I realized that some of my "please don't" feelings about April Fools pranks this year, no matter how lighthearted, is that we're already awash in disinformation every day, and not being sure what's real and what's intended to trick us is a daily struggle more than a fun annual tradition.

It’s the last day of the month! Rent is due TOMORROW and we at StandWithMinnesota.com currently have zero donors. ICE is still here, and there is still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💐

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility and this tiny cranky middle-aged feminist just wants to say she loves you and our cause is the same cause.

Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

I'd also been wondering about this.

“Mike Johnson, House Republican extremists, and Donald Trump are why people missed their flights on Saturday.”

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Some photos from No Kings St Paul

Friday, MN senator Dr Alice Mann posted about taking care of a ninety plus year old man who reacted to news that he was going to have to stay off his feet for a few days with but how was he going to protest?! Today, I saw a 95 YO man in a wheelchair in the crowd at #nokingsmn. I hope it was him.

Levin: This is the largest protest in Minnesota history… The next major national action of this movement is not just gonna be another protest. On May 1st, across the country, we are saying no business as usual. No work, no school, no shopping.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

E pluribus unum, bitches

There may be a few people at the St Paul #nokings

Owls. In. Towels. ❤️🦉❤️

St Paul is going to be the flagship and I'm going!

My top request to everyone is to please consider nominating On Spec (@onspecmag.bsky.social) for best semiprozine. They've done great work for 35 years, been an incubator for new talent, and they're shutting their doors. It's the last chance to get them their first (very deserved) Hugo nom. 2/X

As we grapple with the aging urban freeway that sliced through the Rondo neighborhood of St Paul, this framing resonates. Is our city for those who live here or for those who live elsewhere but want to speed through it, polluting our air and water and choking our streets with noise and traffic?

No lies detected, actually. In a universe that obeys General Relativity, this is a high quality fact. I distinctly paid for a Low Quality Fact. I demand to see the manager.

I feel like if the MN GOP went to more PTO meetings they might discover that not all forms of people organizing to get things done are military flavored. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/26/r...

Okay, I just want to point out that if you have been considering an electric car, I would really consider doing that quickly because things do not look good re: oil availability and cost. Used EVs are currently a screaming deal. I have a feeling this will not be the case for too much longer.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Hi! My last post went viral at an awkward time because I sent it and then went offline for most of two days, so belatedly, hello new followers! Thank you for the support and solidarity! There's some really amazing stuff happening in Minneapolis that I'm hoping to share more about going forward.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Dear ICE OUT protesters on the bridge over I-55 in Jackson, Mississippi this afternoon, these Minnesotans see you and send love. Thank you for being out there.

We’re keeping @soleilho.com’s blistering essay on Chavez, Redzepi, and the perils of centering heroes within systems that enable their abuses unpaywalled for the day. Read it, and consider supporting @coyotemedia.org however you can. www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

I am mostly offline this week, but wanted to share that the night sky is pretty.

for those who might be interested, the National Theater is streaming their production of The Importance of Being Earnest (starring Ncuti Gatwa!) for one week on YouTube for FREE youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

cannot emphasize enough that these people are genocidal mass murderers. 100s of thousands of people are dead because of shuttering of US AID. these people did that. they are Nazi mass murderers.

Minneapolis WE KEEP IS SAFE t-shirts/stickers site is NOW LIVE: we-save-us.cheddarup.com The shirts honor everyone who resisted ICE; all $ after shipping/making costs go to Lucy Laney school mutual aid in N Mpls. Buy as much as you want; you have to add shirts to cart 1 at a time (sorry). Please RT!

On some level I’m not sure my mind can quite grasp the raw stupidity of conducting a massive decapitation strike against Iran with no day two plan whatsoever, and then immediately finding yourself in a worldwide energy crisis with no off-ramp because you didn’t expect Iran to react

On @kfai.org they’re talking up an 8-hour benefit show in Cincinnati this Sunday. All bands from Cincinnati, all playing covers of Minneapolis bands, all proceeds going to ICE relief. The Tiger Lilies will be playing - Makes No Sense At All - Bastards of Young www.woodwardtheater.com/shows/stand-...

hmm

I forget who said it, but it's true that at $1 billion per day, the Republican party's latest war is burning money at a rate that makes it the equivalent of dropping a whole bunch of US hospitals on Iran. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics. We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races. 1/7 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

It is terrible and they only ever talk about it with regards to Democrats. The Republican will be like "let's murder children" and they'll be like "A BOLD STANCE" and then a Democrat takes a mainstream concept like "abolish ICE" and they're like "sorry, you can't be electable with that!"

One of the weirder signs that the Epstein issue isn't going away is that Inspirobot, which is almost always generic except like one holiday themed one a year, has been serving me photos of Trump with Epstein over and over.

me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A

Does FIFA do a prize for economics

Just incredibly creepy, predatory behavior by agents of the federal government.

Given gas price news, this feels like a terrible time to be planning imminent cross-country road trips (even the short way across, the US is long), but an excellent one to have a plug-in hybrid.

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

Even when launching an historic, illegal war of choice, abetted by a Congress where they command majorities--only a sliver of whom would be required to stop this--Republicans are presumed to have zero agency. They simply *exist;* an amoral force, like the weather.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Gentle reminder that social media is often the worst place to hang out when really bad things happen. Minnesota folk, you have a whole lot of new local friends. I humbly suggest you go make plans with them to do something to make something better today, instead of doom scrolling for hours.

minnesotareformer.com/briefs/house... I do appreciate a straightforward headline that describes what happened and doesn't somehow manage to blame Democrats for Republican votes.

The strategic implication of the data in this article is that Dems should be fighters first and foremost, and make tactical ideological consideration downstream of that, because they just don’t move as many voters and don’t resonate with disengaged folks. Seems they agree with me on that!