“The US stands with all of the children throughout the world,” says first lady of country that just bombed a girls' school. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Still true.

Happy last day of the month! Stand with Minnesota has a lot of rent needs and not enough donors. Can you help adopt a rent? Extra points if you have Zelle, because we have a lot of Zelle needs and are at our limits. If you can help: www.standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

Info about the Kansas lawsuit that ACLU and a law firm filed yesterday “on behalf of anonymous Plaintiffs Daniel Doe and Matthew Moe”: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

I love you. You're perfect. Don't ever change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7kB...

This still makes me laugh.

It’s day 88 of the ICE occupation of MSP. The world we are building together is beautiful. Thousands of our neighbors in hiding are having their rent paid by strangers. And many of our rent funds are powered mostly by small donations. Let’s keep our neighbors safe and housed.

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

I don't know why my shirts won't learn to iron themselves. Sheer laziness on their part I guess.

Our habit is to record tons of Olympics, fall behind, and then watch events days after the rest of the world has already seen them. So we just saw Alyssa Liu's free skate and HOLY COW was it great. Unless you actively hate skating, you need to watch. It will make you smile.

Just want to remind folks that this is the "mastermind" of the (at least) $250m Minnesota fraud that is being used to scapegoat all Somali people, and basically all immigrants in the state. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Headlines declare it over and donations are down, but people are in crisis. The people I know, *my neighbors*, everyday people, are working around the clock to make their community stays housed and fed, utility bills paid, bus stops checked, lawyers found, kids’ birthday cakes delivered.

A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. https://to.wttw.com/4rZGMLg

#winemaking update: racked into a smaller glass fermenter, to get it off the settled yeast and reduce the headspace.

Fascinating and useful article about some aspects of how response to ICE have been working in Minneapolis/Twin Cities. “The Twin Cities Model: Don’t Copy It, Learn from It” 1/

2026 basically

This is an important piece and you should read it. Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.” They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding. theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It's a perfectly cromulent word!

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Well that was quick. Primary fermentation done in 6 days. #winemaking

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Finally got last fall's feijoas out of the freezer and into the fermenter! #winemaking

The problem with them choosing this as their primary talking point is that nearly every in Minnesota personally knows someone who has been taken by ICE. And they all had either a spotless criminal record or an entirely non-violent one. These are lies. They are going to lose. MN will not quit.

Need to see more Senators saying this. @schiff.senate.gov

Ok so the current story is Trump isn't a racist, he just lacks the attention span to watch a 1 minute video in full before telling an aide to post it for him. Good to know.

My favorite is also the gold snake.

Gotta say, Gus Kenworthy has very neat, umm, handwriting.

There is no way to really separate these two parts of the Minnesota occupation (the ethnic cleansing and the ideological terror). Both of these two things are central to how ICE operates, so we’re going to see Homan saying how ICE is normalizing to make everyone forget about the ideological terror.

"Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things." - Granny Weatherwax (Terry Pratchett) #discworld

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Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

RIP Sly Dunbar, one of the greatest drummers of any genre. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Donald Trump finally said something I can agree with: "Fuck you, Ted". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Imagining a party platter of protesters as a sales rep ticks off the various options and upgrades. "OK, but how well written? For the price you're charging me, I'd better get some signs written by Samuel goddamned Clemens himself. OK. OK. OK, wow, that's pretty snappy, but I'm still not sure."

Two days after the Trump regime released a doctored photo of a Minnesota protester to make it look like she was crying when she wasn't, they want us to believe their explanation for shooting a man to death on a Minneapolis street.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

#memebrainz (as always, image courtesy of MB Discord community members) -a

Nobody knows how to not know things better than Mike Johnson.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.