mellowtigger | mornin'

I woke up around 1am, and I haven't been able to sleep again. It's about 4:30am as I finish this post. Today is the day before semester start, so it'll be busy/hectic at work, and I'm very short on sleep.

Just skip the stressful bits, or click to read them...

I feel that I was right in thinking Trump would save his best/worst for Minnesota. The previous surge of 2,000 armed and masked agents (Trump's personal army, in essence) coming to Minnesota was not enough. They're sending another 200 after they failed to meet their quota in Louisiana. They haven't even started arresting people on their new list of domestic terrorists, basically anyone who has ever criticized them or supported anti-fascism. I'm pretty sure my name is somewhere on that next list. Not to mention the still-proposed autism registry. So many undesirables, so many lists.

"Vote harder for Democrats" was never a winning strategy, as I've pointed out for a long while. The fact that Democrat leaders aren't even willing to join in merely defunding ICE as some minimal bureaucratic resistance is proof enough of their ineffectiveness. I want to hear concrete plans for constitutional changes that will prevent this problem in the future, not merely changing the political palette from red to blue.

I'm not the only one who's starting to wonder if we'll finally get a hot civil war phase started right here in Minnesota, maybe even Minneapolis. I'm not a fan of Jesse Ventura either, since I consider him a raging narcissist similar to Trump, but his on-the-street interview comparing events now to Gestapo of the past is definitely on the mark. He graduated from the local high school that resisted ICE during the last week before schools shut down in response to the federal invasion. He says some pretty inflammatory things in that video clip, and I tend to agree with him. He says, "Read history. You'll learn from history." I strongly recommend yesterday's talk from those historians I keep mentioning. One of them seems to pressure the other to suggest that armed resistance is the probable next phase, historically speaking, but neither goes that far.

I'm pretty sure we're all thinking it. As this pastor recounts his conversation with ICE and being detained by them, they want us afraid. That was the thing he was asked repeatedly, "Are you afraid?" They think their only power comes from the weapons they point at others. They clearly don't understand anything about democracy or resistance. Those historians publicly declare that the USA is now fascist. I agree 100%. Any plans we make now need to start from that premise. We're a plutocracy, and we're fascist. What do we do now?

As this person wrote on the Minneapolis subreddit in a thread about creating local patrols, "Alarmist isn’t a concern anymore when literally everything is alarming." A little good news is that a recent legal observer training session by MonarcaMN.org was apparently very well attended, with over 1,000 people showing up. As I remind readers here occasionally, I am Antifa, and you should be too.

I'll leave you with an amusing thought, a funny retort to the insanity of current events in the USA. This self-described "Emotional Support Canadian" declares that "Canada is taking Minnesota. It's settled." (YouTube short) It's funny. I chuckled. I wish it was true. I wish I was sleeping now, content that I'd wake up in Canada.