We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

Real-time ice activity mapping, sponsored by iceout.org

Here's a ton, & I'll plug Second Harvest Heartland who support the existing food shelves in the Mpls metro area

Another excellent effort in Minneapolis

Thread of remote ways to support Minneapolis

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

Jacob Frey: please leave, ice (pls dont be mad, ice daddy you know I love you💖) Jacob Frey: if any of you disgusting mongrels touches one single brick of commercial property or hurts the feelings of our proud officers I will use the full extent of the law to make sure you rot in jail forever.

please support pow wow grounds! they were getting hassled by ICE the other week as well (as our Indigenous relatives have been targeted heavily by ICE as well) & AIM patrols have utilized this space as a hub during community safety patrols.

Remember when everyone was all excited the other day cause Frey said fuck on TV? This is who he is. This is who he has always been. This is who he always will be. But I dare him to prove me wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

We are calling on the Minneapolis Mayor and City Council, the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners and Governor Walz and the State of Minnesota to immediately enact a temporary eviction moratorium Sign the petition here secure.ngpvan.com/wwZSRvp9-0mO...

Beautiful piece from Danez Smith. Beloved Mpls community member and poet. They saw Renee, fellow poet. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

PLEASE SHARE‼️ 👉 If you see activity on Mpls park property that violates the Executive Order, please email a report to [email protected]. 📝 Include a date, time, and description, as well as a photo if possible. The collected data will help determine potential next steps.

🚨🌳 This week, Mpls Park & Rec Board passed a resolution making it clear that public parks follow the City’s Executive Order prohibiting use of city parking lots from being used for staging civil immigration enforcement activities. 📰 News coverage: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

ICE is very active in the Minneapolis suburb I'm closest to, and they don't get the same attention and resources as some of the bigger burbs. Can folks boost this and try to get some funds to them?

Get looped in with ICE watch groups in your part of the city. defend612.com

in the midst of everything awful, i love that southside weirdness is causing confusion

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Watching more than 100 clergy and faith leaders demanding peace, and justice, demanding that ICE needs to leave our state. Knowing there's hundreds of Minnesotans out on patrol right now, protecting neighbors. It's bad here but there's also so much good, man.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

WIRED interviewed me extensively for this piece and the recommendations still stand. Please share with anyone who might benefit

If you don't know how to begin, I recommend VCW's Risk Assessment Toolkit.

This is a good time to lock down your security measures and do thorough safety planning, organizationally and personally.

I say “why is it always us?” but it’s because we love and stand up for our neighbors and they fucking know it

Every single Minnesota news outlet should be shoving microphones into the faces of Demuth, Robbins, Lindell, everyone else running for governor, and every MNGOPer licking trumps ass to ask if they agree with this shit. It’s time we know.

The law is a spiderweb - it's for catching flies, not hornets.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

Can we make it so it doesn't always end in liberals breaking coalitions, rushing to cross the aisle, getting pulled further to the right, and enabling horrible shit while letting conservatives control cultural narratives about how the soft-bellied/bleeding hearts/woke leftists are the problem tho?

agreed! so how are liberals meaningfully compromising leftward instead of courting conservative “centrists”?

If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning. Let purpose preempt despair.

Donating to this stopped me from Venezuela doomscrolling for a few minutes, which would be reason enough to do so tbh. In all seriousness, Twin Cities folks, if you've got the means to do so at the moment, drop some coin on this and give yourself a brief moment of grace and goodness.

If folks are into this kind of direct aid I'm arranging 2 meals a week at Lake Street businesses affected by the federal invasion. bsky.app/profile/ianw...

I’m teaming up with some fellow community members to place a big order with a restaurant that has seen its business disrupted by ICE presence on the south side. And what better way than to get food for neighbors in need? Burritos are about $10 each- please donate to help us provide 50+ meals!

stapling an underling

Question: Hey so about boots on the ground: do you envision US Military having a presence in Venezuela Trump: if they're needed to protect the oil, yes I'm furious but also it really is refreshing that he's like "yep it's about the oil"

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Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Voting for a Democrat at this point is no different than voting for a Republican as they are working together to destroy American democracy as we continually see. Anyways, get back to denying genocide and claiming anyone pointing out that you’re denying genocide is the real problem. That sure worked

It’s too bad y’all Neoliberals did nothing except fight against the left and endorse genocide because nothing you say now that you have endorsed abomination and you failed to do your job because you’re not opposition to fascism you’re in opposition to actually stopping it

Y’all Democrats told us we needed to enjoy the camps while you murdered tens of thousands of children and Gaza if you continue acting this way there’s no other way to understand this and you are just as an enemy as any fascist because you yourself are fascist. Deal with it or we will.

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Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Book can be pre-ordered here bookshop.org/p/books/in-s...

We live in an ableist world and internalized ableism can come out when we want to make ourselves seem more "likeable." Also what struck me in the book is I have my own internalized ableism/fears in how changing functions may impact romantic relationships.

Really enjoyed reading @lauramauldin.bsky.social's forthcoming book In Sickness and in Health. As someone in a younger inter-abled relationship, really relate to a young woman who felt like she had to work to hide some of her symptoms when she started dating someone.