounds for a retrial at they very barest minimum in any halfway healthy society.

Jesus, what the fuck

Small business owners when homeless people are on the street in their community: I'm scared 😭 we're all in a panic 😭 Small business owners when homeless people are sheltered in their community: I'm scared 😭 we're all in a panic 😭

"do not dehumanize the artist" my brother, you are the one dehumanizing artists by using a system literally stealing from real artists so you can make slop in the first place. motherfucker got the gall to call himself a filmmaker of stolen assets. miss me with this shit.

I'm confused about this. They state the charge and say it's for... posting pro china stuff to a website anonymously?? That's a crime with a possible 10-year sentence????? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“Elections Alberta is an evil institution that is used to suppress democracy,” he wrote on X on April 18, before the agency alleged the Centurion Project violated election laws. They all talk like this. The entire movement is full of crackpots and grifters. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Every time I see this I think of a new way this falsehood is still a bad argument for Trump. Were immigrants responsible for 35% of job growth? Or do we now have a severe labor shortage? Or does it mean the jobs are out there but with wages so low Americans refuse? Every explanation is bad for them!

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🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

lol lmao

I keep saying that legislators are going to be able to get away with partisan gerrymandering because they're not stupid anymore and don't outright say "No ni-[clang]s Allowed." Then here comes this motherfucker.

have you ever noticed these freaks are all obsessed with who’s fucking, who they’re fucking, how much they’re fucking, and whether that fucking was for fun or family

We have a Republican Party committed to building systematic advantages into the current system to maintain power indefinitely and a Democratic Party that cannot think outside the bounds of the current system even as it is being actively restructured against them.

as a father of three boys who i'm trying to raise to be decent human beings, i'm sick to fucking death of this manosphere bullshit's pervasiveness too. it's just fascists all the way down trying to get meathooks into your kids by making them self-conscious and self-hating so they act out on it.

I don't think we should have Marjorie Taylor Greene or Liz Cheney in the tent.

the gas tax has been frozen at 22 cents since 1993. it would be 55 cents now if it was indexed to inflation (which it obviously should be)

Eugenicist clowns

Not this person in particular, but do you notice how we had ten years of *unbelievably* intense all-channels “Right-thinking MPs must unite, rise up and crush these disgusting pigs, hose the scum off the streets” right up until it hurt the bottom line, and now it’s all Oh no, however did this happen

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

tl;dr: - aaron rodericks name searches and finds someone making fun of him for something he did in fact do - aaron enters a given number of strikes based on how mad that makes him - when too many people get banned they silently raise the number of strikes needed to get banned

More tech replacing umps, please and thank you

I dunno man, maybe it was the felony convictions for credit card fraud.

Billionaires did this.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

there's a study from the 2010s that showed that the number at which ppl start to consider themselves rich is about 20% more than the amount you'd need to never work again

she's going the full lauren southern

Through 3 quarters, I have the Knicks at 121 points on 70 possessions, a rate of 172.9 per 100. The most efficient game (regular season, Play-In or playoffs) for any team in the 30 years of pbp data is 161.7 per 100.

Knicks now have the best 10-game span in NBA playoff history too btw, by 23 points

Villians Say They Are Sick of Being Vilified

I also find Brown super interesting. For folks wanting reading recs: Osbourne Perry Anderson fought alongside Brown and I believe was the only Black man to escape being killed there or executed later. He wrote about Brown in A voice from Harper's Ferry. archive.org/details/voic...

It's 100% AI slop trained on French Library Music. Fucking hell. All these AI nerds need [REDACTED ACTIONABLE STATEMENT].

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

Most people could not last a day in his shoes because most people have self awareness and a sense of shame.

The full invasion is coming sooner than anyone is willing to come to terms with. Trump Admin & Ruling Class simply cannot allow a parallel sociopolitical / economic project to be possible, especially in its back yard. The US is taking as much of the Western Hemisphere as it can before it breaks.

Man, I sure do love it when NY sports teams beat the everloving shit out of Atlanta and then Philly back to back. Everyone loves it, in fact!

Spirit Airlines Resumes Business After CEO Finds Nickel On Ground

What a bizarre series of words

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

Evil fucks.