Jesse Mortenson

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

This govt inflicted a nightmare on the people of MN, and for what? Now they inflict a worse nightmare on the people of Iran, and again, for what?

In the causation matrix between evil, dumbass, and bigot, it’s hard to know where to begin filling in values.

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works

It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.

Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

have you called Jacob Frey today?

Don’t worry, you won’t have to talk to anyone. Just leave a message.

Months of work and millions of dollars raised by thousands of our residents to help keep people in their homes comes down to the signature of one person. We’re calling on Mayor Frey to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives. This policy temporarily gives residents 30 more days to help prevent evictions.

Apparently, Frey's resistance to ICE ends when landlords are impacted.

The Mayor has until Wednesday to change his mind.

Take a moment to tell him to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives, and help keep our neighbors housed as we continue the real fight to protect residents. Call 612-673-2100 today!

Well these days the first thing that comes to mind is One Battle After Another 😅

36!!!! 36 years!!!!

YouTube video by 90sBandsOnTV They Might Be Giants - "Your Racist Friend"

26 years later and society has failed to absorb one iota of their wisdom youtu.be/v4_COOh4VXw?...

I’m guessing not… aren’t there a bunch of 70s young left radicals who went hard right wing later?

And I can only imagine the clusterfuck for today’s young adults: the parasocial seems omnipresent.

idk, what do you think?

I thought Greenwald was really on the right track, until he really wasn’t. To some degree the lesson is you never know and to walk loosely with figures like this. Distrust clout-seeking quasi-celebrity. Hard things to do with electoral politics which is why the bar should be higher to really invest

Not to mention figures like Glenn Greenwald! If someone is iconoclastically correct, but has no history grounded in movement work and good politics, there’s a decent chance that person is motivated by something else. Could just be a wound-up weirdo who happens to get it right for a while

The Platner thing, man, I’m glad I’m not in ME and have to have the argument day and night.

But as someone who has supported some candidates basically because the Green Party was thirsty for candidates, let me say: it’s not worth it.

Red flags and question marks usually ramify to something worse

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

"Nearly three weeks after federal officials announced that Operation Metro Surge was over, close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota."

https://www.startribune.com/close-to-650-federal-agents-remain-in-minnesota-weeks-after-border-czar-announced-end-of-operation/601590007

*post-9/11 (obviously)

Oh god do I read this… I really try to stick to my “no strib rage bait op eds” policy…

A good day to remember that multiple local law enforcement chiefs and Our Mayor have made public statements this year trying to normalize and defend pre-surge DHS/ICE. They hunger to return to the old arrangement, not to dismantle the post-19/11, anti-immigrant machinery that made this possible

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

IMO from the undertones of that Jan meeting, the unanimous vote was a “I don’t want to look like an asshole for nothing” vote for at least four councilmembers

I covered it on my podcast, and the link to the video of the council meeting is in the “government audio” section of the show notes millcityhall.com/episodes/202...

If you have good intentions, GREAT, rein in the trade association representing you. Form a "landlords for eviction pause AND rental aid" group. Ppl are not just frothing at the mouth out of bigotry ... I was at the council meeting weeks ago where the MHA rep testified. I see the political pressure.

This is a daft line of reasoning. I said "how many" not "no one impacted by ICE can ever be a landlord." Let's not pretend landlords are proportionately undocumented. Come on.

I am angry at the MN Multi Housing Association because they were there on day one in blanket opposition to eviction pause.

This is something that has always bothered me: landlords always talk about COVID like they were absolutely gutted. But this massive study by a national trade org, which was conducted on a month-to-month basis, shows the industry never took a bath

www.nmhc.org/research-ins...

And I’m sorry, “some are hiding from ICE, too” yeah Mint Properties needs that moral cover ok - how many “also hiding from ICE” landlords are there, what’s the percentage, what’s the evidence? Or are you just throwing out whatever sounds good

Ok so start a go fund me, tap your networks, lobby the city and state for rental assistance, support political candidates who will end this madness etc - in other words do what everyone else is doing. Why are landlords a special class that has to be held harmless when the Feds go ethnic cleansing

Thousands of us are helping landlords every month of this crisis by contributing from our personal funds to cover rent for people trapped in their homes under existential threat. WHY can’t landlords share in that risk/sacrifice?

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

On the other hand, reasonable doubts raised about the sourcing of this www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

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