Notices by Franceska Mann (franceskamann@freeradical.zone)

@Kierkegaanks @selzero

Amazing that folks talk about Gulag's when the USA is the most heavily incarcerated society in human history. Incarcerating people in America is profitable. Prisoners end up as slave labor for corporations. They work for pennies an hour and live in cages. They are denied healthcare and a treat like a package of donuts might take them a month of work to earn.

I'm volunteering at a local organic plant nursery. The owner is a retired school teacher. I tell him that ice is in our community and kidnapped someone off 7th street in Anoka. He replies "we need balance" meaning that it's OK for police to kidnap brown people. I hadn't clocked a retired school teacher as Maga, but he has a weekly lunch with his old man friends who are conservative. I always take the temperature of the people around me. #chingalamigra #MN

@ryanc

Yes but you also wrote that these billionaire guys somehow earned it. first there's an innovator, and then inherited wealth follows generationally to folks who did not "earn" it. My point is that those billionaire guys are not special. Those original "innovators" also inherited their wealth. Mostly they got lucky with timing. They're not better than anyone else. And I mean the original person who earns that wealth. They are not special.

@ryanc

You're giving too much credit to the rich guys. I dated the grandson of William Randolph Hearst. Read a lot of Hearst biographies. WRH did not understand the newspaper business. He had no special powers or gifts. He had family wealth. All of these rich bastards have family wealth. They all fail upward.

@DemocracyMattersALot

The world court just ruled that countries and states are legally accountable to keep fossil fuel emissions low to stop our planet from heating up over 1.5°. Essentially they ruled that capitalism is illegal.

Fascism doesn't just kill America, it kills our entire planet and every creature, every tree every plant, animal & person on it.

"We've both been through fire, dear friend, and there's more to come.”

— Bukowski

@jeffowski

My whole life I've wanted to play DND and this Sunday is my first session 0 😻 We're gonna do a mess of one shots.

I'm so excited. I made a scrapbook for my character, including NPC's & am turning the basement into a tavern/dungeon.

"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people."

— Woody Guthrie

Minnesota public radio reported on this story. They omitted that Lula was Bolsonaro's political prisoner for years. Trump is accusing Lula of his own behaviors, which is typical fascist propaganda. Without context, the fascism is underplayed. Lula uplifted Brazil. Bolsonaro destroyed the Amazon and had mercenaries murder Indigenous Brazilians & "drug users".

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/11/dissension-runs-deep-between-lula-and-western-democracies_6743257_4.html

I met a woman at the community garden this week. She was lovely until she brought up human trafficking. She told me about an exhusband complaining about his devil worshiping child stealing exwife who sold their children for sex. I chastised her for gossip and slander. She was bewildered. I explained to her that for her story to be real, the mother, not her ex-husband, would need to be her source of information.

This logic set her brain off into a spiral.

I knew it was Q. I said so several times and begged her to stop talking, but she just kept going.

She started fear mongering that this woman stopped just shy of selling her children to be game hunted by "rich people" who enjoy hunting children for necrophilic pedophile sex.

Because she lives in a delusion of fantasy horror, she is unable to adjust her behavior & actions to benefit society. We have a book ban we are fighting. She has a Trump sign in her yard.

My response was to shut her down. I asked nicely five times. She ignored me. So I fucking slammed her with honesty. "I find this conversation deeply offensive". I shamed her for gossiping, then wished her a good day and said a definitive goodbye in my sweetest voice.

She had been following me around the garden for 30 minutes. Next time I looked up, she was gone.

I have the date & address of their next QAnon meeting, it's June 13 at Storyteller Cafe in #Bethel #Minnesota #MN

In May 2025 US federal courts ruled against trump 96% of the time. Even with his fascist judges and evil SCOTUS. so many of the headlines we read and things that upset us all are being undone. Unfortunately, that takes time. But I want people to take heart, fascism is not inevitable. When we fight, we win. So fight.

Memorial Day weekend in the USA. We remember our fallen soldiers.

Trump cut Veterans Administration funding. Many of the unhoused folks in the USA are veterans with PTSD & suicide rates are high.

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

@GreenSkyOverMe @mkj @KumaSudosa

What country is that? Were the problems with redistribution? Or lack of resources?

In the USA we have hoarders & plenty of resources. Each situation is unique.

@inthehands

This is important, when we film police and ice agents abusing people make sure you film them, the agents, not the people. This comes from the rapid response trainings. These videos are taken to be used in court. Any videos of people can be mischaracterized and misrepresented. Remember, we are dealing with sociopaths. But get the cop faces. Names, badge numbers, anything you can. Get their shoes if you need to. Get it all. But not us. Film them.

@Nonilex

In the US police focus on poor neighborhoods. They focus on the kids. Cops focus on immigrants. Folks are ticketed for jaywalking, and often for nothing at all. They have a magnifying glass on them at all times. This is by design. This way they have a record. If they're ever brought before a judge again, they're seen as less than. This creates the school to prison pipeline. It's a white supremacist strategy. It's a eugenic strategy.

Israel bombed Gaza's last hospital.

@patrickcmiller

Facebook sued the author so she is legally bound against promoting this book in any way. She can't go on any shows. She can't do any interviews. She can't speak up against the people who disparage her. You better believe Facebook has a troll army infiltrating platforms to speak negatively about her. I think it's kind of cool to have her back and help her promote as she cannot do it herself. Because a billionaire Cunt doesn't want us to read her nice book.

@inthehands

Yeah, my rep is Tom Emmer. He's a piece of shit crypto Mogul who loves Trump. He has done a couple of town halls, a while ago, where he was skewered, after Governor Tim Walz has called him out specifically.

My neck of the woods needs stronger collective organizing. I wanted to start an SURJ chapter here but they're not interested. Collective action needs more bodies than just me.