Today and Yesterday

I only mention it but it’s currently 7º here in Valhalla with the wind making it feel like -17. Yeah, it’s beautiful BUT we’re sure as fuck not going out there. Hell, I wouldn’t brave that wind and freeze even with your lovely, intact balance nerves.

7º is a fuckton warmer than the temps for Minnesota’s General Strike yesterday. The high was, reportedly around -8º. NEGATIVE 8! That’s Fahrenheit, not Celsius, by the by.

I saw pics of those righteous, glorious resisters in Minnesota yesterday. In that massive crowd was 80 year-old Justice Alan Page, a former Minnesota Viking and NFL Hall of Famer. He completed law school while playing pro ball and then went on to be elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1992. Gee, overachieve much? In 2018 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 80 years old and he was out there!

 Coppers arrested somewhere around 100 clergy members who were protesting ICE actions at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Why protest there?

Delta relies on MSP as a major hub, and Signature Aviation provides logistical support for ICE operations. The MSP Airport serves tens of millions of travelers each year and is now used as the key site in DHS’s operations to abduct and rush out Minnesotans to detention centers.

An estimated 2,000 people have been deported through MSP, and many people who work at MSP have been abducted by ICE while at work or commuting to and from the airport. (source) 

Minnesota Mascara

THIS is what religious types should be doing! Protesting against the wicked and protecting the oppressed, the persecuted, those who have truly struggled against ferocious odds. Fuck those fucking blasphemous “prosperity gospel” charlatans all the way to their vision of Hell!

Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!” 
~ Deuteronomy 27:19

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.
~ Matthew 25:35

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. 
~ Leviticus 19:33-34

This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.
~ Zechariah 7:9-10

Solidarity actions, if not full on general strikes, spread to at least 215 other cities. 6th Avenue in New York was shut down by 3,000+ protesters. There were marches and gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Savannah, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and more. This is just going to get bigger and bigger. We’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore. 

Maybe, just fucking maybe, America isn’t so doomed after all.  

Meanwhile, the kleptocratic wannabe autocrats keep trying to make us believe their lies and fairy tales instead of the reality we’ve all seen with our damn eyes. May the universe bless the creators of cellphone cameras!

Krazy Kash, the most ridiculously incompetent and corrupt FBI director ever, can fire all the agents investigating Renee Good’s murder but it’ll never make Jonathan Ross and all of ICE innocent.