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10/10 ICE protest sign

A rare but consistent point of levity during the last few weeks has been watching national news reporters coming to terms with third-week-of-January-in-Minnesota cold.

My “representative.” What a joke.

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

Can confirm. I spent ~15 years at the MN US Attorney’s Office as a paralegal/investigator focusing on Medicare and other fraud against the govt. MN was always near the bottom of the rankings. Was there fraud here? Yes. Was it high compared to other states? Absolutely not.

A sign from Ceiling Cat!

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

Whole lotta dudes think they're Bluto Blutarsky when they're really Doug Niedermayer

Does anyone know about day cares being closed today to ICE / protests?

Sorry, am I on a jury or a journalist reporting on this? Because I do get to opt out on watching a video that people from reputable outlets have watched and described. Me watching a woman die changes NOTHING about my position here. It just traumatizes me.

Timeline cleanse

Everything ends - and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

I need to quit making bad choices. For instance, I woke up this morning and thought to myself "this would be a good day to stay in bed and read books" but instead I got up and checked the news.

Tech company executive {shudder}. Can I pick 2nd to last book instead? Rural traveling librarian.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Sending joy to my friends near and far (and to my belly). I usually do this for Solstice but I got behind this year. The light returns! Huzzah!

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP

PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help. @supplydepotmpls 💕💸

Why does it remind me of this?

This came to me in a dream

Main foyer can only be accessed through the garage. There are no other doors leading to the outside; is this a prison? The mudroom and laundry with two bathtubs is almost as large as the garage. Gourmet kitchen is empty, but great room has two sinks. Love the coat bath and the master roksn. lololol

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

I named my fists Waterford and Baccarat because let’s be real, if I hit you with them they will probably shatter into a million little pieces.

Me, for (at least) the next *5* months...every winter I rethink my decision to move back to MN from the Mid-Atlantic. Overall worth it but this part sucks.

When my little brother was 3, he was terrified of the school photographer and started crying. We coaxed him into allowing one picture and it looked kinda like this.

I started as a computer science major but found coding boring, then I discovered the fascinating world of anthropology. Not a lot of jobs in that field, so I kept my toes dipped in the tech world and now am an investigator/analyst, where data science & anthropology/sociology converge.

"Black Cat Angst" by Greg Stones Art

Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

you can tell who did and didn’t read til the end

Content you can actually use:

This is exactly what I think.

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Tired: starting a land war in Asia. Wired: starting a land war in Africa.

As Paul Hollywood would say, it’s a little “rough & ready.” Framboisier from the most recent episode of GBBO. Genoise sponge, pistachio crème mousseline, fresh raspberries. I didn’t attempt the sugar dome because I didn’t have the equipment & I piped roses because fondant tastes like 💩.

THIS. My mom, whose grandparents came here in late 1800s/early 1900s from Ukraine (their parents also being immigrants, from Germany), was complaining about welfare and immigrants a few years ago. She said her grandparents never got any handouts. I was like, um, EXCEPT FOR THE FREE 320 ACRES!!

Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…

No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back. #TaxBillionaires

If anything, the men who “lost their way” politically in the last couple of years should be begging us to take them back. They jumped off a fascist cliff and suddenly realized they don’t like the feeling of falling. But MEEP MEEP.

I can't say I'm delighted by the current state of affairs.

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

Heads up, the massive architectural salvage Bauer Brothers in North is having a huge downsizing sale

This is brilliant. @flavorflav.bsky.social @chuckdpe.bsky.social #PublicEnemy #HipHop #Punk youtube.com/watch?v=aKV1...

how to lose friends and alienate people

Finding it difficult to concentrate on work today, which may explain why my husband and I just had a discussion about the mascots on Golden Crisp and Honey Smacks (formerly Sugar Crisp and Sugar Smacks). Mmm, sugar…

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.