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“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wo…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 2.
opening act: built to spill
comedian: alex edelman
mix CDR by gail o'hara
post show DJ: joe belock (the people's champ)
benefitting neighbors together
#nyc

"Members of the public have reportedly also shared information about agents in hotels and even neighbors.
“I’ve had hotel staff sending post-it notes, bar staff sending DHS IDs, and loads of people saying their neighbour is an agent,” Skinner said."
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-l

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

Never been prouder of my Twin Cities than at this moment. ICE is terrorizing our city and all I've seen between neighbors is kindness. This morning at the coffeeshop I watched a man buy a meal for a stranger. There's a group gathering in front of me to knit hats for donation. I didn't choose to live through this moment in history, but if I have to I couldn't pick a better place. For those of you outside MN, please consider calling your senators, representatives, local governm…

From the latest The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
It just underlines that Trump are making excuses that have no basis in reality or make any sense, for his want of Greenland.
It is pure and simple a vanity project for Trump, as an attempt to build a legacy that might be a little more enduring than gluing his name onto the Kennedy Center.
http…

The kids who are sheltering at home right now and not coming in to school…my heart is with them and their families. If you’re out there reading this post: you are not forgotten. Your neighbors are with you.

Great. The neighbors know.
Trump flips the bird and mouths ‘f*** you’ to Ford heckler who shouted ‘pedophile protector’ at him | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-michigan-ford-factory-heckled-b2900019.html

A 55-year-old American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in north Minneapolis.
#resist

My stretch of doing no serious snow clearance is now over a year, despite the many inches of slush that fell Tuesday night.
I woke up yesterday (sleeping in a bit because K’s school was cancelled) to the sound of a snowblower, too loud to be any of the neighbors. But it *was* one of my neighbors, clearing my sidewalk, driveway, and wheelchair ramp.
Sometimes people just do nice things.

‘No fascist USA!’:
Baltimore marches against ICE
https://therealnews.com/baltimore-marches-against-ice

‘No fascist USA!’: Baltimore marches against ICE
“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”

It's going to be -20°F in #Minneapolis tonight, #ICE is still trying to kidnap people, separate families, and inflict awful suffering on our neighbors. We have thousands of empty houses that should be opened to be safe houses for people to move into, no questions asked, so people don't have to be s…

One thing that is still true: ICE are •mostly• avoiding affluent white neighborhoods, even ones where some immigrants live too. I’m sure there are people in places like Kenwood and Minnetonka who are seeing nothing and hearing nothing from their neighbors, and just do not understand What The Big Deal Is Anyway.
Basically ICE is keeping the StarTribune’s core constituency nice and comfy.
There are hints that pattern is eroding too, though, particularly in St. Paul.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block | MPR News https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/09/federal-agents-arrest-citizen-observer-watching-ice-north-minneapolis

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities last Monday.

Breathless headline: "97% of buildings on Earth now 3D-mapped!"
Well, 0% of my or my three nearest neighbors' 14 houses/sheds are there in any way, and the "buildings" that *are* present near us don't actually exist, so either we're the 3%, or that number is utter bullshit.
...which is a good thing, tbh, because this is a massive invasion of privacy. Bad enough to have Google taking pictures of me from the sky; now I have to let the council do dr…

#America #beautiful #ice #Minneapolis

#Theia, the giant impactor that created the Moon, and Earth were neighbors! Read more about Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/theia-and-earth-wer

Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after …

"Biodiversity Improves Tree Defenses Against Hungry Herbivores"
#Biodiversity #Trees #Nature #Environment

Biodiversity Improves Tree Defenses Against Hungry Herbivores | Happy Eco News
Biodiversity improves tree defenses through associational resistance. Tree seedlings in 15-species plots resisted deer and insect attacks better than monocultures. Selective browsing on competitive species and protection from unpalatable neighbors drove the benefit. The findings highlight how herbivores shape forest composition, resilience, and biodiversity’s protective power.

