Jaye

thank you!

You're very welcome!

But the people who bombed Vietnam and Iraq didn't listen.

The American remake of The Death of Stalin, LIVE!

A good deal of violence against civilians from WWII bombings of cities onward assumes that the will of the people can be crushed and it generally fails. As the piece mentions, partly on the assumption that most people are cowardly and selfish. Mostly we're not.

On the other hand, for such players, violence is assumed to be powerful but it is both the result of the failure just mentioned, and it often fails to coerce or intimidate people into submitting/obeying, whether it's the people of Vietnam and Iraq or the people of Chicago and Minneapolis.

Okay thanks! The piece addresses a very specific kind of violence, by regimes and presumably powerful players. But on the one hand, they use violence because they have failed politically: politics is the art of building/retaining power through alliance and persuasion.

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

I get the impression you didn't read the piece.

Man detained by agents at St. Paul Speedway gas station confirmed alive Here’s the latest Wednesday around the increased federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and the protests against the killing of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis last week by a U.S. ...

As for the victim:

Or dying from his violence. ICE prevented immediate medical aid so we don't know much about the time between the shots and her death.

I just donated. By the way GoFundMe tries to charge a predatory 17.5% which is way beyond their administrative costs but you can opt out if you notice they're doing that. GoFundMe is a venture-capital-backed private company.

Following David's lead, I also posted on FB and was surprised by the positive response. Spread the word about what's happening here. People want to know.

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

International inappropriate touching of exactly the kind parents warn their toddlers against. (I've always thought that rape was violent invasion of sovereign bodies at the human scale; maybe invasion is rape of sovereign bodies at the nation-state scale.)

Totally agree (I was joking that a bunch of Buddhist monks in saffron robes in San Francisco would not really stand out.) The response is so beautiful; the acceptance of an invitation to be openhearted and connected.....

It's that assumption that we are cowardly and selfish that drives a lot of stupid policy decisions from this to bombing civilians. Minneapolis's valor and solidarity should be legend for centuries.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

I mean his own footage shows he was not hit by Good's car and everyone else's shows he strolled away from it nonchalantly after firing three bullets into her face.

Could you explain how that happened or why you decided to accept unnamed administration whatevers as a reliable source in the absence of any evidence of an injury?

Conversation about resistance and possibility with Kafia Ahmed, e.d. of Third Act, @billmckibben.bsky.social, visionary organizer Daniel Hunter, and me at 3pm Pacific/6pm Atlantic today thirdact.org/events/fight...

Weak Violence, Strong Peace: Who We Are in This Crisis It's getting more extreme out there, especially in Minnesota where the unaccountable army of the Trump regime has, in the wake of its murder, beaten up employees, ripped civilians from their cars, kid...

This may come as a shock to you, but I wrote a thing.
Begins with ICE violence in Minnesota, ends with the Buddhist walk for peace across the Southeast. Discusses the profound weakness of the administration in the middle.

IN a perfect world or even a perfect Bluesky, there would be an edit/revision feature. Not sure I would be a bishop in a perfect world....

Weapons will be fired. Lives will be lost. Nouns of attribution will be avoided.

He's actually pro-Mordor and his child will grow up to realize it. And maybe not be daddy's ventriloquist's dummy.

Donate to TJ Sabula is a patriot!!, organized by Sean Williams ** UPDATE ** I am working on transferring this donation project to TJ - for him to control di… Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!!

Oh here!

Where's his GoFundMe? Because Mr Sabula speaks for me and for thee.....

Could Viral Protest Videos Create a Backlash Against ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons?

Clayton Dalton: "The prediction proved prescient. In 2004, a student in Boston died after she was shot through the eye with a pepper ball. A review of nearly 2,000 events worldwide involving these weapons identified 53 deaths and 300 cases of permanent disability, many due to vision loss."

ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

The piece is overall pretty good, but this bothsidesism meets waffledom is why the NYT makes so many of our heads explode. It's an incoherent paragraph; I wonder if editorial rewrote something to create this fuzziness about who what where why when.