There weren't any agents in the vehicles. They weren't individually driven in, they were on auto transport trucks. I saw a photo of one.

ICE just killed another observer 😢 In minneapolis.

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

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.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

That is also what I am wondering. The car that was parked at the curb, that is the grayish vehicle. The vid doesn't actually show her car, the maroon Honda, legally parked.

this street, Portland Ave S is one way and has 3 lanes- one is for bikes, busses and emergency vehicles, that is the one the maroon Honda was partially blocking with the rear of the vehicle. The front of the vehicle was in the center lane.
Why her vehicle was stopped askew in the road like that?

also, a pandemic version from the the fandom…

this 8 Hours image isn’t an old image but a relatively (in labor history terms) new image. Find more of Ricardo Levins Morales art at @rlmartstudio.bsky.social

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.

Your School House Rock moment...🤔

Force of nature 🐺

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

#50501

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

An important point to keep in mind.

There is help for probationary employees who were terminated Federal employment attorneys say probationary employees who were fired can apply for unemployment insurance and have other options for appeal.

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this usually only happens if I fall asleep early from drinking…

Genuine question: is there any authorization, anything at all, for a so-called Department of Government Efficiency? an executive order? Anything?

Is anyone working for that “department” a government employee? Or is it just a straight up private sector takeover?

Call it by its name: A coup. February 1, 2025

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Perfectly captured.

I’ve heard we have laws to prevent violence.

US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.

@wired.com is monitoring uptime of over 1300 .gov domains www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

Happy:
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Black existence
...month🖤

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before

I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there