earthysara

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

To Recap:

You can commit a crime by negligently divulging military secrets, in violation of the Espionage Act, and you will *not* be arrested.

But if you have an autism awareness tattoo to support your autistic brother, you *will* be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp in another country.

Agree

They are moving rapidly to destroy lives, but we're like, let's get people used to making change. Baby steps.

Am I the only one seeing a disconnect?

We're six weeks in, and I'm not sure what's missing for folks. The plan is to crash the economy and destroy lives for the good of the oligarchs. They literally don't care about them kids, the elderly, the disabled, etc.

They want your safety net gone. They want you fucked up. That's the plan.

This is the honeymoon phase of dictatorship.

De-Google your life.

Not only because they’re removing history and heritage months from their holiday calendars, but also because they track, steal, and sell your data.

this is fucking scary y'all. prosecuting people for the crime of...tweeting names of fake government staffers.

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.

President Trump went into God’s house and expected to be worshipped.

Those who worship Trump as their false god are angry that God’s servant implored him to lead with compassion.

He is not godly, and his worshipers have no biblical authority. If they “won,” why are they still so angry and hateful?

The Trump administration warned federal employees of “adverse consequences” for not reporting colleagues resisting orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, giving a 10-day deadline to report via a special email account.

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In one of the EOs, Trump claims an inherent constitutional authority to suspend the entire immigration and nationality act and all other relevant federal laws and simply turn away migrants. I am not making this up.

Tweet from Robert J. Berger: "Elon Musk has ordered everyone to stop donating to Wikipedia..... donate.wikimedia.org is the link if anyone feels like disobeying a direct order from a billionaire jerkwad."

Elon Musk does not want you to donate to Wikipedia, which is itself a good reason to donate, but the much better reason is that it's Wikipedia. Just donated again last night.

Had a couple items in my cart. I’ll look elsewhere.

They’ve created a monopoly, and they’re using it to mistreat the workers we rely on for all these conveniences and necessities (like food delivery for some).

I can say, nah.

Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...