Notices by tools for commensality 🧿 (inquiline@assemblag.es), page 2

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested yesterday during a demonstration calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of thousands of U.S. bombs to Israel

https://apnews.com/article/chuck-schumer-kirsten-gillibrand-protest-israel-e53eab511e0d5f435b76c66ad772c6f9

#uspol

camouflaging anti-ICE sentiment into the built environment in #LosAngeles, via #LATaco

https://lataco.com/anti-ice-parking-signs

needless to say:

people sticking up for their homies is the right thing to do; but also the huge crowd defying the ban on Budapest's Pride parade last summer was a rehearsal for massing together and sticking it to fascists

there are some lessons here for D voters and politicians who think it's ok to throw trans people under the bus, if anyone chooses to listen

*yeah i said voters too, some of you need to fix your hearts or die

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/30/budapest-pride-2025-a-record-crowd-stands-up-for-democracy

an #asstodon - #mosstodon crossover

(📸 CountryAngels/Shutterstock)

academic friend just received a scammy email about a book they wrote, trying to neg/goad them into engagement with the sender who was promising something sketchy/scammy

it also had a gen AI vibe (re. what it said about the book's contents)

getting negged by AI, at work; what a time to be alive

University of Minnesota Nursing School has begun a scholarship to honor Alex Pretti, read and/or donate here:

https://crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/AlexPretti

@taylorlorenz

i strongly suggest seeking perspectives beyond those of the hegemonic white FLOSS-head user base here, there has been a lot of dialogue and struggle around these issues here. this is a good read:
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

#Bloomscrolling

do i use this whole afroman business to teach defamation in a couple of weeks

(the answer is probably yes)

seems fine:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/60-health-care-workers-may-have-long-covid-4-years-after-infection

#CovidIsNotOver

Video indicates #DeltaAirlines is providing service to #ICE , removing kids from families in #MSP and transporting them to be held in #Texas

https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/

(if you have a Sky Miles account, they should hear from you. the direct line is +1-800-323-2323 and webform here: https://www.delta.com/us/en/need-help/overview?commentComplaintsForm)

@kims

!! wishing you health, comfort, and... good tv?

ok now i'm down the rabbithole/donkeyhole of donkeys ferrying lambs thanks to @skinnylatte 's posts; which led to a painter, Marless Fellows, who paints donkeys including this scene

#asstodon

This sea lion for president:

anyone happen to know of any published academic work where a researcher tracked themself being surveilled? surveillance studies autoethnography?

or any qualitative research about surveillance systems like Flock or Ring?

#surveillance #SurveillanceStudies #commodon

"ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities. The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul — density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population — are absent here"

just because they've stopped making a spectacle in bigger cities does not mean they're leaving folks alone
https://www.theverge.com/policy/878713/ice-minnesota-dhs-suburbs

#ICE #Minnesota #uspol

palm tree with a neck-beard

#MagicInTheMundane

i'm a little worried that #flosstodon is mutating

"Unions in Minnesota and across the country have spent the days after an immigration officer murdered Alex Pretti discussing how to escalate, including toward a national general strike"

https://prospect.org/2026/01/27/ice-trump-minneapolis-organized-labor-escalate-general-strike/

#unions #Strike #uspol #minnesota #ICE

yesterday in Minneapolis. (looking at this more closely, i'm choosing to believe that the printed paper is lashed to the structural layer beneath because it's too cold for glue to be reliable)

📸 : thejackofkingfield on bsky

#uspol #minnesota #ice #Minneapolis #msp #ICEprotests