William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 9hIn this scenario Europe’s a few years away from that Gewehr 43 1190
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If that’s the same incident where a pregnant woman was tackled in MN then there’s a good chance I saw that exact guy (though as part of a larger group and masked). It makes me so mad that those same thugs just have been going city to city hurting people 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For retaliation legal protection legal aid nonprofits advised us to not use tenant union in our name when we formalized bylaws 030
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One thing about the MN statute 504b that codifies the right to tenant organize is that it specifies it as a “tenant association” 111
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Start with doing something about school funding being so determined by local property taxes. The quality of your public school education being so heavily dependent on what zip code your parents can afford to live in is an affront to an egalitarian education system 130
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That second post really needs a graphic media label or something 020
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Last year’s Falafel waffle from the MN state fair (From the excellent Baba’s) 3500
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There’s a house in Whittier that has a Little Free Library and also a Ring camera directly opposite it that loudly announces its presence when you stop to look in it 050
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Several of the cases brought by the Hennepin county attorney have relied on the ICE/CBP officers in question being off duty when harassing people or brandishing weapons while driving. Doing online forensics and figuring out agents names is not enough for the court processes 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Not a lawyer but am somewhat familiar with some of the difficulties in MN. The officers not being officially identifiable/the federal government not providing personnel information to local prosecutors makes it difficult to bring charges for actions done on duty 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Thoughts coming today from a bahn mi place on the same block where Pretti was killed 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Honestly, it was so hectic in that space and it took me a moment to register that they were talking to their chat. Real what are we doing here moment and next time I’d probably yell at them to stop filming in the medic station and taking up time when others still needed help 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The morning Alex Pretti was killed I ended up helping in one of the medic decontamination stations half a block from the police line. One of the last people I helped with flushing their eyes was streaming and trying to hold their phone camera at a good angle throughout 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The legal aid nonprofits in the Twin Cities are so swamped with eviction cases that you basically have no options for legal help unless you specifically have a court-ordered eviction you’re trying to fight (no matter how strong your case/egregious the situation). Most tenant rights aren’t enforced 1100
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026These won’t be the last fires, so I guess there’s always the next time to prepare for 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Feeling really bad because I had drawn up a plan in late April for fundraising, assembling, and distributing DIY air filters and N95s if we had only a few days notice of smoke using some of the same communal infrastructure from Operation Metro Surge, but I neglected it for my tenant organizing 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It’s not just putting your name alongside others on an email list/cutting an ad 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I do not think people who are not involved in active parties/groups like DSA understand that “endorse” means intentionally deciding to devote scarce physical resources, door-knocking hours, having people show up to support at events, etc towards a campaign 130
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Practically every time I bike by Leaning Tower on 24th in the evenings cars are parked in the painted bike lane, probably picking up take-out 150
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“I live in your building” or “we share the same property management company, what problems have you had” makes people open up so much more easily than door-knocking cold 030
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Not electoral canvassing related, but door knocking for my tenant union has been so much less anxiety producing than the canvassing than I‘ve done I. Suburbs before 230
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Is there a plan/chance for this for next year’s Lyndale Avenue reconstruction. Thinking of places like Papa Chuy’s and Baba’s I’d like to see thrive despite the necessary disruption 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I have bad news, but I think the person who had worked for him for years and told all at my Halloween party would be readily identifiable to their former coworkers if I spilled it on the internet 040
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 14/04/2026There was a window of time during the battle for Aleppo in 2016 when both the rebels and government forces managed to simultaneously besiege each other (picture something close to a Yin and Yang symbol) 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Also to look at the Zimbabwean sculptures between the T and A concourses if you choose to walk rather than take the plane train 130
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/03/2026“We also want you to replace Germany and cover a third to half the cost of the submarines and frigates you’re building for us” 090
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I swear the over-recommendation of protein is just downwind of how it’s a pretty expensive food addition (both as meat and as an additive) and there’s an entire industry pushing that 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 06/03/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriya...en.wikipedia.orgAmiriyah shelter bombing - Wikipedia 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Your posts have reminded me I need to play Disco Elysium again while it’s still becoming dark out relatively early 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I don’t think anyone knows how these changes will affect voting/primaries. That’s not what a lot of people are working on here at the moment. I will say that that every community/political meeting I’ve been to has been overwhelmingly younger and full of previously less engaged people 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 21/02/2026At the recent DFL caucuses in MN a sizable number of people in even surprising places did not rank Klobuchar when that was the only real option given. I don’t think the read on the ground here is that people want comfort/a known centrist 130
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 17/02/2026the first time we saw a Subaru on my block with ICE officers inside (almost three weeks ago now), my local chat was universally “not the gay car” 180
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 17/02/2026My favorite from a Whittier coffee shop’s guest book 050
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 12/02/2026However, his very presence/joining of local reponse/community discussion chats were guaranteed to make them unusable for their initial purposes due to how much discussion/posting would happen in them. Information management in RR is so important semi-notable people should probably be excluded 020
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 12/02/2026My opinion of him in MN rn is that his behavior has broadly been okay (with some notable exceptions about filming/privacy that are not the incidents that have been litigated to death online) but that literally thousands of others have been doing this sort of work the past months here 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 03/02/2026*air horns. So much of ICE’s presence in my neighborhood is single or double vehicles rapidly moving through side streets. Visual communication of them being there is not enough for how fast the pace moves 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Like, there are specific times and places where we‘re requested to not use whistles (my local elementary school since it really ups kids anxiety and stress during the school day and where there already will be a mass of observers), but rather than less noise people are moving towards small airborne 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 02/02/2026From someone with no prior experience with this, I’ve found the flip cap bottle tops to be good at getting water where it’s needed without spilling larger amounts over people outside in the cold 110
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Discussed between people, along with numerous stories I’ve now personally heard about him not responding to direct asks from people in the community he’s supposed to be trying to help, makes me distrust his continued involvement 020
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Anxieties of people away from the neighborhood for work/life, etc. There are literally thousands of people doing this work and the Internet personality being discussed is not the first person to be told no after losing trust in the community. That his instinct is to first post what could be … 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 31/01/2026To use this for anything serious). Without going into detail, community guidelines in these chats are important for more than Opsec and have developed over time from direct asks within the community. Adhering to them lets people know what situation they are potentially walking into, alleviates… 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 31/01/2026From personal experience the past few weeks, good intentions and willingness to act do not mean you are actually prepared for or effective at every role community defense requires. I do not want to be active in a larger online discussion about this (my name is tied to this account I never intended… 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Had repeatedly been recoding people who had not given permission and had specifically been confronted about this (going back to early January). This is from friends I spoke to involved with this chat and it’s admins last night (friends who didn’t know who Stancil was) 150
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 30/01/2026He was not banned from that chat (which according to admins he never asked to be let back into but went straight to posting about it) for what those comments are talking about. He had gotten permission from several people to record while doing ride-along, but 140
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 30/01/2026They also arrested Jamael Lundy, who is running for Minnesota Senate district 65 and whose wife is a city council member in St. Paul 020
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I just want to say as someone living in South Minneapolis right now, that I’ve especially appreciated your writing these past weeks 120
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I really like NYC, Northern California, and Chicago, but the last few weeks here in Minneapolis have made me committed to stay here for the long term 010
William Linde @walinde.bsky.social · 28/01/2026A CBP officer walked down the police line at the scene of Alex Pretti’s murder at 9:46am, lingering on every onlooker in turn with this serious camera set up. At that point every person I had talked to lived in the neighborhood, like I do, or was press 140
