Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement.

Out out out!

Good good good

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

@parapraxismag.bsky.social is not fucking around 😍😍😍

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Large crowds are converging to NW corner of Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis right now. People are walking from up to a mile away due to bad traffic. "ICE Out Of Minnesota" event called by MIRAC (@miracmn.bsky.social ) & Peoples Action Coalition (Video @unraveledpress.com )

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Americans should accept that the US second republic (the one that lasted from the civil war until Trump) has come to an end and a new constitutional convention will be needed to found a third

Members of the UMN Twin Cities AAUP voted unanimously to endorse this Statement of Solidarity with Somali and Immigrant Communities drive.google.com/file/d/1WDWq...

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Just simply amazing that Democrats can now clearly see on video that an unjustified killing has taken place...while denying what was clearly being shown on video from Gaza.

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

Source: Common Dreams Sad to see my representative @repangiecraig.bsky.social vote for this.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Listening to @jwashing.bsky.social at @socialismconference.org describe what happened to the Venezuelan empanada vendor and pregnant mother of four Yesenia, earlier this year, and my blood is boiling... azluminaria.org/2025/02/16/v...

I just want to respond to the apparently emerging global right wing consensus to the contrary: caring for child cancer patients is Good, Actually

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

What impact will the destruction of the @usedgov.bsky.social have on higher education? Vital services that support students and ensure equity in education will disappear. We can fight back when we come together! Join us on 4/1: tinyurl.com/Apr1HELU @aaup.bsky.social

Stupid and bad!

Not good for libraries or academic research…

Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

Two exes, one big news story & nonstop laughs—HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) is comedy gold! It's Public Domain Movie Night on Friday, with an intro by teen author Simone Elias. 📅 Feb. 28 🕢️ 7:30 pm 📍 300 Funston Ave. SF 🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939 #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

Federal judge just blocked Trump’s totally illegal and unconstitutional federal spending freeze! He’s just throwing spaghetti against the wall. apnews.com/article/dona...

It seems like a very American thing to buy Costco membership as an act of political commitment

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.

Gramsci and Hall insist that you must look relentlessly at things and people as they are, face your prospects with brutal honesty, and act in ways that you think can have an effect. In these ways they are an organizer’s theorists. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

Now it's dark. Michael Atkinson pays tribute to David Lynch www.bfi.org.uk/features/dav...

I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For all you newbies to Bluesky, remember to repost more than you’re used to (even your own posts sometimes), as there’s not really an algorithm here. Also you can make custom feeds of your friends, or on specific topics. Also repost funny, quirky things, not just political outrage or despair!

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...