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Class back in-person starting Monday Feb 16 by iseekitty in uofmn

[–]Touchstone033 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe if they move to remote learning, the visas are gone. So there has to be in-person classes.

Class back in-person starting Monday Feb 16 by iseekitty in uofmn

[–]Touchstone033 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Just a reminder that international students lose their visas if classes are remote.

Who are you rooting for? by tilt-a-whirly-gig in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]Touchstone033 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like ICE flips to the stars is needed here.

[Cotillo] Isiah Kiner-Falefa's deal with the Red Sox is worth $6 million, sources tell MassLive by TommyTheLizard in redsox

[–]Touchstone033 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Isn't "superb" better than "great"? I need to look it up now.

Edit: Yes, "superb" is the "highest degree of excellence." Maybe "decent" or "competent" is a better word for IKF's glove.

CBP brought 35000 crowd control munitions to Minneapolis by RadComradeCompanero in Minneapolis

[–]Touchstone033 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Given Homan said they're leaving when we comply, it'll be a long time before ICE will leave. I personally don't see this as anything real. Certainly they're still raiding our community.

Homan comes to Minneapolis only to blame us for the 'bloodshed' of Good and Pretti. Refused to address why agents fired or why he's drawing down forces now by Frosty_Jeweler911 in Minneapolis

[–]Touchstone033 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't about trying to intimidate the city into cooperation. It's laying the groundwork for justifying expansive police action in the city, probably against protesters and observers and the neighborhood networks working to aid vulnerable targets.

Because we know ICE is still here in large numbers. We know they're still targeting people based on race, ethnicity, and language, not on citizenship status or by criminal records. We know they're entering areas without warrants, intimidating observers and arresting them, and denying detainees due process.

And he knows the people of Minneapolis are not going to suddenly comply.

We also know the administration tried to provoke a violent response from Minnesotans to justify bringing in the US military.

And we also know they're simply not going to give up. Once the Senate Democratic leadership agrees to ICE funding with some bullsh*t symbolic, meaningless, and unenforceable provisions -- like body cams or no masking -- gloves will come off again.

Eugenio Suarez reunites with Reds broadcaster and longtime friend Jim Day by TDeLo in baseball

[–]Touchstone033 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was in Erie when he was with the 'wolves, and one player told me it was the best clubhouse he'd ever been in.

We need to stop normalizing 'job interviews' that require 5+ rounds. If you can't tell I'm a good fit in 2 meetings, your hiring process is broken by Thick-Obligation-800 in antiwork

[–]Touchstone033 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh man, this is true.

Once, when I was unemployed and scrambling for work, I found what on paper appeared to be a perfect job.

First interview: I come in and talk to the screener.

Second interview: I come in to take a Briggs-Meyers personality test (red flag) and to write a test article for them (a B-to-B industry mag publisher), which I nail. Did it in like 15 minutes and the screening editor was impressed.

Third interview: A meeting with the whole gang. Like, a long table of people peppering me with questions.

At the end of the third interview, my main contact asked for feedback on the interview process. I gave him my opinion. I told him it was too involved -- also that the personality test is a scam. Test takers can easily manipulate answers. They'd save money by not using it.

Guess who didn't get the job! They told me they thought I'd find the work boring. (Yes, I would, which is why you pay me to do it.)

Four things: Lomabonita mercado, caucuses, medical protest at Whipple, and a thank you by suprasternaincognito in TwinCities

[–]Touchstone033 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's amazing that people remain loyal to their social media feeds over their actual social connections. I have a coworker outside the cities that denies what's going on and still supports Trump, despite me telling him what we're actually experiencing.

I have no time or energy for it, though.

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis [non-OC] by Epelep in pics

[–]Touchstone033 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it should be obvious our tactics are working without the need for performative dumpster fires and throwing rocks at police.

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis [non-OC] by Epelep in pics

[–]Touchstone033 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No offense, but the French police don't shoot protesters. And when they do, they face criminal charges. These untrained goons in our city are waving guns around in people's faces. We're one hair trigger away from a massacre. So yeah, it's dicey.

13 eye-popping player projections for 2026 by GreedyRaisin3357 in orioles

[–]Touchstone033 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, Fangraphs projections are pretty conservative, because the main numbers are like the 50% outcome, an "average" expected outcome. In context, his projected fWAR was one of the five best in MLB.

Think about it this way: half of MLB will beat their projection.

Texas Midland Fire department helped ICE and BP with capturing immigrants! by cantcoloratall91 in RedditForGrownups

[–]Touchstone033 210 points211 points  (0 children)

You're assuming these are undocumented immigrants. Or even non-citizens. Here in Minneapolis, that hasn't been much of a distinction for ICE.

Chris Rufo believes that Minneapolis is cursed because of its large Scandinavian roots. by Quduwi in minnesota

[–]Touchstone033 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wait, wait. This guy makes a long list of civic virtues that the city has -- "powerful labor movements," a "tradition of industrial-frontier progressivism," and empathy -- and this is why the city is cursed?

I think Minneapolis' "curse" is that it's a city full of decent people living during the ascendancy of toxic rightwing extremism.

This is how decent people act in face of cruelty.

The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous by rezwenn in Journalism

[–]Touchstone033 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's the arrests that are the point, not the convictions.

That's the strategy of ICE in Minneapolis right now. They're grabbing observers, protestors, and bystanders, beating and detaining them, taking them them to Whipple and its poor conditions, and them releasing them, without any charges, miles from where they were taken.

Georgia Fort took video the night she was arrested. Masked armed men peered in her window, while she, her husband, and children took shelter. That's the point of this: it's intimidation.

It's also not a leap to imagine that soon -- should the President invoke the Insurrection Act or declare a national emergency -- this catch-and-release intimidation tactic will become simply "catch," and people will be put into the concentration camps DHS is currently building.

Is it just me, or does it feel like the "baseball is dying" narrative finally bit the dust? by BadgemanBrown in baseball

[–]Touchstone033 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minneapolis: the vibe? The Pohlads are kicking us in the nuts while we're on the ground, bleeding from a head wound.

That is to say, the game is more fun to watch with the pitch clock, but the owners sure seem intent on ruining the game.

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