Ryan Snee 🖖
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Interests include: • Astronomy • Ecology • Paleontology • Star Trek, LotR (and other fantasy/sci-fi) • Database Systems • Open Source software
popping this up on top of your feed because it's a seriously fucking great read and call-to-action
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoNew in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms
Things that have helped me recently: 1) little things still matter 2) the power of a solid meal, a big glass of water, and a good night's sleep 3) remembering how much words of encouragement or a compliment meant after a tough day 4) action is the enemy of despair 5) I can do things through spite
president's threatening to wipe iran off the map again i guess? we really just normalize any insane shit that guy does by the second time he does it
Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
Options for Phones at Protests
Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are. And MAGA knows it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | CNN Politics
The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the ch...
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
Happening now: a large group of mostly clergy — primarily local faith leaders, some not — are staging an anti-ICE protest at the Minneapolis airport.
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
I love this so much. I love this place. I love us. And they will never break us. Never.
On The Resolve of Minnesota
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11mo agoTo negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar" www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
Let's see some actual negotiating from the master deal maker. "My way or the highway" is not a negotiation. End the @GOP shutdown.Where's #TheArtOfTheDeal when we need it?
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · last yr.DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
#Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New 9to5linux.com/debian-13-tr... #Linux #OpenSource
Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New - 9to5Linux
Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, improved hardware support, and other changes.
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We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.
