while you are at Dublin mayors, maybe you could ask car drivers to turn on their lights as required by law in Ireland :-) ?!?! During my super brief time in Dublin in 2024 I saw a lot of cars with their lights off during a dark rainy afternoon.
https://mastodon.ie/@irishcycle/115583918846…
Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…
Public service journalism: data on the Dublin November 2023 rioters
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/19/the-dublin-rioters-who-are-they-and-what-82-prosecutions-tell-us-about-those-involved/
America's new top health diplomat has strong opinions on abortion and gender (Jonathan Lambert/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/12/19/g-s1-102765/americas-new-top-health-diplomat-has-strong-opinions-on-abortion-and-gender
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p70#a251219p70
Maybe the red line for you is deploying •active duty military• to Minnesota, and not just National Guard. They did that in LA with marines — briefly, just a little, just in the background, little or no confrontation — and that too got smacked down hard.
That one’s a pretty bright red line. Domestic deployment of the military is in fact the origin of the phrase “crossing the Rubicon:” when Julius Caesar led troops across the Rubicon river, leading the troops to invade his own country, that marked the beginning of civil war in Rome, and a death knell for democracy.
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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…
Pentagon puts 1,500 troops on alert for Minnesota: reports (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/18/trump-minnesota-troops-insurrection-act-deployment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p77#a260118p77
Trump orders active duty troops to prepare for Minnesota deployment (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/18/trump-active-duty-troop-minnesota-deployment-00735734
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p61#a260118p61