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Lisa
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Greetings from Central Minnesota
Econ, politics and old movies

(Mute #TCMParty if it's not your cuppa)
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This is my dumb-ass county
A county jail in Minnesota that's cooperating with ICE because it's so profitable apparently isn't getting paid yet.

"The county is also paid more for housing ICE detainees. So far, it's roughly $300,000 but so far the county has not been paid."

youtu.be/oWzKLAfD8EY
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
My maternal grandmother emigrated to Ohio from Ontario, registered annually as a resident alien and never gave up her Canadian citizenship

God Bless you Evelyn 💕
FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian
February 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Remembering how scammy

NFTs
Metaverse
Crypto
AI

have always seemed....
a blue and white penguin with a yellow beak is waving
Alt: A blue and white penguin with a yellow beak frowns in deep thought while tapping a fin to his chin
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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some guy wrote me an incredibly nasty email today from his regular email with his full name and i was bored so i decided to send it to every member of his family on facebook and his employer, a large MN nonprofit

good luck tom!
February 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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US LABOR MARKET IS FLASHING MAJOR RECESSION SIGNALS, WITH LABOR DEMAND NOW WEAKER THAN DURING THE 2001 RECESSION.
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Insurgency sticker at a Minneapolis light rail station
February 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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We aren’t resting until ICE is out of MN. We aren’t stopping until ICE is completely abolished. They want us to bend the knee so they can continue separating families, but we won’t be doing that. We’re going to win, and it’s bc of the resiliency of our neighbors.

www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis council member Chavez: We are not going to rest until ICE operation ends
While DHS said that it removed about 700 agents from the 3,000 that were in the state last week, Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez says he hasn’t seen much change on the ground.
www.mprnews.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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I love this so very much. 😍
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Just had my first square meal in eight days
and while I had appetite and it felt good,
my body's sort of
"What's this? Huh?"

(At least I got three pounds of weight loss outta this nasty, nasty illness)
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Good morning. Happy Monday. Minneapolis is still under federal occupation and thousands of my neighbors are still afraid of leaving their homes. Nothing has changed.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/u...
Families in hiding and defiant observers: What it’s like in Minneapolis in wake of Bovino’s exit and immigration ‘draw down’ | CNN
Even with the so-called “drawdown,” many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they’re preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable af...
www.cnn.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Another reason #Minnesota #Occupation is his Vietnam:

He has no exit strategy
February 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is exactly correct

The tools have some very focused utility

Their limited applications will NEVER justify investing 2% of GDP (!!) for smol ROI
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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This is Minneapolis

The grandmas* are using their birthdays as fundraisers to get extended family to donate $ to help their grandkids’ classmates with needs (rent, food) under federal occupation.

(*my mom)
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I worried about what hostile foreign nations would do during T2

But they don't need bombs
They don't need tariffs or embargoes

All they have to do is whisper to the rest of the world....
*CHINA URGES BANKS TO CURB US TREASURIES EXPOSURE ON MARKET RISK
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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IM NOT GONNA USE GEMINI

IM NOT GONNA USE COPILOT

IM NOT GONNA USE CHATGPT

IM NOT GONNA USE CLAUDE

IM NOT GONNA USE GROK

ALL YALL CAN GET FUCKED INTO THE SUN
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Cris Collingsworth questioning his life choices at this point
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Well, there goes all my regard for Matthew Broderick
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
This is, by far, the best half-time show in years
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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the thing is bad bunny doesn’t even need to do a big protest or whatever, by simply singing his songs exactly how they are he is going to absolutely destroy the worst people’s brains lol
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM