@cheryanne@aus.socialWhat Is The Future For Cities?
A platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-i
@cdarwin@c.imIn this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences,
explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police,
and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks could rise to the challenge and contribute to revolutionary social change.
To learn more about the rapid response chat structure, start here.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeuroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioYesterday the Trump regime served warrants to a bunch of locals who were at that peaceful protest of the violent church where the regional ICE director preaches.
That protest is old news, the same event about which they’re trying to nail Don Lemon to the wall. Yesterday they came for both protestors and reporters, AIUI.
Light coverage here, which doesn't mention that they banged on people’s door at 4:30-6:30am with warrants and tossed them in federal detention all day. Just shameless, unalloyed harassment.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/30-more-charged-for-protesting-at-twin-cities-church-where-pastor-is-ice-official/
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@mszll@datasci.socialCar Dependency in Urban Accessibility
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01019
@primonatura@mstdn.social"‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature
@benb@osintua.euZELENSKYY: Russians want to cut off our cities from each other #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/zelenskyy-russians-want-to-cut.html
@UP8@mastodon.social💺 Electric cars won't fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars
#health
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump unloads new 'instruction' to Kristi Noem to leave Dem cities alone 'unless they ask' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2675065656/
@hex@kolektiva.socialI mean, I'm glad there are so many folks in the fight. A lot of the folks in Twin Cities aren't even liberals, they're Republicans who voted for Trump.
We have to have a big tent, or we won't have enough people to stop this. As much shade as I may cast on liberals through this whole thing, the last few paragraphs of what I wrote are critical.
At the end of the day, we will have walked a long road together. I don't especially care when you joined, as long as we're going the same way.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEmergency protests against war on Iran in cities across U.S. (ANSWER Coalition)
https://www.answercoalition.org/iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p84#a260228p84
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIncredible. I love the idea of taking checkpoints and the "papers please" mentality, and turning it around on the nazis.
#FuckICE #Minnesota (and yes, this is very much also #TacticalUrbanism
@mlncn@social.coopSome lessons from trying to thwart #ICE in #Minneapolis for people in other cities:
1. Go out and meet your neighbors now. The threat of ICE coming is a great excuse and truly the growing solidarity is the best thing to come of all this.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/waymo-opens-robotaxi-service-to-sele…
@roland@devdilettante.comThe Convicted Criminal’s illegal troop deployment in US cities cost almost $USD500m in 2025 <-- There I fixed it for you Al Jazeera :-)
https://mas.to/@newz/115976965642607896
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deurban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 1496 nodes and 2255 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_str…
@benb@osintua.euNight of terror across Ukraine: Russia strikes cities, ambulances, and hospitals: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/night-of-terror-across-ukraine.html
@Dragofix@veganism.socialWant to ride your bicycle? Study highlights rise of Canada's bike network #Canada
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney subscribers now get access to ABC local news feeds from eight US cities including NYC and LA; the streams join national shows such as World News Tonight (The Walt Disney Company)
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/abc-local-news-disney-plus/
@cdarwin@c.imA judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota,
-- rejecting pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez said Minnesota and the Twin Cities had not definitively shown that the administration’s decision to flood the state with immigration agents,
an initiative dubbed "Operation Metro…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says federal law enforcement won't respond to protests in 'Democrat Cities' until they 'ask for help' (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-says-federal-law-enforcement-wont-respond-protests-democrat-citi-rcna256883
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p58#a260131p58
@chiraag@mastodon.online @netzschleuder@social.skewed.dephysician_trust: Physician trust network (1966)
A network of trust relationships among physicians in four midwestern (USA) cities in 1966. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts or asks for advice from node j. Each of the four components represent the network within a given city.
This network has 241 nodes and 1098 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
@scott@carfree.city"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.
@edintone@mastodon.green19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/19-cities-including-london-san-francisco-hong-kong-achieve-remarkable-reductions-…
@thijs_lucas@norden.social„Mr. Friedrichstraße“ Stefan Lehmkühler ist tot
Stefan #Lehmkühler gewann viele Kämpfe für die Verkehrswende, für ein lebenswerteres, sichereres, schöneres Berlin. Sein Optimismus, Wohlwollen, Kampfgeist und sein enormer Optimismus haben mich beeindruckt. Er hat als Vorbild in seiner Art über Berlin hinaus gewirkt.
