Day of Dusk, 16th of Childwinter, 526 M.E. (Deneb): What’s happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon the state. Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, and under-trained, ICE agents are going door to door ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live. They’re pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens, and demanding to see their papers, at grocery stores, at bus stops, and even at schools. They’re breaking windows and dragging pregnant women down the street. Grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans. Kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.

Those words aren't mine or some hyperbolic antifa agitator (if such a person even exists). They're the words of Minnesota Governor and former Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz, a moderate, middle-of--the-road Democrat. 

These are the times and this blog is a record of the times. And on this 16th day of the the 526th year of the Modern Era, the times see an American city besieged by military forces working at the direction of its own President, who has threatened that "the day of retribution and reckoning is coming." That’s a direct threat against American people who dared to vote against him and who continue to stand up for freedom. 

"Let’s be very, very clear," Walz said. "This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government."

Last week, as you undoubtedly know by now, that campaign of organized brutality claimed the life of Renee Nicole Good. Videos of the shooting are all over the media, and everyone's clearly seen what actually happened. And yet, instead of conducting an impartial investigation into the confrontation and potentially hold the officer responsible for Renee’s death accountable, the Stable Genius is devoting the full power of the federal government to finding an excuse to attack the victim and her family. Six federal prosecutors, including one longtime career prosecutor, quit their jobs rather than go along with this assault on the U.S. Constitution.

Across Minnesota, people are helping neighbors who are being unjustly and unlawfully targeted. They’re distributing care packages and walking kids to school and raising their voices in peaceful protest, even though doing so has made many of them targets for violent retribution.

The Stable Genius wants this chaos. He wants confusion and he wants more violence on the street so he can invoke the Insurrection Act to justify further military action against the American people on more American streets. It turns out the existential threat to American democracy isn't communism or radical Islamism or woke ideology - it's the White House. The call was coming from inside the house all along.  

Accountability will eventually come at the voting booth and from the courts, according to Walz. We can and will reclaim our country from the Stable Genius. We can re-establish a sense of safety and community and bring an end to this moment of chaos, confusion and trauma. We will, he says, find a way to move forward together. 

I hope he's right.