Happy belated book birthday to The Scores Project, which turned one year old yesterday. Info coming soon about a party/event with ALL contributors in Brooklyn in September.

"The Trump administration’s new security directive frames 'radically pro-transgender' groups as potential domestic threats, while omitting any mention of right-wing extremism."

HCMC saved my life when I had a heart attack: the paramedics, the Emergency staff, the Cath Lab staff who did an emergency angioplasty and stent placement within an hour of my arrival.

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

Top-notch alt text work.

Beautiful piece from @jazwgn.bsky.social on the second anniversary of Steve Albini’s passing. reallivedress.substack.com/p/050726

FOX NEWS: How many deportations do we need to set this country's population back to where it's actually a country of legal citizens? TOM HOMAN: Millions. I think there are well over 20 million illegal aliens in the country. We're gonna do everything we can to arrest as many people as we can.

The strong focus on regular people doing community care in MN meant that our logistics were on point and contributed to an atmosphere that was largely pretty unfriendly to clout chasing, co-option, and macho bullshit. This was extremely refreshing and we all should do more of it

Worth noting that this *never* used to happen and now it's normal. sahanjournal.com/climate-envi...

Heather Whinna deserves a lot of credit for Steve not being a total asshole all his life. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

If you think this is just happening in places where you don’t know anyone, I used to live two blocks from here.

ICE denies humanitarian parole request for Minnesota woman in detention with ovarian cyst minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ice-d...

This morning, a resident was stopped and kidnapped by ICE near 28th and Oakland Ave South. Yesterday, a resident was kidnapped by ICE near Lake and Stevens Ave South. There is also increased activity at the Whipple building this morning compared to the last couple of weeks. 1/

Awooooooooo to all who celebrate

Was baffled as to why I feel like shit today, until a twinge just now in my left upper arm reminded me: oh, right, I got the COVID booster yesterday.

"In A Police State, historian and fourth-generation Minneapolis resident Michael J. Lansing chronicles how the police became a political force in one of the nation’s most liberal cities." Ooh. ...To be published in Feb 2027. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Our Library of Congress RPTF caucus, the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, featured by The Guardian today!

No one who isn't evil in some way ever uses the word "vibrant." Terrible word.

ICE OUT: Protest Art Projections I was thrilled to have my artwork projected onto Minneapolis’ iconic Witch’s Hat Water-tower last night, as part of a larger compilation of works by Minnesotan artists in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Presented by Second Sight Visuals & Art You Heart

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

CNN reported Tuesday morning that the Department of Veterans Affairs has opened investigations into employees who attended Alex Pretti memorials and spoke to the press.

You don’t say

Very chill coyote just now on East River Parkway

The vicious regime is the one that shot Renee Good in the head. Trump claimed Good behaved "horribly" and "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer" none of which happened. Her last words were “That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you.”

Hollow‑Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream theconversation.com/hollow-earth...

This story isn't getting much attention yet. Homan threatens more surges at the Border Security Expo today. 🧵

It’s early but there are protesters, including UNITED HERE Local 11 and Rep. Yassamin Ansari, already gathered outside the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center chanting “no one is illegal” and holding a noise demo as attendees gather in to hear Tom Homan give the morning keynote.

Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industries is here at the Border Security Expo showcasing some drones and their Sentry surveillance tower (which extends up to 80 feet). There are hundreds of these along the U.S.-Mexico border. Apologies for the loud gunshot noises, that’s the shooting simulator behind me.

Startup chimes from various electronic devices. Seriously nostalgic. Also, the PSP being old enough to drink is fucking with me sheets.works/data-viz/pow...

I live in DT Mpls and don't own a car. I just did two errands, using first an Evie rental EV and then a Lime rental ebike, in a 45 min round trip; they would've taken at least 1.5 hrs by bus, probably closer to 2 hrs. Evie & Lime memberships are SO useful & should be even more accessible/affordable!

www.reuters.com/world/us-sup... The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed a recent ruling that gutted a key part of ​the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule, bolstering Louisiana magas as they pursue a new ‌congressional voting map ahead of the November midterm elections….

MPD paid out over $3 million to officers for more than 85,000 hours of standby overtime been Jan 7 and Feb 22. Standby overtime compensates officers for "remaining available to respond" within 60 minutes.

Tomorrow, probably: Kennedy starts a push to help diabetics quit insulin. May this death-peddler be felled by a hailstone. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Adam Yauch forever #MCA

amazing piece by @jearica.bsky.social

May Day in Minneapolis always feels like a reward for surviving a Minnesota winter. This year is different. We survived a winter when the federal government sent an occupying force, kidnapped our neighbors, and spent months trying to destroy our community. We’re still here. ❤️

lowkey they should run a train all the way up the north shore highway. I would totally take a train to grand marais

“Her approach owed something to punk, perhaps best summed up as: If it ain’t broke, break it.” – Richard Russell, Liberation Through Hearing

Unfazable Minneapolis

Happy May Day! I fucking love it here

re abortion doulas: in Minnesota, get in touch with SPIRAL Collective and follow them on Instagram (where they're more active) to learn about upcoming trainings, which they offer sporadically. If people are going to be doing lots of misoprostol-only abortions, the need for doulas will increase

another day, another front page Strib story about Target's woes without any mention of their collaboration with ICE

MPLS NOIR

Israel and Max Makoka are free from ICE custody and home because their community in Hancock County, Mississippi—a county where 79% voted for Trump in 2024—rallied to their cause and demanded action from their Republican U.S. senators. And their senators responded. Don't write anyone off. Anywhere.

UBI is a just foundation for a society where everyone can have their basic needs met. UBI made a lot of sense before AI too. But AI only strengthens the case for a UBI even more. AI models are trained on data that we have collectively produced over the ages & its gains should flow back to all of us.

If anyone wants to do a reading group on Black Reconstruction America I have a schedule from when we did it in 2017.

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

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