Und so haut diese Nachricht bei @…
@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.pageHeatMat: Simulation of City Material Impact on Urban Heat Island Effect
Marie Reinbigler, Romain Rouffet, Peter Naylor, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Nikolaos Dionelis, Elisabeth Brunet, Catalin Fetita, Rosalie Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22796
arXiv:2601.22796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, defined as a significant increase in temperature in urban environments compared to surrounding areas, is difficult to study in real cities using sensor data (satellites or in-situ stations) due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolution. Among the factors contributing to this effect are the properties of urban materials, which differ from those in rural areas. To analyze their individual impact and to test new material configurations, a high-resolution simulation at the city scale is required. Estimating the current materials used in a city, including those on building facades, is also challenging. We propose HeatMat, an approach to analyze at high resolution the individual impact of urban materials on the UHI effect in a real city, relying only on open data. We estimate building materials using street-view images and a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to supplement existing OpenStreetMap data, which describes the 2D geometry and features of buildings. We further encode this information into a set of 2D maps that represent the city's vertical structure and material characteristics. These maps serve as inputs for our 2.5D simulator, which models coupled heat transfers and enables random-access surface temperature estimation at multiple resolutions, reaching an x20 speedup compared to an equivalent simulation in 3D.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comTroop deployments to U.S. cities cost nearly half a billion dollars in 2025 (Eleanor Watson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/troop-deployments-to-u-s-cities-cost-nearly-half-a-billion-dollars-in-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p120#a260129p120
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesI love taking transit in other cities and see how it compares to home.
Mexico City has of course lots of coverage: 195 stations and 12 lines. It cost 5 pesos (0.40 CAD).
It’s often faster to an equivalent car ride when comparing with Google maps.
It feels safe as a foreigner (totally subjective) and they have reserved female trains as well.
#transit
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation - Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation -
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
saved 2019-10-21 …
@kctipton@mas.to @hex@kolektiva.social @cdarwin@c.imFormer CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church
Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s attorney general, alleges that
Lemon was involved in a ‘coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota’.
Lemon was among the reporters who covered a protest against the immigration crackdown at the church
where an official with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is a pastor.
A magistrate judge in Minnesota had declined last wee…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeuroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroad
Ridiculogram:
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy39% of Americans still approve of the way Trump is handling immigration, presumably including how he uses ICE to chase and deport people of color and to intimidate Democrat-led cities. Unbelievable. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-im
@mszll@datasci.socialAnswering the dilemma of cycle lane versus shared space planning through an agent-based simulation experiment and accessibility equity analysis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-026-00200-8
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioEven if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Erland takes a mystical trip north of the Himalayas, to the 'earthly paradise' of Shambhala, to explore its luminous heart: the capital city of Kalapa.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqpt
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAir pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/air-pollution-kills-thousands-london-ulez
@theodric@social.linux.pizza'I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others with more health virtue & freedom would be my choice.'
- Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 23 September 1800
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to ~4,500 cities by end of 2026, adding ~2,000 new communities to its network (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/amazon-pharmacy-to-expand-same-day-de…
@servelan@newsie.socialThese European cities won't be able to host future Winter Olympics due to climate change | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/16/these-european-cities-wont-be-able-to-host-future-winter-olympics-due-to-climate-change
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI hope the game get back in the good graces of gamers.
Iceflake's First Patch for Cities Skylines 2 is GOOD! by City Planner Plays
#videogames
@benb@osintua.euTrump claims Putin agreed not to strike Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities 'for a week': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/trump-claims-putin-agreed-not.html
@rachel@norfolk.socialAre the capital cities of countries always on the biggest island/landmass in that country? Any examples of where they are not?
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeuroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has said it will issue nearly 65,000 additional H-2B guest worker visas through September,
-- effectively doubling the maximum number that can be issued in a year.
Trump has broadly moved to drastically cut legal avenues of immigration, and he has directed a mass deportation campaign that has brought aggressive ICE crackdowns to American cities.
