Jay Thatcher

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

Reckless Exits and Divine Light: Witnessing the Occupation in Minnesota | Friends Committee On National Legislation If I want to understand what is happening in my neighborhood right now during the ICE invasion of Minnesota, I go to my local gas station.

"True security is rooted in justice, not fear.

"We hold those harmed in the Light, and we demand a budget and guardrails that reflect our shared humanity."

We’ll believe Operation Metro Surge is coming to an end when we see it, but let’s give it up for the people of Minneapolis and everyone who has stood with them.

You are great neighbors and great Americans.

I see people driving with that strategy on the four lane thoroughfare in our neighborhood. Sometimes it's two of them at once.

Lots of emotions and questions following Homan's announcement. But the thing I keep coming back to is this:

We cannot go back. We must take this moment, reflect on the power we discovered, and build a city that is stronger, more caring, and more connected.

A city that can do this can do anything.

This whole thread, from a lawyer who had no wish to get involved — on the government’s open defiance of the courts & the truly murderous conditions in the US immigrant concentration camps. We really are rolling rapidly down a steep slope to Auschwitz.

When you fabricate a crisis, trump it up and bring in totally irrelevant and unprepared forces to solve it, perhaps you get to declare when the crisis is over.

“Novato bicyclist dies in collision with car.”

Please stop writing headlines like this.

All of our branches will be closed for Presidents' Day on Monday, February 16th! We'll return to our regular hours on Tuesday.

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I hope I'm not counting too many chickens too soon. I notice my Google searches this morning are coming up with a real link at the top, instead of featuring some artificial idiocy slop to scroll past. Anybody else get those results?

The monthly newsletter is out from SAFE Corvallis.
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Invitation from www.safecorvallis.org to Happy Hour at Laughing Planet on 2nd St. The second Friday of each month from 4-6 pm. Logos from SAFE Corvallis & Laughing Planet. Icons of a bike, a wheelchair, a bus and a person walking.

Streets Are For Everyone! Corvallis has a happy hour this Friday, 2/13. Stay lucky and come to Laughing Planet on 2nd St. between 4 and 6 pm.

Isn't it so a trucking company in the mid-Willamette Valley can lay off some human drivers and turn their wages into profits?

'Yugoslavia’s embrace of total national defence failed...'
It allowed some provincial militias to gain independence, yes.

Was the agency felt by the people later a significant factor in overthrowing Slobodan Milošević? Does it persist now as part of the resistance to Aleksandar Vučić?

New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Seems like the truly patriotic sympathy to have.

Immunizing Portland from tyranny.

What time should I be over?

Glossaries of Quaker jargon Western Friend Glossaries of phrases and words Quakers use Please add as you’re led. Please do not delete any others. https://fwccamericas.org/glossary Multiple languages North Pacific Yearly Me...

Thanks! I've put this video on a list of glossaries at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

Thanks for posting this story. KOIN offered the first images I've seen of those speaking from their seats. On the livestream I could hear the tone, but not the words.

It took guts to listen to the anger expressed that evening and confidence to post the images of it.

To become a Meeting that brings new people back, try this online conversation tomorrow:
*Among*Western*Friends - *What*are*Meetings*doing*for*attenders*who*want*to*be*involved?*
Tomorrow 2/7 at 11am Pacific Time/noon Mountain
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'... There are also meetings where more new people are attending once, but never coming back. If this is happening regularly, it should prompt us to reflect on the quality of our worship and welcome.' 4/4

'Many Quaker meetings are still struggling with static or declining numbers .... Some meetings in smaller towns are also growing. For a small meeting, even a handful of new attenders makes a very significant difference...' 3/

'...Over the last couple of years something new has happened. New people have started coming to Quaker meetings in unusual numbers, and most of them are in their 20s and 30s. As a result, some of our meetings are not just growing but also getting younger.

'This is not happening everywhere.' 2/

The end of decline Some Quaker meetings are not just growing but getting younger

The end of decline open.substack.com/pub/quakerre...

'Quakers in Britain are used to telling each other a story about how our meetings are ageing and shrinking, and the Quaker movement as a whole is in steady decline. This story is no longer true.' 1/

How AI helps to supercharge oil and gas production AI is quietly boosting fossil fuel expansion, helping companies to drill more confidently and enabling even more destructive emissions to be released

AI is quietly boosting fossil fuel expansion, helping some of the world’s biggest polluters to drill and extract more oil and gas.

It is time to look at the emissions enabled by AI that could dramatically exceed the footprint of its infrastructure.

https://gwitness.org/4qZXr16

That's our Congress critter! Happy to hear this!

Makeshift traffic calming in South Minneapolis where ICE vehicles regularly travel through at high speeds.

“DHS was started in 2002. I remember a world before, let’s build a world after”
“Dream of spring”
“Neighbors say ice out!”
“ICE OUT”

Minneapolis February 4, 2026