Mid Century Monster
@mollybreakfast.bsky.social
Writing in some places - edits for the Chicago Review of Books - new to MPLS, love my neighbors, and resolved as hell to stand together. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Open your fucking hearts.
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
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It would be a lot easier for people to “shop local” if we weren't already spending a bunch of money fundraising to keep our neighbors in their homes and fed because Gov Walz refuses to do an eviction moratorium.
Recovery will not happen overnight, but we will rebuild. We can all make an impact by continuing to shop local.
We will help stabilize these businesses, protect jobs, and ensure Minnesota’s economy rebounds.
www.startribune.com/please-come-...
We will help stabilize these businesses, protect jobs, and ensure Minnesota’s economy rebounds.
www.startribune.com/please-come-...
‘Please come back’: Minnesota restaurants brace for a long recovery after ICE surge
With no official bailout on the horizon, the restaurant community tries to save itself.
www.startribune.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:47 PM
It would be a lot easier for people to “shop local” if we weren't already spending a bunch of money fundraising to keep our neighbors in their homes and fed because Gov Walz refuses to do an eviction moratorium.
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god man like even from a pure political strategy standpoint doing something to disrupt the event is how you get trump off script which is how you get him to say the most offputting stuff to regular people. how are they so bad at this!
Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times, he is shredding the first amendment, he is brazenly corrupt, he is opening concentration camps in their districts, and he is starting an unprovoked war with Iran. WHY WOULD YOU NOT DISRUPT THE STATE OF THE UNION.
The whole D leadership needs to go.
The whole D leadership needs to go.
House Democrats try to shut down disruptions at Trump's State of the Union
Jeffries told his members to either show "silent defiance" or boycott the speech.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM
god man like even from a pure political strategy standpoint doing something to disrupt the event is how you get trump off script which is how you get him to say the most offputting stuff to regular people. how are they so bad at this!
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In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
February 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
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JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.
February 18, 2026 at 11:41 PM
JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.
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"We know that this can be done, because it has been done. In his famous Madison Garden speech..FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war...To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that."
As typical, @pkrugman.bsky.social gets at the crux of the problem with concentrated wealth and rising illiberalism. He lays it out so clearly here.
"any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top."
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"any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top."
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
February 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
"We know that this can be done, because it has been done. In his famous Madison Garden speech..FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war...To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that."
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oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?
February 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?
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I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.
February 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.
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Could you not have used this money to pay people’s rent!!!!!
February 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Could you not have used this money to pay people’s rent!!!!!
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Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."
February 18, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy
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Also: I contend that AI boosters do not actually love technology, but the way that the tech industry is catering to them so they get to feel both like a victim and a powerful futurist at the same time
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Also: I contend that AI boosters do not actually love technology, but the way that the tech industry is catering to them so they get to feel both like a victim and a powerful futurist at the same time
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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this is what we folks here in the twin cities metro & across MN would really like you to understand —
1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities
2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time
3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address
1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities
2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time
3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address
This is why we're still raising funds for our neighbors to shelter in place. Even if ICE left TODAY it's too late for so many people to make their rent if they haven't been able to work.
$3311 / $5900 for 3 neighbors in my small condo building to stay housed for March
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
$3311 / $5900 for 3 neighbors in my small condo building to stay housed for March
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
shit is STILL rough here. this is a map of current reported ICE activity in the twin cities area (via iceout.org/en/ )
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 AM
this is what we folks here in the twin cities metro & across MN would really like you to understand —
1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities
2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time
3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address
1. they’re still here harming & destabilizing our communities
2. the reverberations will be felt for a very long time
3. even if they all left right now, there’s still a huge crisis to address
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This infant is an American citizen so they just fine murdering American babies. That’s where we’re at now
UPDATE: Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social has confirmed that Juan Nicolás and his mother were deported despite the 2-month-old’s recent hospitalization for bronchitis.
“They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...
“They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...
2-Month-Old Baby Juan Nicolás & His Mother Were ‘Abandoned Across the Border’ Hours After He Was Hospitalized With Bronchitis, Castro Says
“His life is in danger,” Congressman Castro said Tuesday about the baby.
thebarbedwire.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:01 AM
This infant is an American citizen so they just fine murdering American babies. That’s where we’re at now
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Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
February 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
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I can’t imagine the pain of having your loved one abducted by ICE in Minnesota during a news cycle celebrating ICE leaving Minnesota.
Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home
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February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I can’t imagine the pain of having your loved one abducted by ICE in Minnesota during a news cycle celebrating ICE leaving Minnesota.
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"democrats will never go for that"
dems *are* going for that - states are counter gerrymandering, court reform went from fringe to majority position, ice abolition is gaining steam, mainline dems talk of putting them on trial
dems *are* going for that - states are counter gerrymandering, court reform went from fringe to majority position, ice abolition is gaining steam, mainline dems talk of putting them on trial
February 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"democrats will never go for that"
dems *are* going for that - states are counter gerrymandering, court reform went from fringe to majority position, ice abolition is gaining steam, mainline dems talk of putting them on trial
dems *are* going for that - states are counter gerrymandering, court reform went from fringe to majority position, ice abolition is gaining steam, mainline dems talk of putting them on trial
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Mercado Central, a cooperative of small Central American businesses in Minneapolis, is still raising money to try to save itself from closure. It’s an institution and makes this community much richer.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...
Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central
Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs
with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure
www.gofundme.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Mercado Central, a cooperative of small Central American businesses in Minneapolis, is still raising money to try to save itself from closure. It’s an institution and makes this community much richer.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...
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We’re going to continue being out there and patrolling to protect our neighbors until every single last agent is gone. We’re also going to keep this connection going and continue building community for long after whenever this operation ends.
February 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We’re going to continue being out there and patrolling to protect our neighbors until every single last agent is gone. We’re also going to keep this connection going and continue building community for long after whenever this operation ends.
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as an experiment - lets just take what the city of Mpls spent on MPD overtime doing nothing but tell us how they could not intervene, dedicate that amount to people who were put in danger or jeopardy by this assault, direct $ hazard pay, see how that improves economy and safety.
February 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
as an experiment - lets just take what the city of Mpls spent on MPD overtime doing nothing but tell us how they could not intervene, dedicate that amount to people who were put in danger or jeopardy by this assault, direct $ hazard pay, see how that improves economy and safety.
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Let local groups, official or not, organize their own parties on their own terms with their own vibes. Add ongoing mutual aid fundraising and community support as part of each event.
The joy of life here lies in the sprawling accumulation of small things and group efforts. Lean into that.
The joy of life here lies in the sprawling accumulation of small things and group efforts. Lean into that.
February 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Let local groups, official or not, organize their own parties on their own terms with their own vibes. Add ongoing mutual aid fundraising and community support as part of each event.
The joy of life here lies in the sprawling accumulation of small things and group efforts. Lean into that.
The joy of life here lies in the sprawling accumulation of small things and group efforts. Lean into that.