Peter Sillin
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“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Nietzsche, clicking “ignore screen time limit” for the 10th time that day
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In discussing his flaunting of the fugitive slave act, Reverend Luther Lee of Syracuse wrote:
“I never would obey it. I had assisted thirty slaves to escape to Canada during the last month. If the authorities wanted anything of me, my residence was at 39 Onondaga Street.”
“I never would obey it. I had assisted thirty slaves to escape to Canada during the last month. If the authorities wanted anything of me, my residence was at 39 Onondaga Street.”
The whole fucking point is to accept personal risk as yourself and dare the state to do anything about it.
You are there to be seen, known, and heard. Not to cosplay as an antifa super soldier.
You are there to be seen, known, and heard. Not to cosplay as an antifa super soldier.
If you've given biometrics to TSA (Pre-Check and Global Entry members) and you plan to attend a protest, you should wear a medical mask.
January 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM
In discussing his flaunting of the fugitive slave act, Reverend Luther Lee of Syracuse wrote:
“I never would obey it. I had assisted thirty slaves to escape to Canada during the last month. If the authorities wanted anything of me, my residence was at 39 Onondaga Street.”
“I never would obey it. I had assisted thirty slaves to escape to Canada during the last month. If the authorities wanted anything of me, my residence was at 39 Onondaga Street.”
Ever been over to Boothbay Harbor? Great little shop there called Eventide that will let you sample the whole row from light to dark, tasting notes like wines. Very friendly folks.
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Ever been over to Boothbay Harbor? Great little shop there called Eventide that will let you sample the whole row from light to dark, tasting notes like wines. Very friendly folks.
Urban Twin Cities MSA is - what? 1000 sq miles and 2.6m people?
Portland, ME is 70 sq miles and 68k people. Lewiston 39k people.
People here are *very* protective of their neighbors but expecting 1000s to pour into the streets every day is wrong measure.
It will look different here.
Portland, ME is 70 sq miles and 68k people. Lewiston 39k people.
People here are *very* protective of their neighbors but expecting 1000s to pour into the streets every day is wrong measure.
It will look different here.
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Urban Twin Cities MSA is - what? 1000 sq miles and 2.6m people?
Portland, ME is 70 sq miles and 68k people. Lewiston 39k people.
People here are *very* protective of their neighbors but expecting 1000s to pour into the streets every day is wrong measure.
It will look different here.
Portland, ME is 70 sq miles and 68k people. Lewiston 39k people.
People here are *very* protective of their neighbors but expecting 1000s to pour into the streets every day is wrong measure.
It will look different here.
Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition is a top immigrant-run local org: maineimmigrantrights.giv.sh/0514
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) is the main legal aid org secure.everyaction.com/Fvm-mwXq4kiX...
The main (no pun intended) thing to realize is how very much smaller we are than MN
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) is the main legal aid org secure.everyaction.com/Fvm-mwXq4kiX...
The main (no pun intended) thing to realize is how very much smaller we are than MN
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition is a top immigrant-run local org: maineimmigrantrights.giv.sh/0514
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) is the main legal aid org secure.everyaction.com/Fvm-mwXq4kiX...
The main (no pun intended) thing to realize is how very much smaller we are than MN
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) is the main legal aid org secure.everyaction.com/Fvm-mwXq4kiX...
The main (no pun intended) thing to realize is how very much smaller we are than MN
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
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Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
![Fellow Americans,
Things are impossibly hard in [MN] right now. We are a state that feels under siege, and the people of this place are doing everything possible to resist. The campaign of reckless brutality being waged by the federal goverment has been well documented, including today's killing of a citizen who was restrained and immobilized. The clear evidence of what's happening exposes cartoonish lies from federal agencies that echo the most cynical propaganda machines in human history. The images are clear, and we are told, don't believe what you see.