Another visa for skilled workers through another program, known as the H-1B, has been imperiled by the …
@brian_gettler@mas.toThank you Twin Cities.
Your struggle gives us hope that
A new day's rising.
#Minneapolis #haiku
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Love, fear, anger and hope: how emotions influence climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAccess to trees and greenspaces in English cities lags behind other nations #England
@cdarwin@c.imFrom Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeuroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
@servelan@newsie.socialTwin Cities Win JFK Library Award for Resisting ICE Crackdown | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/twin-cities-win-jfk-library-award-for-resisting-ice-crackdown/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Urban Greenery Is Making Some Cities Hotter, Study Finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://e360.yale.edu/diges…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUbicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/02/23/ubicquia-106-mill…
@UP8@mastodon.social🌞 Nine-city study finds richer neighborhoods get more sidewalk shade
#urban
@kctipton@mas.toHow the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby?CMP=share_btn_url
@benb@osintua.euRussia launches combined overnight missile and drone attack at Ukrainian cities, injuring at least 26: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/russia-launches-combined-overnight-missile.html
@hex@kolektiva.socialTwin Cities has shown us what successful direct action looks like, and there's been a *lot of great coverage of this. The "It Could Happen Here/Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff" crossover a while back is really inspiring.
I finally got around to listening to it, and it's definitely worth it.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/everyone-vs-ice-on-the-ground-319435672
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@rmounce/115938156235443117
Thomson Reuters has major operations in the Twin Cities, and it’s high time they became the target of a local pressure campaign for the support they provide to ICE.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialTemperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming #city
@cdarwin@c.imPakistan’s defence minister declared an “open war” with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, in a major escalation between the neighbouring countries.
Pakistan launched airstrikes last night on major Afghan cities including the capital Kabul in response to what it called “unprovoked firing”from across the border.
Afghan officials said it attacked Pakistani border troops in retaliation for earlier airstrikes by Islamabad.
Both sides claimed to have inflicted heavy casualti…
@benb@osintua.euRussia targets Kyiv, Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles as Moscow stalls on peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/12/russia-targets-kyiv-ukrainian-cities.html
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration has been a centerpiece of Trump’s platform throughout more than a decade of political life,
-- and was at the core of his 2024 election campaign.
But polls show public opinion has shifted amid the widely circulated operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents in urban areas.
Those operations have this month seen the shooting deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published o…
@primonatura@mstdn.social @Dragofix@veganism.socialLess traffic, less noise: Green axes cut noise levels in cities #city
@hex@kolektiva.socialEveryone who hasn't already read the Twin Cities rapid response analysis should now:
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model
@cdarwin@c.imMAP:
Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to
215 Cities on Friday
https://paydayreport.com/minneap/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to ~$90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to ~$76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, its first profitable quarter ever (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/pon…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io‼️ Twin Cities residents‼️
Citywide vigil, on every block
7:00pm tonight
There is no central gathering location, to prevent further ICE / DHS targeting. Vigil location is wherever you are.
Please contact your nearby neighbors now and spread the word. We want the whole city showing up. This has to end.
#MInneapolis #msp #MinneapolisProtests
@servelan@newsie.socialHe tried this his first administration and lost, bigly.
Trump says next month he's halting payments to 'sanctuary cities' and their states | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-sanctuary-cities-states-federal-funding-f0bb01398d9d955a498170e7334ce14a
@benb@osintua.euAs Russia rained missiles on Ukrainian cities last fall, US issued warning to Kyiv over Black Sea drone strike, ambassador says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/as-russia-rained-missiles-on.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAbout 6 in 10 think Trump has gone too far when it comes to deploying federal immigration agents in major U.S. cities. (AP-NORC)
https://apnorc.org/projects/about-6-in-10-think-trump-has-gone-too-far-when-it-comes-to-deploying-federal-immigration-agents-in-major-u-s-cities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p30#a260212p30
@primonatura@mstdn.social"These European cities won't be able to host future Winter Olympics due to climate change"
#Olympics #Climate #ClimateChange
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFloods ravage southeastern Brazil and kill 40 as rescuers race to find dozens missing https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/floods-ravage-southeastern-brazil-and-kill-40-as-rescuers-race-to-find-dozens…
@servelan@newsie.socialI bet the moneylenders in the temple thought the same thing...
