The Tom O'Bedlam
@thetomobedlam.bsky.social
Bard, Miscreant, Enchanter.
Taking part in my annual tradition of learning "Christmas in the Trenches" so I can play it at any gathering with a guitar for the next few weeks. Every year it hits different, this year has me thinking about the way they started policing borders post WW1, and the grace we find transcending them.
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Taking part in my annual tradition of learning "Christmas in the Trenches" so I can play it at any gathering with a guitar for the next few weeks. Every year it hits different, this year has me thinking about the way they started policing borders post WW1, and the grace we find transcending them.
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I’ll see you in Cedar Riverside today! Bundle up and get there.
CAIR MN calling for a day of action to support the Somali community tomorrow
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I’ll see you in Cedar Riverside today! Bundle up and get there.
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In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors—no matter our income, skin color, or where we were born. As Trump and the ICE machine attack our immigrant neighbors, we’re coming together to say MN ❤️'s our neighbors. March with us: www.facebook.com/share/1JbXD5...
#DeICEMN
#DeICEMN
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors—no matter our income, skin color, or where we were born. As Trump and the ICE machine attack our immigrant neighbors, we’re coming together to say MN ❤️'s our neighbors. March with us: www.facebook.com/share/1JbXD5...
#DeICEMN
#DeICEMN
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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In the spirit of Broadview in Chicago, please come out and support the ICE watch at Whipple today at Ft Snelling!
The Whipple building is where ICE gathers and leaves for raids and kidnapping people off the street.
ICE Watch. All day today!!
The Whipple building is where ICE gathers and leaves for raids and kidnapping people off the street.
ICE Watch. All day today!!
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In the spirit of Broadview in Chicago, please come out and support the ICE watch at Whipple today at Ft Snelling!
The Whipple building is where ICE gathers and leaves for raids and kidnapping people off the street.
ICE Watch. All day today!!
The Whipple building is where ICE gathers and leaves for raids and kidnapping people off the street.
ICE Watch. All day today!!
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san antonio has a publicly owned energy utility, and after the great freeze, while other texans had utility bills that were thousands of dollars, CPS stretched our costs over the next 10 years, so no one got more than an added dollar of charges
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
Public ownership of energy production makes sense for.... the public.
How to Fight Rising Utility Bills? Take Over the Company, Activists Say.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
san antonio has a publicly owned energy utility, and after the great freeze, while other texans had utility bills that were thousands of dollars, CPS stretched our costs over the next 10 years, so no one got more than an added dollar of charges
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
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As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death
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Strib put its Emmer takedown behind its new, higher paywall, meaning even subscribers can’t share, so I’ll paste the grossest part, which includes the loathsome Vin Weber, who hasn’t received enough criticism over the years. (Link in case I’m wrong about sharing: www.startribune.com/once-a-defen...)
![From the Strib: Emmer initially said he did not "want to paint with a broad brush" after Trump pledged to revoke Temporary Protected
Status from hundreds of members of the Somali community. "There are great Somali residents in Minnesota. I've got Somalis for Trump in St Cloud, Minnesota," he said during a recent Kare 11 interview. "The fact remains, though, that a lot of these fraud schemes have come out of that community, and that's what
[Trump's] talking about." Emmer ignored a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter on Capitol Hill when asked Thursday to clarify whether he agreed with
what Trump said and if he condemned the president's remarks. His's office also did not respond to several emailed questions, instead calling the Star Tribune "a communist rag that failed to investigate the massive fraud that has cost Minnesota taxpayers
billions." Former GOP Rep. Vin Weber, a supporter of Emmer who considers him a good friend, does not think Emmer has changed
to appease Trump or on the topic of Somali Minnesotans. "I don't think one of the leading Republicans in the country is going to disagree with the president, I don't fault him for that,"
Weber said of Emmer's position on Trump's targeting of Somalis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreidqcx6ifpgnde25ngxifvw7c2626rarey2wsbuopqzipb4ssdyfzu@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Strib put its Emmer takedown behind its new, higher paywall, meaning even subscribers can’t share, so I’ll paste the grossest part, which includes the loathsome Vin Weber, who hasn’t received enough criticism over the years. (Link in case I’m wrong about sharing: www.startribune.com/once-a-defen...)
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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Last week ICE used the parking lots of the Powderhorn & Lake St post offices as staging grounds for their operations in South Minneapolis.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Last week ICE used the parking lots of the Powderhorn & Lake St post offices as staging grounds for their operations in South Minneapolis.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
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There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online:
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online:
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content
✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online
✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll
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That’s why we’ve launched the Spotify Whacked campaign with a site that’s a one-stop shop to clap back at Spotify wrapped, make a new year's resolution to stay off the platform and document musicians who are boycotting the platform. Tap in! 👇
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
Spotify Whacked
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
That’s why we’ve launched the Spotify Whacked campaign with a site that’s a one-stop shop to clap back at Spotify wrapped, make a new year's resolution to stay off the platform and document musicians who are boycotting the platform. Tap in! 👇
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/spot...
