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Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote.

Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?

People really need to check out the logs in their own eyes and quit tearing the specks out of others.’ Jesus was not kidding. And it’s only the second day of Lent.

The Perfect Mirror An experiment with AI spiritual direction almost convinces Matthew Milliner that it works—until the real world breaks the spell.

A must-read:

I would also point out that his punctuation does not look very “American.”

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

Is his name for real?

Seems excessive. Maybe it was a blanket pardon?

There won’t be any president? Wishful thinking, I know.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

Truly he is the Best Bunny.

If you didn’t understand what was great about that halftime show you don’t understand what is great about America. Or should be.

Outstanding read from topnotch media chronicler Aaron Rupar on the Mpls resistance activities of one outfront ICE tracker.

#RadioFreeAmerica

not saying he's necessarily in the organization, but this skull face mask was popular among members of the Proud Boys a few years ago

As Greg points out, the Times thinks they're doing a dunk on Pretti, when actually they're providing evidence of *motive.* The ICE agents should be charged with Murder 1.

Now do Stephen Miller

Damn proud of Minnesota.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Today, out-of-control masked federal agents killed another American, Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse.

Trump needs to end this chaos and withdraw his ICE battalions from Minneapolis.

The Senate must vote down funding this slaughter of our people.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Thou shalt not kill.

Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

– Frederick Douglass

Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

How are you holding on to hope this week? Thanks, as always.

A Call to Minneapolis for Faith Leaders

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Naaaaaaailed it

Previously Neutral Minnesota Man:

"I've never protested in my life. But I live close enough & I sit in my cushy home & look at shit & get mad. What pisses me off is they cuff them & then beat the shit out of them. What the fuck. And it's anybody. I have friends who were detained going to work."