ravenlore
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she/her. Clone. Fat girl w/glasses. Desktop Support 💻. One of those wacky pagans 🌒🌕🌘. Dirty red socialist + Darksider🖤= Hard Left. Crazy cat lady in training🐈⬛. Scooter bitch🛵. Unionized ✊. Brony /) Lapsed chaser🌪️. 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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It's not even 20 degrees outside, and it feels warm. Imagine how toasty 40 will feel later this week. Sven's new forecast: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/temps-near-40-this-week-with-a-few-chances-for-light-snow
February 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
It's not even 20 degrees outside, and it feels warm. Imagine how toasty 40 will feel later this week. Sven's new forecast: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/temps-near-40-this-week-with-a-few-chances-for-light-snow
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I did this last week for my plates. The got back with the log right away, and showed no queries for my plates against their database.
I’m curious if folks who have been led to their own homes have the same results.
I’m curious if folks who have been led to their own homes have the same results.
Apologies if you know this or it came up already but you can get query logs of your DL#, plate#, VIN, or permit to carry # from DPS/DVS/BCA. They have to turn it over within 10 days of request. It will identify the agency who did it, with a timestamp, what they asked for, what they got in response.
February 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I did this last week for my plates. The got back with the log right away, and showed no queries for my plates against their database.
I’m curious if folks who have been led to their own homes have the same results.
I’m curious if folks who have been led to their own homes have the same results.
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it's admittedly been some time since I've been to Springfield, but I have family and friends in the area, and if that's supposed to be the Clark County Heritage Center clock tower--that's just not even what that area looks like. They've turned up the "Hallmark movie small town" settings to 11
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
it's admittedly been some time since I've been to Springfield, but I have family and friends in the area, and if that's supposed to be the Clark County Heritage Center clock tower--that's just not even what that area looks like. They've turned up the "Hallmark movie small town" settings to 11
This is what i did the entire time i was sick.
I got scolded for "having an unsustainable lifestyle."
I didn't waste my breath to try to explain to the person.
I got scolded for "having an unsustainable lifestyle."
I didn't waste my breath to try to explain to the person.
As as already been pointed out by several people, that woman sounds very much like she is clinically depressed. Apathy, lack of energy, social avoidance, guilt... all signs of depression.
"From her roughly $50,000 annual salary as a data processor in San Diego, Ms. Reedy, 34, spends at least $200 to $300 a week on food delivery."
If you're spending at least 20 percent of your salary on *delivered* food, maybe affordability isn't the main issue.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
If you're spending at least 20 percent of your salary on *delivered* food, maybe affordability isn't the main issue.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This is what i did the entire time i was sick.
I got scolded for "having an unsustainable lifestyle."
I didn't waste my breath to try to explain to the person.
I got scolded for "having an unsustainable lifestyle."
I didn't waste my breath to try to explain to the person.
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"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."
An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
www.assignedmedia.org
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."
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Most of those deaths are not from bullets.
They did not want to spend ammunition on murders...
They invented cruel labours, and industrial scale death camps instead.
This picture doesn't even tell you many horrors there were. It's, relatively speaking, still too nice of a picture.
Disturbing
They did not want to spend ammunition on murders...
They invented cruel labours, and industrial scale death camps instead.
This picture doesn't even tell you many horrors there were. It's, relatively speaking, still too nice of a picture.
Disturbing
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Most of those deaths are not from bullets.
They did not want to spend ammunition on murders...
They invented cruel labours, and industrial scale death camps instead.
This picture doesn't even tell you many horrors there were. It's, relatively speaking, still too nice of a picture.
Disturbing
They did not want to spend ammunition on murders...
They invented cruel labours, and industrial scale death camps instead.
This picture doesn't even tell you many horrors there were. It's, relatively speaking, still too nice of a picture.
Disturbing
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What's happened to three well-known incarcerated activists who supported a 2022 prison strike & were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled Alabama system? They've been moved to isolated cells with little contact with others.
It's straight-up retaliation.
No pay wall.
It's straight-up retaliation.
No pay wall.
Incarcerated activists from Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution sent to solitary
Transfer of subjects of acclaimed film about inhumane prison conditions described as ‘straight-up retaliation’
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
What's happened to three well-known incarcerated activists who supported a 2022 prison strike & were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled Alabama system? They've been moved to isolated cells with little contact with others.
It's straight-up retaliation.
No pay wall.
It's straight-up retaliation.
No pay wall.
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Every time people harp on the messaging that the problem is training, it makes me want to scream forever.
So far none of the murderous ICE agents have been held accountable in any way, and we have learned they are all tenured employees of ICE.
February 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Every time people harp on the messaging that the problem is training, it makes me want to scream forever.
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Just a heads up if you're in the northern metro around Columbia heights be very careful. It looks like the feds are punishing the city for the audacity of having a child returned.
I've seen more ice agents in the last 15 minutes than Ive seen all last week
I've seen more ice agents in the last 15 minutes than Ive seen all last week
February 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Just a heads up if you're in the northern metro around Columbia heights be very careful. It looks like the feds are punishing the city for the audacity of having a child returned.
I've seen more ice agents in the last 15 minutes than Ive seen all last week
I've seen more ice agents in the last 15 minutes than Ive seen all last week
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Can we stop this bullshit abt ICE targeting&going after the "worst of the worst". They're doing nothing of the fucking kind! In fact 70% of the ppl being arrested have no criminal record whatsoever!ICE is out there hunting down ppl using non credible& completely dubious pretexts&made up missions!
