~Brainwaves~

Today's theme song clocks in at less than 2 minutes long, but it actually made the hair on my arm stand up.

Nearly every line is a powerful summary of where we're at. I like it. The beginning is near.

I normally sleep in on my "weekends" like today. Now that I have shifts for safety patrol at a local school, though, I find myself still waking up on "work schedule" even on my days off. So it wasn't unexpected that I should wake up at 5:30am today and find myself with little to do but roam Reddit on my smartphone while resting snugly in my electric blanket-warmed bed on a cold snowy morning.

This resistance song was posted to the Minneapolis subreddit by a child of the singer, a family member woken by a text message informing them of the song's posting to YouTube. Welcome to today's theme song:

...I'm an ordinary American. I grew up blue in the promised land.
Two tours in Vietnam. 40 years Republican.
But I drive my old Ram pickup truck. I sold my house because my pension sucks.
I buy scratch tickets when I'm out of luck. Then I watched the news and said, "What the fuck".

I'm an ordinary American, no longer Republican.
I can't sit down when I need to stand, when government men kill an innocent man
and a mother in a car trying to drive away from a masked man on a frozen day,
pumping bullets in her face just to make her pay for living her life the American way.

We are ordinary Americans on a Minnesota street in a messed up land,
Thousands marching hand in hand to bring us back to a promised land.
Wake up America, heed the call. High saints, you know musket balls.
Stand up strong and stand up tall. Stand together for one and all.

I'm an ordinary American. I grew up blue in the promised land.
Two tours in Vietnam. 40 years Republican.
Hey, now we're fighting in another war.
But now I know what we're fighting for.

Welcome to the Resistance, old man.

For the moment, the story of the "Concord Hymn" poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (pictured on the statue in the video, about the Battle of Concord in 1775) is still available on this Park webpage. I'm sure that it will soon be removed, lest people get the wrong ideas about this Republican government's fascist authoritarianism. It's safely recorded at Archive.org too.

Now, excuse me. I need to get dressed for my shift at the nearby school, watching so I both 1) warn children and teachers about the federal government coming to abduct any of them and 2) record illegal conduct to assist the abducted and prosecute the abhorrent offenders.

I am anti-fascist, and you should be too.

This article is the only objective evidence I have for the observer abductions that happened on Friday last week. I'm disappointed that more mainstream outlets aren't picking up the story.

Yes, I've heard that Homan spoke words claiming that ICE will now stop the extreme escalation in Minnesota that was called "Operation Metro Surge". You do know that this Republican administration lies, right? I'll believe it when I see it on the streets here. And whoever you are, reading this blog post, you had better hope those agents aren't reassigned to your area. What's happening here will happen in other areas of the USA. We haven't defunded or dismantled ICE yet. It still has a bigger budget than most of the world's military forces, although not quite yet bigger than the U.S. Marines. It's still an absurd budget, of course. All of this "action" is so unnecessary.

In more practical good news, I saw that Ring will cancel its business partnership that allows ICE (and other law enforcement) access to home camera footage. Flock confirms it. That's good.

I've slept a whole lot of hours last night and today. Sleep debt is real. I wish it were possible for me to retire someday, because I'm just plain tired. I guess I'll rest when I finally land in one of those spiffy new concentration camps.