Ryne VanKrevelen

I’ve really appreciated your columns and have found some great books I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

imagine the thousands and thousands of unbelievable horrors going on if we're just hearing about "regularly kidnapping legal residents, dropping them off in a different state, and telling them to deal with it"

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

They kill. They lie. They repeat.

This is the craven torture of a helpless person by federal agents. There can be nothing short of trials and stiff prison sentences for these people and everyone above them in the chain of command. bsky.app/profile/amre...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained.

Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.

The number of these that end without any charges mean they are terrorizing people for the sake of terrorizing people. (Their violence would be excessive even when it leads to criminal charges)

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.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.

The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

The odds that both dice are the same number is 1 in 20 too. Basically regardless of what is on one die, the other has a 1 in 20 chance of matching it. Odds of two of a specific number, like two sixes, would be 1 in 400.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things

What are we doing here

Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green
Craig Finn - Always Been
Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles
Josh Ritter - I Believe In You, My Honeydew
Weakened Friends - Feels Like Hell
Joan Shelley - Real Warmth

Some of my favorite albums released in 2025 were (not really in order):

Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight
Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings
Sacred Paws - Jump into Life
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American
Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit
S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
Geckøs - Geckøs

These were my favorite books I read in 2025. Like in 2024, the top row stood out above the others, but all of these were really great reads. The authors and titles are in the alt text if the image is to hard to read.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.

Absolutely this. But taking the easy way out does such a disservice to our students and undermines the point of education.

this is just gutter racism

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

The Grievers trilogy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social does a great job of focusing on community as a response to a post apocalyptic scenario instead of an every person for themselves story like many others

I don’t feel like I look like that

Wait… nobody at defector has multiple yachts, right?

There are few places I feel better spending my money than a worker owned site that produces deeply researched and important articles alongside deeply silly ones. It’s a bargain at full price and you’re supporting the people doing the work instead of a CEO’s fourth yacht.