I didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right?

Yeah totally, i had just never heard anyone be this honest about it. I had to thank for her candor at least

Getting a 7 figures vibe from her, but yes. She also expressed at least some concern for her queer daughter's future & the non-citizen employees in one of her warehouses who the company now has to actively protect from ICE, with the usual caveat that it all would have been worse under Harris somehow

Yeah it just kept getting worse

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

Everyone i talked to who is trying to keep eyes on the situation says that the scope of it is just more than anyone can understand, there is just too much happening at once

I have much more to say about this than this medium can convey, but the most significant takeaway for me was (1) it is much worse than you think here but (2) also so much better

I do not, but appreciate the spirit of this and am inclined to trust your judgment

I mean i guess technically you don't actually need all of your toes at the same time, I'd never appreciated what a luxury it really is

Also I am just kind of kicking around Minneapolis now after having crested the wave of exhaustion from not having slept last night, meeting dozens of people, taking a break to file a habeas petition, and crushing hard on the very first person i met here so i welcome your ideas

My day started with an inspirational speech over breakfast from Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and ended with new friends around the corner from the deeply touching memorial to Alex Pretti's murder only five days ago

As someone who left Boston after a major snowstorm with temps in the tens to come to a place which i had to buy a whole new layer of clothes just to be able to comfortably stand vigil in what consistently feels like subzero, I will freely admit these people are made of something else

And just to round this thread out, a special appreciation of the best nontraditional protest song of our times

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