My mayor:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-chicagoland-sets-the-example-for-countering-trump-s-abuses-251256389962

Maddow: Chicagoland sets the example for countering Trump's abuses
Rachel Maddow salutes the bravery and resourcefulness of people of Evanston, Illinois, who have not only activated to help protect their neighbors against the abuses of Donald Trump's ICE agents, but have rallied to collect food to help struggling neighbors as Trump's Republicans try leverage food assistance to force their budget to pass. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss talks with Rachel Maddow about his community's activism and pushing back against federal agents going too far.

Whistle Assembly Event - Tomorrow, Thursday, November 13th - 6 to 8 PM - Grace Place at 637 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605
Free tomorrow evening? Looking for a way to connect with the community and protect your neighbors from ICE? Live in or near the south loop? Belmont Craigin United has got you covered.
They are hosting a whistle packing event tomorrow Thursday, November 13th from 6 to 8 PM at Grace Place, located at 637 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60605 Bring supplies if yo…

"The Bible says love thy neighbors as you love yourself, but..."
But throw your former and now dead daughter-in-law under the bus, the mother of your grandson though she might be? 🙄
#loyalty #priority #awareness #USA #insensitive #family

If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

Ah, it's the season when I tape a random page of white paper on my window to filter my neighbors' blinking Christmas decorations out of my peripheral vision, because I can't focus or relax at my desk while they are blinking at me, even from a safe distance.
#actuallyAutistic

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
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ICE Out of MN!
Solidarity Event
Saturday, December 20
11:30am – 2pm CST
East Lake Street & Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibletwincities/event/877268/

ICE Out of MN! · Indivisible Twin Cities
In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors, no matter how much money we have, the color of our skin or where we were born. And right now our immigrant neighbors are facing unprecedented attacks from Donald Trump and the ICE machine that is tearing apart families. That’s why we’re coming together to say Minnesota ♥️ our immigrant neighbors! We will raise our voices to say YES to our immigrant neighbors and NO to bigotry, racism and ICE attacks. We'll march from near Mercado Central, a…

"Off the hill" — Read our new story on the Divinity School's annual New Haven Pilgrimage, which encourages students to get to know the city YDS calls home and to pause, listen, and learn from their neighbors. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-10

Remember, old and wise was once young and stupid.
Compassion can make all the difference.
Help your neighbors find their humanity.
Help your neighbors think clearly.
When we all start thinking clearly, everybody wins...

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this):
"The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked, violent, reckless for future prosecution."

Collective Punishment Backfires
when school teachers tried it we acted out even more ice is doing many things, including collectively punishing the people of Chicago, and by extension the American People. This has me writing instead of sleeping. Gassing neighborhoods, often near children, schools and hospitals is collective punishment. Discharging their weapons recklessly

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,
but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/a

Mike Schultz, the same weirdo from Hooper, Utah who thought he should have a say in my Millcreek representative choice by creating and funding a PAC that tried to trans scare people out of voting for the progressive candidate.
Thankfully, my neighbors and I like trans people and voted for a candidate that does, too.
Now, it appears Mike is using public funds to attack a judge who is following the law and upholding the power of the people, from whom the legislature gets its power…

Utah House Speaker spends taxpayer money to attack judge
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz uses taxpayer funds to produce video attacking judge who struck down the state's gerrymandered congressional map.

Fascist Paramilitary invaders hit a community member with their car, laughed about it, and pepper sprayed witnesses and neighbors while abducting people in a Somali majority neighborhood. (Minneapolis, MN - 12/9/25)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1pkao8y

My neighbors have the scariest Halloween decorations out this year.

