"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.

If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies

Lauryn Hill performs “Ex-Factor” during the Lauryn Hill tribute at the #BETAwards:

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but people who are cis don’t spend a lot of time wondering if they’re trans

These are my favorite messages. Please add me to more AI haters mod lists.

As someone who struggles with the sensory nightmare of restaurants but loves food. All of this. I want detailed websites. I want detailed menus. Turn down the music and the lights. Truly, thats the bare minimum.

A wonderful letter to the editor in today's Strib: www.startribune.com/readers-writ...

🧵 Great question! The closest parallel I can think of is when SNAP got cut during the shutdown. Here’s what we did then:

When fascism comes for the bunnies 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝐃𝗼𝘄𝗻 Written by: Richard Adams Photography by: Helen Alexander

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.

Me at 22: Ugh, when I'm middle-aged I won't be all "Blah! Modern music is just noise!" like my parents are. I'll remain hip and cool and I'll always love discovering new music. Me at 47: If you're an artist who uses autotune I'm going to hunt you for sport

Please consider purchasing this poetry collection as proceeds goes towards the Immigrant Law Center of MN And I wrote a poem in the collection.

Please consider purchasing this poetry collection as proceeds goes towards the Immigrant Law Center of MN And I wrote a poem in the collection.

That sounds like the perfect burger of the day.

No op-eds in major newspapers that he has major cognitive health issues. No cable news panels exploring whether he has major cognitive health issues. No political reporters in legacy media talking about his cognitive health. They're all too scared to question the naked emperor.

I wish i could have an explanation for individual people who block me like i do with lists lol

Outside Delaney Hall today.

I love how they're just little dudes walking to their destinations

It's really too bad that Minnesota's flagship newspaper, headquartered one block south of Mpls City Hall, doesn't have someone on the city beat whose whole deal was supposed to be that she's a dogged, effective, and connected reporter on MPD. Feels like such a person could've had something on this!

I don't want to be super rich. I just want enough money that I can eat at a restaurant where the food looks like the pictures on the menu

Petition to turn over all “state owned” land to those who lived here first ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For the record: if music sounds good to your ears then it's good music. Stop letting people tell you otherwise.

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

The thing about you being on Bluesky is that if you personally posted better every single problem in the world from war to poverty would be solved

angie craig just voted NO on an amendment to the farm bill allowing hot rotisserie chicken to be bought by people using SNAP angie craig doesn't want poor people to have access to hot, quality, already prepared and ready to eat foods, and she is running for US senate as a DFLer

I'm yelling. I love the Disrespect Contraption

People cast border abolition or ICE abolition or prison abolition as unhinged ideas of leftist professors, but right now reality is taxpayer money funding corporations that turn a profit on incarcerating kids & keep margins down offering no healthcare, education, or good food. But I'm the crazy one.

What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.

Republicans are making sure the TSA isn’t funded because Trump wants to use ICE at airports to threaten Democrats into passing the SAVE (his ass) Act because he knows he’s going to lose the election because he raped a bunch of children and then covered it up and everybody found out about it.

Why would they put themselves as well? This isn’t just a US problem. It’s a global issue, they would be outing their own.

There’s this deep feeling with the Epstein situation and in this world that all these elites are connected in ways we’re not supposed to see.

Let the Trump-Epstein cabinet know that Trump’s pardons don’t extend to the international criminal court.

In Minnesota, we’ve seen the federal government at its worst -- and showed the world how to fight back. Now, I'm honored that the flagship No Kings protest will be held here in the Twin Cities. Together, we'll show Donald Trump that we don't do kings.

Right now there are children being held in ICE concentration camps in the United States. This is a crime against humanity. They must be freed.

To all of these men in particular who cannot understand why sexual assault that occurred decades ago still matters. I was sexually assaulted twenty six years ago. I am closer to fifty than forty. I still will not get on elevator with men if I am by myself. That's why it matters.

Council Member Jason Chavez's Statement on  Mayor Frey’s Veto of Pause Evictions, Save Lives Dear neighbor, I am disappointed that Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed the Pause Evictions, Save Lives Ordinance. 1/

Blueskeeee The audacity to say posted instead of skeeted.

A new Wall Street Journal investigation finds DHS is increasingly turning its wrath on U.S. citizens, punishing them for simply filming or observing officers. Belle Cushing is one of the reporters behind the investigation. She spoke with MPR News guest host Emily Reese about it.

elected officials in the minnesota state senate and house representing minneapolis have sent a letter to mayor jacob frey urging him not to veto the pause evictions, save lives bill which would extend the notice period from 30 days to 60 to address the financial impact of the ICE occupation

Finally reading These Violent Delights Our Violent Ends By Chloe Gong Every Shakespeare class should include these R&J retellings in the course. Read the original-hate it because you don’t fully understand it—then read these two books to finally get it.

I keep thinking about how my entire childhood was made for pedo eyes and it bleeds into my few positive memories of it. Nothing about my childhood was ok, on a personal and global scale. And every day that the United States of Israel exists only makes me angrier.

Exile him to the sun, on one of Musk’s rockets with the other billionaires.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region