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How Minnesotans Faced Down MAGA – The Atlantic
No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.
This. So much this.
Release it Clean | Hunter Gatherer 21C
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a fan of self-publishing (for two main reasons: control over your MS and short time to market). Such readers will also know that I believe your book needs to be delivered with perfect text i.e. error free. Many readers have written to ask about my approach to ensuring errors are close to zero. Tomorrow we’ll look at that but first it’s useful to understand a little terminology as there are different levels of editing or preparation
Useful.
Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICE | The New Yorker
This was Beatrix’s favorite exhibit growing up. She made us visit it regularly — usually several times a year. We were last there on its final day.
I wish we could see it again. Especially now.
Billy Bragg – City of Heroes
16 year old me could have never dreamed that Billy Bragg would be writing songs about my city and my people.
Such a mix of emotions.
Thought: The worst of them is bringing out the best of us. The worst in them is bringing out the best in us.
People who don’t understand the ad-hoc, decentralized, neighbor-focused, hyper-local community organization happening here that practices threat awareness, rapid response, mutual aid, and person-to-person resistance training also don’t understand that is how “well organized militias” worked.
If you are a 2nd Amendment advocate and you see a citizen lawfully executing that right and they are killed by an agent of the government for exercising their 1st amendment right then you don’t understand what the founders intended.
There’s a reason those are 1 and 2. This is it.
Videos appear to show agent taking gun before Minneapolis shooting
Watching major media finally get it is fascinating. You can almost see the lightbulbs going off in their heads in real time.