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Good for them for at least trying to get the word out.

Wasn’t there a famous man who bragged about barging into a TEEN GIRLS’ locker room?

She betrayed her trust for the purpose of destroying our social compact of peaceful governance. Such an attack on democracy should not be considered a non-violent crime. It is playing with fire, threatening society with violence on a scale more massive than any mere assault ever could.

Many more in the comments that will amuse my history-minded friends.

Every time people cite construction as a reason for small businesses closing in Uptown, I think about how the Minneapolis City Council funded a $900,000 construction hardship program that Mayor Frey did not implement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This would have been support for small businesses in Uptown.

Hi if you're looking to move to kingfield neighborhood asap (jun 1) with 2 roommates and only $650 rent (in an actually nice place) please lmk asap. My third fell through and I'm desperate Minneapolis ppl please share

alright, given the Discourse Of The Day, I'm going to go up into the attic (a few months early, this year) and head over the dusty bookshelf at the back comment and I'll tell you about one of the 100 best books I have ever read (until I get bored).

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Watching the final Colbert and hearing the Wolves are out makes for a rather melancholy end to the evening. I'm sorry Minnesota, this sucks.

According to the Almanac crew tonight, Art-A-Whirl is the largest studio crawl in the county, which I can absolutely believe.

Reposting for the comments

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One of the best and most rarely wished-for characteristics in a partner is being secure in themselves.

There’s been a notable increase in ICE activity the last few weeks. Today there were confirmed ICE vehicles in Columbia Heights that had been seen at the exact same spot a week earlier. There were also confirmed ICE vehicles in Marcy Holmes on Monday.

This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

Republicans sure do get creative when they're desperate.

Make a band out of 2 others U2Chainz

Minneapolis residents, the independent monitor for the settlement agreement wants to know what you think of MPD. Please share this widely, please tell them what you think of MPD. www.surveymonkey.com/r/MNcommunity

Sharing for my neurospicy friends and loved ones who want to understand them better

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

And yet we're all wrong for thinking the court is political!

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Winner-take-all, single-member district elections can never be fair, competitive, & representative. The Gerrymandering Wars of 2025-26 lay bare its bankruptcy Multiparty proportional representation can be enacted by law. It'd transform our calcified politics overnight by me @liberalcurrents.com

ICE skulking around South Minneapolis today. Keep your eyes out and your whistles handy, neighbors

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

I ended up doing more Doors Open than I was planning on because it was easy to walk around Cedar Riverside to catch House of Balls, Mixed Blood and Theatre in the Round, and then the Mpls traffic center people were so excited to tell us about what they do that it ate the rest of the afternoon.

I think I need to write about the aesthetic world of avant garde museum trustee lady jewelry. It’s an ecosystem that thrives in near total isolation and it has surprising cultural heft given the lack of attention from the fashion world. Its coherent belief system appears to be kitsch and *SHAPES* 🔵

COMIC: Gardening

Delightful mini-thread

sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal

I'm developing a pavlovian rage response to the word "disappointed" that implies you had high expectations which weren't met, and it conveys resigned acceptance. if you are a Dem still using "disappointed" to talk about Republicans in 2026, you have lost the plot entirely

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Tressie is a gift, and this is a gift link.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

It occurred to me that if May Day in Mpls is a load-bearing event that built the community that got us through Metro Surge and inspired people around the world to hopefully save democracy, then a puppet theatre and the anarchist metal punks of the Southside Battle Train might just save the world.

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

@jamellebouie.net had a good video about additional/alternative means of reining in the court youtu.be/SRzS61buXkQ no matter what, Dems need to win in 2028 and be total hawks about this

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Reuters documents the way that Trump's immigration surge has helped criminals in MN. 1) Drug & gun prosecutions stalled (& one was dismissed) 2) Partnering w/Feds has fallen off 3) Prosecutors have been stuck dealing w/Trump's witch hunts www.reuters.com/world/how-tr...

This is exactly why we need DOJ reform to be *codified in law,* as I argued in this piece, and as Adam Schiff and others told me in interviews. The old post-Watergate norms-based approach is dead. newrepublic.com/article/2099...