Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

China will drink up all the maple syrup!

Palestine Action activists acquitted over Elbit action Six pro-Palestine activists have been acquitted of charges of aggravated burglary over their July 2024 raid on Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems’ factory in Filton, England.

Six pro-Palestine activists have been acquitted of charges of aggravated burglary over their July 2024 raid on Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems' factory in Filton, England. @mondoweiss.net

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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Legislature passes minimum wage decrease for teen workers The Nebraska Legislature voted final approval Thursday of a bill lowering the minimum wage employers must pay some teen workers.

The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that LOWERS the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 for young workers.

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There's already a "hub" for content gen z can watch. What more do these people want?

Already feeling helped.

There is a violent occupying military force that is much more similar to ICE that hides their faces that Thomas conveniently ignores for some reason...

Damn, is this just a bunch of A-B stuff? Seems pretty rediculous to be testing headlines about how the government is shooting people.

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Related:

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Not sure I agree but folks don't like Trump. They're gonna run out of gas on this strategy eventually but folks don't like Trump.

They're gonna drink the flavor-aid.

Hell yeah, man.

There's probably like five people working at the IRS right now.

Five relenentless people, maybe, but five nonetheless.

He was not able to answer the question. :-/

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
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Woko Rubio

Pretty annoying how every website is like this now. Discuss.

The placement of the TV is bothering me. Can't you, like, turn it or something? It just feels wrong. Everything about it feels wrong.

if you use an iPhone, turn on iCloud Private Relay. now.

it is not a VPN; but it comes with your iCloud subscription and will protect against this form of surveillance. without impacting your user experience.

side discussion but anyone saying the real issue with ICE is a lack of proper training is subtly arguing for increased funding and should probably be ignored going forward regarding all substantive matters

Ominous..

Next game should do away with starter monsters based on element and do starter based on traits:

Fat Pikachu
Ozempic Pikachu
Offputting AI-generated Pikachu
Actually a man in a furry suit Pikachu
May have visited "The Island" Pikachu
Still on Twitter in 2026 Pikachu
Heated Rivalry Pikachu
So many...

NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Day of the Dolphin but for real.

I think about this and the description of her depiction of Jesus as a "monkey in an ill-fitting sweater" at least once a year.