"You're absolutely right. The Straits of Hormuz were within the range of Iran's ballistic missiles. That was a serious error on my part. I'm sorry for causing you to lose your carrier group."

A well known feature of refugees is that you have to advertise to them to convince them to leave where they're already living.

Can the military still call back retired soldiers for deployment? It's almost certainly too far back, but Trump doing that to Tim Walz would be absolutely hilarious. I wouldn't even be mad.

The statements from other first world countries are grotesque, and I can't help but wonder if they even realize that third world countries can see them. "Stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons" jfc. Not a single one of them thinks for a second that was on the table.

I guess the ironic benefit of doing a war without even bothering to lay out a serious case for what we're doing there is that we're less likely to end up in a quagmire too. What goal are we trying to achieve? Unclear! Therefore we can have achieved it whenever convenient.

"Operation Epic Fury." It's like watching someone try to copy the pathetic Bush era operation names, and fail. What a bunch of losers.

The state jail officials part is something I'd like to see in MN as well. Too many counties are cooperating with this stuff (looking especially at Sherburne County jail, which has been showing up a lot).

Clearly one of those tactical elementary schools.

I know it's exciting but come on Twin Cities people. Copying St Paul's cool blue-collar style jacket is poser stuff. Even if it wasn't copying them, Minneapolis doesn't even have that vibe!

We need a rating system like the one that blocks teenagers from seeing movies with sex in them, but to stop business executives from watching things like Black Mirror. "This motion picture contains concepts inappropriate for C level executives or computer engineers."

post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

If you see this, post your black and white art!

We wrote endlessly about having a nuclear war, trained a bunch of chatbots to reproduce statistically likely text based on that writing, and now people are discovering that they're... generating text about having nuclear wars instead of ones where we don't.

Whenever Walz posts some announcement with a bunch of children, all I can think about is how he released a statement about the attack on October 7, and the response to it, saying that it was wrong for Israeli children to be murdered well after Israel had started killing Palestinian children.

I know it's pointless to wish for the Democrats to act responsibly, let alone to meet the moment, but I can't help but wish they would remember that they could impeach Trump for, like, whatever. There's no rule that says it has to be honest, or in any better faith than he displays.

Our Somali neighbors make Minnesota better.

People act like he's talking about land, but deep down he, and everyone he represents, knows that he means that the metro doesn't count because the people who live there aren't "Minnesotans". And they know how to tell them apart, and will tell you, if you push them on it.

I hate the "show up to the inauguration or refuse to treat it like it's respectable" debate, because the correct answer is not at all complicated.

The fact is there were a lot of people in the US who were white when they moved here and are now discovering that they no longer are. Everyone looked back and history and thought that 'whiteness' only expanded and ever contracted, like some kind of Whig racism, and are now learning a hard lesson.

The thing that struck me immediately was how familiar sounding both the tone, rhetoric, and reaction to something that made the woman feel uncomfortable was.

The stated rationale is so funny. "We asked warrant officers to bid their true value, then drive away the ones whose value was too high. This way we retain the worthless ones, which... "

One important takeaway from Frey going to give some kind of unofficial speech in DC is that if we pool our money we could probably find some way to pay him to leave Minnesota. He could be some kind of Leadership Fellow at a made up organization, with a bunch of money or press or something.

The way social change is taught in the US is one of the best examples of how aggressive propaganda is here, without people realizing it's even there. The ANC's resistance to apartheid included such nonviolent tactics as "blowing up government buildings" and "shooting police officers."

This is why enforcement of these things needs to be set differently by statute. The criminal justice system is dependent on the goodwill of fascists, which can work sometimes, I guess, but not for this. We saw the same problem when there were rules about respirators in public spaces.

I'd say it's about time for this, but really it's a few months after time for this. Let's hope they start doing this for every violated court order. Make the caseloads they're taking really ominous.

Sure, but they mostly gave that money away shortly before they died.* Since the current tech billionaires will be able to upload their minds into an orbital data center circling a Mars colony staffed by indentured servants there's no need for it! *(though not shortly enough for those shits)

Before this I did not know that the loon statue in St Paul was there to protect Allianz Field from the predatory Spruce Center.

I hear horsemeat fetches a good price on the international market! (Ok I am not a monster but hear me out it's good to have a threat if you want concessions later.)

I think Very, Very Poorly of your average fox-news-mazed Republican, worse than most people do, but I'm pretty sure that doing this in front of (not too) them would end with some ICE agents catching bullets, unless it was restricted to areas where they would only hear about it later.

I didn't even notice until the second time I watched it that a tall bike can have the cargo bin right in the middle (because your legs are sitting above it). Now I'm wondering what a front, middle, and rear cargo bike would be able to carry.

I know people in our legal system are professionally obligated to pretend it isn't true, but let's not kid ourselves. The already publicly available evidence is more than enough to get a guilty verdict for Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa, and Raymundo Gutierrez out of a Minneapolis jury.

I am convinced that the idea, aggressively baked into American discourse and culture, that "class" just means "income" is directly intended to undercut any kind of class analysis that would lead to social progress.

Everyone is saying NO and feeling gross at the idea of Frey getting rewarded and all, but let's remember this would mean that HE LEAVES MINNEAPOLIS.

Another bonus to replacing it would be forcing all of the chuds to start flying this monstrosity outside of things, and looking even dumber.

There's something impressive about how this gets more wrong each time I look at it. I'm stuck on "you can't have a multicultural country, and our [culture one]-[culture two]-[culture three] culture..." Like, what do they think, there are people from Scotireland?

The sleigh was fine though.

And it's not even a moral or aesthetic preference for people. If you're deciding who you want to represent your interests, you need to know what the available options think and do. People are willing to compromise on how much someone agrees with them, but they have to know first!

Everything they do in those camps sounds like it. People are legally here, and they need a signature to deport them. So they put them in a camp and torture one out of them, pretending they have the authority for that. And they do it as quickly and opaquely as they can to keep the courts out.

I love the turkeys, just love them. Minnesota can have the loon, I think Minneapolis needs to adopt the wild turkey as a symbol. They're sociable, they're smart, they're, well, parts of them look nice, they're good at blocking roads, and they're punk rock. It works!

If ICE actually does (mostly) leave, does that mean I have to go back to knowing what's happening in other places?

There's a real Cargo Cult Mamdani thing going on with Frey right now. Yes, liking the city is a good thing in a mayor. But it works for Mamdani because (1) he actually does like his city, unlike Frey who clearly does not, and (2) his actions are rooted in that, not just expressive gestures.

While we're all right to be suspicious let's be honest the funniest way this could turn out is, years later, we do get information about the behind the scenes talks and it's all "Please give us some cover for leaving please?" "... best I can do is suspiciously precise phrasing."

This one is genuinely baffling to me. This almost never happens. Are AUSAs just getting tired of ICE ignoring court orders, and taking the opportunity to splash some cold water on them? Is this a response to the Strib letter from the legal board warning them about legal responsibilities?

Once again, Amy saying "we" like she has someone who actually did something in her pocket.

In this thread I will list the things the mayor did during the occupation: 1. He said the F word 1/

I wonder how man more examples of what looked like a principled public servant leaving as a result of being told to do something illegal or profoundly immoral are going to end up being dumb shit like this.

This vote interference thing is looking more like it's going to have the effect that Trump's attempt to make a deal with universities did, where the deal intended to undercut them is only signed on by the ones already allied with him.