A central feature of authoritarian systems is not the elimination of public life but its management. Dissent is not always crushed outright but it’s drained of force, reframed as irrational or dangerous, or absorbed into official channels that neutralize its impact.
When government moves into technical domains that ordinary people can’t realistically enter, political power stops belonging to the public and becomes something imposed on them.
Meanwhile, we’re getting some really disturbing reports in neighborhood chats of ICE dumping injured detainees in parks. We no idea what the hell ICE is doing. This has happened in multiple parks on multiple days in different parts of the city: two confirmed, multiple others who may be part of the pattern. One of them had a fractured skull.
The temperature here has not been above freezing for over a week.
I beg you, wherever you are, to show some kind of solidarity with Minneapolis-St. Paul this Friday:
(1) SHUT DOWN NORMAL: Whatever your normal Friday is, find a way to pause it, interrupt it, halt it…even if only a little. Normal life cannot continue unabated while this is happening. It is intolerable, and we must not tolerate it.
(2) TAKE ACTION: Whether it is marching, yelling, organizing, forming that Signal group, taking that observer training, making connections with neighbors, just having a potluck…do •something•.
Please.
Athena
Merry Christmas
BeeCycling
Olga Patlyuk
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Nonya Bidniss
Paul Cantrell