Will it be MN > ICE or the other way round?

"The records that are being made by observers....that record is now filtering into the public and is changing public opinion. And I think that's vital."

@whstancil.bsky.social talks Minneapolis resistance with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Source: random men burned down many things in my city, and a number of people died as a result.

Setting things on fire in a city is a great way to kill a bunch of people. Don't do it. Don't defend the people doing it.

Setting fire to your own streets when you are trying to protest an outside federal invasion is so fucking stupid. Did this impede the feds in any way? Was it even plausibly targeted at the feds?

Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.

All my neighbors are heroes and we really are going to win

No drama there, no credit. For the most part, nothing happens at all. No secret agent stuff. Turning in hours at the dullest make-work job of all time, except unpaid. Just vague unending tension. They’re doing it for free, every day, by the thousands, so their neighbors can be SAFE and can be FREE.

Good night and keep your dog warm.

Illustration from The Frozen North by Edith Horton, Boston, 1911. #booksky #artsky

Without any exaggeration, this kind of insane, violent paranoia will destroy everything you’ve built. Turning on each other like dogs because someone has a camera on in public during an event that is very literally the center of world press attention. It’s diseased.

Mondays, am I right?

The cold weather makes me yearn for the mountains… maybe a cozy summertime dip in a glacial lake!

“What are your weekend plans?”

Gaming, as always… and then a big, comfy snooze later on!