For every person in the street in a video of something big there are 20 at each school each arrival & dismissal, dozens of drivers of kids & groceries &c, a spreadsheet maintained by a team, people feeding people, people checking in on people, supply drive coordination, rent fund establishment...

We can get on the foxfire message board too for a good time. Tbh, absolutely epic time posting there during Seattle protests in 1999

Deleting signal, see you at the message board on Flipsyde dot com

They're attacking our elementary schools in order to get symbolic revenge on one of our martyrs for embarrassing them with her death. No decency, no honor.

Toronto equivalent: imagine if residents of Cluny Drive and Roxborough etc in Rosedale started showing up to observe and yell at fascists in Parkdale.

If the Wolves game goes on tomorrow, I want to see an entire game of 24 second violations, tie score of 0-0 as protest.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Alex was a nurse helping veterans of the military, and murdered by the military.

My dad spent most of his career as a nurse at the same VA in Minneapolis as Alex.

He would be so angry. I am so angry.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

In addition to me receiving ads for armed services, I just starting realizing my two teenage boys might have required national service upon high school graduation. Daunting, unreal.

Too niche and probably not available for karaoke but "Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday" by Hey Mercedes is a banger

Just so my American friends and followers get an idea of what the official mood of Canada - L'ambience officielle du Canada - is at the present moment.

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

"Nostalgia is not a strategy" is a banger, but when we've seen something as simple as NIMBYs blocking housing for decades based on this, I am skeptical.

(Would love to be wrong in this case)

I, a middle aged man in Canada, am receiving ads on social media to join the Canadian Armed Forces.

Where I grew up, where most of my family lives, where so many old friends and family are doing important things now. Sending love from across the border.

What people know about publicly is only a fraction of the work actually going on, much of which is being done very quietly for the safety/security of our vulnerable neighbors.

Truly inspired by so many people (you know who you are) right now. And truly surreal that any of this is even necessary.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

Minnesota: brave, courageous, full of solidarity.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

If I were actually ready to take a risk, I'd quit my job and manufacture a pop duo called < 3 (pronounced left arrow three) and the merch would sell it itself and I'd be a millionaire (probably 😂)

Also happy to share for unique phone ring tones, or custom make one for you. (Track 1 is my phone ringtone, track three is my alarm to wake up each morning , 🌞)

New music from my band Patchbay Legend. Interstitials for a pause in your day.

Melody laden analog synth goodness for your Friday. Available wherever you find your music.

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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

As a former member of the Board of Directors of Heritage Toronto, I confirm I would have voted for this plaque.

Life, and in this case death, is more than pennies saved here or there. The story of Conrad the Raccoon is worth remembering.

it shouldn’t be surprising, but it still is, when major news outlets, even as they report about MN suing the government for this ICE invasion refuse to mention:

-ICE going into homes without warrants
-Randomly stopping people based on skin color
-Detaining citizens
-Harassing schools and churches