Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

ICE is not acting like Gestapo. They are acting like the slave catchers many of their ancestors were. If you go right to calling them Gestapo without knowing the Gestapo was modeled after slave catchers and this was the model for US law enforcement, you don't know American history and we are f'd!

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

If you think now is the moment for pissing on someone’s chips, for trying to pull down something that gives a little sustaining wonder - you’re a wanker. If you think now is the time for pedantic theorising or backseat lecturing of others on the frontline - sit down and think about your numptytism.

Everyone needs to ask, over & over again, "What about Kyle Rittenhouse?" They've obviously gone from damage control to outright panic mode, lying extra hard.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Spent an hour doing the Big Bird watch and no sign of him

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We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

Dear @governorwalz.mn.gov Your state is under siege by a lawless military force empowered by an equally lawless federal government If you do not empower your National Guard to protect your people & resist ICE, you are not the young man standing up to the tank at Tiananmen Square You are the tank

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Video taken prior to his murder shows Alex Pretti peacefully observing, but an ICE officer begins shoving him. Then multiple ICE officers gang up on him. Moments later, his body is riddled with bullet holes.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Since this is trending again, I’m not a particularly well-read student of history and political theory, but this is an aspect that always stood out to me in the little reading I’ve done on historical authoritarian revolutions.

My neighbour is a vicar so I leave little 'miracles' for him to find. He's gonna lose his shit when he sees one of his gnomes has developed stigmata

But sure, tell us how The Elites run everything, Nigel.

From the official White House account, not realising that penguins are Antarctica not the Arctic. The White House also saying penguins and Trump have the same sized feet.

It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵

Thomas Stothard, Tilbury Fort Sketched from the Window of the Pope’s Head Tavern, Gravesend, 1829 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1131591

I'm hearing a lot about Dry January. January is when you finish the booze left over from Christmas!

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

The new leader of the free world is Canada. Mark Carney's speech at Davos: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Transmission #951 from Topaz 3 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Glittering Noise 2. Former Artifact Incinerator 3. Alien Reservoir of Energy

There is a short reel where you can actually watch them set Orange up, and then Putin Responds. Putin looks very joyful. They took the bait and outted themselves as Traitors to the Country and the World.

The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”

Ok but like isn't this the second or third time Air Force One had to turn back during an Atlantic crossing. I know we all want it to be about Trump, but what if they forgot to pack Stephen Miller in the earth of his homeland, and had to turn back before crossing the water?

Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy

we've transmuted lead into gold by mistake

This was on the express and popular table in Norwich Library the other day.

Happy Tom Baker’s Birthday, everyone!

Friends fear she has bought a banjolele! Any fellow #ukulele or #banjo enthusiasts know anything about it? It was sold to me on ebay as Thomann, but I think it may be an older style Musikalia (Italian made?).

Did people forget he’s a sex pest?

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Towards the apocalypse, we navigate by signs and wonders. We should not ever have to, but we do. This is the message I am taking from today’s rewatch.

It's gone a bit Man in The High Castle other there, hasn't it.

Get your Yaxley-Lennon/Tommy Robinson Grindr account name by combining a biblical character with a type of bread. I’m Peter Pumpernickel.

SIGINT #07168 from Topaz 3 (CLASSIFIED) 1. Tunisian Poets 2. Unnameable Memes 3. Viral Monolith Incinerator

My first guess, seeing pic but not text, was a very spare Zen garden.

Also worth noting: both DOGE and UATX were fundamentally aligned with Curtis Yarvin's 'Dark Enlightenment' ideology - DOGE was just Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees), and UATX was an attempt creating a 'parallel establishment' to fight Yarvin's bogeyman of 'The Cathedral'.

Quite a good insult for humans as well, I reckon: "He thinks he's a big deal but when it comes right down to it he's nothing more than organised water."