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I had a math teacher who called students (in advance classes mind you) window lickers and dunderheads if you didn’t understand something or got the question wrong. So that was fun.

This is not an exaggeration.

It’s starting to feel like horrors are either being normalized or swept away by equally egregious news cycle items. The surge in MN has not gone away. People are still being taken and harassed. A lot of activity has moved from the big cities to the suburbs.

This thread is super interesting.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

super bowl ads were more fun when they weren't a parade of modern horrors imo

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

Right now, finishing anything chores, a workout, a book, a show, etc. feels like a huge accomplishment. It feels like Covid again where people are being forced to act like nothing is wrong and there isn’t mass trauma taking place.

This book was awesome, and dare I say enlightening ;)

I loved this book, and I would love to talk to someone else who has read it about the surprise ending, so please read it!

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

It’s really just the strangest timeline where I tell my husband that an elected representative was attacked at her town hall, go through the story of what happened, and then proceed to ask him what we need from the grocery store.

Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.

Missed making a book rec yesterday but definitely have one for today. The Holocaust by Bullets is one of the books that really opened my eyes about the true horrors of what happened during WWII. It is very well written and accessible for all readers.

you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices. ... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

I never stopped listening to Flobots and I’m glad. It would be awesome if they could come to MN with their new music.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Today’s book recommendation. Also written by a former professor. I’m trying to post relevant books that are not on 700 other book recommendation lists.

I want to know how I’ve been to easily over a dozen bookstores since I moved here and haven’t been to this one. Guess I know what’s on my to do list.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Tell people. I’ll get them the book one way or another. I’ll donate. I’ll send.

Our Senators seem pretty great at sending off a quick social media quote and soliciting donations. Not so great at doing anything of actual consequence. They have no plan. They’re doing what corporations are doing and hope this all blows over and they’re not impacted.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

There are so many people who have written so many things that are so relevant to this moment. They say them much better than me. I think I’m going to start sharing a book a day. My first, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and The Intermediaries. My heart is so heavy in MN tonight. But there’s hope.

I hope everyone understands the strength it took for people to be out in -20F weather today. And how many showed up. This community has come together in so many ways.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Never post anything on social media that you wouldn’t be happy hearing read out loud by a lawyer in court, but also, post stuff on social media that you would be quite happy to hear being read out loud in court

I can’t be the only one who has Jonathan Groff singing as the king, “I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love,” stuck on repeat in their head am I?

I don’t know how to describe what it’s like here to give the full scope of what’s going on. People are staying home, stores are closed, roads are quieter. There’s suspicion of everything around you. There’s also hope, joy, laughter, and community.

Birchbark Books is one of my favorite bookstores in the cities.

I am seeing this everywhere. No matter the weather people who can are showing up in droves to volunteer for various food and supply events. So proud of everyone who is helping their neighbors.

The number of people who chose not to vote or threw away a vote is sickening. As much as I’d love more than two parties here, it was not feasible other candidates would win. A throw away vote was just as crucial as those that didn’t vote. And now here we are.

We haven’t yet listed everything but we are doing something similar. Going through what we have before buying more and making meals with what we have rather than meals we’d have to buy half a dozen new things for.

this is an excellent example actually because just like Greenland, Hawaii should also rule itself

Minnesota is more than what you see on TV. We’re a state that believes in the dignity of all people. We feed our kids and take care of our neighbors. I’m proud of the ways Minnesotans are meeting the moment with decency and generosity - as we always do. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Go read this mini-thread. Internalize it. ALL of this is the work. And for some of us, that work is more existentially emergent than for others of us. Those without that danger should be on the front lines so that those who face it daily have room to survive and help in other ways.

This is still one of my favorite movies.

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

New study suggests that metastatic cancer cells may evade the immune system by stealing mitochondria from immune cells and setting up a ‘shield’ that protects them from being killed by immune cells. Wiley little bastards. #Science 🧪

There are lots of people sharing lots of ways to help. This is one I trust absolutely.