This is the story Gov. Walz talked about in his State of the State address tonight. 💙🤍🩵

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

I’m in Burnsville, MN now, corner of County 11 and 122nd. HSI and FB are here, checking out a daycare center. It’s profoundly upsetting to see a school bus getting kids across the street from Burnsville PD, who are here doing traffic work for the feds.

crying in the club* * at my desk in the attic while I frantically write a second habeas petition for a client I got released once already two months ago who was detained by ICE this morning

After everything we went through this winter the BCA is still comfortable standing outside a daycare during business hours with guns. Like nothing happened.

Federal agents outside the Metro Learning Center daycare in south Minneapolis. It's pretty quiet but they referred me to the FBI for questions. They've been here for an hour, observers say.

Oh wow, I didn't know about the poem. Pretty clear!

They're creeping all over South Minneapolis too. Keep those whistles handy, neighbors.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Let your people know, the feds are profiling Somali folks heavy today in the Twin Cities. They out here roaming around KFAI studios in Cedar Riverside. Heading to do my live broadcast.

Wife: The way you know AI is a scam is that the same party and people who have been waging war on public school funding for 50 years are now pushing to spend tax money to get AI into public schools and saying they're doing it to "level the playing field" or so "kids don't get left behind"

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Bumping this again and I just want to talk a little about the ongoing need and food insecurity in the Twin Cities.

Hey I don't want to say too much but y'all all know and miss Dani - they have had a family emergency come up and need some funds unexpectedly. Please help if you can - $danirockasota V: danijamie14 #mutualaid 💕💸

The City of Minneapolis, evicting 48 of the poorest families in its care, for a total of $30,144.

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

If the police were competent, Melissa and her husband could have potentially survived.

Police used a drone and saw Melissa Hortman wounded inside the home at 4:09am. It wasn't until 4:40am that police went inside to get her.

remember how, in the hours and days after the assassinations became public, we were all being told to thank the cops for their fortitude and bravery

A senior law enforcement official said the situation fit the description of an active shooter. That meant officers should have gone into the Hortman home to confront Vance Boelter and not waited to deploy drones.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.

It's Severe Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Another drill at 6:45 www.weather.gov/mpx/swaw

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Commentary from former cops: Operation Metro Surge showed that overwhelming force erodes public safety in far-reaching ways. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/15/o...

Meenu Batra has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002. She’s a court interpreter, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. But, on March 17, Batra was detained by ICE agents at the Harlingen Airport: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Hi all. Tonight I'm barnraising to pool funds with the folks at South Minneapolis Mutual Aid to work together to support a very large back rent need for a family facing eviction. The total need is $7600; I'm hoping we can pool $2000+ to contribute to this need. Can you chip in or share? 🌻

New paper in PNAS just out: Measles cases in the US in 2025 imposed a societal financial cost of $244.2 million. A scenario where vaccination rates in young kids falls by 1% per year for 5 years would cost us all $7.77 billion over those years, while hospitalizing 4k+ people and killing dozens.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

ICE agent tells the New York Times they were nervous showing up in Minneapolis and how they travelled with “girly suitcases” to not be detected. A Senior ICE official details how officers would block in and kidnap United State Citizens. Gift link in next post.

every morning people in this country wake up and get paid to actively harm children

More people should be talking about how fucking destructive Jacob Frey is. He’s not only a do-nothing smug-ass mayor, he’s also willfully destroying any mechanisms where people other than his funders and patrons get a say in how the city works, makes decisions, or prioritizes values and budgets.

Severe storms seemingly everywhere south of the Twin Cities metro area - with few that are tornado warned but all are supercells capable of producing a tornado. Look at this impressive line. The closest to the Twin Cities metro right now is just southeast of Lakeville and Farmington.

Updated mesoscale models favor strongest storms developing mainly south of MSP late PM. One trend to watch, a few models suggest an isolated tornadic supercell along I-90 in SW Minnesota late afternoon. Favorable tornadic environment possible near triple point. (Image: HRRR model 7 p.m.) #mnwx

⛈️‼️ Enhanced severe weather risk for the Twin Cities and surrounding areas this afternoon/evening! Large hail (possibly baseball), damaging winds and tornadoes are possible. Storms should fire between 3-6 pm. Stay tuned to MPR News for the latest, and download the app www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The Storm Prediction Center issues Day 1 Enhanced Convective Risk at Apr 13, 5:34z for portions of MPX at Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:36:18 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

Watching Brazil, South Korea and Hungary get rid of their authoritarians

It's wild that the guy who beat Orbán is named Magyar. Literally Mr Hungary

Attn: @democrats.org

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

You know Lina, we heard those tales of the spear Danes doncha know, and their kings, well, they were different, and Sven he told me they performed pretty good you betcha.

‘Ope

Yes. Reminds me of "every border implies the violence of it's maintenence" - ayesha siddiqi

Dammit... Can we help Rachel get some compression garments? She does a lot of work helping others and I have some personal feelings about this particular need. It might sound unnecessary (sleeves have become a fashion accessory in sports) but I assure you it can be life-changing/-saving

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

Reminder that as a judge, Todd Barnette appointed many of the Charter Commissioners who are now trying to remove the Minneapolis City Council’s power to approve several department heads, an approval Barnette just failed to get as a department head.

I believe I have solved a small but vexing home improvement puzzle! At least the part I care about immediately. The wiring in old houses is really an adventure

A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…