Minnesota’s Violence has reached an Inflection Point

Donald Trump, his nasty White House sycophants, and their stormtrooper thugs lie and lie and lie to the world while pouring gasoline on the fires they set in our cities. Trump and his gang of thugs must be impeached, removed from power, tried for murder and treason, and if found guilty imprisoned.

The United States has been in the throes of yet another round of violence and civil unrest. There have been frequent tho intermittent mass peaceful protests, assassinations and attempted assassinations, mass shooting in schools and houses of worship, nationwide No Kings Day demonstrations, political corruption and corporate intrusion into government especially at the Federal level, numerous violent abuses and war-like raids on first immigrants and then anyone else by ICE and CBP, the calling out of National Guard forces by President Trump over the objections of Democratic state governors and city mayors, the firebombing of Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro’s Residence, waves of White racism, transphobia, homophobia, and anti-Semitism, the rollback of LBTQI+ rights, the rollback of woke and DEI, the increased sexism and misogyny from the White House, and the erasure of much of history including downplaying slavery and genocide. That is one long sentence, and, even so, a very incomplete list. This nation is once again highly polarized, and the temperature keeps getting cranked back up.

Lately much of the turmoil has been centered in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the Twin Cities in the heart of the American State of Minnesota. On Saturday the 14th of June 2025, an ultraconservative Fundamentalist Christian part-time pastor went on a rampage of assassination along the edges of the Twin Cities. He shot two Democrat state lawmakers and their spouses. All four were riddled with bullets. One couple died and the other two survived. Continue reading

Greenland: This is what to do

Join Canada!

O People of Greenland! Denmark! Canada! Please hear me out. Listen to this proposal. For this is what to do: Canada, invite Greenland to join Canada as an equal province within its Dominion. Denmark, allow Greenland to depart your Kingdom with your Blessings. Greenland, go join Canada. That would really flummox the Americans! Greenland would maintain similar benefits of Denmark’s social democracy within Canada as the Maple Leaf Country is also a form of social democracy. Greenland would thus stay in NATO as part of Canada, Denmark would stay in the European Union, Canada would gain access to an old land rich with resources, and the USA would grumble and fuss. Canada, offer the Americans a few mineral rights and a couple of more military bases, remind them they won’t have to pay for nearly 60,000 people to maintain the same social democracy benefits the USA denies its own people, and be ready to defend all of Canada against a violent American tantrum. Ultimately, to be clear, for Greenland to join Canada must be the free choices of the people of Greenland and the people of Canada, especially the Indigenous populations of both lands.  Continue reading