Before Kent State, there was the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State. We're not trying to one-up you. We're demanding that you put the pieces of the puzzle together.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

John Williams made an appearance on stage at the Boston Symphony Orchestra last night. This man deserves every bit of the love and adoration he gets.

I don’t know, ICE taking babies off the street and imprisoning them seems like a kitchen table issue.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Spare batteries for my flashlights expired and I was in CVS Googling the difference between a D2 and a D4. Just FYI, it's the number of batteries in the package.

This is an old right-wing lie. In 1912, they found a pile of infant bones at a pagan brothel. To Jesus freaks, it proved non-Christians whores murdered baby boys Then science got involved BTW when you consider Nazis, Crusades, slavery & colonialism… Christianity is the #1 baby killer of all time

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Under Trump and Kristi Noem, ICE is an out-of-control paramilitary force of masked men terrorizing our communities. We shouldn’t fund the Department of Homeland Security and ICE’s unchecked power.

imo, one of the most undercovered shifts in the media landscape is the emergence of *spanish-language* right-wing media. here's some of what's happening in that space in the last week.

Sunday's storm won't be a '78/2015 blizzard, not a lot of wind to create megadrifts, but with temps barely breaking 0 (yep), it's not going to melt and you might have trouble getting out for all the fixins because your car won't start. So go out today bostonfrenchtoast.com

I’ll probably never watch Sinners - I don’t like gory, scary movies. But I am happy for Delroy Lindo. I loved him in The Good Fight.

- Bagged milk. - Leafs struggling, Habs pretty good. - That goddamn baseball stuck under the wall. - You watched Polkaroo and/or Mr. Dressup as a kid. - Say "Supply and command", "Two birds stoned at once", or any other Rickyism from Trailer Park Boys. - Learn the words to a Tragically Hip song.

I am not a social media influencer I am just a regular Minneapolis dad trying to do a kid pickup this morning and get some gas. What do I find but that one guy and a bunch of bortech (whatever that is) blocking the station for a glamour shot. I stood right where I wanted to stand this is my town.

We really need to take his keys, but half the family thinks he’s gonna drive to Publisher’s Clearing House to get them a cartoonishly large check!

Bouie, Friedman, and Douthat all referring to him as a “mad king” in their columns this morning.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I just made a donation to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. It's small, but I figure everything helps.

Renee Good tried this tactic. Smiling, “I’m not mad at you bro” Didn’t work.

Just tickles me to know that white ppl are getting told the same shit from other white ppl now. STFU with all that "not me" shit. It's y'all. It's all of y'all until it's none of y'all. Same thing Blk ppl BEEN telling y'all.

Like what is there even to say anymore. Somebody should take grandpa’s phone. And job.

#MinneapolisStrong (Tippi Hedren is a graduate of West High School in Minneapolis)

When we tell you that people are hiding…

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

What a terrific surprise to see Anne Reid in Riot Women, on BritBox. Also, I didn't realize she's making her Broadway debut in Oedipus, at age 90. I haven't had much FOMO about Broadway but I'd love to see her onstage. www.theatermania.com/news/intervi...

Wonder when Europeans will realize their most potent weapon against Trump is not official action but a consumer boycott of US goods, services and travel.

This was @pkrugman.bsky.social’s musical coda for today. youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U

I don't understand how a NYT reporter based in Cairo wrote a story about the scene in Minneapolis without actually being there. Doesn't the Times have reporters on the ground in Minnesota? Maybe the information came from the photographer? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

Edgar Allan Poe in a moment of writer's block

Hey, so, OB-GYN shortages are bad for women. This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.

I think this was part of the discussion after George Floyd was murdered and it's clear nothing has changed. “It is very difficult for those trained to interpret threats in war zones to pivot to a role where they must view a person as a community member." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of Creedence Clearwater Revival. n.pr/3LCBfL2

Shoutout to my brother’s gf who last week admitted that she didn’t hear/know anything about Venezuela because she avoids the news. No idea about Maduro. She is brave and honest to admit that, and that’s the electorate.

There's a huge gap with your reporting if your Dispatches From MN don't mention both the direct violence *and also* all the families afraid to leave home, the businesses shut or locked down, the preschools being targeted for harassment, the local parents organizing patrols—*the day-to-day toll*

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

A thread of quiet genius.

An elected official in this case has his hands tied. You can't tell people to go get themselves killed. You have to land on the head of a pin, and whether you land or not depends on perspective.

For additional context... Where they went is the equivalent of coming to Upstate NY and going to the Finger Lakes.

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Great point and so on target. NATO countries own trillions in US Treasury Bonds. If Trump declares war on them by attacking Greenland, why wouldn’t they sell those bonds and cripple their new enemy’s economy? They’re already discussing barring US companies from doing business in the EU too.

In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.” www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

I thought this trailer was an SNL sketch, but nope! — it’s a real movie with possibly the greatest cast of 2026, and I implore you to watch the trailer 😆 youtu.be/pyZI5oM6hWk?...

Excited to announce that after thinking about it for ages, I've signed up for a year of #Britbox with the $25 off deal. Looking forward to the new Sally Wainwright show, Riot Women, about a punk band. Starting with a Gavin & Stacey rewatch. There's a Christmas special I've never seen!

Here’s a really solid website of vetted needs made by a trusted organizer www.standwithminnesota.com

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to toss aside our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly erratic,visibly unraveling, criminally convicted reality show charlatan. And yet, here we are.

Pittman had texted his father a photo of the rear of the synagogue before the fire, with the message, “There’s a furnace in the back.” His father had pleaded with his son to return home Why didn't his father call the police immediately?

I just saw a NYT Cooking recipe for Addictive Cabbage and I'm thinking that would be a good band name if anyone's looking for one.

people will say the framers never could have predicted this, but that's not true at all, they absolutely *did* expect someone like trump, they thought congress would *stop* him, and they thought they made that clear