Finally got around to listening to Brian Dunne based on @randballsstu.bsky.social’s newsletter recommendation. Looked up his tour schedule, turns out his band is in DC while I’m there for school, and now my Friday night is planned!

Had about five “well it can’t get more absurd than that”s … and then the video continued

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

About halfway through There Is No Place For Us by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social. À la Invisible Child, Random Family, and more, I’m so impressed by the care Brian took in his writing. It is deeply informative and always keeps the most important people—the five families—at the center of the story

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

People are starting to figure us out

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

this is genuinely wild

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Minneapolis is the best because I can watch two guys in a canoe and feel informed in my vote for park and rec commissioner at large @wedge.live

Minnesota let's be next

The best thing about this is the fact that it’s 8 in the morning

This from Matt is an example of what I missed when we lost old the old twitter. Because I saw his post, I moved my afternoon run up by an hour instead of likely calling it later. It’s cool to connect with experts and interesting people in so many fields

I’m a bad sleeper on planes. Flying for any length of time, I’m lucky if I get 15 minutes in a semi-restful state. I flew through the night to London in March 2023, didn’t sleep. Dropped my bag off at the hostel and almost immediately made my way to Tottenham stadium. All worth it to see this guy

Hey @cingraham.bsky.social where can you get a burger between two deep-fried uncrustables in upper New York??

Knew the inevitable was coming and it’s a big bummer for us but I couldn’t be happier for the guy. He’s a great rotation player and he showed it every night here

Dean parkway in Minneapolis right now @startribune.com @kstptv.bsky.social @wcconews.bsky.social

I won’t even go to New York for the first time until October but let me tell you, I’m so thankful for this city for showing the country better things will happen and we can elect leaders to be proud of

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

🚨 After months of defiance of court orders (and the Supreme Court) and claims under oath from cabinet level officials that they would never bring him back, the Trump admin blinks; Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the U.S., where he can finally get some due process.

The party of school choice so long as the school you choose is the one they approve

That’s my guy 😍

Hard to overstate what MSU-Mankato means to the area where I grew up. Doesn’t feel great to read that a program centered around critical thinking is out but a new one on AI is in www.startribune.com/minnesota-st...

My ACLU colleagues who have been working 24 hours a day were definitely not sleeping and I am just so grateful for them!

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

In a world of bad news, here’s some good

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

Some good news in immigration. This past year Minneapolis and St Paul schools saw enrollment increases for the first time in around 8 years thanks to immigration to MN. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech. @nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

Have new episodes of six trophies, guardian football weekly, and Pablo Torre finds out ready for this flight. That’s what we call a trifecta. @sheaserrano.bsky.social @netw3rk.bsky.social @maxrushden.bsky.social @barryglendenning.bsky.social @pablo.show

If your idea can be boiled down to “keep kids out of school” you’re wrong

When you’re against food for kids you’re on the wrong side

mainstream news outlets love the phrase “transgender issues” because it lets them avoid saying “trans rights” or that trans people are even real if they said “trans rights” it would be way more clear in their copy they’re the ones fomenting the debate about whether people should exist

Happy “people coming out of the woodwork” day! The first warm day of every year when a Minnesotan can’t help but describe what they see outside as people coming out of the woodwork to enjoy the weather

I’ve been thinking similarly lately. I’m trying to square the thought with the fact that we still had plenty of problems when everyone got their news from the same newspapers and 3 channels. My question is how much better off would we be if that was still the case? Likely no trump, so good start

I need Democrats to act like an opposition party. You can’t work with someone whose first instinct after seeing the destruction of the LA fires is to call the governor scum. You can’t work with someone that blames these fires on DEI.

Zuckerberg holds a majority of voting power in his company. That he should see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of woke Dems. It’s a criticism of the way he himself capitulates and blows with the political winds. He's at war with himself. Has been for years. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

That’s my guy 🥰

Power and $. When I think about how every decision these guys make is driven by the goal of acquiring more of both, their decisions make sense. They don’t care about free speech, they didn’t care about diversity, and they won’t care about whatever reasoning they give next—unless it’s power or $

Eve Ewing is one of those writers that if she wrote a manual for a vacuum cleaner I’d read that thing cover to cover

I don’t know how tall I thought a saguaro cactus was but telephone pole was not the answer

The problem with every new flavor of education reform is that none address the real issue: money. We know what works. Schools succeed when they have strong leaders and teachers that feel supported. You want to make the US education system better? Give it the funding it deserves. It’s that simple.

RIP Jimmy Carter and thank you for the hardest picture in White House history (h/t @kopalo.bsky.social)

Driving from Minnesota to Colorado with my younger sister and she just said she remembers before Apple Music when people listened to the radio like she was remembering waiting for deliveries from the milkman. I would also like to be 23

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

Scholars feeling the need to write about the child mortality rate of Victorian era children is a sure sign things are going great minnesotareformer.com/2024/12/18/m...