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Symbols of the Resistence

To learn about ways to save U.S. democracy from an anti-democratic regime, I read “Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World,” by Srdja Popovic. Popovic helped lead a nonviolent student movement called Otpor! to overthrow Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. Though I have read the book three times, I didn’t understand how, in a practical way, people could use…

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New Web Host

I’ve been missing in action on my blog over the past few weeks. We were dealing with Operation Metro Surge, the ICE siege in the Twin Cities metro, which has been all-consuming, but I was also checking out new web hosting services. My renewal with InMotion Hosting is coming due in April. I’ve been with them since 2018 and have been noticing more downtime for my blog. It would become inaccessible for several minutes randomly…

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Proud Snowflake

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, his supporters, MAGA (Make America Great Again) Republicans, started calling pro-democracy folks “snowflakes.” They thought they were being clever. “Har, har, snowflakes are so fragile! They melt with a little heat. Lol!” True, snow melts with heat, as it has been doing these past few days in Minnesota. It’s the middle of February and we’ve got temps in the high 50 degrees Fahrenheit, about 30 to 40 degrees…

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