A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN (1969) dir. Bill Melendez

got the vocals + guitar + bass + the weird cowbell sound for the karma cover i'm trying to record

they hit the skeptic believer pentagon once again

your shadow

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

I have a confession.

Over the past several years, I've almost exclusively listened to hip-hop music.

but recently, my wife has gotten me into...

it hurts to say...

AJR.

I've been listening to them nonstop.

The Big Goodbye and 2085 are peak songs.

Does anyone ever feel bad for skipping songs???

Like, they are all my darlings and I can’t hurt their feelings, but sometimes what I’m feeling is The Plane That Never Lands and not Inertia…but I still love Inertia…

Or, I’ll be feeling Holding On To You rather than Smithereens….but I still really love smithereens….

And my weird brain is worried about hurting Inertia’s and Smithereens’ feelings….

Am I just crazy????

ME TOO TWIN I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

I do love all the Turning Outs but I often skip them because they make me a little sad, and I always feel bad about skipping them lol. I never skip a song on OKO, though.

Does anyone ever feel bad for skipping songs???

Like, they are all my darlings and I can’t hurt their feelings, but sometimes what I’m feeling is The Plane That Never Lands and not Inertia…but I still love Inertia…

Or, I’ll be feeling Holding On To You rather than Smithereens….but I still really love smithereens….

And my weird brain is worried about hurting Inertia’s and Smithereens’ feelings….

Am I just crazy????

ME TOO TWIN I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

We Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next

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Opinions on Livin' On Love by AJR

I like it a lot, it's really catchy :D

I really like it!

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the "fraud". But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesn't like your state, then they aren't rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.

Some basic questions for AJR fans that I want to see answers to because I like seeing excitement and positivity:

1. Maybe Man. Album of all time.

2. The Green And the Town, Burn The House Down, Finale (Can't Wait To See What You Do Next), Christmas In June (but BOY does it hurt,) THE DJ IS CRYING FOR HELPPP RAHHH

3. "Am I ready for love? Or maybe just a best friend, should there be a difference? Do you have instructions?" (Turning Out)

4. Way Less Sad? Which is a good thing?? Mostly???

5. Christmas In June hahaha. Ha. Ha.

6. Come Hang Out

7. The Click (Deluxe Edition)

8. And if I said I haven't actually watched the music videos...what then...

9. ...i don't think have imma be so fr

10. Dude idk I'm still hung up on Betty coming out lmfao.

Was listening to OKO in the car a few days ago and I can't help but connect Humpty Dumpty and 2085.

If I can't breathe, then you can't see

But aren't you excited that I'm giving you the best me?

and

Cause I spent my whole life

Tryna be so liked

That only made them hate me more

Idk these feel like they go together. OKO feels like a very high masking album, you know? The singer trying to perfect his image to everyone, the most palatable person, even if it leaves him strung out and worn down 24/ . And the line from 2085 lets you know how well that worked. Trying to be liked by everyone makes you really easy to walk over and a lot of people have a good sense of when someone is faking something (AJR themselves have mentioned this), so it's more likely you'll end up with fewer friends AND you won't know who you are either, because you don't let yourself breathe, and I feel like that can lead to self hatred because then you're rating yourself based on how other people perceive you.