happy pride, any excuse to post my favorite poem

people are so invested in the police they pretend all the bad things are outliers, that most police depts are fine and good. it just happens sometimes, but we need the police so much we have to look the other way. it's an abusive relationship where people convince themselves it can't be that bad

In response to the New Jersey Attorney General’s statement tonight about the protests outside of Delaney Hall, we asked for comment about police using rubber bullets on photojournalists, rounding them up, and forcing them to leave. No response so far.

Really need folks to understand that when Trump does his next coup and we take to the streets, it'll be Democratic governors calling out the National Guard and Democratic mayors calling out the cops to violently suppress us. They'll be calling for law and order and "violence is never the answer".

Today for @prospect.org, I highlighted the labor strike aspect of the Delaney Hall strike. GEO Group is able to keep their overhead low and their profits high because they force prisoners to do a lot of jobs for $1 a day -- or for free.

I hate the State Fair. no, i hate going to the fair - you all can go and waste a ton of money on it. but for me, it feels like the worst sort of high school with crowds full of mean angry people who hate the twin cities and all the diversity and weirdness we carry.

minneapolis police chief brian o’hara is a huge fucking liar and is actively aiding illegal ICE operations in minneapolis

I'm getting a heat pump installed today! plus, a heat pump water heater, which i didn't know existed before a few months ago. very excited!

i think it is extremely important to remember both that MPD murdered george floyd and that they tried to cover his murder up. that today, 6 years ago, there was an attempted cover-up of what the world knows to be a horrific murder. that is independently a crime. they killed him and then they lied.

And they protect and facilitate pedophile priests.

How can one describe the flavor of this shape?

I have been very explicit over the years that the US has engaged in an ongoing exterminationist agenda against trans people. The way the fascists talk about their goals its clear that they are genocidal to our community That said we have to navigate some nuance 🧵

I think today is the last nice day before summer hits us :(

Death of The Author was the best book I read last year, by @nnedi.bsky.social and I think about it all the time.

"It's all exciting and opulent for the few -- while the rest of the population faces starvation, uncertainty and fear." www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Dingoes Ate My Baby

We’ve come a long way, baby

Is this a nice bush or a weed? It seems nice

Red beet eggs came out nicely

There have been very few airborne bombings by US aircraft on US soil. The first was the 1921 Tulsa Massacre of Black owned businesses. The most recent was the MOVE bombings in 1985, of Black occupied apartments in Philly.

Street cleaning day really is amazing

Davis Moturi addressing the Minneapolis City Council today about being terrorized by a neighbor for a year - violence, racial slurs, human feces forced thru his mail slot - before being shot in his front yard in 2024. To have it "just discarded, and nobody care, it's just disgusting."

a piano song came up on my weekly playlist, and I kept hearing what I think are called blue notes, or maybe it was just syncopation, but i thought, this has to be a black person playing the piano. sure enough, it was Jon Batiste. incredible

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

Euro Trash Squirrel www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBXo...

From the Strib to the New York Times to Fox News, media orgs couldn't believe moms, of all people, were leading the resistance to Operation Metro Surge. They should not have been so surprised.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

The California Supreme Court just issued the most important court decision on it in U.S. history: 100,000s of people every year charged in low-level/non-violent cases will now be released. The evidence shows this will make society significantly safer. Read the opinion: bsky.app/profile/equa...

Thank you @mauratwit.bsky.social and also, thank you Southside. As Mara pointed out, I uploaded all my images from May Day yesterday to the “Community Events” section of my website. They are all available for folks to use how they would like for non-commercial purposes.

Somebody wants to be outside

Mayday slaps as usual

Anyway you can't go wrong in your activism by picking a cause where Black people in your community are needing support and just rolling up your sleeves. You'll be pretty much guaranteed to be doing antifascism at all times, because that's the area where the edge of the sword is striking first

Highly recommend - I just finished it today in a rush to get it back to the library, and whew, my head is swimming with it!

Never forget that (according to reporting in the StarTribune) this is who Mayor Jacob Frey took a meeting for when MDE stopped payments because they suspected fraud. As a result of that meeting, MDE restarted payments, and multiple (future) defendants donated the max to Frey’s campaign

Today's cartoon by Drew Sheneman. "Sam Alito is an angry man. I don’t think he can feel or express joy anymore, but I imagine he still managed a strained rictus grin as he wrote the majority opinion gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act..."

last paragraph: On April 28, he listened as Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State speech, lauding Minnesotans’ mutual aid efforts that kept many immigrant families from falling behind on rent during the height of Operation Metro Surge. “But his office didn’t do anything,” Hauge said.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Since the ICE surge, Frey has: •Vetoed an eviction moratorium •Tried to get a cop city in Minneapolis •Vetoed a decriminalization of drug paraphernalia (which would have merely brought Minneapolis in line with state law) •Attended the WHCD, to honor the fascist who terrorized his own city

Oops?

vampire penguins

running in the rain is still kinda nice

i know they probably have dry seasons, but it's hard to imagine wildfires in such a high humidity area: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I will always find it confusing that some people think a person riding a $2000 bike to commute is a privileged elitist but the guy in the $80k truck that costs $150 to fill is the working class average joe.

Bell and Gala

I've been mad about this since I started seeing it, on 9/11. our bloody history to subjugate, enslave, and kill nonwhite people started with the revolution - the British empire was ending the slave trade. the scam started there because wealth requires a lower class of people.

White folks you were lied to about America. Be mad about that. You were shoveled some horseshit about how it's the land of justice & freedom. That was never the reality for a while bunch of marginalized folks including Black folks & natives. Your believing it was ok depended on it being hell for us.

THE ORBÁN PIN HAS FALLEN

I got some great tamales and this awesome shirt

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

New comic: Name that bellicose babbler! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...