This year (2026) marks my twentieth year blogging. My official anniversary is September 8, with my first blog post appearing on Filter & Splice, my Blogger blog, on that date in 2006. Honestly, it doesn’t feel that long. At the time, I was trying to blog almost every day because that was the way you were supposed to build a following online. It was a difficult schedule to keep up. I eventually moved to blogging…
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…
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…