Next week is a gathering of friends that after the last year I'm desperately looking forward to. If you've been needing some Minnesota joy check out @convergencecon.bsky.social We take over a hotel and it becomes a wonderful 4 day party.

one of my favorite running bits on PARKS & RECREATION was the myriad of baroquely and increasingly racist and deranged murals in the Pawnee City Hall, and then I moved to Minnesota and 2019 and realized that our state flag was literally the PARKS & REC mural bit 🤷🤷🤷

I wish the federal government would just leave Minnesota the fuck alone

ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.

THIS THIS THIS DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS DO NOT INVITE THEM IN TELL THEM THEY ARE NOT WELCOME

May her memory be a blessing. Thank you for the books Jane.

Minneapolis suburbs are getting hit hard by ice this week. It's not over. It was never over.

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Today, you might see a TV ad starring something that... kind of looks like me. My opponent's super PAC is using an AI deepfake of me to mislead voters. They can't win with the truth - so they're resorting to lies. It's disgusting. Minnesotans deserve better.

I was much more centrist when I was younger. Conservative, even, in some respects. What radicalized me? The Minnesota Republican Party. Fuck these ghouls.

Ice has resurged this week in Minnesota. The news is getting suppressed so please spread the word. The fight isn't over.

the twin cities are still under occupation

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

hey so I'm no longer patrolling, but I'm still involved in ICE resistance and helping people recover from the occupation I'm part of the group organizing this

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

"Why don't Americans–" Motherfucker, I live in Minneapolis

ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE: "When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

look i'm not a big "judge people by the media they consume" person but if you watch the new wizard bigot show that gives money to Rowling, I will think less of you and trust you less.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Oh, look, replies are turned off. Your mayor won't read anything here, but your neighbors will. Fuck you, Jacob.

Let’s get it done! www.fox9.com/news/dfl-law...

Such a weird thought but if you have any kids you know in high school or early college, they are about to be inundated with army recruiters trying to get their attention so maybe warn them to not fall for that?

US citizen abducted in Minnehaha in south Minneapolis at 9am this morning

This. I am not a big account but I am disgusted by anyone who goes off blaming the people of any state for passing any of these draconian and harmful laws. If you say they deserve this, fuck you. Trans people are being harmed in horrific ways. Either figure out how to help or shut up.

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One way to help is to support trans people escape from states gearing up for anti-trans pogroms by donating to the Trans Continental Pipeline. And, while you're at it, follow @erininthemorning.com & @esqueer.net & support their work covering/defending human rights

Exactly what I've been thinking. I'm really hoping this isn't dropouts jump the shark moment.

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro. ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever. This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

Haven Watch—the people who wait outside Whipple 24/7 to help those who have just been released, often alone and in the cold—is one of the local efforts that makes me cry every single time I think about it. I know there are a million requests for $ and we're all tapped out, but if you can help...

If you've seen all the shit that's happened in the Twin Cities recently (Philando, George Floyd, Hortmans, Annunciation, ICE), seen how we've come together during that, seen how much we care about our home, and that DOESN'T make you love it here MORE? Then what the fuck is wrong with you? Go.

Since the media has moved on from us again, ICE is still occupying MN and making life hell. You know what silly little thing I miss? Being able to drive somewhere without constantly looking at license plates and drivers. I just wanna sing in my car on my morning commute.

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

To the shock of nobody, ICE has not left MN. This was yesterday.

The ICE occupation isn't over yet, and neither is ICE Watch.

This ice “fish-fluencer” wants ICE to get out of Minnesota. Nate Pischke has turned his indignation and outrage about the largest deployment of masked and armed ICE agents in US history into a call for hunters and fishermen to speak out. "Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city."

Please don't think anything is back to normal in Minnesota. Nothing is normal. I know we’re strong. Don’t know if it’s enough. If you don't live here, your Minnesota friends may tell you that it's going to be okay but I think a lot of that is them being nice so you won't worry. It's bad here.

I am not a Hank Green or Paul F Tompkins in terms of reach, but I am a little alarmed this plea for public exposure is from Minnesota. Things are bad out there! Reporting has been systematically under attack most of my life so not surprised it's not on TV. Take care of each other.

This is kind of a long shot request but I guess it's worth trying. Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @itswilwheaton.bsky.social News of what is happening in Minnesota is leaving the media cycle and it's getting worse here. Agents have not left the state.

Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.

It’s day 70 of the ICE occupation of MSP. ICE continues to terrorize our neighbors, there are still 2,000 agents here, even as the attention of the world has moved on. When we say ICE OUT, we mean ICE out everywhere.

i love that they're just ... giving the dildos back so people can throw them again!

"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them" Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊ (posted with permission)

OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing. "When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust... I shut the fuck up!" - @margaret.bsky.social

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: