Step 5: Become piss.

Believe it or not, straight to therapy.

Badass female grunt soldier treated by her fellow soldiers as a soldier first and foremost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

Writing for Mother Jones, Inae Oh calls Mar-a-Lago face "gender-affirming care the right can celebrate".[7]

Better method:

Walk up to geologist, hand them a rock

"Look at this cool agate I found!"

Where "agate" is substituted for any obviously incorrect identification.

Haha, wow that was crazy, right everyone? Geeze, why did we even do that thing we did? What was that even? So weird!

Anyway, everything is back to the way it was before! Maybe even better! You can all come back now from the various forks and open alternatives you've spent the last 18 months migrating to!

Why is it called a Strait with all those curves?!

What no systemd?

Not here in Minnesota. Thanks Mr. Walz!

Martin was out of line.

Hellwig also was out of line and unnecessarily hostile.

Linus... Is the voice of reason? Though I would have preferred he rebuke Hellwig in the same breath.

It's a strange 2025.

56%? So basically the popular vote when voters actually fucking vote.

It's the same damn statistic every time. 60% people horrified, 30% cheering, 10% cheering while making a good show of wringing their hands.

First past the post, education politicization, political disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering have created millions of monsters. I only hope democracies abroad take this as their wakeup call to fix the broken systems creating the global authoritarian / auth-right movement.

"We are currently clean on OPSEC" - man leaking information on a non-official channel while cosplaying as a military leader.

My daughter's daycare is more stringent on OPSEC for christ's sake.

It's like an email with a "If you're not the intended recipient please don't read and dispose of this message" footer levels of OPSEC.

The biggest detail I think you aren't seeing is that the fairness doctrine made 'Opinion Pieces' on air much less attractive as a host, as a producer, etc. So generally they just WOULDN'T present anything that wasn't just news unless it was a political debate and the two sided conversation would be natural.

We've been a solid blue state since the '70s. And we've only voted Republican 3 times since 1932.

Our GOP is already pathetic and impotent. Our local Democrats (DFL) are already significantly more progressive and effective than the DNC.

But this is adding fuel to the fire in a big way, no doubt.

Oh noooo. How many assassination attempts have been made against Zelensky? I remember at least 3.

This is the bully screaming for the teacher because the bullied dared to swing back.

I'm not shocked.

Minnesotans have the highest voter turnout, have the second hours per capita of volunteers, has a rich history of immigration, and in general neighborhoods, churches, and other 'third places' are both welcoming and tight knit.

Hell there was a massive "socialist" co-op movement here in the 70s and 80s that had a huge and lasting impression on our politics.

Even our conservatives in the past tended to be the 'libertarian' type of conservatives, though of course the national circus has been having an influence since around 2015.

But even to this day polls show that identity politics don't play as well in Minnesota as they appear to on the national stage. People don't care about what happens in your home (perhaps to a fault), but if you visibly contribute to the community even in a small way (shoveling snow for or with a neighbor is the very true trope), you become one of us.

The massive protests following George Floyd's death proved that Minnesota is a place where normal people will take real political action when they are pushed.

All this in mind, I think ICE was always going to fail here. But the death of Renee Nicole Good has dumped gasoline onto the fire and is turning what would have been a quiet failure they would have just stopped talking about nationally into an explosive situation.

I don't know where this ends. I don't want Minnesota to bleed any more then it already has, but I know we will stand firm.

I've never seen a sociopath attempt to gaslight a plaque before. It's bold, it's fresh.

Better than I expected.

But I also worry this is the first twist of the dial to boil the frog.

It's almost like all these nationalistic authoritarians have more in common with each other than with the rest of us...

Yes. The electoral college is nearly unwinnable with Texas, NY, and California stacked against you. The GOP would have to actually run on policies that people want, so...