police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, conducted a drug raid at the home of an elderly couple, Lloyd Smalley and Lillian Weiss, after receiving inaccurate information from an informant. Police said they were certain no one was inside - Smalley and Weiss died of smoke inhalation.
If other tweets floating around from other JBGCs recently haven’t made it clear enough: if you live in an area without active community defense & leftist organizing currently, YOU should start. We are all just random people. There are no qualifications. Do whatever you can.
Tomorrow this mess of a country might be a meaningfully different place. Not because of which party wins or loses but because of who enacts violence if it does or doesn’t go their way. Stay safe and stay strapped comrades.
🧵 We are currently in between major waves of fascist mobilization. We should use this time to recover, strengthen our crews' internal organization, and train. We must also be prepared to intake and support new anti-fascists who will be radicalized during the next wave
Musk is so, so quick to start obsessively posting whenever he feels slighted, the second hand embarrassment seeing a grown man throw massive fits every day from his $44b megaphone is so heavy
To want to be liked so desperately and so publicly is humiliating
Last week, Mpls made it illegal for protestors to block abortion clinics. In St. Paul, it’s still legal. A clinic escort told me he wants to see St. Paul adopt the same ordinance. “It would be nice to have that here and across the state so people can access care.” MPR News
Pit Viper should start equipping JBGCs around the country with massive shades for anonymity. That would be actual, effective solidarity. Stick your neck out for justice if you really give a fuck!
St. Paul Public Library will swallow some $6,000 per year in costs for public faxing. You can soon fax for free from St. Paul libraries. Revenues (around $3K) never really covered the cost anyway. Medical, courts and other jobs still require faxes, exclusively. Believe it or not.