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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · 5d ago

“You are all worse than each other” is one for the history books, our modern world in a sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/anti-regime-iranians-turn-on-trump-us

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · 5d ago

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116225009200255920 My unscientific, inexpert, underinformed gut analysis here is that the US has been in recession in any meaningful sense for about a year now, but there’s a few dozen billionaires playing ping-pong with each other’s money and the way we measure growth mistakes that for value creation.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 10, 2026

This. I try to remember to explicitly name my •experience• for my students, in contrast to any seeming brilliance, as the source of anything I do or say that impresses them.

“Brilliance” says “Are you good enough?” “Experience” says “Keep showing up, and stick with it through all the struggles.”

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 08, 2026

I’m telling you: Miller’s head is on the chopping block. His ouster is a possibility. His existence needs to become an endless nuisance for Trump and everyone else around Trump the same way that Noem’s did. Do not shut up. Attach his name to everything awful that happens, every curse you utter. We •can• get this monster out of there. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/republican-senator-thom-tillis-stephen-miller

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 03, 2026

@house and NOBODY would even LEND ME A HAND

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 02, 2026

Hey everyone, I imagine you’re kind of tapped out with Minneapolis mutual aid fundraisers…but if you have a few bucks, this fund for rent & grocery support in my school / neighborhood is looking kind of strapped and will shortly be unable to meet ongoing needs: https://givebutter.com/rent-and-food-support-31tt0z 1/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026

Now that’s a hell of a split screen.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026

RE: @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to

“Please don’t let me be the worst US president of the 21st century” said George W. Bush as his final finger closed around the monkey’s paw.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026

Just to be clear: I will not mourn or miss Ayatollah Khamenei. What a wretched person. The world is better off without him. I will not mourn or miss Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein either. That doesn’t mean either the Afghanistan War or the Iraq War turned out to be a good idea.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 28, 2026

Yesterday the Trump regime served warrants to a bunch of locals who were at that peaceful protest of the violent church where the regional ICE director preaches. That protest is old news, the same event about which they’re trying to nail Don Lemon to the wall. Yesterday they came for both protestors and reporters, AIUI. Light coverage here, which doesn't mention that they banged on people’s door at 4:30-6:30am with warrants and tossed them in federal detention all day. Just shameless, unalloyed harassment. https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/30-more-charged-for-protesting-at-twin-cities-church-where-pastor-is-ice-official/ 2/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 28, 2026

I don’t know what the hell ICE / CBP / FBI?? / other feds are up to, but we’ve had several •huge• swarms of federal vehicles rolling out these last few days.

They aren’t doing the kinds of chaotic off-the-street kidnappings there were doing all through Dec and Jan. But they sure are up to •something•.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 27, 2026

Wow, that’s a deep Dedekind cut

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 26, 2026

Things have been a •lot• quieter in Minneapolis the last 5+ days. There have been only a handful of kidnappings. (“Only a handful of kidnappings!” Words I can’t believe I’m actually saying….) Some days 1. Some days 0. (0 known, anyway.)

Things are •much• quieter. I am doing things I’ve been neglecting for weeks, months. I am posting about programming again.

And…not “but!”…and—

Nobody here, nobody, thinks we’re done with ICE and CBP.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 25, 2026

Naked petty retribution. https://mastodon.social/@charlesgaba/116133677522700339

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 23, 2026

I once again have the feeling that Randall Monroe can see directly into my brain (especially the mouseover text):

https://xkcd.com/3210/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 23, 2026

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/116116583354261712 Is it OK to call them concentration camps yet? Or do we have to wait until they all get built? Until they get filled? Until they become death camps? Please, if you object to the term “concentration camp” right now, clearly identify your bright line for when that term becomes acceptable.

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Will Bunch: "But officials in the small town of just 5,000 also did something else that probably raised some hackles at Kristi Noem’s ultrasecretive Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They made public what few documents that DHS has so far been willing to share with Social Circle, including its blueprint for what the innards of an American gulag will look like.

"Close to two-thirds of the massive, rectangular floor plan is divided into 80 squares separated by narrow corridors, each box with dozens of strike marks. The thousands of marks presumably represent bunk beds but what they truly signify is human beings."
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 22, 2026

Here in Minneapolis it’s been widespread common knowledge that ICE agents are getting paid per head they bring in, no matter how incorrectly, no matter the actual immigration status of the person they kidnapped, no matter how carelessly or violently they do it. It’s nice to see this confirmed in print.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 22, 2026

❝ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.❞ Read that. Reread that. Internalize it. Map that back to every story you’ve heard of ICE agents going off the rails, every random kidnapping, every brutal and stupid ICE story. ❝“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.”❞ 🧵 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 21, 2026

RE: @infobeautiful@vis.social

A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?

There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 21, 2026

RE: @vwbusguy@mastodon.online

ICE is “de-escalating” in exactly the same way that cockroaches de-escalate when you turn on the light.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 20, 2026

I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!

These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.

The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 15, 2026

Who knows whether the anonymous Reddit tel-all in the screenshot is actually a true story, but regardless, I propose something like the Darwin Awards except for gen AI

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 12, 2026

A good article on ICE doing extreme forms of what police across the US do on a regular basis: commit petty theft. https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/why-is-ice-seizing-peoples-phones-and-documents/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 12, 2026

Hold on to this: Operation Metro Surge was a catastrophic failure for the Trump regime. Yes, as a terrorist operation, it succeeded: they meant to hurt and terrorize black and Brown people and the whole opposition, and they succeeded at that. But in doing so they lost their credibility, they lost the support of mushy institutions and politicians, they lost much of the popular support a would-be authoritarian needs to consolidate power. And they lost it because we stood up to them. 3/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 12, 2026

Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth is shit, and you don’t need to eat it.

