Spouse returning from a mutual aid organizing meeting last night: “the 27 year old dudes with beards need to shut up, listen, and just work.”

My precinct caucus is located where? It’s held when? This just ain’t the way, people.

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5 year old: he’s 41 years old!? Me: is that older or younger than me? 5 year old: younger. Me: right! how old am I? 5 year old: one hundr … Me: ok that’s enough!

Are videos on Bluesky not playing for anyone else?

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Oh no. The signal chat has hit upon sub-neighborhood boundaries. This is the greatest threat to unified opposition.

But these same people ALSO believe that you get “indoctrinated and trained” by living in a city in America.

Everyone—check your local schools! TONS need more bodies for drop off and pick up.

Is releasing a YouTube video at 6 am local time the typical way of announcing a run for office?

A reading of my latest poem entitled, “It grows between the toes.”

Nationalize bikes for all middle aged dads. Lycra prohibited. Jeans required.

ADD dad picking out fidget toys “for his child”

Hmmmm. Is the stress starting to affect me? Well today I popped the butt seam on my suit pants. Bike season can’t get here soon enough.

Oh and add all monetary awards must come directly out of ICE’s appropriated budget.

What will make them stop violating the constitution? I KNOW. A CODE OF CONDUCT!

A code of conduct? Dereliction. Dawgs if you’re not talking ICE abolition, bare minimum is: section 1983 liability extended to all federal agents, prohibition on application of qualified immunity to federal agents, and mandatory grant of citizenship to any noncitizen as a remedy for prevailing.

Credit where credit is due: the Strib has really upped its game since ICE got to town. Their reporters are doing good journalism, the editors aren't watering it down anymore in the headlines, and the columnists are calling it like it is.

Lawyer here: Questions not answer on the signal chat: “why use that app to donate funds? Is it just to keep the donation anonymous?”

The Pitt.

The FBI is claiming it’s possible for citizens to entrap governent agents? That’s …. quite an inversion.

At least two and maybe four of these ideas are “enact a new law to prohibit them from violating laws already in place which they are already violating.”

i really think if you set out a nice piece of cheese on the way to the airport you could get greg bovino stuck in a mouse trap

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I don’t buy BOVINE-o (chill it’s a work in progress from a dad who tells dad jokes) retreat as being any sort of backdown. Get him away from cameras but still terrorize the community is a very plausible strategy for this group, which cares more about optics than anything else.

Remember this morning the department of justice argued to a different judge, in the same courthouse and against the same litigants, that it was not using ICE to coerce change in state and local policy.

And live posting of the hearing on Keith Ellison’s other suit against the feds (preservation of evidence from Saturday)

Me: the signal network list has been posted online for weeks. The training sign ups are just on regular ass websites. Yes, I do give money to organizations in need, which they solicit openly on every social media platform in existence. Them:

A few things: A) the state is incredibly unlikely to prevail on these theories; B) the hearing went pretty well for the state based on the live blog, but hard with not hearing tone, etc.; C) do not take the judge asking skeptical questions to the state as a bad omen; often opposite is true.

Live blog of Keith Ellison’s motion for a temporary restraining order this morning. Didnt realize until now this was this morning!

An also ran who was a *democrat* until a couple years ago when his law firm became go to shop for cops charged with crimes. Ha had no chance of winning a republican primary.

Ok so something we learned today. If your five year old is in your 2018 model subaru, and you close the door with the car running and the key in the ignition while you scrape the windshield, it is possible to accidentally lock the car, such that the kiddo is locked inside with the car running.

Potential reading list: Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1968); and Secession on Trial, by Cynthia Nicoletti (has been on my shelf for a while)

I found a treehouse and the little girl inside said “girls only. Are you a girl?” and I panicked and didn’t know what to say so I couldn’t get into the treehouse. FOILED AGAIN!! THE SOCIALISTS!!

I completely misunderstood what this quote was about until I reached the last line.

I just read possibly my first ever fox news article and holy Jesus it’s some of the most deranged shit I’ve ever read.

Can’t continue your “not a real professor, only trying out for next 8th Circuit opening” if you stand up for individual rights against a repressive regime.

In the world’s most unsurprising news: Not signed by Ilan Wurman.

I maintain that Steve Simon should run for governor. That was my position before the KLOB announced it is without a doubt my position after the KLOB announced. Dude would run away in any election and would be able to easily hold the job for as long as he wanted it.

These are the demands of a party that knows it is losing badly. Fuck them.

Great community tonight. 40+ people on one corner.

A warning to ICE, CBP, DHS, and all other fuckwad acronym agents: Putting out false information to cover up a murder exposes you to a prison sentence equal to half the sentence of the murder itself. So y’all are potentially looking at double digit years in prison. Minn. Stat. 609.495, subd. 3.

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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Schools are announcing cold weather closure. It is also true that districts had already decided to cancel school if enough teachers put in for paid leave on 1/23. My spouse was an organizer of the call out at her school w/ direct communication with the district about this. Big props to teachers!

You cannot win governor in Minnesota without broad support from the metro. You *definitely* cannot win governor in Minnesota with broad antagonism from the metro.

I remember how things turned out last time she made a campaign announcement on a full on winter day.

Today, long undies help you be there for your neighborhood. Heading out.