I got pulled aside by a shop owner this afternoon when I was running errands and we chatted for a long time about being Cassandra, what happens next to the world with America collapsing, and potential outcomes given history. US news media might be totally lost and useless but people are seeing the videos and the local and community journalism.

They got out of Minneapolis

I never really realized how much I talked with the cats until they were gone. I have to figure out how to pick some new cat friends that are good conversationalists.

My wife and I just finished our mandatory winter storm French toast breakfast. I still don’t understand why it is mandatory, but i will say it was delicious. I hope y’all are safe and warm.

What's happening in Minnesota is an escalation of things that have happened in other cities - Chicago, Portland, LA, DC. It could be coming to your city next.

I don't say that to scare you. But it might be good to ask yourself:

If this was happening in my neighborhood, who would I reach out to? How would I take action? Who would I trust?

Start building those connections now. If you already have some, strengthen them.

We aren't even asking why ICE is even at these protests full of white ICU nurses and moms in vans. Like, why are they there? Looking for a Mexican drug gang in a suburban roundabout? Finding the secret foreign terror hiding in the trunk of a minivan?

They aren't even pretending to do "immigration enforcement" they're just suppressing dissent. Lower your head and put that sign down and they will go away. Say "yes officer" and "no officer" and show your papers and no one gets dead.*

*sarcasm

Stay away from the U.S. and its federal thugs. Do not come here for FIFA. Do not come here for the Olympics. Do not come here at all if you value your life and liberty.

A friend (sadly not on Mastodon) at the FabLab crafted this masterpiece with a photocopier and a smol blahaj.