Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

Two-tier society

@shinealittlelove

The lesson of living here in Minneapolis for the past two months is that sometimes you can and must fight a fight that you were not at all excited about, and that can be the most important thing in the world. That’s what I’m saying about excitement being a luxury. May the heavens give us a better candidate than her, but if it comes down to her where the my pillow guy, then yes she is absolutely a 1000 times fucking better choice.

@ClimateJenny
Oh, strong dislike. But let’s be clear: I’d take her any day over Susan Collins. And I’d take Susan Collins over the MyPillow asshole. There are levels.

@shinealittlelove
We are fighting for survival at this point, and anything, •anything• that’s better is better. Utopianism is a luxury of the comfortable; excitement is a luxury. I’ll take every win, large or small. And if there is a Mamdani hiding somewhere who can win a statewide election, I welcome them — but the hour is already late.

Amy Klobuchar couldn’t get a majority of the DFL straw poll vote in South Minneapolis — a measly 30% — and she is •running unopposed•.

Shades of 2024 when a strong “uncommitted” primary vote for unopposed Biden presaged electoral disaster.

Minnesotans, use this to light a fire under her. Harangue her office. And hey…maybe field a primary opponent. Freak her campaign and the State DFL the absolute fuck out.

It’s a win if we get a better nominee •or• if we get her to show a little more fight.

https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobuchar-overwhelmingly-wins-dfl-caucus-straw-poll-but-many-submit-protest-votes/

"For anyone who had ever wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. ...

We are not the Nazis. That means we have an obligation to say watchful and keep protesting. We have to loudly reject the people who are trying to take us there."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/3

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not-nazis

"And they will create these perfect cities in Greenland and other places, not making this up. And then, of course, what ties together other folks and ties together all these people is white supremacy. That's what ties together Russell Vought. That's what ties together Stephen Miller. That's what ties together Elon Musk. At the end of the day, power must be in the hands of the white man."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #techbros #CurtisYarvin #RusselVought #ElonMusk #StephenMiller
/14

"Trump’s political project is seen by the MAGA faithful as utterly righteous, the work of God on earth against the forces of Satan. But he has broad license to transgress all moral boundaries as he does that work. When he does so, it doesn’t cause MAGA Christians to reevaluate whether he’s actually on the side of the angels."

#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/7

@drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony
I have a set of dice that get it right some percentage of the time

When Republican Fascists control the executive branch and therefore DHS, CBP, and ICE, even winning “common sense” reforms is an exercise in futility. 3/

The Democrats should be demanding resignations from Noem and Miller and down through the ranks of DHS, CBP and ICE before they even consider negotiating systemic reforms. 4/

@datarama @grimalkina
“I have nothing left to live for” is a false statement, and an extremely alarming one. That sounds dangerously like depression talking — and depression is a liar.

Have you found somebody not just online to support you? Now would be the time to be reaching out for support.

@datarama @grimalkina
A kind of person cannot be obsolete. That is not a thing! People don’t merely serve a purpose; people •are• the purpose. Technology can become obsolete — when it stops serving people.

Even in our brief interactions online, I have found more value and meaning than any AI I’ve ever interacted with. Just you existing as a person is enough. It is the point!

Here’s some good, humane framing from @grimalkina. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116019153564097904

@knowprose @dgoldsmith

The answer is that this argument between NRA and MAGA is best viewed not as a disagreement over when gun rights apply in interactions with police, but rather over whether left-leaning protestors with light skin count as white people.

@trochee
That is the correct reaction, yes.

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.

See, this — •this• — is what ICE+CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.

It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:

- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it

…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

@david42 @Meyerweb @blogdiva
*slow clap*

I briefly wondered whether there was a modulus that would get us all the way to the 4…but where I merely wondered, you ventured.

Bloomberg: Trapped Tesla Driver’s 911 Call: ‘It’s on fire. Help please’

"...Samuel Tremblett pleaded with a 911 operator to be rescued from his burning Tesla Inc. Model Y SUV after a crash, saying “I can’t get out, please help me” and “I am going to die.”

A lawsuit alleges that Tremblett died after he was unable to open the electrically powered doors on his Tesla vehicle after the crash, and that he was trapped and died from thermal injuries and smoke inhalation...."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/tesla-sued-over-crash-that-trapped-killed-massachusetts-driver?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MDI1MDgyNywiZXhwIjoxNzcwODU1NjI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOVVNQU9LSzNOWTgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzNDVFQTA0MjNBMUQ0NTI2QjY1QkNBNUZDRUJGQThGNiJ9.SpkC529QOFyi_-lbn7GxBTKYyG-xvQKFo5EQTuvhyCs&leadSource=uverify%20wall

#tesla #incineration