Statewide eviction filings compared to same time in 2025 (which was highest year w/ ~25,500 filings): -End of Jan: 9% below 2025 trends -End of Feb: 6% below 2025 trends -Last Friday: 3% below 2025 trends We'd be well above last year's levels without mutual aid...it's working—more time is needed!

Reposting bc I can't stop thinking about the fact that, as a homeowner, I apparently deserve more than 6 months if I am in crisis and need to figure out how to get the money together to stay in my housing but my neighbors who rent apparently only deserve 30 days.

The elected officials who rep a majority of the city have to beg Jacob Frey to not veto an extension in eviction notices. @Jacob_Frey who rode the wave of our collective suffering on his national PR tour, the most vulnerable in our city have to beg Jacob Frey to not impede help.

Day two of live posting the diaries of a 14-year-old who lived in Minneapolis in 1882. Follow along!

Today is the day! I am transcribing Ezra Fitch Pabody's Minneapolis diaries each day starting with his first entry. He was 14-years-old in 1882. Love that he was making maple syrup!

jfc I accidentally gave GiveButter and $11 tip when making a donation. That is a ridiculously high automatic tip for them to give themselves!

Just donated a chunk of my sales from the market I did yesterday to this fundraiser, an absolutely heartbreaking and enraging thing has happened to this family. No one deserves to be treated this way.

Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.

Not a jingle, but I still know every weird of this awesomely bad 90's Chicagoland insurance ad by heart youtu.be/O4-e4nlfdRI?...

It's pretty nuts that I lived in the Pacific northwest for a decade bc every time we have 36 hours of grey in Minnesota I get incredibly melancholy.

OFTEN YOU SHOULD ACT LIKE YOU ARE SEXLESS

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start Length: 5.6 cm 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

This is the shortest, most accurate explanation of why AI companies are just eugenics all the way down.

I called and left a message asking the mayor if he believes homeowners lives are more valuable than renters. Because in MN, homeowners get 6 weeks plus 6 months before eviction after they miss their first payment. What we're asking for renters is extremely modest by comparison.

Stevenson: Homeline says they've seen more calls for rent assistance than they did in any quarter during COVID. We're seeing an eviction crisis looming that is bigger than COVID. That's their professional expertise.

It's the middle of the night and I just ordered a walkman and a lot of 90s romance novel books on tape. How are you?

Was in NYC last month and found myself wondering why people there seem to chat on the train a lot less than el riders in Chicago and it eventually it hit me… the subway is just too loud for most conversation. So idk fixing the subway so it’s quieter and smoother would help w this.

Happened to drive past the future West Lake light rail station and felt really mad all over again that it's so-close-yet-so-far from Uptown, where light rail would actually be super useful.

if you're not in minnesota and you've not been reposting mutual aid fundraisers like it's your job...now's your time to shine!!!

Another reason not to have a data center built in your community: they’re hot targets.

Randomly remembeing that march for billionaires last month and looked up news coverage... Still not convinced it wasn't just a new generation of Yes Men provocateurs arising. youtu.be/zGscs35GxLo?...

In middle school I wrote an essay about Mr Bean and won a trip to London with my mom

Reminder that the ICE surge in Chicago - a city five times bigger than Minneapolis - was 300 agents. So this is still unprecedented.

My hot take, coming from working in the nonprofit sector for most of my career, is that you should not be make more at a np than at a commensurate job in the government. The CEO of Mpls Public Housing made $178k in 2020 (most recent year I could find) & MPH manages 6k units, Aeon only manages 4200

Need some embroidery? Come see me! I'll be at The Standard Vintage Market this weekend and at the National Loon Day celebration next Friday and will be doing embroidery on the spot at both!

Hmm seems like including a shit ton of sci fi in the training data for the word guessing machine was maybe a mistake?

The tone deafness of this dude was galling without knowing his backstory, but the thing that makes me the most angry is the claim that "this is how I support my family" as if it's his full time job. He's a lawyer! He owns a law firm!

My hot take, coming from working in the nonprofit sector for most of my career, is that you should not be make more at a np than at a commensurate job in the government. The CEO of Mpls Public Housing made $178k in 2020 (most recent year I could find) & MPH manages 6k units, Aeon only manages 4200

One thing I think is lost on folks who are not in the fight is how people like Ian raise thousands of dollars, covering rent for dozens of families, and STILL feel like it isn’t enough. I see it in everyone who is lending any amount of help. We are tortured by the thought that we can’t do it all.

I went and testified that although my primary motivation in supporting this extension is that it is morally correct, data shows it’s also fiscally responsible Bc homelessness costs the community far more. I’ve worked in supportive housing & I truly don’t understand how housing orgs are against this

Very cruel to people living w HIV and a danger to all of us (which nyt fails to explain) bc ppl w HIV who are able to maintain regular medication can become undetectable for HIV, which makes them unable to transmit the virus to others. The outcome here will be a huge increase in HIV infections.

We just received a large and urgent need for an ICE-impacted family who owes $3500 for February and March rent plus late utilities. Care to chip in? V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel (also zelle and PayPal via DM) Let's go.

Dear universe, all I want right now is a tiny storefront (like 200 sq ft) that costs $500 or less to house my embroidery business. Is this dream impossible??

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

Now that I've finished this project I'm obsessing over what plastic canvas creations to tackle next. There's so many amazing PDF's of old patterns on Etsy! Like this whole town on fire, hahaha

I rode my bike just a little bit today and it was fun (glad the streets are pretty clear and dry now) but the cold air whipping around really knocked me tf out, wah.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I can’t get over how incredibly stupid turning this into a culture war issue is. The old flag is just bad! It’s very racist AND it’s a shitty, bad design! Get over it you doofuses!

it's 1982. i'm baby. a dubious war in the middle east is underway. it's 1990, i'm 8. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east. it's 2003. i'm 21. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east. it's 2026. i'm 44. we are starting a dubious war in the middle east...

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense

Reposting for the daytime crowd. Thoughts!?!?!

Ok just saw this ad on a tv while at a bar and uhhhhh I need to know what we think of it, queers of bsky youtu.be/nlNfUamQfs0?...

Y'all gotta stop talking about the Warner Bros/Skydance merger as a done deal. It's not and to believe it to be is just fucking doomerism IMO. There's a long road ahead and we have the opportunity to stop it if we fight! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Attention Mpls dads and people who like dad jackets, I think I found your dream patrol jacket. Seems to be out of production but lots of secondhand ones are on the market. www.ebay.com/itm/33588688...

Remember - it's not if AI can replace you, it's if your boss thinks AI can replace you.

Y'all gotta stop talking about the Warner Bros/Skydance merger as a done deal. It's not and to believe it to be is just fucking doomerism IMO. There's a long road ahead and we have the opportunity to stop it if we fight! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Can someone send me a gift link for this article? My usual disable javascript trick doesn't really work bc it removes the charts and that's what I want to look at! www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...

Behold, my tackiest creation ever. I made a tiny sofa tissue box cover out of needlepoint plastic canvas and it only took eight months! Made from a vintage kit thrifted in Baraboo, WI last summer.