General Strike 1/23

We need better Democrats.

Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

I'll help you with your headline

"Montana Senator Sheehy (R) broke the arm of a Former Marine who was protesting an illegal war"

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968.

Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.

Reminder that the ICE surge in Chicago - a city five times bigger than Minneapolis - was 300 agents. So this is still unprecedented.

Do you know what Angie Craig didn’t do in her op-ed today? She didn’t apologize. She didn’t ask for forgiveness from the families right here in our state who have been ripped apart because of her enabling this awful man and his fascist goals. She just expressed ‘regret.’ Too little, too late.

lmao DAN GOLDMAN is saying ABOLISH ICE? that's so funny. amazing work from Lander and proof the act of primarying matters, no matter the outcome of the election. some really influential people could stand to internalize that.

this is why anders folk speaking to washington county GOP is such a red flag. how can we trust that a so-called DFLer who wants to appeal to the party that is currently in control of federal agents terrorizing minnesotans is going to seek justice for renee good & alex pretti from those same forces?

HELP

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Everybody hates this messaging except journalists and some other Democratic elected officials. There is literally no audience for this rhetoric beyond that. The fact that they’ve been sticking with it for 30 years says a lot about whose opinions they do and do not care about!

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

CM Chavez has been a good ally for lots of folks in Minneapolis. Way before ICE invaded us, he was showing up trying to intervene and get answers and resources for unhoused neighbors. Can you help take care of his family's need? He's been Out There doing the work for years.

Does Iran store their missiles and bombs in girls’ elementary schools Greg?

We’re asking for your help because it’s the end of the month & our neighbors need assistance. ICE is still here & many neighbors are at risk of eviction. We’ll keep working to ensure government does more to step up, but our neighbors need help now & there’s less mutual aid coming in than before.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

There’s an increase of activity in and out of the Whipple building this morning. If you have capacity, please observe in your neighborhood and help alert our neighbors of any ICE presence.

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I do gotta say that if anyone had told teenage me that someday I would be prepared to personally bail out an entire high school but the woman who made The Matrix did it instead I would definitely have been like “ok somebody needs their meds adjusted”

What an absolute real one. Thank you, Lilly 😭

Senator Amy is really not the doing things that suggest she should be the governor of our occupied state and it is way, way past time MN media called her out for that.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

100% disqualifying and shameful position

Easy for me to say, sure, but I couldn’t really see voting to confirm the nominees of a president whose goon squad killed my constituents

remarkably tone-deaf move by a-klo as she launches a gubernatorial campaign in the state that has been under violent siege from ICE for months.

Trump didn’t “lift” anyone off food stamps—he kicked them off. He’s forcing millions to go hungry.

By the way, you can work full time and STILL qualify for SNAP. My family needed SNAP growing up—it’s not charity, it’s an investment.

Fund SNAP. Reverse the cuts.

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

january: man will this month ever end?

february: WHOOSH

we are supposed to believe this is a poll from a research firm with no proof it exists, that wasn't sent to anyone who hit STOP on latonya revees' campaign texts, that also uses the incorrect grammar and xenophobic dog whistle of "somali's to get ahead in america?"

try again

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.