may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes.

If you are a cis person just state your pronouns, or state the pronouns you'd like to use that day. He, she, they, it, xie, per, these are all fine. "Any pronoun is fine" is also fine if it's true. "My pronouns are sparkle/sunshine," fuck all the way off. Also, do not ever add "obviously."

Reminder! In Minnesota, residents have access to thousands of full-text ebooks, magazines, journals and newspapers just by virtue of being in the state through eLibrary MN. And as of July 1 you have access to 2 new resources: "Social Explorer" and "Craft and Hobby." No login required! elibrarymn.org

Like, do you want justice or do you want revenge? Both options are things I wholly support depending on the circumstances, but it’s also super useful to figure out which one you actually want in the moment.

Today! If you can't attend in person, sign the petition! Minneapolis does not need flying cop cameras!

A first-of-its-kind analysis of ICE data found that unaccompanied minors living in the U.S. are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the last time Trump was in office. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/08/u...

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

Fundraisers generally aren’t fun. But this one is. And kids eat free. Tix -> secure.actblue.com/donate/sweet...

The Women's Professional Baseball League has announced team names and branding ahead of its inaugural season, which begins August 1. They are the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells (elaboration on meaning/inspo in this thread).

one of my favorite chinese restaurants has an online menu with commentary from the owner and its very funny to me that shes like "eh its just ok dont get your hopes up" on multiple dishes

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

calling to do corruption on behalf of somebody they don't believe should be a citizen of the United States

seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case

It just occurred to me that genAI is laying waste to the Wolf Howling at Moon with Wolf Portrait in It genre of mall t-shirt art, and that makes me so, so sad.

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

Kids deserve to be kids. ICE out of Minnesota schools. Pass gun violence legislation.

I went through and provided context to an MLB dot com article on the recent CBA proposal that seemed to leave a lot of it out. I've made that article completely free to read for anyone who wants to:

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Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

“Why is no one talking about…” They are, sweetheart, you just lack the basic research skills needed to find the conversations, which is why we make you take this class in the first place.

It's time for the @romancingthevote.com auction! I'm offering a one-of-a-kind, annotated copy of the Widdershins hardcover! Put in your bid, or check out the other great items, here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Minnesota's had inclusive policies for trans kids for almost 15 years. Today's SCOTUS ruling changes nothing. Playing sports is a foundational part of an American childhood and Minnesota remains a state where ALL kids can play with their friends, learn teamwork, and get exercise.

NEW: two USL W teams are showing that leading with inclusive and progressive values has the potential to bring fans in, rather than alienate them, disproving long-held ideas about what fans actually want from the teams they support.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

I hate that he's having such a fantastic season while the team as a whole is such a dumpster fire

For no reason whatsoever, a reminder that I'm offering a sale on paid subscriptions to my queer sports newsletter through the end of June. It's a great time to support independent journalists!

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My class tonight at 7:30 pm.

(whispering) unsportsmanlike conduct is up for preorders on all major retailers and to add on goodreads (i’m trying to get an error in the back copy corrected) www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Every time I see another article about "why it's okay to like men" or somesuch, I get even madder on behalf of my straight girl friends. They KNOW it's okay to like men - they just don't like THESE men, these insane conservative neo-nazi men who want to treat them like subhuman objects.

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Live a life that is so rooted in love that no matter how much power someone has, they are still incapable of convincing you to hate other human beings.

Happy Father’s Day! Today I’m thinking about all the families who cannot celebrate this day the way they deserve. I am thinking about all the fathers who were abducted by ICE and stripped from their kids and families. Fathers who are grieving. Fathers whose children are grieving them. 1/

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Since there's been a lot of talk about damnatio memoriae as of late, re-upping my very first article on Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in #Ravenna where the practice was applied to images even in the Byzantine period. Look for the disembodied hands! works.hcommons.org/records/gaqv...

We know you have a lot on your plate, so this is coming from a place of support... Use 'Scot-free' instead of 'Scotch-free.' Use ‘shoo-in’ instead of ‘shoe-in.’ Use ‘piqued my interest’ instead of ‘peaked my interest.’ Use ‘case in point’ instead of ‘case and point.’

If you have time to type up a strongly-worded response, you have time to read and think about the thread!

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Ominous phrase heard in a recent meeting: "the AI-powered student". I suppose it's more concise than the term I'd use, which is "a case brought under section 29(c) of the Academic Misconduct Procedure".

If you're looking for to donate to or volunteer this election season, here's the trans candidates (Curran) and signers of the pledge running in districts last decided by less than 5% of the vote: 54A Brad Tabke SD41 Judy Seeberger 14B Zachary Dorholt 18A Leah Hanson 36B Brion Curran 18A Leah Hanson

Wanna know something cool? This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome-- and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)

Alarming amount of folks apparently don’t seem to know that translation is a political act because translators are people, and people have biases.

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.