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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If you see any federal activity, call the MONARCA rapid response hotline at 612-441-2881.
Sign up for the next Monarca Upstander Legal Observer Training on Monday, December 15 at 6pm here: buff.ly/h6K1Y5e
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December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you see any federal activity, call the MONARCA rapid response hotline at 612-441-2881.
Sign up for the next Monarca Upstander Legal Observer Training on Monday, December 15 at 6pm here: buff.ly/h6K1Y5e
Sign up for the next Monarca Upstander Legal Observer Training on Monday, December 15 at 6pm here: buff.ly/h6K1Y5e
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TMRW: We’ve watched in horror as neighbors and coworkers are taken by masked ICE agents—targeted for our skin color, language, or where we live and work—with no respect for due process. Join us and rally at MSP to end ICE flights and push for fair wages for airport workers!
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
TMRW: We’ve watched in horror as neighbors and coworkers are taken by masked ICE agents—targeted for our skin color, language, or where we live and work—with no respect for due process. Join us and rally at MSP to end ICE flights and push for fair wages for airport workers!
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ICE Air getting shackles ready for five van loads of deportees today at MSP, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. It was 15° F, windchill 6°.
Route was AEX-MSP-OMA, operated by Eastern Air Express's N625SW as TYSON42, loaded and fueled at Signature Aviation, MSP's private jet terminal.
Route was AEX-MSP-OMA, operated by Eastern Air Express's N625SW as TYSON42, loaded and fueled at Signature Aviation, MSP's private jet terminal.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ICE Air getting shackles ready for five van loads of deportees today at MSP, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. It was 15° F, windchill 6°.
Route was AEX-MSP-OMA, operated by Eastern Air Express's N625SW as TYSON42, loaded and fueled at Signature Aviation, MSP's private jet terminal.
Route was AEX-MSP-OMA, operated by Eastern Air Express's N625SW as TYSON42, loaded and fueled at Signature Aviation, MSP's private jet terminal.
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If we want public safety we have to do what actually makes us safer, and this means doing what the research tells us. Many thanks to the U for this groundbreaking research on what works with young people.
“A University of Minnesota Medical School study released in November found only 12% of youth who successfully completed pre‑charge diversion with HCAO re‑offended within a year, compared to nearly half of those who went through traditional court.”
Expanding the criteria for youth crime diversion program in Hennepin County
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has begun expanding which juvenile cases qualify for youth diversion, citing new research that shows the approach reduces repeat offenses and keeps more young peo...
kstp.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If we want public safety we have to do what actually makes us safer, and this means doing what the research tells us. Many thanks to the U for this groundbreaking research on what works with young people.
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❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
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This is your 2 minute whistle training.
Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.
Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.
Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is your 2 minute whistle training.
Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.
Now you’re ready to use a whistle if you spot ICE.
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This whole thread is important context for Minnesota responders.
Minnesota, we are now up to 5 detention centers.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
Freeborn Co
Sherburne Co
Kandiyohi Co
Crow Wing co
NW Regional in Crookston
We started the year at 3.
They’re eyeing a huge private prison out west in Appleton.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This whole thread is important context for Minnesota responders.
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I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked!
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid!
refuseuline.com
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Psst! Do you wanna help keep The Dispatches From Appalachia in the fight? Got a spare ten spot that you don't know what to do with?
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
Support Coyote Wallace
Support Coyote Wallace
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November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Psst! Do you wanna help keep The Dispatches From Appalachia in the fight? Got a spare ten spot that you don't know what to do with?
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
We're just 100 dollars away from hitting our goal.
Chip in and help keep the Dispatches From Appalachia free and available to everyone.
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“I’m not trained for this.” Get trained. If you have a smidgen of privilege (citizenship, mayo colored skin, financial resources) you can’t just sit and watch this lawless, brutal administration ripping families apart anymore. Monarca is the best resource in the TC. monarcamn.org/training
Training — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“I’m not trained for this.” Get trained. If you have a smidgen of privilege (citizenship, mayo colored skin, financial resources) you can’t just sit and watch this lawless, brutal administration ripping families apart anymore. Monarca is the best resource in the TC. monarcamn.org/training
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Join me tomorrow afternoon at Sumner Library in North Mpls!
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
Human Toll: Reading & Film Screening - Our Streets
Join us for an artful examination of the lasting impacts of harmful decisions of the past and an exploration of reparative ways to move forward.
www.ourstreetsmn.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Join me tomorrow afternoon at Sumner Library in North Mpls!
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...
José Antonio Zayas Cabán will share his excerpt from Human Toll, book about the history of highways harming neighborhoods, will screen some community stories too www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/human-...