Jeremiah Bartlett

Wow.

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:

You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.

A good read.

Would so buy this.

I don’t believe a single goddamn thing coming out of this administration. This is absolute gaslighting madness. It’s as if we’re watching toddlers run through the White House screaming and smearing Gogurt into the carpet and the entire world has to pretend it’s the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:

“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

Just bought a copy!

I knew Rachel before she was a household name. These accusations are insane, bordering on desperation.

You crash your car, you scrap it for parts.

Ergo, you crash a government, you can sell off its parts.

Seems entirely fitting that Elon is leading this fast-rolling disaster on an epic scale.

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JUST IN: Very unusual reassignment of a suit from a Maine legislator against the Maine legislature. All Maine federal judges recused so assigned to Rhode Island-based judge Melissa DuBose, a Biden appointee. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...

Maine Rep. Laurel Libby sues over censure by House Democrats Libby alleges House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and other democrats violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by barring her from speaking or voting on the House floor.

This is my local elected representative. She is more interested in doxxing vulnerable populations than standing up for people. She’s also managed to get my state a nice target on its back for the Trump Administration to take pot shots at.

he wip’d it out,
Destroy’d his country, and his name remains
To th’ ensuing age abhorr’d.

At least one of my Senators is speaking up - thanks Angus!

"Mama always said Kristi Noem is like a box of chocolates; they'll both kill your dog."

It’s Valentine’s Day and we are IN LOVE with this incredible Lego version of Auburn Hall!! ❤

This impeccably built replica was created by our friend Jack Wiseman from Mechanic Falls. He tells us that “Lego Auburn Hall” is easily one of the biggest Lego projects he has ever built. It took over

It's a publishing fairy tale. 'Hansel and Gretel' is reimagined by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak.

apnews.com/article/step...

Scared to open the next door…

Maybe we saw you coming down as we hiked Bucks Ledge!

And we liked it!

Make
Apartheid
Great
Again
?!?!?!?!

Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.

Never has the term “doomscrolling” felt so literal.

LOL.

You can make up a new Star Wars name by just taking a two-word food item and swapping the first couple of consonants (if they're different)

Jeef Berky
Born Cread
Cellow Yurry
Frimp Ried Shrice
Poco Cuffs
Bees Chites
Mater Welon
Chotato Pips

Recent events in South Korea have truly proven that the X platform is the ex platform.

I did. No regrets.

I am also sorry that they are not feeling safe.