It is the largest Department of Homeland Security operation in history. And yet Minnesota’s Somali population (this operation’s primary target) is upwards of 90% naturalized American citizens. It’s even more of a manufactured crisis than most DHS operations. Genuinely living in Minnesota now feels like we’re a small country on the brink of invasion.

I saw two ICE trucks yesterday on my way to give my friends back their house keys from when I was looking after their cats. I got home today and I heard whistles and honking from people chasing ICE, but by the time I got Matilda in the house they were gone so I couldn't join in the chase. I know there was a major attempt to steal my neighbors from just a few blocks away this morning while I was at work.

It doesn't feel like we're on the brink of invasion. It feels like we're being newly occupied by an invading force. Except that the invading force doesn't just want our total submission; they also want to rip half our neighbors out of our arms. They came for Hmong Minnesotans next, and they are also more than 90% citizens. We have a lot of minority populations who settled here because Minnesota prides itself on welcoming refugees; both populations have been here for more than thirty years.

Fuck this shit. It is terrorism.

Not just feels like, is. Feels like because is.

And for all the rest of us US occupants not in Minnesota, it's coming to us, too. Ohio is getting door-to-door ICE today, for instance, and I've seen multiple friends in other states posting photos of big ol' trucks, beds packed with ICE vehicles, rolling in to town.

We're still not quite two weeks into 2026. Get ready to plant your feet.

You guys know this reads like Anne Frank's fucking diary right? How the FUCK are you guys not in full blown rebellion already is beyond my comprehension.

— dearly, someone outside of US of hell.

We are in full blown rebellion, you ass. The goal here from the administration is to provoke us into violence so they can use the full weight of the military to make examples of us, probably by attempting to raze the city to the ground. We are civilians trying to resist using the laws that still exist to protect ourselves and save as many people as we can.

What the fuck else do you want us to do? Play right into Trump's hands? Fuck the hell off with your judgement if you aren't on the ground here. Go put some pressure on your own foreign dignitaries to pressure our government if you're feeling horrified, that might actually be of some use.

imagine looking at Minnesota, where a woman was shot less than a week ago and still people are coming out every time they see ICE, organizing neighborhood Signal groups, protesting every single day, where there are more ICE agents than cops, where the cops are not on our side either; Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed 5 years ago, where a city council member who lost an eye to less lethal munitions in 2020 showed up to the site of the shooting last week to demand accountability, where the local immigrant rights groups have had to tell people to STOP calling in ICE sightings because they're overwhelmed, where ICE agents in SUVs are ramming cars in busy intersections, and saying "why aren't you doing more?"

we know this reads like Anne Frank's fucking diary. we know our neighbors are getting kidnapped and killed.

do you think a shooting war would be BETTER?

Ice cold take, one of the main characteristics of a rational belief is that it is falsifiable. My mentee once asked me what I would do if LLMs became way better and were actually capable of doing the work of a software engineer. I replied that if that happened I would have to reckon with reality working dramatically differently than I thought it did but I think that’s extremely unlikely.

The point isn’t that I’m some hair shirt denying myself something useful by not using LLMs, it’s that THE THING DOESN’T FUCKING WORK BECAUSE THATS NOT HOW FUCKING LANGUAGE OR COGNITION (OR COMPUTERS FOR THAT MATTER) WORK

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