Get organized. Find a group to join like your local indivisible chapter or a tenants union or a community service organization. Social media and the news are unreliable ways to try to participate in collective action.

No. They want you to know they’re bad at their job, which makes your job easier.

I’m not sure that “don’t just do something, stand there” is a particularly useful sentiment, especially given how successful last Friday’s action was.

Here’s the next thing on the docket. Tell any Americans or people who know Americans you can think of.

It might be worth trying anyway, though.

I think there’s a reasonable chance we see the highest turnout in memory and 99% of ballots cast in favor of Republicans. I just hope Americans are smart enough to deduce that it won’t be because Democrats and leftists didn’t get out the vote.

You’re not the boss of me 😜

I suspect if the government shuts down for two weeks, what you’ll get is a lot of Americans in the streets.

Next one up is tomorrow, 1/30. This time it’s the whole country. Steady escalation.

Poor headlines notwithstanding, I’m glad HuffPost is opening their op-ed page to center Minnesotan voices like this.

Yeah, the point the article makes isn’t that corporations don’t have power, but absent a metric it’s hard to make coherent arguments about how it increases and decreases over time. I would sidestep this by converting a large amount of corporate power into state power by nationalizing large corporations (I mostly think that the state should gain ownership over corporations as part of the bailout process when we determine companies are “too big to fail”) but it also probably is worthwhile to come up with some kind of measure to formalize the influence of corporate persons in the public sphere.

The article certainly identifies a strong current in American politics, where Americans assume that the project of America carries on without their intervention, that there is some kind of exceptionalism that will protect us, and credulously accepts any statement on our foreign policy that supports those first two beliefs. But I don’t think that’s what I mean when I say “this isn’t America.” The United States was founded on principles like “all men created equal” and “one person, one vote” by slaveowners who were hammering out the 3/5ths compromise. This inherent contradiction is hard to make sense of, but when I say “this isn’t America,” I’m referring to the stated principles, rather than the historical conduct of our state and nation. It’s like how Captain America can still wear the flag while punching CIA agents — the project of America, the promise of America, is still valid and worthwhile, even though never once in our entire history have we lived up to our stated ideals. America historically is very like this — ICE are just today’s slave catchers — but it still isn’t very America of us.

For sure. Here’s a upcoming zoom training if you (or anyone else in this thread) are located in the us and want get organized.

Every time I comment about bluesky I realize I don’t know anything about bluesky so… maybe?

Interesting that this comes right on the heels of the unexplained bug in Bluesky that causes the Minnesota hashtag to break on the day of the general strike. How’s that corporate-backed social media going, friendo? Is your speech free yet?

I know it sucks but you’ve just gotta shitpost through it. No comments? Guess you gotta generate some content. We are the algorithm, and we are the bots, here on fedi.

If you use the gun to pass a gun buyback program, it’s more like a rental. If you use it effectively enough, we could pass a gun buyback with very high payouts, and you could turn a profit.

It’s the magic of the fungibility of money! You give ICE money for body cams, and then they can use the current budget for body cams on guns and bullets to execute ICU nurses. You can increase the budget in a way that allows you plausible deniability. Isn’t it so helpful to have an captive opposition?

The thing that is most irritating about this “Trump is play 8d chess while everyone else is playing checkers” argument (irritating specifically; there are more horrifying or awful things) is that because the argument is specifically that Trump is engaging in complex negotiation, any concession of any kind will be portrayed as a success. If the EU does anything — signs a trade deal, updates NATO governance, increases military budgets domestically — Trump will call it a deal and all these morons will say “see, look, I told you, he was just negotiating.” And there is no way to claim that the cost of the negotiation tactics is not worth the benefit of the so-called deal because they are explicitly isolationist and burning bridges with other countries is a feature, not a bug.

Seattle. West Coast Best Coast, baby.