Good morning from Minneapolis where, after a cold weekend, rain is back in the forecast for Tuesday.

Quite early Monday morning it's 4℉; light northerly winds; fair skies; barometer reads Very Dry; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

- Up and down temperature trend through next weekend.

- Periods of light snow possible Tuesday & Wednesday, with minor accumulations possible over portions of the forecast area.
—forecast discussion, NWS Twin Cities

A legitimate civil government seeks to preserve its subjects’ life, health, liberty, and property insofar as this is compatible with the public good. Because it does this, it deserves obedience. An illegitimate civil government seeks to systematically violate the natural rights of its subjects. It seeks to make them illegitimate slaves. Because an illegitimate civil government does this, it puts itself in a state of nature and a state of war with its subjects. The magistrate or king of such a state violates the law of nature and so makes himself into a dangerous beast of prey who operates on the principle that might makes right, or that the strongest carries it.
—essay on JOHN LOCKE (b. 1632, d. 1704), via the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/

Wherever Law ends,
Tyranny begins

#mnwx #philosophy #government #Hinterlandia #quotidian

Good morning from Minneapolis where the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert.

Just kidding. I don't drink. But that is one of the great lines in songwriting history if you ask me and I think of it every Sunday morning as I stumble down the stairs to meet the day.

Quite early Sunday morning it's 7℉ in the Mill City; overcast skies; gusty north-northwest winds; barometer reads Very Dry; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

- Cold & dry through Monday.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

—from Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill"

#mnwx #DogsOfMastodon #poem #Minneapolis #Hinterlandia #quotidian

Good morning from Minneapolis where the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert.

Just kidding. I don't drink. But that is one of the great lines in songwriting history if you ask me and I think of it every Sunday morning as I stumble down the stairs to meet the day.

Quite early Sunday morning it's 7℉ in the Mill City; overcast skies; gusty north-northwest winds; barometer reads Very Dry; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.

- Cold & dry through Monday.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

—from Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill"

#mnwx #DogsOfMastodon #poem #Minneapolis #Hinterlandia #quotidian

Good morning from Minneapolis, where the latest word I've seen is that the Whipple Building is empty of detainees and ICE agents number fewer than 500. But who knows for sure?

Angie Craig: “…we will take everything we're told with a grain of salt, and we will only believe things when we see them here as this operation winds down.”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/20/omar-craig-report-empty-whipple-ice-detention-center-as-fewer-than-500-agents-remain

All I know is that delivering boxes of food is a piece of cake, owing to the skills of the people organizing these mutual-aid food drops in our part of town. Truck drivers, pallet wranglers, box packers, route planners; they're all here.

Quite early Saturday morning it's 11℉; fair skies and barometer; light west-northwest winds; and visibility 10 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high near 22℉.

Keep an eye out. Take care. Have a good weekend. Hope for the best.

#MutualAid #Minneapolis #mnwx #ICE #quotidian #Hinterlandia

Good morning from Minneapolis, where the latest word I've seen is that the Whipple Building is empty of detainees and ICE agents number fewer than 500. But who knows for sure?

Angie Craig: “…we will take everything we're told with a grain of salt, and we will only believe things when we see them here as this operation winds down.”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/20/omar-craig-report-empty-whipple-ice-detention-center-as-fewer-than-500-agents-remain

All I know is that delivering boxes of food is a piece of cake, owing to the skills of the people organizing these mutual-aid food drops in our part of town. Truck drivers, pallet wranglers, box packers, route planners; they're all here.

Quite early Saturday morning it's 11℉; fair skies and barometer; light west-northwest winds; and visibility 10 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high near 22℉.

Keep an eye out. Take care. Have a good weekend. Hope for the best.

#MutualAid #Minneapolis #mnwx #ICE #quotidian #Hinterlandia