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from EDD:
I want to share an important video
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT6ec8DAEVX/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
which warns about how they are quickly changing tactics, gear, dressing like mid westerners, putting stuffed animals and empty Gatorade bottles in their windshields, posing as delivery people or electric people to bait people out of their houses..even sending emails to elementary school parents offering to help w food donations etc to bait them out. they are also infiltrating the rapid tesponse chats and groups wearing orange whistles similar to what civilians are wearing, and more..
watching it on social media has been wild and very important.
here i​'ll share the latest execution is an ICU nurse who was shot at least 8 times point blank while trying to protect a woman who was being attacked and pepper sprayed
RIP to him, keith porter, renee good, jean wilson brutus and all the many murdered or left to die in custody, and I hope this radicalizes and mobilizes the millions of nurses in the US to wake up and organize.
https://www.leftvoice.org/healthcare-worker-alex-pretti-is-the-latest-victim-of-capitalist-state-violence-we-need-to-join-the-call-for-a-nationwide-general-strike/

Also: from MZ-D+:
Letter from a friend in Minneapolis​:
Writing to you from Minneapolis with a message of both sadness and hope. This isn't meant to be a political statement or a pity party. But all of you are people I care about, and when "stuff" hits the fan, one way I like to cope is to reach out to people I care about—hence this note. A few observations in case you're curious to get a first-person perspective, but absolutely zero obligation to read on.
First, the national news has covered the headlines pretty well over the past couple weeks, and if you go down the Reddit or Instagram rabbit hole you can find lots of first-person footage that describes the illegal brutality and terror being enacted upon our community. What is impossible to convey is that it's so much worse than what you see via social media. The media simply can't tell the story of the hundreds of unmarked SUVs rolling around the metro on a daily basis, beating and kidnapping women, children, elderly, and citizens alike. Every day, a dozen or more cars are left idling with doors open and smashed windows in subzero temps. Flashbangs are routinely being thrown into homes where no warrant exists, oftentimes traumatizing families inside. Parents now instinctively know to shout the names of their children and school while being disappeared, hoping a bystander will go to that school to make sure the child isn't left unattended for days at a time, not knowing where their parent went. Chemical weapons are being used on peaceful bystanders to the point where we don't even report it anymore. The same with automatic weapons being unholstered and pointed between the eyeballs of US citizens. Schools with high immigrant populations have mostly closed, and children of color in predominantly white districts don't come to school anymore. Where school is taking place, parents form human chains at pickup and drop-off—both to look for ICE activity and subsequently ensure they are taken due to "obstructing federal officers" instead of the children. The first death in ICE custody (Victor Manuel Diaz) has been recorded due to the brutality of the beatings during the arrest and lack of subsequent medical care, and there are more to come. Right now, it's chaos that is akin to the suspension of habeas corpus. Lawyers can't get to their clients, and oftentimes ICE can't find them.
Second, our learning thus far—should this come to your city at some point in the future—is that no one is coming to save you or your city. This realization was rock bottom for our city through this whole ordeal. Folks smarter than me can probably explain why, but my cheap-seats view is that state and local officials are prohibited by law from interfering with legal federal enforcement activities, and the current game of illegal chicken is deliberately designed to incite and escalate "blue on blue" violence as a pretext for martial law. So far, I believe our community understands the game and is denying victory through non-violent means, lawsuits, etc. In the meantime, we are left to grind it out in the streets.
Third, and most importantly, we are winning. Our rage has turned to resolve, and we are getting stronger each day. This story is equally under-reported outside the headlines about Walz, the National Guard, or ACLU lawsuits. We have thousands of people who have completed constitutional observer training in the past week, and the numbers grow with each day. We have thousands more average citizens who patrol the streets coordinating anti-ICE intel in real time, and without fail. Each time these goons step out of their cars, they are met with non-violent rage like I have never seen. They can no longer freely operate in densely populated neighborhoods due to the dozens of people who come out of the woodwork to tell them, in very impolite terms, they are not welcome in our city. Every single person I know (no joke) is donating food, delivering groceries, contributing to GoFundMes, offering pro-bono legal services, constitutional observation, etc. People organize around schools and churches, their favorite restaurants—heck, even men's league hockey teams. The administration has led us to believe this surge has no end in sight, and we are ready for it. We are rapidly organizing and looking out for each other, knowing that we can and will outlast this evil. And so, despite perhaps the most horrific thing I have ever seen in my 39 years on earth, I offer a message of hope—not because I am toxically positive, but because each day I get to see ordinary people do extraordinary things, and because, like me, they believe our community will prevail.
Lastly, feel free to share my thoughts above with anyone curious what is happening, and if you feel compelled to help in some way, reach out to someone you know who has ties to Minnesota and tell them they are not alone.

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“Texts for Nothing 2“ just a wee bit:
”ABOVE IS THE LIGHT, the elements, a kind of light, sufficient to see by, the living find their ways, without too much trouble, avoid one another, unite, avoid the obstacles, without too much trouble, seek with their eyes, close their eyes, halting, without halting, among the elements, the living. Unless it has changed, unless it has ceased. The things too must still be there, a little more worn, a little even less, many still standing where they stood in the days of their indifference. Here you are under a different glass, not long habitable either, it’s time to leave it. You are there, there it is, where you are will never long be habitable. Go then, better stay, for where would you go, now that you know? Back above? There are limits. …”

Peter Coonradt:
Hey Bill...
I've watched The Hungry Giant many times now and have been sending it far and wide.
It's a fun, uplifting political statement of course but I'm also mindblown by the filmmaking as a work of art.  Each frame meticulously composed.    For example the three skiing polar bears each has its own movements, he didn't just copy and paste identical cloned elements.  It also changed how I look at AI.  For the first time, thanks to this video, I see AI as a tool an artist can use for personal expression.  Old fogies complained about sound motion pictures, electric instruments, digital filmmaking etc. and I see AI as the same kind of innovation when it's so brilliantly used in this video.
Not only that... here's another video by the same artist.  It has nothing to do with Greenland or politics, completely different theme and setting... the only thing that links them is the unmistakable artistic vision.  Again using AI for an expression unique to this artist.  It makes a statement about the reality of nature outside of civilization, but like all great art it also has whimsical gratuitous playful elements that are there just because the artist thought them up and threw them in.  A raccoon playing a fiddle!  And the song is great too.  See
Original video referenced:​ https://youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?si=hQ3m3hzfgBoYvSH2
​Peter's ref video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ii37rnTdo&list=RDv0ii37rnTdo&start_radio=1
He went to Midland School also - 10 years after me - we “learned stuff”