But there is also something much more powerful, and not as widely reported, happening. We are mobilizing for revolutionary love. Vast networks of care, compassion, and solidarity, organized by churches to deliver food and supplies to those who cannot leave their homes. People are documenting the violence being used against us in a way that puts their own lives at risk. People are standing guard outside schools and daycares, and at bus stops to protect our children from real risks of harm. Others are taking turns watching each others' kids stuck in online learning because some schools aren't safe. Health care workers are bravely caring for people in hospitals that also are no longer safe, and risking being targets of arrest and detention for protecting the patients. A rich web of underground care and hidden love is taking deep root, and it's amazing to think what fruit that might bear when this occupation ends.
Minnesotans cannot do more than we are doing. Here are a few ways you can help.
1) Please flood your US senators with appeals to not to further fund ICE, by rejecting a bill the US House has already passed. Please flood all your members of congress with calls for deescalation in [MN]; for ICE, [CBP], and other federal agents to leave [MN] now; and to write and pass legislation that requires proper and extensive training for all those working for the federal government in our states and local communities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jygcwdjhliwj2tnlr34utncd/bafkreihgvgiqexyity7awki36is7vrluy5jrovhwnyenfhlmicyvwmorqy@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
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Not usually what I'm looking at Daddit for, but here is a moving account of a Minneapolis man who witnesses the kind of terror his neighbors have been subjected to in his attempt to help out a couple families.
Not usually what I'm looking at Daddit for, but here is a moving account of a Minneapolis man who witnesses the kind of terror his neighbors have been subjected to in his attempt to help out a couple families.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Not usually what I'm looking at Daddit for, but here is a moving account of a Minneapolis man who witnesses the kind of terror his neighbors have been subjected to in his attempt to help out a couple families.
Not usually what I'm looking at Daddit for, but here is a moving account of a Minneapolis man who witnesses the kind of terror his neighbors have been subjected to in his attempt to help out a couple families.
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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 AM
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
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Highly recommend reading this thread. Solidarity and love to the people of Minneapolis.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Highly recommend reading this thread. Solidarity and love to the people of Minneapolis.
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The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America
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I'll tell you one of my favorite Uecker stories. I think people could use it.
The '82 team was in Boston. Uecker was out with them. He always was. They closed the bar, and Uecker, as he did, rounded the men up. "Everyone meet in the alley."
The '82 team was in Boston. Uecker was out with them. He always was. They closed the bar, and Uecker, as he did, rounded the men up. "Everyone meet in the alley."
January 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I'll tell you one of my favorite Uecker stories. I think people could use it.
The '82 team was in Boston. Uecker was out with them. He always was. They closed the bar, and Uecker, as he did, rounded the men up. "Everyone meet in the alley."
The '82 team was in Boston. Uecker was out with them. He always was. They closed the bar, and Uecker, as he did, rounded the men up. "Everyone meet in the alley."
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They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
Just finished the Palmer and highly recommend. You're in for a treat.
January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Just finished the Palmer and highly recommend. You're in for a treat.
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Jan. 1, 1926: Williams College defeats Yale, 1-0, in a hockey game played outdoors in Lake Placid, N.Y.
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Jan. 1, 1926: Williams College defeats Yale, 1-0, in a hockey game played outdoors in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Real fans know their team is shit and will call talk radio to complain about it loudly within 10 minutes of a big win.
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Real fans know their team is shit and will call talk radio to complain about it loudly within 10 minutes of a big win.
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This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Happy birthday to Beethoven! In his honor, TURN IT UP and FEEL SOMETHING: youtu.be/Rd0HnxWm5CY?...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 | Bernard Haitink & the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
YouTube video by DW Classical Music
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December 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Happy birthday to Beethoven! In his honor, TURN IT UP and FEEL SOMETHING: youtu.be/Rd0HnxWm5CY?...
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
This is a classic YMMV sitch but I enjoyed a lot more because I saw on big screen and also I’ve been stormchasing several times with my meteorologist son, who personally knows the guy the Powell character is based on, and we both could laugh at the chaser inside jokes.
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is a classic YMMV sitch but I enjoyed a lot more because I saw on big screen and also I’ve been stormchasing several times with my meteorologist son, who personally knows the guy the Powell character is based on, and we both could laugh at the chaser inside jokes.