I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives •this morning•.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/border-czar-tom-homan-announces-end-to-operation-metro-surge-claiming-success/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 10, 2026

“The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” Chef’s kiss. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/alphabet-selling-very-rare-100-year-bunds-to-help-fund-ai-investment/?comments=1&post=44240974

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 10, 2026

This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):

If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 09, 2026

LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So: “How much does it matter if it’s wrong?” It’s astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question — which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out. (Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and “I already knew that” is not information that anyone is interested in except you.) 1/ https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 05, 2026

This budget battle over DHS that’s happening in the Senate now — it’s not about accountability or guard rails. It’s about whether a force like this should exist at all in the USA.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 04, 2026

Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses. They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down. They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now. It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK. KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE 2/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 03, 2026

Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏 ❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder. … People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞ https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 03, 2026

❝“Free speech culture” becomes bad and unserious when it starts telling us that speech is morally neutral, that we should not make value judgments against it, and that there is no moral component to promoting it. I am committed to the defense of the legal right to speak, but the defense of speech does not require us to refrain from speaking frankly about moral truths. Giving Wax [a bigot] a platform to be a bigot is morally distinguishable from saying she should be free to be a bigot. “The only immoral thing you can say is that someone else’s speech is immoral” is not an ethos worthy of respect.❞ https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashionable-notion-of-free-speech

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 02, 2026

Everyone can go ice skating. You can go ice skating, even if you’re really bad at it. And if you fall, strangers will rush to help. And they’ll laugh with you when you laugh. Because this is Minneapolis. And one of these days, damnit, everyone can go skating and just worry about the ice and not ICE. One day. When we get those occupier assholes out of here. /end

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 02, 2026

A Minneapolis story: Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that •everyone• has a neighborhood park: early in the city’s history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didn’t have to shoehorn this goal in; they built up the city around it. There are little parks all over the city, many just a couple of blocks in size. And in the winter, they flood the athletic fields: ice rinks! 1/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Feb 01, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115985319695523646 Shakopee, MN is on the list.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 31, 2026

Precedented, but not the same: If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military. Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE + CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2] (If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.) [1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/ 12/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 31, 2026

This •is• precedented: DHS murdered Pretti and Good the exact same way police have been murdering Black people for generations. The ICE+CBP abduction patrols sure look a heck of a lot like the bounty hunters who operated in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The terror tactics of CBP and ICE bear an uncanny resemblance to the tactics of the KKK. None of that is a coincidence. It’s the same historical thread. It’s basically the same people. Precedented. 11/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 31, 2026

The trajectory was roughly:

Aggressive marginalization and terrorizing of Jews, both via legal means and via day-to-day violence, in an effort to make Jews “self-deport” (starting in 1933)
Increasing mass detention of Jews under inhumane conditions, forced labor (•this• is what the “concentration camps” were…at first)
Attempts at mass deportation of Jews (they tried to work out schemes to send all the Jews in Europe to Madagascar, Siberia, or the Levant)
Systematized mass murder (starting in 1942)

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 31, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/115990061018902421 This — this! — and before somebody objects that DHS detention centers are not conducting systematic mass executions like Dachau did… …neither were Nazi concentration camps until 1942. The Holocaust started as a mass deportation plan. 1/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 30, 2026

Can you do a favor for my friend @alter_kaker@hachyderm.io? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @anarchist_archivist@glammr.us for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.) Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

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This headline is a correct headline. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/minneapolis-ice-raids-trump-dispatch

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 29, 2026

If you are a US voter, your Senator could perhaps stand to hear — again — that Schumer’s list is insufficient and abolishing ICE now has majority support. Very soon the electoral stuff will become completely useless again, but for a hot minute here, until this budget fight ends and Schumer caves, those calls do help.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 29, 2026

This headline is a correct headline. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/minneapolis-ice-raids-trump-dispatch

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 29, 2026

The Onion has reached its logical destination in this political era: just running facts as headlines https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-minneapolis-residents-to-stop-obstructing-murders/

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 28, 2026

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 28, 2026

They are talking about gangs of white supremacist fascists conducting street executions using federal money. “find real solutions” my dude no

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CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even 🧵

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 28, 2026

Seriously, my freelancing has shown me the inner workings of a •lot• of different companies, I’ve heard a lot of corporatespeak in my day, and…this letter from a bunch of Minnesota CEOs — ❝we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions❞ ❝state, local and federal officials to work together❞ ❝find real solutions❞ — is some of the most hollow, tone-deaf, embarrassing, Bristol Type 7 dribble I’ve ever heard from corporate leadership. https://www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-letter-more-60-ceos-minnesota-based-companies

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 28, 2026

CEOs seem to have settled on calling for “de-escalation” as their euphemistic non-response to the horrors we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, and this quisling shit pisses me off so much I can’t even 🧵 https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115970651228010281

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2026

This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.

Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.

Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rmounce/115938156235443117 Thomson Reuters has major operations in the Twin Cities, and it’s high time they became the target of a local pressure campaign for the support they provide to ICE.

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@inthehands@hachyderm.io · Jan 19, 2026

OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.

Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.

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