Le mythe de l'écureuil oublieur s'écroule :
"Les écureuils peuvent retrouver 85 % des noix qu'ils cachent."
https://www.popsci.com/science/squirrels-find-nuts-ask-us-anything-podcast/

Oh man, who's ready for 4 years of NYPost tears? Delicious salty Murdoch tears! https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dci5jlffbhbi4ui4inf2wk6i/post/3mayzcx4m3225

Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social)
Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

The team I've cheered my whole life failed once again to make it all the way through October (but they got close!). So while my neighbors would call it fish and chips, we're having what any self-respecting Brewers fan knows is called fish fry for Game 1 - it is Friday, after all. Go Jays Go!
#baseball #WorldSeries

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there,
keep filming, and scream
"What the fuck, you asshole"
at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
https://bsky.app/profile/viamarsala18.bsky.so…

Dear IT Friends – We Are Called To Action
If you are like me, you have probably experienced your neighbors, friends and family asking you to help them fix their PCs and give them technical advice. That was always a bit odd for me as I was a big systems guy and relied on our internal IT team for PC advice and support.
But the times are changing, aren’t they?
It feels like we are facing so much new danger. And some groups are definitely targets. In my company our success was…

Stephen Miller has activist's phone seized as incendiary leaflets sent to neighbors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-2674261914/

I also want to be careful about protecting our upstairs neighbors who are renting. I'm especially curious if there's anything we can do to help build solidarity with them.

Shawn Harris is highly qualified to replace MTG ... in every way except one. See if you can guess what that is
https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/

You know and I know and you know that I know, but still, on the record:
Somali immigrants are my neighbors, my friends. I’m so glad my city is where so many have chosen to come live. They make Minneapolis better. Their presence is a blessing.
Somali neighbors: thank you for being here.
Trump administration: you can go directly to hell.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/02/report-ice-headed-to-twin-cities-targeting-somali-immigrants/

ICE and IDF are neighbors

Neighbors with solar panels can now trade energy directly with each other, thanks to a breakthrough cloud-based system from Washington State University.
The platform lets communities share power locally, cutting energy costs by up to 12% in testing. It's a glimpse of how neighborhoods could become mini power grids, keeping solar energy local instead of sending it back to utilities.

Community-based energy trading system for home solar-plus-storage
A research team led by Washington State University has developed a cloud-based system for trading and sharing energy from solar panels and batteries within a neighbourhood. The concept displayed potential energy cost savings of around 12% over a five-day test period.

Excellent words from @…, shared here with permission:
❝My favorite piece of advice for protests has been, “accept side quests”. Sure, you can show up, shout a bit, and go home - there's value in just uncorking some frustration. But don't look past meeting your like-minded neighbors. If you're an introvert, like me, that may induce anxiety just thinking about it. But there's all sorts of easy conversation starters - people spent time on their signs, and chances are they would love to talk about them - how they made them or what they were inspired by. Viola! Now you're talking! Everybody at a protest is looking for something - whether it is a word of encouragement or witty comment, a pointer to a place to go or a thing to join, that something may be you!❞

Busy little spider! A female Spiny Orb Weaver has set up house between the oak tree and the neighbors palms which are about 35 feet away. It is also attached to the power into the house and the ground. I marked about where it is in an attempt to not knock it down when I cut the front grass tomorrow. Figure after that much work she deserves to enjoy all the hopefully mosquitos that she snares.

#New_Public is testing their nonprofit alternative to #NextDoor / Local #Facebook Groups. This could be very good! <…

Roundabout
Roundabout is your new online community for local life. Find what you need, connect with neighbors, and take pride in your community.

@… And, more importantly IMO, it doesn’t matter. You don’t get to seize code because you’ll be a more secure owner.
That’s not how ownership works. I don’t steal my neighbors dogs because I would feed them better.

Bucks County PA went just barely for Trump in 2024,
It's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack.
But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
https://bsky.app/profile/kombiz.bsky.s

Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz.bsky.social)
ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/bucks-countys-ice-loving-maga-sheriff-fred-harran-got-what-he-deserved-a-pink-slip-from-voters-on-election-night/

Chicago PD arrested multiple people on behalf of ICE after they raided an entire city block in the Little Village neighborhood. (11/8/25)
One of the neighbors detained can be seen being choked by CPD and telling the officers that he can’t breathe.
Source: https://reddit.com/comments/1os1m78

Warning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
#minneapolis #msp

Les Neanderthals qui ont occupé les grottes de Goyet Š Gesves il y a environ 40,000 ans mangeaient leurs voisins non pas dans une optique rituelle mais purement alimentaire, selon des résultats de recherche publiés dans Scientific Reports.
https://www.popsci.com/science/neanderthal

@… Mom, Dad’s humping the neighbors dog again.

