Top Stories Daily

I hope that this gets through to Tim Apple but I suspect it won't. I don't think that Tim believes he is doing anything wrong. My own hypothesis about his behavior is that he regards himself as a sort of sin-eater for engineers and designers, the ghoul who has to appease authoritarians to allow the creative innovators under his protection to create our salvation through product development.

https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

I hope that this gets through to Tim Apple but I suspect it won't. I don't think that Tim believes he is doing anything wrong. My own hypothesis about his behavior is that he regards himself as a sort of sin-eater for engineers and designers, the ghoul who has to appease authoritarians to allow the creative innovators under his protection to create our salvation through product development.

https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

Apple fans are becoming disillusioned with the company for a variety of reasons

1. Tim Cook’s friendliness with Trump while overlooked during his 1st term is more distasteful now.

2. Apple has lost its UI design skills.

3. There’s a visible exodus of top talent.

4. Hardware design is stagnant.

5. Vision Pro missed the mark as a mass market product.

The most damning quote: “Apple is the gold standard for hyper-profitability and predatory monetisation.”

https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

This piece has been coming for a while, in one form or another. Makes me deeply unhappy to write it. https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

@Yehuda @Tzipporah

Hi - I’m Hannah, I’m Mastodon’s new Community Director, I joined at the end of September.

First, thank you for your work to bring Indigenous/ BIPOC communities to #Mastodon, the #fediverse, and the #SocialWeb. I want to do everything I can to support you. I promise you that we will add this listing to join mastodon as soon as possible.

We have a significant backlog on the Server Directory, but we have a plan to fix it. Over the weekend we announced a first experiment in evolving onboarding (but it will not be the only one). Simultaneously we are starting to look at how to evolve the Server Directory too, including adding more kinds of server classifications or categories which can be used for other kinds of discovery methods. We also want to move the Server Directory to a PR-based backend so it’s more manageable to keep updated, and so the community can help us do it.

I am sorry we haven’t done this yet. We are working on it, and please do not hesitate to reach out to me to check in on progress. You can email me too: hannah[@]joinmastodon.org.

If you want to hear more, here is the talk where we announced the first experiment and shared more info about Server Directory (we will publish a blog post soon too). The relevant sections start at around 10:50.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

Happy birthday, friend :) more soon

Excited for #FOSDEM this weekend 😁 Let's meet up — here's where I'll be:

* The Mastodon stand for most of the weekend! Stand F.04
* Talk: "Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon" in the social web devroom. Last minute add, @andypiper will be co-presenting with me! ✨ (Saturday, 11:30-12, H.2215)
* Hachyderm BOF (Sunday, 10-11, H.3244)
* On a scavenger hunt to find every Manneken Pis in town

See you there! :mastodondance:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

The #FOSDEM talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session.

More to come on all of these topics over the coming weeks, on our blog and on the main project account.

I’ll be posting about the other sessions from the #SocialWeb Devroom over the next few weeks, as well.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HJYRFF-tending-the-herd/

"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a 'large deportation' promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Vance #Haitians #Ohio #Springfield #EthnicCleansing #Nazis #ICE #WhiteSupremacy
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. The destined victims are ten thousand or more Haitians.

"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a 'large deportation' promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Vance #Haitians #Ohio #Springfield #EthnicCleansing #Nazis #ICE #WhiteSupremacy
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

“In the schools & churches of #Springfield, #Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, & according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal #ethniccleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president & American Nazis. The destined victims are ten thousand or more Haitians.”

#TimothySnyder’s urgent warning. A must read.

At least 1500 are children.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

Ethnic cleansing about to happen.

“Springfield [OH] and Clark County are coming back…It’s an upward movement. Part of that upward movement comes about because, frankly, of Haitians who are working and contributing to the economy and…and doing all the things that working people (do)…it is not in the best interest of Ohio, for these individuals who are workers and working to lose that status.” Ohio Governor DeWine as quoted by Timothy Snyder

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

#USpol #EthnicCleansing #OH

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p38#a260201p38

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. The destined victims are ten thousand or more Haitians...."

"In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations for a 'large deportation' promised by the president. To all appearances, and according to local sources, the city is two or three days away from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Vance #Haitians #Ohio #Springfield #EthnicCleansing #Nazis #ICE #WhiteSupremacy
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

“Wealthy people don't seem to think of money as money. It's certainly not lack for material needs or luxury that drives them. At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity.
Depravity is, to the mind consumed by the billionaire mentality, a flex. It's the prize. It seems the whole reason for the money in the first place. The more you can make other people suffer, the more the rules don't apply to you. The worse a crime you can commit, and the more blatantly you can do it, the more you can demonstrate your impunity to the most foundational laws of human decency.”
https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

https://www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

New piece from folks in the Twin Cities reflecting on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and 30, and how liberal appeasement and authoritarian vanguardism have functioned as obstacles to the growth of the movement.
https://crimethinc.com/2026generalstrikes

New piece from folks in the Twin Cities reflecting on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and 30, and how liberal appeasement and authoritarian vanguardism have functioned as obstacles to the growth of the movement.
https://crimethinc.com/2026generalstrikes

Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities