Hey friends. 🧊 activity is ticking up in the Cities. We have over 2,200 ppl on our network. We had 3 ppl respond to the kidnapping in St Paul yesterday. We need more! Next Mpls training is later this month.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Not religious, but perhaps an important message to those who are

So far Neil Young is the only artist to meet the moment #FarmAid40

Dutch late night TV has its take

Goddddd I would love this man to be mayor.

One positive thing that's happening is that the "let's meet in the middle" people are looking more and more unhinged in the eyes of regular people. My FedBook page which includes a lot of normies is on fire regularly. Folks are done.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

They are telling people what they plan to do. Will Democratic politicians believe them? Unlikely.

We have to fight for what people need and what they deserve. Let’s do this, Minnesota.

Let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair. -Mariame Kaba Don’t mourn, organize. - Joe Hill & Paul Wellstone Keep going. It’s a relay, rest when you need it. -Me, with love

"Our state is run by people who treat cruelty like it’s a campaign promise and culture wars like they’re Monday Night Football. But 'King of the Hill' lets us see the most hopeful version of Texas," writes @briangaar. Read more:

Hi Friends, I wrote and performed this set last night in Cleveland. It went well, so the team fast tracked it in enough time to release tonight. See you in 45 mins on YouTube 💐 youtu.be/eRnEp0onnoo?...

thrive mpls a zoom meeting for their supporters a few days ago and we were inside. i've added the full slideshow to my blog post, but wanted to highlight a few things - taylordahlin.com/f/new-pac-in...

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Wrote a whole book about it bellhooksbooks.com/product/the-...

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

Our unsheltered neighbors need compassion and resources, not to be pushed to margins so they remain out of sight. We deserve a Mayor who will be honest with us about the scope of this crisis and will treat our unhoused neighbors with respect and dignity.

everyday is a great day to be in NE Minneapolis, but esp tomorrow Saturday, Aug 2nd! open streets NE from 11am-5pm on Central Ave from Lowry to 14th st: and Nershfest @ 56 brewing noon -10pm w/ Gully Boys at 9pm: 56brewing.com/event/nershf...

What a week. If you're feeling grateful to be inside in the storm right now, pay it forward for our neighbors who aren't ❤️

Whatever funds that I can get are being split between so many other people. Folks really need funding right now. I would love to split $500,000 between 10 groups that could really use the money right now.

I wrote last year about our collective organizing in IL that has led to successful decarceration re: youth: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - WE HAVE THE PLAYBOOK and people are still pushing. More people need to get on board.

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

Air quality will be an issue this weekend. Right now, unhealthy air (red) is pouring across most of Minnesota. It will arrive in the Twin Cities tonight, and likely continue through Saturday, and potential Sunday.

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

I wrote about the group of undercover landlords and investors trying to take over our Minneapolis elections, and why people should care. I tried to make it accessible to folks who aren't already familiar with Minneapolis politics, so please share! mplsmusings.com/2025/05/14/t...

all they know is eat hot pussy slice & lie

Our neighbors over north are impacted too, so far not on as large of a scale. If you have capacity to fill extra water bottles, etc. or get ice tomorrow, take in neighbors’ food to keep it from going bad, etc please help where you can!

If you liked and valued Matt Serwe's weather broadcast on KSTP-TV tonight, you can let him know—he's on Bluesky at @serwewx.bsky.social !

Big night for doppler Code of silence

Thank you Matt Swerve

Up and at em (in the basement)

I look forward to Kelly’s posts because I always learn something, I can listen to most of her posts, and I am always strategically hopeful afterward.

I'm not in the school of "there's nothing to be done." There's always something to be done even if I'm not well-informed enough to know what that is. Someone who knows something about "The Law" will have ideas.

Super-quick take while reading the ruling: This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling). *That's* the import.

First #SCOTUS ruling today is birthright citizenship. Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:

You all did an amazing crowd-edit on this, & a wonderful TCer with design skills made it look so much better! Here's a final PDF to print&distribute at Pride events. I think a lot of ppl just aren't familiar yet with the way Frey has harmed us/our neighbors—hopefully this will spark some learning.

All of Minneapolis Bluesky right now like

Let’s stop dooming. Let’s knock doors, make calls, and talk to neighbors. People discounted Zohran because he was young, Muslim, progressive, “unelectable”, and a socialist. He proved the world wrong. We can do it in Minneapolis. ❤️🙏🏽. 2/

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

comrades from other cities, GO TO BED, lol

woke up sad i couldn't vote for Zohran today but then remembered i can rank Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton for mayor this fall!

I spoke to my nephew late yesterday because he was was spiraling about the regime bombing Iran. I told him that what they did was a horror and unjust and that the fact that he felt both of these things means that the regime hasn't won. They haven't succeeded in numbing him to the horror of this.