A hulking home addition is dividing neighbors and stumping officials
-- and it's not a ballroom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/22/fairfax-virginia-housing-addition-dispute/

A hulking home addition is dividing neighbors and stumping officials
A three-story home addition in Fairfax County, Virginia, has divided a neighborhood and led to constant attention and, in some cases, harassment.

It’s still unclear to me whether that incident was •targeting• the high school or merely •next to• the high school. I’ve heard conflicting reports from neighbors on that. One rumor is that school staff were abducted, but I don’t yet have solid confirmation on that I trust. I’ve also heard that Bovino was personally present at that raid / attack at the high school.
Either way…yeah, you can see why they’d cancel school.

Without raccoons, how would we know what kind of margarine our neighbors eat?

Chimney fire. Got it out with help of neighbors. No obvious damage to house. Fucking hell

Uruguay just proved the impossible is possible: they flipped their entire economy to 98% renewable energy in just two years—and slashed poverty in the process.
The secret? They turned crisis into opportunity, made the economic case for clean energy, and sold excess power to neighbors for profit.
No fossil fuel industry to fight made it easier, but the lessons are universal.

The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata shows that ‘Another World Is Possible’.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Grizzly Bear:
🎵 Neighbors
#NowPlaying #GrizzlyBear
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded fascist paramilitary invaders as they grabbed man in the community. The invaders eventually left without making any arrests. (Minneapolis, MN)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1pg25yb

One 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.

I will not be going to bed until it stops fucking steaming. Not that we (or the neighbors) have any more dry towels to soak up more water, but I'm not letting my house burn down to avoid a bit of damp in the kitchen

After a few quiet days, ICE is crawling all over Mpls today. Heard some stories from neighbors who saw some •extremely• dangerous driving from them, including a left turn on red across a 4-lane highway.
Feels like they’re gearing up to target people specifically over Christmas, when they’re more likely to be at home or at church.
Be safe out there, neighbors, and keep your eyes open.

Scores of volunteers are training to protect their noncitizen neighbors from the potential deployment of military troops in New York City.
Organizers said they are building on what they’ve learned from the experience of resistance in Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago,
where masked and unidentified agents have often used excessive force and broken federal laws to carry out the Trump administration’s devastating campaign against immigrants.
“We need to exercise repeatedly w…

Scores of NYC volunteers prepare for potential military deployment to their communities
Organizers report signs of an impending immigration enforcement after Trump threatened action against New York City if Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

Whistles have become a popular raid alert tool in cities across the country
– New Yorkers wear them around their necks to warn neighbors,
the people of New Orleans blast them outside ICE facilities
and Charlotte residents used them to ward off Customs and Border Protection officials.
While strongly associated with Chicago, the tactic is actually one that city organizers learned in part from groups in Los Angeles.
Its spread is illustrative of the many ways cit…

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
 
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
 
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
Call for an End to ICE Kidnappings

If we focus on nothing but excitement about mass rallies until we get 3.5% of the population to participate, well, that’s like spray-painting the bread to bake it.
We have to get people engaged, mobilized, enraged, inspired, attuned to the danger, talking to neighbors, making plans, helping each other out, taking action, creating systems of support, throwing wrenches in the authoritarian gears, scaring the crap out of politicians and businesses and giving each other courage, and and and and.
•That• is baking the bread.
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#StPaul #Minneapolis #TwinCities #Minnesota

Florida Surgeon General
#Joseph #Ladapo is a particularly extreme adherent of what is known as the “#medical #freedom” movement.
Its membe…

4 questions to understand the costs of ‘medical freedom’
The choice that one person makes not to vaccinate has real costs — financial and otherwise — for their neighbors.