NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

How has Operation Metro Surge affected the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus? Hear from CLA profs, alums, and community members next Monday--with a focus on faculty, student, and staff responses and resistance. In Pillsbury and online! Part of CLA's Liberal Arts in Action series:

My kid has been making the ramen thing with cream cheese or with an egg, parm, and broth since they were 10. And honestly the hatch chili chicken dish is brilliant, especially with boneless chicken from the freezer. Another kid fave in our family is crispy leftover rice topped with tuna salad.

I am so clearly not the audience for this.

Somehow this feels so completely on brand for the U under President Cunningham.

The present sure echoes the past in this photo.

My math professor husband is feeling smug today for refusing to use Canvas for his class this semester.

He means he's not sure if he has ever fathered kids.

OMFG. What fresh hell is this?!

I had no idea the unions would be out in force for this meeting, but it had a big impact among the students who watched this online with me. This was huge.

I watched this meeting with three high school students, and wow do they stan the Metro Transit bus drivers. Bus drivers keep our students safe.

UMN President is such an insipid thinker and writer. Today she writes to students: "The thing that makes me most excited is watching how your voices—from cheering at homecoming to supporting the University at the Capitol—are shaping our world."

The real, “The offer it free at first to get you hooked,” the War on Drugs warned us about.

I've been up since 6 and achieved nothing. First the dentist rescheduled from 7 to 8 without telling me--I was supposed to know from the 2nd reminder text which had a new time, apparently. I said I couldn't wait because I had a 9 am, and then I went to the wrong 5 Watt location for that meeting.

May the 4th be with you, protecting you against unreasonable government searches and seizures, requiring warrants to be supported by probable cause and specifically describing the place to be searched and persons or things to be seized. May it secure privacy for people, houses, papers, and effects.

Life is ever more mirroring all the dystopian novels I read about the downfall of human civilization.

Name your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only. Days and nights of Molly Dodd My so-called life Fantasy Island Being There Gilligan's Island Jeopardy The Price Is Right High Rollers with Alex Trebek Inch High Private Eye perils of Penelope Pitstop

This is a great thread--read to the end. (And as a 6th grader who was suspended from Girl Scouts for reading aloud to each other from Looking for Mr Goodbar, this really resonates.)

Getting to read to my kids was one of the great joys of my life, and I miss it. Why would you let your kids grow up being read to by AI or listening to AI-generated music?

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

I will never understand catch-and-release fishing. What's the point?

Two very different takes on the current number of naturalizations in the Strib and Sahan Journal.

Green Ink Press. An independent nonfiction publisher focused on publishing short works by academics for the public.

This is kinda a pro tip. Authors make money by having many books in print. Books stay in print when people buy them. How much an author gets for their next book is often based on the success of the current book. We need to be a society that supports human writers.

Mahler's 4th Symphony is the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" of German music.

Happy to see this corner being redeveloped, but I looked up "catacorner" because it was a variant I don't remember seeing before. Merriam-Webster says it's a less common variant of "catercorner," which itself is a less common variant of "kitty-corner."

Planning to take a train trip around the Gulf of Bothnia now that Finland and Sweden are reconnecting train service over the border.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

My favorite Flintstone innovation is the bees in the clamshell shaver. Love triceratops also.

Minneapolis Public Schools is looking for volunteers for its Let's Roll ride on May 6 on the Northside. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey, is anyone else not receiving the Sunday edition of the NYTimes now that the Strib printing has gone to Iowa? We haven't received ours in weeks and weeks. I hesitate to bring this up directly with the NYTimes since we're basically getting it online for free in the interim. Just curious.

A similar situation affected the nanoscale-close 2008 Minnesota election for US Senate, leading the legislature in 2010 to stop sending absentee ballots to polling places, instead using centralized ballot boards. I still think this was a smart move our neighbors ought to emulate.

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

Coverage so far has focused on the USPS part. There's also a broader threat to prosecute election officials (and private contractors) for allowing voting — even not by mail — by anyone ineligible, which is not so subtly hinted to mean, not on the list the feds would provide.

Not fond of the new mural at DeLaSalle High School. It evokes echoes of Father Hennepin Discovering the Falls of St. Anthony for me. I admire how de la Salle improved education and DeLaSalle is a good school with fab students & teachers. But the mural misses is its composition.

Love the Lake Loop concept here. And I've been saying it for 20 years, but what this city needs is a Euro-style playground where parents could sit in a nearby cafe with a coffee or a beer so they can chat while their kids play.

If you see this post a concert photo you took

I just read the NY times crazy coverage of the upcoming protests, and wow, dis they miss the mark, in my opinion.

A U student taken by ICE is completely abandoned by U. He was taken Jan 11 before he could register for the spring semester. Deadline for spring registration was Jan 26. He did not withdraw from the U, yet they claim he is not a student because he hadn't yet registered.

Oh, good gods. I brought my child to get a Real ID today. They filled out the preapplication online, gathered the documents on the list plus a spare. We get there and they tell us that the list of documents only applies if you *already* have a MN ID. assets.dps.mn.gov/files/dvs/dv...

Listening a bit gleefully to men complaining about the line for the all-gender bathroom

I still miss biking around with my toddler in front of me and hearing his comments on everything around us. "Das ist neuer Asphalt!"

What a horrifying article, made more so by the dismissive way it's written.

developing a "gigantic suv" theory of america. blind to it's surroundings and the damage it inflicts, compulsively studied by smaller vehicles and pedestrians who need to try to avoid going under the wheels

Buffing up the Honors and Awards section of my resume...

Nearly 90 years later the Finns of Minneapolis transported messages and aid by bicycle near the front line of Lake Street during the winter Operation Metro Surge 💪

This is devastating.The arts are core curriculum. Every child deserves these opportunities.

I laughed so hard at this.