Please watch the whole video from our Saint Paul Olympian. It’s one of the most direct and eloquent statements about the situation that I’ve heard from anyone. Proud to be a Minnesotan, proud to be represented by Rich Ruohonen.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

For many in the Trump regime it seems incomprehensible or a scam of sorts that those not categorically under attack by ICE are so committed to solidarity with their neighbors who are, and thereby to universal human rights, to standing up on principle, and will risk their lives to do so.....

Let this radicalize you.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"Knight noticed that more people turned to their community for help in reimagining their lives, and in the process created what Knight calls micro-utopias. Cycling clubs sprang up everywhere, and people made more effort to spend time together" www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

This is a stunning piece: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l... "Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt." Looking forward to talking with my students about it.

Couldn't sum up the mood in Minneapolis right now any better than that.

70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

Door-to-door raids also began in Minneapolis today, in about as brazen a repudiation of the fourth amendment as one could make. An amendment which exists because of the British doing exactly this in the colonial/revolutionary period. www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/...

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

1. Call and/or e-mail your Senator and your House reps. Demand Noem be impeached and removed; demand that ICE be defunded. (They're only funded through the end of January!)

Okay, I have next to no followers on this platform, but now seems like a good time to make a list of Anti-ICE resources, solidarity, mutual aid, etc., please share or start your own threads!

My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.

For the #weekwithoutdriving I wanted to share a pic of our car: this summer we started putting little green leaf stickers on the car to celebrate every time with didn't drive it, when we biked or walked or took the bus instead. We're hoping to cover the whole car. :)

#Trumpflation is going to hit us all hard as we will all have to pay for rising electric power costs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8O... So, I wasn't sure what to expect with this video: did not expect to learn the phenomenal origin of the phrase term "redneck" (spoiler: it's a symbol of worker solidarity!). It literally made me cry.

Just a friendly reminder that Covid is no fun at all, and if you're feeling ill, please get tested. I'm sincerely hoping that we can all get new boosters soon to protect each other. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Over half of this year's global health funding has been approved but not spent. Contact your reps here to urge them to keep our Global Health Funding from Expiring: nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

You guys. Have you seen that many countries are no longer delivering mail to the US? www.msn.com/en-us/money/... Including NL. 😭

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

Sending love to all the academics working on their courses the night before the semester begins.

According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.

I keep thinking about all the people necessary to make the whole system work under Hitler. How many train conductors, how many cafeteria workers, how many guards, how many officers, all of them just complying. I want to get in the way of my city complying now- please sign: chng.it/TdRCD7yTyb

Everyone should read this.

Just saw this wildly disturbing advertisement for GalaxyAI, and I'm curious what highlights in your own timeline has enlarged your social circle? Making music/theater have been big ones for me, as well as education (mine and my kid's) and church. Recently also makerspaces and the library.

A man and his e-bike provided an essential lifeline in the Texas floods: electrek.co/2025/07/14/h...

Love seeing this!

Once you see it, you can't unsee forced car dependency. Cars have degraded our entire economy, environment, culture, and lives. Forced car dependency makes us poorer, less healthy, and less connected to our neighbors. The first step of a cure is to recognize that we have a car problem.

Today is a good day for a protest! If you're looking for one near you may be able to find one here: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Hello, Bluesky! It's been many years since I joined a new social media app, and I'm still learning how things work here. While I'm getting situated, I'm going to post a community building questions regularly for this first bit. What do people like about Bluesky so far?