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Alli DeJong
@allidejong.bsky.social
climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)

also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.

chicago via new orleans via chicago
Pinned
ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.
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“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.”

Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
January 20, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Congrats to Indiana!!! Genuinely happy for you all and I will process my feelings about it as a Notre Dame fan somewhere offline.
January 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them.

Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong.

Read more:
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
What?
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”

What?
January 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I can’t get over that this regime is menacing Minnesota, Denmark, and Greenland in JANUARY
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Physical climate risk is a major issue in pricing US homes, but measuring it for individual properties is fraught at best.

A macro threat looming in plain sight.
January 19, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Well that stinks.
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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close enough
i feel compelled to watch the entire Bears game even though I know it will end with Caleb Williams throwing a 37-yard touchdown under intense pressure on 4th-and-11
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Bruh. BRUH
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Mine too. The Hunger Winter did really happen. My grandparents, great uncles, great aunts survived. But it is not abstract to me.
There's a lot of abstract talk about nazis right now and I just want to bring it back to concrete reality for a second:

Those motherfuckers tried to murder MY GRANDPARENTS.
January 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Hey. If you’re outside MN and wanting to help, can I suggest throwing some coin to the Local 17 hardship fund?
UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.

Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.

WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
UNITE HERE Local #17 Hardship Fund | Working Partnerships
Help Working Partnerships meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.
workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The whole country is the Panhandle now.
This is now all of US foreign policy
January 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Is that good
About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go.

News reported tonight by ABC News, too.
January 18, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Still mad
January 18, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Everyone should consider watching Unrivaled instead. Unrivaled is awesome
January 18, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Great place great times we love you Minnesota!
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
This is my America. If you don’t like it go walk into the lake
Man what the hell these are high schoolers
January 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Anyone have a good summary of all the amazing organizing going on in MN that I can drop in the family group chat? They’re only hearing the bad news and need to know how people are fighting back.
January 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
No relation
NEW: Trump pardoned a porta-potty magnate named Arie Eric De Jong III who was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for illegally disposing of sludge in cities across southern California.
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.

Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.

WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
UNITE HERE Local #17 Hardship Fund | Working Partnerships
Help Working Partnerships meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.
workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:

these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM