Tom Cravens

It’s disgusting that Rep legislators like him don’t have an iota of humanity for the fact we saw our neighbors die, children ripped from families, racial profiling at bus stops, & people observing peacefully brutalized. it’s not about politics, it’s just the facts of suffering endured by a people.

Quick Racket giveaway!

We've got one extra ticket to the Tom Morello show at First Ave today. RT by 10 a.m. for a chance to win!

The catch? The ticket is non-transferrable, so you'll have to meet Keith at the door around 11.

It is also essential to emphasize that the refugees impacted by this Order are carefully and thoroughly vetted individuals who have been invited into the United States because of persecution in the countries from which they have come. They are not committing crimes on our streets, nor did they illegally cross the border. Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully —and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants or cause in their homes or on their way to religious services or to buy groceries. At its best, America serves as a haven of individual liberties in a world too often full of tyranny and cruelty. We abandon that ideal when we subject our neighbors to fear and chaos. The Court expects that this Order will be complied with in all respects.

“At its best, America serves as a haven of individual liberties in a world too often full of tyranny and cruelty. We abandon that ideal when we subject our neighbors to fear and chaos.

The court expects this Order will be complied with in all respects.”

My dog Mali with her face covered in snow.

Silhouette of my dog Mali by a freezing lake.

My dog Mali showing off her underbite in the snow.

My dog Mali standing watch in the snow.

Here are a few photos of my photogenic dog Mali in the snow for you. Hoping it’s a better week for MN.

ICE protest songs and chants, Minnesota general strike (January 23) and beyond Transcriptions of singing at ICE protests by faith leaders and protesters. Songs about ICE’s masculinity issues. Other songs about the ICE…

I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota

Hi, this is what I've been working on this week.

In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...

today i wrote about how in the twin cities, the organized resistance to ICE is everywhere.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Tommy Brennan on Trump's ICE Deployments in Minnesota - SNL

Interestingly, the best thing from last weekend's SNL is this clip that was cut for time and posted on a Tuesday night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8O...

Letter from an Occupied Minnesota I want to write a bit about the last month in the Twin Cities.

I didn't write this for people in the Twin Cities. I wrote this to everyone else, my feeble attempt to try to be witness to the occupation of Minnesota and the chaos of every single day right now. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.

‘Because I was Latino, that’s it’: ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling driver sahanjournal.com/news/ice-ram...

This is a police state occupation and terror campaign that has nothing to do with immigration. I don’t see how courts haven’t already stepped in Minneapolis to stop this in the way they did in Chicago?

We live in St Paul, Minnesota; TONIGHT reports coming from multiple sources that ICE is staging in our grocery store’s old parking lot, going door to door in adjacent neighborhoods weapons drawn.

At this point the Civil War movie seems more reality, and current events are the fiction. SMH.

Locals! If you go out to eat tonight, Wrecktangle Pizza will donate a pizza to a family hiding from ICE.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Wow

'Get the Fuck Out of Minneapolis' - Racket Plus local politicians respond to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good and what you can do to help.

Plus local politicians respond to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good and what you can do to help in today's Flyover news roundup.

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I went to the protest in Highland Park, St. Paul. There was good crowd energy and signs including ’No Kings’ and’The Vocal Minority Does Not Speak For Me.’ Let’s do this again.

I went to the protest in Highland Park, St. Paul. There was good crowd energy and signs including ’No Kings’ and ’The Vocal Minority Does Not Speak For Me.’ My wife is out of town, she was at a far larger one in Manhattan! Let’s do this again soon.

A lesson from Israel: Do it again next week.

Minnesota voters elected a split state House. Republicans seized power anyway. Even when Republicans have a lot of power, it often will not be enough,

"The rules governing the exercise of power in a representative democracy should not — must not — be Calvinball." The MNGOP illegally seizes power in the statehouse. It's part of a pattern. From MSNBC.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Oh no

Reading the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971), as one does, and stumbled on Wendy Carlos’s unsolicited contribution about synthesizers… a long letter/rant complete with comments on specific models

Sometime in the 11th Century, viking mercenaries carved runes in the shoulder of this ancient Greek lion statue. It’s difficult to translate, but they say something like “We won and now we’re carving trash talk on your lion.” So at least some vikings knew what lions were. [5/9]

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History of jazz in 5 recordings made on Christmas Eve.

1. 1939: From Spirituals to Swing concert, Carnegie Hall

2. 1948: Charlie Parker, Royal Roost

3. 1954: Miles Davis & the Modern Jazz Giants

4. 1964: Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil

5. 1965: Don Cherry, Complete Communion

Oh no! Sounds like a tough time. I hope they recovered well with no lasting issues….

It wasn’t very well attended. I think it was right after spring break in 1999. He got all the students up on stage and had them learn Monk’s “Friday the 13th” by ear. Roswell Rudd did a long spoken word thing in one of the tunes they played.

No it was the quartet with Roswell Rudd. I found out they were coming to the Dakota and contacted their management. A student asked about free playing. Lacy said we don’t play totally free anymore but let’s do it today! I have the recording, some great Monk tunes too.