Sorry kiddo but no, you can’t have any more missile until you finish your single-payer healthcare

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.

Traveling for spring break but I’m working on new tunes and want to keep momentum, so, bringing a recording studio with me

if your missile kills one child that is infinity too many

Goddamn I know the horrors are ongoing and plus there’s brand-new horrors being added all the time but it gives comfort to see folks who have been 100% devoted to MN resistance posting about just like basketball and random stuff

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

if your missile kills one child that is infinity too many

Thinking of songs that have prominent clarinet to show my clarinet-playing kid, I remembered that @themountaingoats.bsky.social have this amazing cover of Blood Bank themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/blood-... What other clarinet bangers do I need to show him?

The Elder Millennial urge to destroy your sweater

*Steven Tyler voice* I do want to close my eyes I would like to have a snooze Cuz I’m pretty tired And I don’t care bout missing things

In honor of the new Bandcamp embed feature, here is an ongoing thread of songs I cannot stop listening to. Cameron’s voice is a one of one, the lyrics are poetry, the production idiosyncratic and perfectly off-kilter cameronwinter.bandcamp.com/track/love-t...

Flawless system

Ok this I like 👇

happy to say that I put up an artist page on the @subvert.fm alpha today. Well-run cooperatives are a true alternative to capitalist oligarchy and Subvert has all the makings of being one. alpha.subvert.fm/aloysius-the...

2026 basically

There is no victory, and yet we have already won. That’s the paradox we are wrestling with now

The longer a protest goes on, the more likely city cops will be called in to defend “order” (the orderly transfer of wealth upwards). Minnesotans radicalized by ICE but otherwise center-left, take note; MPD has largely stayed out of it, and when they do tap in, it won’t be on our side.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

Now stay that way

I know we’re not done, and I know it may all be because it’s pushing 50 degrees here after -20 two weeks ago, but it feels like a good day.

Agreed, but I gotta say, if you need a little celebration today, you can take it. The work isn’t over, and they may well be lying; but you can celebrate if you feel like celebrating, if you need a little joy.

Design flaw: there seems to be no way to tell the Prius “no there’s not an unseatbelted human here, the car is just jammed with donations and there’s a human-weight-equivalent of shampoo in the passenger seat, please stop beeping at me”

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

Nothing that has happened here in Minneapolis needed to happen. The whole thing was instigated out of cruelty and intolerance. In the name of public safety they barged into our communities, caused untold economic, psychological, and structural damage, murdered us for protecting our neighbors.

I am proud of you and our immigrant residents. Your resiliency, strength, and dedication have led to the announcement that “Operation Metro Surge” will end soon. 1/

I spent a good amount of my upbringing either ignoring or being vaguely disgusted at the presence of the unhoused. Socially this was the default stance of everyone I knew, so I played along. What I’d like to say is, if I can unlearn this, and learn to see humans in their humanity, so can you.

God it must so easy to just be one of these fucking dweebs; see something outside your insanely-narrow purview, declare it bad, call its practitioners anti-American. Maybe even Satanic. Rinse and repeat, down the decades.

It’s amazing to me that the company thought “let’s show them that our actual product is the panopticon! but make it puppies” would land; but at the same time I’m a little surprised how badly it did land. Maybe ppl really, legit didn’t grasp what Ring was?

We went from “abolish the police” to “have the masked goons act more like cops do pwetty pwease” in a few short years.

I miss when we all screamed for ice cream instead of on account of the massive persistent existential dread

It is my genuine belief that the only reason we haven’t implemented Subsidized Time is because Infinite Jest was never mainstream enough

The standoff being about masks and badges means we have already ceded all the worthwhile ground. It's the mark the vans tweet irl. This sucks and is completely expected and sucks. Abolish ICE. Fuck ICE.

Civil liberties and constitutional rights for me, not for thee

The US president posting a virulently racist video about a former US first family while the mayor of its biggest city hosts the most charming press conference in the history of press conferences is giving me such whiplash

It’s mechanical turks all the way down

After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered. 18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.

Me: *logging on* oh look, a take that sucks, surely I will ignore it and not spend an hour coming up with a cutting and pithy retort, then end up deciding to ignore it Brain: lol

If I encounter ICE today in a speaking capacity my first question will be whether they’ve seen any of that signing bonus yet; then, whether they think it’s coming soon; then, whether they believe it will come at all.

I’ve been saying the Republican Party is functionally destroyed in MN after this, and I also think we’re closing in on centrism. When we say “abolish ICE is the moderate position” that’s on the ground reporting

idk if I misinterpreted the comment or if @fivefourpod.bsky.social are working off inaccurate intel, but ICE is definitely, 1000% not out of Minneapolis, like, at all. Today’s map is flooded with activity, including a report of guns drawn on observers.

It’s still bleak as shit around here but I do credit that reporter for persisting until the agent is forced to admit it’s finger guns they are afraid of

The only good DHS is an abolished DHS. It was founded as a domestic surveillance apparatus and it has never been anything else. But also, retirees / those living in relative comfort can and should continue to tie up their resources as much as possible

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Sadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

We will win, because our strategy is also something we very much want to be doing already, i.e. being in community and solidarity with our neighbors.

I'm sure he gets tired of people reporting as if Bon Iver is his actual name, but fuck yeah Justin

Next time choose *not* to get played.

I must quibble with the caption here: the video clearly features (at least) two different call-and-response chants, beginning with the iconic “whose streets? Our streets!” and transitioning into what I consider the flagship chant of the movement: “FUCK ICE, ICE OUT”

Listen, if you’re driving in from out of state to chill with us I recommend rubbing a coating of winter grime onto your car first; if we see a clean, shiny car with out of state plates we are Immediately On Alert. This would be good for example

Would love there to be a morning this didn’t apply to