PRINCE / LIVE IN TOKYO, 1990 YouTube video by no name

how has it been 10 years? I remember exactly where I was when @vocalo-chicago.bsky.social dropped the news.

Prince should still be here.

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Reading Michael Parenti's Blackshirts & Reds and reminded he was as hilarious as he was sharp. Miss him.

Am I officially an east coaster because I got my ass kicked by this flight/time difference to the bay area?

Granted not sleeping probably is the bigger culprit. But damn, it's like i flew internationally and i wish iHad.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

30 empty seats on this united flight to Chicago because no one wants to fly there in February. Lol

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

TEXT: “Everything that I’ve done has been in some context,” Jackson said on his 65th birthday in 2007 when asked to weigh his achievements and failings, “and I’m convinced that we look back like the true judge and ultimately you judge yourself by your cumulative box score. It’s not the home run you hit one inning; it’s not the strikeout the next inning. It is the box score. And our box score — my batting average — has been one I can accept.”

I appreciate this way of evaluating one's life.

What a legacy. Rest in Power.

May we all keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson, longtime civil rights leader and presidential candidate, has died The civil rights leader died "peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 84.

In Minneapolis, community care is the model for resistance Locals from all walks of life are using whatever skills and resources we have to stand up to Trump’s deportation forces

“The level of resistance in Minneapolis simply would not be possible if there were only “activists” or “protesters” involved. People from all walks of life are using whatever skills and resources they have to stand up for our communities.”

prismreports.org/2026/02/16/m...

There is no reason that a single person in the United States should have medical debt when there billionaires exist — some who may soon be trillionaires.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...

Ofelia Torres' bravery in the face of injustice was beyond words — her courage became a symbol of strength at a time when even the strongest would have bowed.

My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.

May her memory be a blessing.

Witnessing the reality of climate change in park city Utah and hearing all the wealthy people scheme ways to continue to ignore it or accept how their ski vacations will have to change in the future.

Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

I’m in Utah. And the legislature passed something that is making it even harder than usual for small businesses. Bless small businesses and the role they play in nourishing us and raising awareness politically. We need them more than Amazon.

I feel like we are stuck in an era of consultants writing reports instead of those resources going towards actual service providers.

I feel this on so many levels not just in the nonprofit industrial complex but also as it relates to even fed gov spending on infrastructure.

Finally reading all of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded and just forever envious of how well organized, funded conservatives are. The level of investment in ideas, media and cultural infrastructure is wild.

One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode

This shift is possible and important to aim for

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back.

It took 25 years but they have it now.

This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Today virtual Emergency ICE WATCH training defend612.com/event/emerge...

Not as good as the pozole from home but still comforting as heck.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

It makes me think of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" specifically—"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great
stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate."

I've always considered the midwest a borderland of sorts when but for white people in particular but also a borderland for the soul of this country—Minnesota and Chicago affirm that thought.

They are not costal or clearly so "red."

ICE is a taxpayer funded agency built on family separation, racial profiling, abuse, and lies. Cruelty is carried out in our name.

Democrats who still voted to fund it:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities The rapid response networks people organized to defend their communities against federal agents seeking to kidnap, brutalize, and terrorize them have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with...

crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/r...

Had coffee with an elder lesbian Quaker this morning and something about the way she said "you die the way you live" really knocked me out today.