Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

@hosford42 Holy shit. Try to work for one day where I have no access to media. Come home to literal brink-of-civil-war-news. Our country is one big reality TV show produced by sadists.

Minor tweaks to Blog Oklahoma and Blog Oklahoma Podcast websites today. I'm glad I have them moved. I still need to move some of the archives over to Program Witch Pages, but it can wait. Now, to start formatting Exploring Oklahoma History. I decided to use 11ty also. That will speed up the move. Moving it over to WordPress would be way too complicated and time-consuming.

Members of the U.S. Senate — including Republican lawmakers — are publicly promising to block any effort by President Donald Trump to seize control of Greenland by military force or circumvent NATO protocols.

Read more: https://t.co/REvi7lihz3

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Y’all — if Trump deploys the military in Minnesota, he’ll likely federalize the guard too. By the time courts take it up, it won’t matter.

What will matter is how many people PEACEFULLY protest. If the city shows up to say fuck off without a complete riot, Trump loses. Yeah, there will be the same shit we saw in LA, but as long as people aren’t going to crazy, the overall view the rest of America will see is troops beating the fuck out of grannies and teachers.

@davidtheeviloverlord @hosford42 The state's rights crowd turned into Federalists when the northern states wouldn't return their runaway property.

As Federalists, they passed the Runaway Slave Act because fuck state's rights.

Whereupon the northern states wouldn't enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, and those assholes seceded.

Those laws and rationalizations were all secondary, and existed solely to justify owning slaves for profit. 'Twas ever thus.

In other news, I'm guessing that there are some officers in Alaska going down their personnel rosters and quietly transferring anyone originally from Minnesota to a different unit.

I learned something interesting today: The Epstein files are not, in fact, located in Minneapolis, tucked away in a soccer mom's mini van.

Release the files, you fucking cowards. This isn't going away.

My noodle boys #drjekyllandmrhyde #catsoftheforkiverse #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #blackcats #voidcats #kittens

Report: New York art show: "Ms. Rachel's Colors That Survived"

Gaza's children share stories of survival through art.

"Art is the only thing that has stayed with me through everything — through losing my home, my safe space, and the life I once knew.... I keep drawing because it is the one place where I still feel alive."

~Yara, 16

https://www.newarab.com/features/ms-rachel-brings-gaza-childrens-art-new-york-exhibition

#GazaGenocide #GazaChildren #USPol #Europol #palestine #press #racism @palestine

black lives matter crowd cares about renee good

“all lives matter” people justify her killing

Very interesting

Daughter of a “fierce” mother who was an #immigrant from #Mexico , #WonderWoman star #LyndaCarter ‘lashes out’ at #ICE goons. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14806427/lynda-carter-rant-ice-slams-los-angeles-riots-wonder-woman.html

#Resist and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.

NPR:Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier off the coast of Venezuela

"....New documents show the crew on board the United States' newest aircraft carrier are growing increasingly frustrated by design flaws that lead to regular failures in the ship's toilet system...."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela

#plumbing #poo #toilets #war #politics #venezuela #military

The philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked that the fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I think the discourse has broken this relationship. It's not that intelligent people have become stupid. It's that the incentive structure of public conversation rewards cocksureness regardless of actual intelligence...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/

I was able to get away to protest today. Just my daughter and I as the grandkids held down the home front for me.
I wore my inflatable unicorn and carried a sign that said Free Minnesota.
For a small area it was a decent turnout but it's not enough. It will only be enough when it is overwhelming enough.
I stood next to an old friend who just turned ninety. We worried about what the future holds together arm in arm with our signs in the other hand.
This rose is out in front of my house today. Looking somewhat worse for the climate it is trying to bloom in spite of.
Me too.

Interview: The rich are building tax-free, regulation-free, democracy-free, CEO-run "network states" for the rich.

"This is a long-term project. And even if the Trump thing fails, they will regroup & come back in another form. And I feel like they'll have a lot better success getting what they want".

Especially with JD Vance (creation of Peter Thiel)

~Gil Duran

At 19 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5aJhTVjVo

#USPol #Europol #NetworkState #fascism #racism #broligarchy #press #TESCREAL .

If it seems to you that all the trial judge did was to restate settled law and tell DHS et al they have to obey the law, you are correct. But when faced with a lawless executive branch, it takes guts for individual trial court judges to make it clear that the executive cannot be trusted to abide by the U.S. Constitution and must be told what the Constitution unquestionably requires. 6/

the appeasement crowd was wrong in world war II also