Battletech is a wonderful ridiculous universe for escapism. It's like Imagine if, following WWII, Dwight Eisenhower decided he wanted nothing to do with the Cold War, so he and a DISTURBING amount of the victorious Allied forces went to go live on the moon. AND THEN, following WWIII and WWIV...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Re: craftivism; we don't know what's gonna work til we do it. If you had told me last year that 3d printed whistles were going to be the big deal thing that really fucks up the gestapo... i'd have believed you because this moment is very weird BUT I'd have had to stare at the horizon for a minute.

Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

in a just world this debacle would prevent him from ever working in media again but it’s probably a selling point to his future oligarch bosses

Can't believe most of bsky was treating this guy like a modern John Brown as recently as last month. This dweeb would lose his MIND if he saw what Indigenous people in Brazil do with blockades.

Shit like this is what I'm talking about. Just the latest example of someone who doesn't know anything about the blockades, understand their purpose, or see their success. I've seen ICE turn around and not enter a neighborhood. I saw it with my own two eyes, on the ground in Minneapolis.

Fun fact, the City of Minneapolis DOES NOT HAVE SHERIFFS. Not sure who's doing the reporting here but jeez guys.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Personal Me: this is peak Angie Craig. Local businesses supporting our communities all over the Twin Cities, she picks a coffee chain where the union organizers are currently asking for support against union busting. Read the room, Angie.

These are NOT local Minneapolis police! Please correct your reporting!

Memorial gathering for Rene Good, Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis.

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FYI THIS IS NOT A GC QUOTE. It’s internet dreck he denied saying. Need a GC quote reference tool? Visit www.georgecarlin.net

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Voice of Space by René Magritte, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137870

Another note from occupied Minneapolis, I'm doing something I also did 2 weeks ago and genuinely thought to myself "well the federal government didn't murder anyone this time so I can factor in less time for traffic" and I don't want this to be normal????

We spend $5 without thinking — on coffee, snacks, or things we forget in minutes. But for a hungry child, that same $5 can mean a warm meal, medicine, or strength to survive another day. What feels small to us can be life-saving to someone else. @quantumham.bsky.social @ruralman.bsky.social

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

I was in the balcony at this show and also recorded the show. archive.org/details/the-...

democrats will never forgive the brief window where the party base made them pretend to care about women and sexual assault

it is absolutely wild that random people on the internet have kept thousands and thousands of minnesota families housed this month my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.

Nuts that a guy named PICKLEBALLER 1729 thinks it's ok to visit a pedo's private island once (bc the pedo is rich) ALSO thinks Dawkins was right to yell at a woman for complaining about getting groped at conferences. But dang he misses me on the podcast I left bc I couldn't deal with the misogyny

One of my most woke opinions: France needs to pay back all the money they made Haiti pay for their independence (with interest).

LawHelpMN is building out a clearinghouse of resources for people who are detained or at risk of detention by ICE. It'll be continually updated as new resources come online. Available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali www.lawhelpmn.org/detained

While people who would probably qualify as liberals risk their lives in the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and do similar brilliantly organized solidarity work in New Orleans and Chicago and many other cities), not sure what this is supposed to mean.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Here's hoping for the best

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

THIS IS SO FRICKEN COOL!!!!!!!

Ross Smith of Ross G. Smith Contracting (Hudson, NH) thinks it's appropriate to call HS students "retards".

Abolish ICE and DHS. Shut it all down.

Tell Congress: Defund ICE

Does anyone have an update on these folks? Do they need anything?

Bless them. It's 30F right now, a little balmy for February. I hope the university does the right thing, quickly.

It is! Today is your ONLY chance to get this brand new, limited edition shirt and support rent relief in East Saint Paul, MN for families who have been affected by the federal government's siege there. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

GOOD. Please never vote for a Republican for any office, ever, for the rest of your life.

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting www.wired.com/story/jonath...

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

Today, @repangiecraig.bsky.social and I were denied entry into the Whipple Building to conduct congressional oversight over the life, health, and safety conditions at the ICE & CBP detention facility. Oversight of taxpayer-funded facilities is not only our legal right, but our constitutional duty.

@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this

"Oh, but this whole country is full of lies!" - Nina Simone

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Now with a working link! bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

reshare for alt text, ka-ra-te, man "two things you need to know: one, I'm the king, and two, LOOK OUT"

Hi, FBI? I want to report a nuclear burn.

Experts warned against drinking raw milk before it killed this baby, too.