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tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Mist forward and Unrivaled Co-founder Breanna Stewart held up a sign with two words during intros today: “Abolish Ice.” Photo courtesy of @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social .

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Holy shit

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

The way I want a grand piano to drop on any pundit who uses a variation of the “average voter” euphemism to push an idea they actually want but are afraid of being mildly inconvenienced in this stupid fucking echo chamber they’ve crafted for themselves.

Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

“If only people had voted for Kamala” is not the lesson here. What this moment shows is the desperate need to insist on different politics. Not a lesser evil but people who will abolish ICE, who won’t fund genocide, who believe in sanctity of human life. Anything short of that assures more death.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

No, we don't have the resources right now for a general strike. We don't have the rent and food funds or the bail funds or the child and healthcare funds. But the response to that isn't "welp, we're fucked, so much for a general strike." It's to start organizing those things in your community.

since it's the chatter this morning, @kimkelly.bsky.social from 2020

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"

Protests mounting against ICE in various parts of D.C. tonight. In the middle of the U Street corridor, occupying the intersection with 14th Street: “Remember Renee Good,” one of the many signs here reads.

Also, I’m going to start saying abolish ICE, defund police going forward. Trying in any way shape or form to say the entity that targets lots of non-black people needs to be abolished but defunding the entity that targets lots of black people is ridiculous- that’s white supremacy.

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

This is probably a much better place than Twitter was during Black Lives Matter. But just in case, do NOT post people being murdered on the timeline.

Nausicaa is absolutely my favorite.

RICO charges dropped against ‘Stop Cop City’ defendants. “A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a years-long conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility..." apnews.com/article/atla...

When people say that fascists have no original ideas, they aren't trying to be clever.

Going into 2026 like…

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

I have absolutely zero confidence you could find a half dozen NBA beat reporters at the moment who could competently write ab any game they’d just watched.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

'Everyone’s cozy, eating, laughing, opening gifts… my kids are freezing in a tent in Gaza. No food, no meds, no heat. War stole everything. This isn’t news. It’s life. If your heart even flickers, help. Share. Don’t scroll past. 💔'

'At Christmas,when candles are lit and the meaning of compassion is born my My child and I stand with weary hearts, carrying a small hope that a human hand will reach out to us A blessed and merciful Christma and thank you to every heart that chose to be a reason for saving hope'

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving as winter storms flood the camps, & Ahmad is unwell & needs treatment & warmth. Bluesky keeps deleting him, & support has collapsed:

12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights

If you squint AJ Dybantsa & Cam Boozer resemble Andrew Wiggins & Jabari Parker…EXCEPT they’re significantly better at everything.

Weiss has no real morals or ethics, she is specifically incompetent when it comes to writing, editing, & managing the reporting that *good* journalism requires BUT she is in no way ignorant of the actual process of journalism.

You know what…I’m not going to respond to an IG commenter ab why they’re wrong ab Bill Russell & the concept of defense in basketball😑

You stand up for trans people’s rights bc allowing people to have autonomy & self determination is just the right fucking thing.

It’s not really the excessive wealth as much as it is the internal compromises one has to make for the mindset to acquire that kind of wealth to take root. Like just thinking if the steps someone would have to take to make that kind of exploitation & hoarding okay even on a personal level

One of the in-universe details that I’m kind of fascinated w/ is Benoit Blanc being very well known but not instantly recognized.

Because I’m bored: Professional Athletes as Public Transit Vehicles

Getting people to move to engage a thing usually means they’re interacting w/ others to do it & that will always create a larger reaction than something that happens in relative isolation.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.