Two years ago, when the school district was planning to install a new play area that wasn't accessible to some classmates, 4th-graders mounted a petition drive to block the design. They went to the school board meeting with "Play for ALL" signs. Then they set out to create a worthy replacement.

Kids so far unimpressed with the full but not movie size sour patch ... Maybe I'll do movie size next year because I'm trying to build my reputation

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

My toddler must’ve turned on speech to text, but honestly a lot of posters do need to hear this.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I’ve seen a lot of false information circulating in the weeks following the Minneapolis DFL convention. Some of it feels like reading Jan 6 voter conspiracy theories, so as the person who stepped in as head teller + audited the voting system, I’d like to set the record straight🧵

My dude, there can be no ethical dishwashing under capitalism. Until we have socialism, I propose we jack a dishwasher from like Walmart or someplace.

I've been anxious to talk about this because it feels so selfish, but time to move past that. I have a book coming out! "Who's Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions", comes out October 14th from The New Press. It's an optimistic book for perilous times. 1/

Minneapolis needs a mayor who will do this. #DontRankFrey

What beauties!

Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty. Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!

I just donated £10/week. Grateful to the organizers for an opportunity to support multiple families ❤️

The 5 days since Zohran Mamdani won the primary have been @runforsomething.net's biggest candidate recruitment surge ever. We're about to cross 5,000 young people who've raised their hands & signed up at runforwhat.net to run for local office for the first time. Change is coming.

📦 Join us July 28 for a hands-on kit build + tour at the International Institute of MN! Help assemble welcome kits for immigrant and refugee students. 💛 🕕 6–8PM | 📍St. Paul RSVP: getinvolved.acslaw.org/component/ev... This is part of our #Inalienable series of events focused on #ImmigrantJustice

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“How to Deescalate Conflict & Build Stronger Movements” by Kai Cheng Thom (h/t @prisonculture.bsky.social newsletter) kaichengthom.substack.com/p/how-to-de-...

Feeling overwhelmed at the lawlessness? Get involved locally. Concrete, real-world resistance to fascism in your own community is better for you than doomscrolling.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

Happy Caturday. Remember to do what you can to lessen suffering - your own and others

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

Remember, Hennepin County Library cardholders can print up to 50 black-and-white pages or 10 color pages (or any combination up to $5 in value) every week at no charge. Additional copies are 10¢ for B&W, and 50¢ Color.

Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury. Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.

Thank you to all the weavers of community fabric

Anyway I think the way Frey is doing that is deeply connected to the idea that because Minneapolis has a sanctuary policy it must be fine, when sanctuary policies are full of (often criminalization-related) things that easily dismiss the separation.

I'm quoting @silkys13.bsky.social there from this article, but many people have done the work to articulate the connections between those systems: www.publicbooks.org/the-basic-li...

I think the focus that Frey (and others) have on exactly what kind of activity happened in Minneapolis (whether it was an *ICE raid* or not, what MPD was doing there, what dept was doing what, etc) is that it relies on people not seeing "the merger of the criminal legal and immigration systems"

Yes. And speaking as a library worker in an urban area in Minnesota, it's fraught everywhere. We get a lot more support than some but your support is needed in every city 📚💓

Let’s get numbers out to this

If anyone doesn't know the area, I'm a fan of the Super Mercado - good basic groceries plus lots of pastries and tasty fresh made salsas. Plus I'm always tempted by the alebrijes - maybe you need a new piece of decor?

unions: they get the job done

Sorry were you looking for me? I was just in my basket

I have just invented a chant that rhymes "databases" with "third spaces" so you will not want to miss your chance to make clear that libraries need funding!!! Tomorrow at 6pm at the Governor's Mansion!

I post this often, but here it is again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

Wondering what kind of nature gossip is out there. My plant gossip is that my bleeding hearts and clematis both survived the winter

Fighting turkeys

DC is uniquely overpoliced with a plethora of law enforcement agencies. Local grassroots groups like @dcmigrantmutualaid.org make sure to verify, document, and report, to avoid feeding into the state's agenda of creating a climate of widespread fear and panic—we should all do the same.

MN house passes bill cutting rural public transit $12million adding $11million to state highway patrol recruitment. Law enforcement trying to defund useful services yet again 🧐

Here's a poem for today 'It's this way' by Nazim Hikhmet

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

Have a kitty

It's National Library Week and it's been one of my life's joys to serve my community as a librarian. One thing you can do this week to support libraries is to call your reps to get IMLS funding reinstated.

This is where my mom grew up. Never heard of anything like this there before. Woohoo Wisconsin!!!!!

Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Another signup! Maine stans for the postal service along with CA, MD, MO, NJ, NY, OR, VA and TX! 💌

💔 Who broke Tom Homan's heart? Was it an FBI leak? Or was it... someone with a 📢 Full version: tiny.cc/homanvday #defendandrecruit

I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis. If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.