Limit your pet’s exposure to the outdoors this week. As wildfire smoke from Canada arrives across the northern United States, here are five tips to keep your pets safe from air pollution:

There are multiple levels of security and checks in place to help ensure that our elections are safe, secure, and accurate, @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells @c-span.bsky.social in response to President Trump’s address last night. www.c-span.org/program/wash...

“Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime. The fossil fuel industry are arsonists at a global scale. It’s their pollution that’s fueling these horrific wildfires”

(1/3) The Anishinabek Nation stands in solidarity with Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, which has experienced devastation from the recent wildfires. We are accepting donations on their behalf to help them navigate this crisis. If you can, please donate via e-transfer to: [email protected]

One judge has stuck his neck out not only to draw attention to the crisis but to remind Americans that they are not helpless. slate.trib.al/5rLLvFg

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

No drones in Minneapolis!

Due to air quality, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has cancelled all outdoor programs, activities and events for today. All non air-conditioned recreation centers are also closed. If you do go outside, use precaution and limit your time.

Update: Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed this legislation into law. Read our work below with @boltsmag.org to see how Illinois is raising the compensation for wrongfully convicted people, who often leave prison with few means to rebuild their lives.

We have about $10k left to raise. linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

We’re facing an emergency blood shortage — our national blood supply fell nearly 25% over the past month. Donors are urgently needed to help patients counting on lifesaving blood after accidents, during surgeries, and for medical treatment. Make an appointment to donate: https://rdcrss.org/44ZblXU

‼️Stand up for science. Make your voice heard. There is time. Monday, July 13th is the deadline. Say no to Russell Vought and his attack on science.

Bless u @wedge.live Please keep coming up with weird gathering ideas forever

Please donate. Any amount helps.

‼️Take action Minneapolis!

“How can inevitability — a construct of the wicked — be ripped apart?” from Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

Every member of the 2SLGBTQ+ community is valuable. I'm honored to have earned the support of the Christopher Street Project and so many 2SLGBTQ+ leaders and organizations in MN and across the country. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Well, that's good to know… #BookSky

✊ SUPPORT TRANSIT WORKERS! Metro Transit workers rep’d by ATU Local 1005 have been pushing for a fair contract. 👉 In their last mediation session, the Metropolitan Council's proposal included a huge increase to healthcare costs AND the installation of AI cameras to monitor bus drivers. #mpls #unions

Be on the look out park police working with ICE we keep us safe!!!!

NEW: You should know about this lawsuit in Maine. Basically, it's testing whether states can pass laws that'll allow you to sue ICE agents (even in federal court!). Learn more, it's fascinating and complex — but at bottom, it's all about whether there are basic mechanics of accountability.

Screenshots from Facebook about the program. I copied the text as best as I could on mobile, in alt.

What you need to know about Minnesota’s primary election, and how to vote early. Read the full story here:

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

Late 19th-century farm abandonment in the Northeast US led to the greatest forest recovery in the history of the world, as trees returned naturally. The result is that the region is 3 or 4 degrees cooler than it would otherwise be, mitigating climate breakdown. insideclimatenews.org/news/0407202...

Minnesota cannot become the next link in the private detention pipeline. CoreCivic is working to convert the former Appleton prison into an ICE detention center. CURE has made it easy to contact your legislators and urge them to oppose the project. curemn.org/blog/say-no-...

Robin DG Kelley on the Declaration

Boosting for a single NB mom - ask remains around $470/$1700

The high five. 😆 Never stop, Minneapolis.

America at 250…

This is cool (the first one especially)

Mpls & beyond!

Because…. Yall should be able to repeat it with me now…. There is NO reforming this

This week, a new heat dome is bringing record-shattering heat to two thirds of the U.S. population, affecting areas that normally do not see such high temperatures. AI data centers, which require significant amounts of water, energy, and cooling, are further straining power grids.

Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong called the charges “farcical” and part of “a familiar pattern where the federal government is hell-bent on punishing protesters and those who speak out against the authoritarianism and fascism of the Trump administration.”

i’m in downtown minneapolis for a rally and press conference in support of the 15 minnesotans indicted by the federal government recently for their anti ICE work

📣 Minneapolis call to action ✍️📋There's a broad Minneapolis & a North Minneapolis petition threaded below. 🗣Note the call for speakers — at Mpls City Hall — Wed., July 8, '26 — at 1:30pm (Wise to arrive early to sign up to speak)

BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds the long-standing American tradition of birthright citizenship. Today’s ruling is the right one amid an avalanche of Supreme Court opinions undermining our democracy.

The survivors made a four-day pilgrimage on foot from the site of a Japanese internment camp to the Dilley ICE jail.

HAPPY PRIDE MINNEAPOLIS! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This is a great move!

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Hello Minnesota!

Starting off my election-season blogging with an endorsement for Peggy Flanagan for US Senate: naomikritzer.com/2026/06/27/p...

write things down cook food post flyers learn to use a copier learn to use a film camera learn to lay out a bulletin make zines and share them collect seeds and share them teach people what you know another world is possible! make it together, by hand

I was so honored to see this. Robin's work means so much to so many of us.

mary moriarty is the wedge live cat tour’s grand marshal for 2026! “thank you for prosecuting ICE,” says john edwards as susan lynx hands over the sash and a hat

chet wedgely with the wedge live cat tour 2025’s grand marshal susan lynx, who still holds the title until she hands the sash over to the new grand marshal for 2026. “i believe in a peaceful transfer of power,” she says @wedge.live @lynxwyze.bsky.social