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could a dying empire do THIS

$1400 to go to keep this Minneapolis immigrant family in need safe, housed, and out of eviction court! Can you help make this happen for them tonight?

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Please share and give if you can! I really appreciate you and I know they do too 🫶🏻

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us.

It sucks.

We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this.

I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE.

Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help?

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We keep us housed 💛

Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Mayor Frey refused to support a unanimous call from the city council to ask Gov. Walz for an eviction moratorium to support our most vulnerable neighbors and now everyone's having to crowdfund rent.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Corn kernels floating around like Orbitz

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it

one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:

Trump revokes EPA finding on greenhouse gas threat in huge blow to climate change regulations EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin officially revoked the endangerment finding, in a huge blow to U.S. efforts to fight climate change.

Every single day I wish Poison Ivy was real

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

Doron is absolutely correct: if this is "ending," I need to know that the ending looks like no feds in my city abducting my neighbors, and the neighbors who have been taken returned to their homes.

It also means prosecuting the agents who shot Renee, Alex, and Julio, who was shot in the leg.

This guy speaks for everyone in Minnesota.

I’d rather be talking about tech too!

amplifying this as well. an aspect of the surge style is to overwhelm us & exhaust us.

we also have so many of us plugged in helping in some way, shape or form so it is more than okay to unplug a bit, get rest, find something with joy, etc. knowing this is a long haul.

Please don't think anything is back to normal in Minnesota. Nothing is normal.

I know we’re strong. Don’t know if it’s enough.

If you don't live here, your Minnesota friends may tell you that it's going to be okay but I think a lot of that is them being nice so you won't worry.

It's bad here.

“He’s as useless as a marzipan dildo”, also from The Thick Of It

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.

Competitive sonnet readings, string quartet recitals, self-sealing stem bolt mini games, metallurgy calculator sims, things of that nature.

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:

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

YouTube video by grinc333 Kids In The Hall - Communism

Killer bees takes me back to this beautiful jewel of a moment the Kids in the Hall captured, every time I think about it youtu.be/83tnWFojtcY?...

When encountering a deer in a city, the deer seems very much like it’s confused about where it is and that they’d like to get back to a forest.

Turkey doesn’t care. Turkey lets world do what it wants around Turkey, Turkey knows they are tall enough to ride this ride we call Life. Beautiful

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

I would really, really urge you: if this is not your work, if you have not been in this stuff for years, stifle your urge to speak over the folks actually running these groups, actually putting these protests together, actually responsible for keeping people safe.

You are speaking out of turn.

every awful trend on the internet for the last decade came out of GamerGate and they were all readily visible from the very early days

if you couldn’t see it you weren’t paying attention, and everyone who coddled the movement bears responsibility for where we are today