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Violet Madder
Violet Madder
@violetmadder@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Some of my favorite podcasters went to Minneapolis. The regular news is not covering any of this properly-- but these folks know what they're talking about.

Both are experienced with mutual aid activities such as the hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina, or feeding and helping refugees down at the border in places like Arizona. (One also has a doctorate in history focused on the Spanish Civil War, so knows a few things about how people fight fascism.) The border work is particularly relevant because they've been seeing Border Patrol act like ICE for years-- out in the boonies where hardly anyone is watching-- and now the brutality is finally becoming more apparent to previously comfortable white folks in cities.

This is an excellent description of what's really going on in the places that are getting hit hard right now, and how people are responding-- and, moreover, what WORKS. Decentralized, spontaneous, autonomous organizing that's springing out of the woodwork!

If you want a clearer idea of how this shit can be handled, how communities react, and so on, this is the kind of coverage we need.

(They finished these episodes just 9hrs before Alex Pretti was executed.)

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff: Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota

Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cool-people-who-did-cool-stuff/everyone-vs-ice-on-the-ground-in-minnesota

Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/45bcda9a-4724-45c0-82ca-ae7f00e1dd18/399a9e5a-0211-4324-be17-b3df00188987/audio.mp3?in_playlist=f21245f2-a297-42f7-a016-ae7f00e390c4

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#Resistance
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https://omnystudio.com

Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota

Margaret and James reflect on their time in Minnesota, the incredible community response to the immigration raids, and what other communities can learn from the Twin Cities. Links: Rent Support for neighbors in Phillips https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-phillips-families-in-urgent-need Rent Support for neighbors in Central https://www.gofundme.com/f/critical-rent-assistance-for-central-neighborhood-families Rent Support for neighbors in Powderhorn https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-powderhorn-families-in-crisis Supplies for Political Art Making https://givebutter.com/spno Protective Gear for Legal Observers https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip-twin-cities-legal-observers-with-ppe Diapers and Menstrual Supplies  https://secure.everyaction.com/jLLKnfwWk0qdptMbYLoyPQ2 Abolish Ice Shirts https://www.eaglescreenprint.com/printshop/p/defend-612-abolish-ic3-wnj6e Northstar Front Line Street Medics https://www.paypal.com/biz/profile/northstarhealth Twin Cities Swoletariat Bail Fund Venmo: @TCSwoletariat Cashapp: $TCSwoletariat
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

"Half of all consumer spending is coming from the top 10 percent, and these price-insensitive customers are absorbing higher inflation. Low-income consumers, by contrast, are taking on more credit card debt, the Boston Federal Reserve reports, because they cannot keep up with rising prices"

-What the Economy Really Looks Like, David Dayen

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-19-what-us-economy-really-looks-like/

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@dusk@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@pluralistic

From your article:

> The only area where this investment retrenchment and uncertainty is not in evidence comes from the insane capital expenditures for AI computing power, which is propping up the economy almost by itself.

@brianmerchant had a great appearance on KQED's Forum.

They discussed, among other things, that aspect of things, the potential bubble in which the US economy is being propped up by all of that capital flowing into data centers.

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910899/ai-reshapes-the-economy-and-roils-geopolitics-even-as-gpt-5-fizzles

Meanwhile, the good people over at It Could Happen Here dive into successful efforts by #noDesertDataCenter to block an Amazon data center in #Tuscon AZ of all places.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/how-tucson-beat-amazons-data-center-289418501/

#coolZoneMedia #ItCouldHappenHere

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