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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

I’ll give up knowing for Lent 😆

Wait until DOGE hears about this.

Fair enough

Honestly, I can see how a case can be made for a dramatic possibility destructive stunt. Maybe.

But “we’re going to prove how bad it is by making it worse then going back our safe home” is not it.

Then I invite you to make this point in your own neighborhood.

I knew you aren’t supposed to complain or brag about what you are giving up but I did not know about the word. I am intrigued

Tell me how a burning dumpster makes fascists honor the social contract.

A binding social contract that is enforced by threat of burning dumpsters isn’t a social contract.

Clearly the people who dragged the dumpster into the street and set fire to it wanted it to happen. It wasn’t a mysterious force of nature.

I should not have to “take action” to protect myself and my neighbors against the actions of those who claim to be acting on my behalf.

Yep. And we need social lubricant to get to community glue.

For instance density makes fast response easier. It also makes it easier for ICE to slip in and out fast. A quick escape isn’t so easy when your next chance to turn is a mile away. Strangers also stick out much more in rural areas.

I can see ways rural communities could get real creative

That’s why I think other areas can learn some things from Minneapolis but shouldn’t try to replicate it. Even in St Paul tactics are slightly different. We have different needs, strengths and cultures. Each area needs to identify what they need most and lean into their own strengths

Once again, this is what makes me so nervous for our neighbors in low density suburbs and rural areas.

The lightning speed response time in Minneapolis has been possible both because of our Signal network but *also* because of the population density in the city.

We need ICE out everywhere.

2/2

Keeping people targeted by state violence safe requires keeping their needs in mind.

Mimicking the violence of the state just does the states work for free.

I guess it depends on what your goal is: to mildly irritate a few agents of the fourth reich or to make sure our neighbors safe from violence and destruction.

Performative anger and destruction can be done anywhere. Protestors can set fire to their own dumpsters in their own backyard.

The problem with all these red state senate races -- McGrath in Kentucky, Harrison in SC, etc -- is that they attract a lot of people with no real understanding of the state's politics and demographics and start demanding they confirm to their own biases instead.

I don’t need the receptionist checking me into the clinic to be kind. But nice eases my anxiety and makes the paperwork feel less onerous.

I expect the nurse and doctor to be kind.

This comes the closest to what I think. But we often equate social and surface to insincere or fake.

I think we need both. Niceness can be a lubricant, a first step toward something deeper.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

Can I write an op-ed about how I stopped reading the Strib because of all their “assholes announcing their departure” coverage?

At least the comments under any Facebook post containing the word “Minnesota” are free to read.

My family’s traditional Spam spread. Put Spam, then a hard boiled egg, then a couple of dill pickles through grandma’s old fashioned food grinder. Mix everything with Miracle Whip. Let sit in the fridge while you mop up the pickle juice.

I only let myself make it once a year or I’d die.

Good on them.

Because we do disagree.

I don’t agree most people don’t contact their representatives, especially in Minnesota right now which was the context the OP was referencing. I don’t agree that’s the only way elected officials know what people want. I don’t agree this in the time/place for your comments

I don’t know what inspired you to choose hit this particular hornet’s nest today, but maybe don’t opine about what Minnesotans should be doing right now.

I’m not sure who you know or where you live but most of the Minnesotans I know call or their elected officials fairly often nowadays. Some people daily. Others email regularly. Others are showing up at their offices.

I call weekly. But yes. I am the reason voters aren’t getting what they want.

It never would have occurred to me to ask an elected official a question. Can we do that?
/sarcasm

Judge forced to slash SF jury pool over hate for Elon Musk One candidate said he thinks sending Elon Musk to prison would benefit humanity.

One candidate said he thinks sending Elon Musk to prison would benefit humanity.

Oh I’m sure that’s what is going on. I just want them to drop the act and say it out loud.

Craven cowards.

White House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts Four days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center.

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.