The City of Minneapolis, evicting 48 of the poorest families in its care, for a total of $30,144.

TODAY!

still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

Today is day 139 of the ICE occupation of MN.

If ICE hasn’t come to your city or town yet, let us tell you: NOW is the time to organize.

Build trusting relationships. Get folks into Signal groups now, based on trust and connections. It will make what comes next so, so much easier.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

Donate to Honoring Bennie Montgomery’s Life and Legacy, organized by M N It is with the heaviest hearts that we share the passing of son, brother, father, unc… M N needs your support for Honoring Bennie Montgomery’s Life and Legacy

Folks may know of Kandace Montgomery, who among other things was a cofounder of both Black Visions and Reclaim the Block. She recently lost her dad, and there's a GFM to support her family here: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-b...

It’s not the case that Trump “got pulled into” attacking Iran any more than Netanyahu “tricked” or “played” Biden. To put it this way denies that most of our Beltway foreign policy actors, both parties, have deeply internalized Israel’s perspective and interests. That’s an American pathology, on us.

Delta Air Lines had no trouble endorsing the Big Beautiful Bill, which gave ICE a blank check to terrorize Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.

They flew Liam to an ICE concentration camp.

Now they want a million dollars to build a new lounge at MSP.

Join us on Monday to demand accountability.

this op-ed IMO reveals a deeper truth about moneyed interests in local politics: they are fundamentally opposed to the idea that these are real jobs, they see them as sinecures. Results don't matter. Jenkins contributed to this op-ed and her own constituent, Davis Moturi, isn't even mentioned.

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

Reese & Sandra both coming out w their let's lean into AI is not a coincidence. It's self interest. It's cynical and it's deeply disappointing that other creatives are willing to throw their fellow artists under the bus.

Students in the Texas Tech system (64k, give or take) are now PROHIBITED from researching or writing anything "centered on" sexual orientation or gender identity as part of an undergrad honors or graduate thesis. Not faculty, mind you. Students.

In a blatant 1st Amendment violation, students in the Texas Tech University system are completely banned from researching or writing anything related to sexual orientation or gender identity as part of their thesis.

At some point the conversation we had about how much of tech was stalkerware has to intersect with how AI usage has validated stalkers. And I know that sounds circular but this is the ouroboros of much of modern surveillance tech. It can be used against anyone but it is often rooted in misogyny

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.

"Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orbán’s expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad."

nice

newrepublic.com/post/209035/...

You probably think you can't hate Target more than you already do but ....

We found out several things during the wait. 1) target uses AI for theft prevention which often falsely targets people. 2) they purposly don't notify you if you don't scan all items in a self checkout lane. 3) if u hit the ok button on the self checkout and you miss an item they say thats stealing

We changed the government structure in 2021, under the bonkers premise from the Charter Commission - that the lesson of 2020 was that Jacob Frey's total authority over police (a power he'd always had) should be extended to all city departments.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Democrats joining Trump and Stephen Miller on surveilling Americans YouTube video by Drop Site News

One of the great scandals of our time is that professional class liberals and institutions are so poorly educated about and organized around repression that there's been almost no political cost for leading Democrats consistently building authoritarian infrastructure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJLk...

Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

ICE agent tells the New York Times they were nervous showing up in Minneapolis and how they travelled with “girly suitcases” to not be detected.

A Senior ICE official details how officers would block in and kidnap United State Citizens.

Gift link in next post.

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

NEW: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines.

“In many ways fines have come to replace taxes."

Shocking.

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Unambiguous evil.

Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.

Interesting that using the powers of a king didn’t break through the news cycle, but claiming divine right was somehow too much for his cultists