Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Baltimore Mayor @mayorbmscott.bsky.social: “The more united we are, the more powerful we are.” #MLK2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

“We keep resisting...bearing witness and repairing the breach...for those among us who are immigrants and refugees because they are beloved by God, and without them, we cannot fully be the church.” --Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...

Who else will do this? And more importantly, who will stand up to the petty tyrant?

Really feels like just telling military to draw up plans to invade an ally should be an impeachable offense regardless of party

"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026

I know we all love "Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?" but I would really like to see some "Do you renounce Satan and all the spiritual forces of wickedness that rebel against God?" energy in the parish newsletters too at this point

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Friends, the images you have seen of the ICE killer without his mask are not from any video I know of. He had his mask on the whole time. The images are probably AI. Don't share them.

Cogent analysis of an ill-planned invasion with comparisons to the US invasion of Iraq and Russian invasion of Ukraine....

#otd 1914, Julia Henshaw, a botanist and explorer, & one of the very few women Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, gave a lecture on the wildflowers of Vancouver Island, at the Society. A teenage girl in the audience was transfixed: the flowers were beautiful, yes, but a WOMAN Explorer! 1/3

You know folks are angry when they do a freeway protest in LA IN THIS RAIN NO ILLEGAL WARS WTF It's time to IMPEACH. @kittywestmeow.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @citizensimpeachment.com @indivisible.org

The Chicago protest against the U.S. attack on Venezuela has stepped off to march through the downtown area. Hundreds have joined the march.

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

Listen to Scott's appearance on @npr.org tonight for a helpful explainer on the legality of the US's actions in Venezuela—and whether there could ever be consequences. www.npr.org/2026/01/03/n...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

I'm glad that Congress isn't alive to see this

Chilly night in Chicago, but protesters have shown up to confront Trump’s illegal war.

The fact that a warmonger president calls himself Christian and is cheered and primarily supported by Christians is one of the oldest and most egregious failures of Christianity - a failure to take seriously the Gospel’s commitment to peace and a cozying up to power. God hates war - full stop.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Epiphany, January 6 1066, Westminster: Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England, one day after Edward the Confessor’s death. In the Bayeux Tapestry, noblemen applaud, then suddenly turn away, horrified, cowering, pointing: a golden comet’s blazing head and streaming tail cross the sky,

We've been working with @metoffice.gov.uk to analyse 10 years of #NewYearPlantHunt data. The analysis provides the clearest evidence yet of how rising temperatures are impacting the British & Irish flora, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watching Zohran Mamdani's inauguration from Alabama and sharing in NYC's optimism. Hoping it spreads throughout the United States of America. In our 250th year, this seems like perfect timing. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Goodnight. 🖼️ Ota Janeček

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

What happens in the panhandle rarely stays in the panhandle.

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Happy New Year! Finally submitted my essay on the botanical explorations of Samuel Boykin (1786-1848) in the Chattahoochee Valley, based on his letters with John Torrey in the New York Botanical Garden archives and his specimens in the NYBG herbarium. It's a 2-parter, 1st part out in sprg/sum 2026.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. n.pr/49cmd6E

Here's a source with (more) factual information -- def this needs some explanation but it doesn't sound as nefarious as the original poster makes it out to be. www.snopes.com/news/2025/12...

Pretty sure this was the best thing I made all year. Well this and the MILFs for mother earth zine.

Internet Archive difficult to pull up (error 502) and it abruptly signed me out which never happens. Sigh.

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

Sunday sermon. And a very good read. "Once the church of presidents, the Episcopal Church must now be an engine of resistance to the rising tide of authoritarianism and Christian nationalism." religionnews.com/2025/07/03/o...

Posted a review of the audiobook of Kerry Madden-Lunsford's new middle-grade novel Werewolf Hamlet, narrated by Michael Butler Murray, on LibraryThing... www.librarything.com/work/3366573...

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

One of the symbols of Christmas is the Christmas Star.The star announces the birth of Christ to the world.It’s a symbol of Light appearing in the darkest times & showing the way -a light of Hope,Faith,Love For us,Ukrainians,Christmas means home,family together,a shared dinner after a difficult year

We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:

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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

Rachel Dobson, you have no events scheduled today Thu Dec 25, 2025. 😻🎸🥖🫧🍃🎶

May the Spirit of Kindness spread.🩷🥧 Happy [your preferred winter celebration] Holiday! 🌲🎶🫧🍃