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Can we stop this bullshit abt ICE targeting&going after the "worst of the worst". They're doing nothing of the fucking kind! In fact 70% of the ppl being arrested have no criminal record whatsoever!ICE is out there hunting down ppl using non credible& completely dubious pretexts&made up missions!
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People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
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I mean I talk about liberals having the memory and intellectual integrity of goldfish a lot, but it's still really stunning to watch a bunch of them say shit like 'opsec is fake and not real, important, or useful' while they watch fascist goons do hits in broad daylight.
Can’t believe people are debating whether opsec is necessary the day after multiple journalists were arrested for covering a protest and a week after a man who it turns out had a previous run in with the gestapo was murdered by them in broad daylight
February 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I mean I talk about liberals having the memory and intellectual integrity of goldfish a lot, but it's still really stunning to watch a bunch of them say shit like 'opsec is fake and not real, important, or useful' while they watch fascist goons do hits in broad daylight.
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As someone who works in cybersecurity and is intimately familiar with the ways the state is tracking you, and a Missourian who remembers, *everyone* should give a shit about opsec.
Deaths of six men tied to Ferguson protests alarm activists
The six deaths drew attention on social media and speculation among activists that something sinister was at play.
www.nbcnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
As someone who works in cybersecurity and is intimately familiar with the ways the state is tracking you, and a Missourian who remembers, *everyone* should give a shit about opsec.
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Short "explainer" re. newly released Epstein files...
What have we learned from the newly released Epstein files?
Latest documents indicate high-profile figures continued friendships with financier after child sex abuse convictions
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Short "explainer" re. newly released Epstein files...
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On the subject of opsec, one thing I seldom see mentioned is the vulnerabilities of vehicles. Modern vehicles are just as adept as cell phones at hoovering your data, and US-based companies/subsidiaries might be the focus of subpoenas or illicit hacking/surveillance.
*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
www.mozillafoundation.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
On the subject of opsec, one thing I seldom see mentioned is the vulnerabilities of vehicles. Modern vehicles are just as adept as cell phones at hoovering your data, and US-based companies/subsidiaries might be the focus of subpoenas or illicit hacking/surveillance.
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The only lowering of temperature in Minneapolis is how many degrees below zero it's getting.
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
January 31, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The only lowering of temperature in Minneapolis is how many degrees below zero it's getting.
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This got funded within HOURS. But if you are still looking for a way to support Minneapolis, please consider the Near North Mutual Aid fund. It’s been paying rent for dozens of families for the last two months. gofund.me/12cc5b4cd
February 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This got funded within HOURS. But if you are still looking for a way to support Minneapolis, please consider the Near North Mutual Aid fund. It’s been paying rent for dozens of families for the last two months. gofund.me/12cc5b4cd
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If we fork over taxes to fund a bunch of stuff we know little about, we sure AF should expect our health institutions to take *care* of us, not give us the "option" to buy into a world where old diseases come back.
What's next? Open a vial of smallpox & let 'er rip?
Free link: archive.ph/lZ7vM
What's next? Open a vial of smallpox & let 'er rip?
Free link: archive.ph/lZ7vM
January 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If we fork over taxes to fund a bunch of stuff we know little about, we sure AF should expect our health institutions to take *care* of us, not give us the "option" to buy into a world where old diseases come back.
What's next? Open a vial of smallpox & let 'er rip?
Free link: archive.ph/lZ7vM
What's next? Open a vial of smallpox & let 'er rip?
Free link: archive.ph/lZ7vM
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My Minnesota appellate newsletter is on hiatus due to The Horrors, but the Court of Appeals just ruled that another piece of the eviction expungement statute, a key piece of the legislation that requires all evictions to be expunged after 3 years, is unconstitutional.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
My Minnesota appellate newsletter is on hiatus due to The Horrors, but the Court of Appeals just ruled that another piece of the eviction expungement statute, a key piece of the legislation that requires all evictions to be expunged after 3 years, is unconstitutional.
mncourts.gov/_media/migra...
mncourts.gov/_media/migra...
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Time for electeds to start coordinating so that *somebody* is in there on an oversight visit 24/7.
BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities.
The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.
The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Time for electeds to start coordinating so that *somebody* is in there on an oversight visit 24/7.
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While comparisons to Hitler’s fascist regime are becoming common, this historian argues that it may be even more fitting to compare the present moment to a longer-lasting fascist regime—that of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain from 1936 'til his death in 1975.
No pay wall.
No pay wall.
What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.
theconversation.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
While comparisons to Hitler’s fascist regime are becoming common, this historian argues that it may be even more fitting to compare the present moment to a longer-lasting fascist regime—that of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain from 1936 'til his death in 1975.
No pay wall.
No pay wall.
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Every accusation is a confession.
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Every accusation is a confession.
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Yes! This is what's happening. We the People refuse to change into violent racist fascists
Clergyman AJ Muste was alone in front of the White House protesting the war in Vietnam. When asked if he thought he was going to change the country, he famously replied:
"I don't do this to change the country, I do this so the country won't change me."
"I don't do this to change the country, I do this so the country won't change me."
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Yes! This is what's happening. We the People refuse to change into violent racist fascists