Bête Noire

In a scathing order, a judge orders the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father.

“Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED.”

Dear neighbor, It is not the time to let your guard down, nor is it the time to stop organizing.

While Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis along with some U.S. Border Patrol agents, there is still no specific plan that has been communicated to the public. 1/

keep your rage alive

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

Mood in minneapolis right now

A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.

Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...

Yeah, this is really important.
In media-speak, “protesters” is coded as people going out looking for trouble.
What we are seeing in MN is community protection.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”

it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

The crop art is gonna slap this year

Snippet of a short article by Sysan Du of the Minnesota Star Tribune from January 17, 2025 at 12:40 p.m.: Counterprotesters vastly outnumber Lang's group As right-wing influencer Jake Lang continued to yell imperceptibly, surrounded by news photographers and a few supporters...

SUSAN DU YOU SAVAGE

On the bright side, the Jake Lang videos have absolutely cheered me up today. Love to see a sad wet Nazi being chased out of my city with his chud friends. Thanks for the laughs, Jake!

They can't scrounge up enough D-list J6ers to fill a bingo hall, while guys in Vikings jerseys are chasing ICE out of sports bars. Public sentiment is pivoting rapidly and we are going to win.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

I was regretting putting off grocery shopping until Christmas Eve Eve but the co-op was actually very pleasant. I suspect the other co-op shoppers just got their shit together earlier than me

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

She looks just like one of ours!

Tornado threat has apparently passed but 3 of 4 cats are still hiding under the basement couch. Just assuming that at least one of them is nervous peeing under there which is a tomorrow morning problem!

From a WWII handbook on being a bad at job to roadblock fascism. Here's the text: “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.” “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.” “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.” “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.” “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.” “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job” “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.” “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”

I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...

DOJ consent decree will not save us The fundamentals of the policing situation in Minneapolis are that the mayor has the ultimate authority and that we need a new mayor.

This is great commentary by former MN Rep. Jim Davnie—and a powerful indictment of Frey’s terrible leadership: “If we want meaningful public safety reform, we don’t just need a consent decree. We need a new mayor.” www.startribune.com/doj-consent-...

Made a new recipe for dinner tonight which took forever, made a huge mess, and turned out kind of mediocre. I made the blender dirty for THAT

Decided to do a lightly modified Whole30 starting Jan 2 and I’m actually really excited about it?? I did Whole30 a couple years ago and it turns out if I stop eating junk food for a month I feel great, who knew. The downside is that I’m going to be crabby the first week of January, sorry in advance

Men in Blazers: America's Best Soccer Bar Voting

Ok, y'all I don't ask for much, but Ima need you to go vote for Black Hart for the country's best soccer bar.
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A graphic from WPRI that reads: "White Christmas History: Providence Since 1904. 1904 - 1944: 30 White Christmases. 1945 - 1985: 15 White Christmases. 1986 - 2024: 4 White Christmases." White Christmas: 1" of snow on the ground at 7 am."

It's almost like there's a change happening. To the climate.

"Climate change," if you will.

Meet the new owner of St. Paul’s Black Garnet Books The bookstore, inspired by the local reckoning over race following the murder of George Floyd, sold this fall as founder Dionne Sims looks toward other dreams. The store will remain Black-owned.

Meet the new owner of St. Paul’s Black Garnet Books www.startribune.com/meet-the-new...

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

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Is the United Healthcare CEO assassin the millennial DB Cooper??

A white woman’s hand with long nails that are black with silver tips. In the background is an out of focus houseplant.

Look at my DIY manicure! Look at it!

Oh man that’s good advice. We’ve discovered that their DIY basement renovation was not uhhhh up to code