Cities Church in Minnesota is considering legal options after anti-ICE protest
https://religionnews.com/2026/01/20/cities-church-in-minnesota-is-considering-legal-options-after-anti-ice-protest/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io(That message says “Twin Cities,” but solidarity from afar is welcome, always)
@cdarwin@c.imSkyrocketing detentions,
violent arrests,
troops in cities.
Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history.
One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens across the U.S.
https://youtu.be/YHunuGIvvf4
@cdarwin@c.imFederal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and other U.S. cities including Portland and Lewiston, Maine.
That violence has made it crystal clear that the goal of attacking immigrants is not simply to create a white nation;
it is also to terrorize Americans into accepting the domination of MAGA Republicans.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has delivered the Department of Justice into the service of this project.
The Department of Justice is not …
@hex@kolektiva.socialThings like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.
@benb@osintua.euRussia begins to fall apart: massive blackouts hit rear cities: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/russia-begins-to-fall-apart.html
@Dragofix@veganism.socialGreening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change https://phys.org/news/2026-01-greening-school-playgrounds-quality-life.html
@cdarwin@c.imThe No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort
leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28,
including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Sign Up Here:
https://www.nokings.org/#signup
@servelan@newsie.socialVladimir Putin 'fears coup plot' as Kremlin turns off internet in major cities
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/vladimir-putin-fears-coup-plot-as-kremlin-turns-off-internet-in-major-cities/ar-AA1XU5RD
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioNow — still!— in the Twin Cities, there are thousands of people who are living in hiding, terrified (justifiably so) of an authoritarian secret police kidnapping them off the street because of the way they look.
For these people, full-on fascism is already here. Still.
MPR shares their voices:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/19/during-ice-surge-minnesota-immigrants-share-their-stories-from-hiding
@cdarwin@c.imThe Christian right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution.
These days, they’re especially eager to play the victim.
Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they,
in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota:
A woman killed in front of her wife,
children ripped from their parents,
a baby nearly killedby Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a fam…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeuroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
@benb@osintua.eu🧨 BOMBS FALLING ON BELGOROD: How Russian aviation DESTROYS ITS OWN cities: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/bombs-falling-on-belgorod-how.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOne truly mind-blowing thing about the ICE invading cities is how •little• actual violence there’s been against ICE agents. Observing, filming, making noise, warning neighbors? Yes. Violence, physical assault? Hardly any. At the level of people throwing snowballs.
Imagine, just imagine, the kind of principled self-restraint it takes for basically the entire population to respond to all this ongoing terrorizing and kidnapping following the constitutional principles that these agents themselves are flouting.
Cities? Cities are bastions of peace if you ask me.
@cdarwin@c.imAs Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called
"Board of Peace" at the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, on Thursday,
his son-in-law Jared Kushner
presented his vision of
turning the Gaza Strip into
an upscale seaside resort
with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities.
The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion,
and Kushner’s presentation showed a map of the besieged territor…
@cdarwin@c.imThe FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deurban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 1496 nodes and 2255 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_str…
@cdarwin@c.imRemoving the United States as
co-host of the 2026 World Cup
would hurt for pretty much everyone.
Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby).
Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on.
It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale,
the likes of which have never been seen before in sports.
It would be eminently sad.
@cdarwin@c.imTwin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s not hard to see why 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.
In Minneapolis, I saw patrollers on nearly every street corner.
It’s easy to gather for protests or come together to organize a mutual aid network.
The sidewalks in Lakeville were deserted, as were the broa…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday,
❌seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
⭐️The lawsuit is the administration’s latest attack on energy policies that seek to rein in the use of fossil fuels to combat the climate crisis.
California, a Democratic stronghold, has among the most aggressive climate change policies in the world.
Republicans, including Donald Trump, for years have …
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”
@cdarwin@c.imHotels Should Deploy the 3rd Amendment
and Refuse to House ICE Agents
ICE is acting as a standing army occupying US cities.
This is what the 3rd Amendment was written for
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/21/opinio…
