wtaf. they had rescheduled me for 4 today. get to the salon at 3:50. one girl says hi, asks If i have an appointment. i then sit there for 40 minutes. no one says anything to me. i finally ask one of the stylists how much longer it will be and she says 30 minutes. 😭

oh FFS, maybe get them to throw some of that money into rent funds instead of a zip line

this is why i am laser-focused on paying rent for people right now. the second a family is evicted, the costs of everything explode. lives are disrupted, new schools have to be found, people are in physical danger, and then they are so much harder to rehouse with an eviction on their record.

so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net. this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.

do YOU have any experience in art, social, organizing, fundraising, comms, graphic design, & want to help us try to raise an insane amount of money to keep immigrant families in MN housed? I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.

I have a Stand with Minnesota volunteer opportunity for people who speak Spanish and want to help get folks home from detention. If you are interested, please DM me for details!

trying to wrap my head around how we are going to raise $15-28 million dollars for the expected rent need in Minnesota in March when the news cycle has now passed us.

So this is weird. The National Guard is staging at the Whipple building this morning. This is what you do when preparing for a mission.

greatest headline of my adult life

Someone in whistle chat called people saying “I love your work, but I just thought of this other, different work you should be doing too” idea fairies and it’s so accurate. Don’t be an idea fairy unless you’re also going to be the project planning and volunteer coordination fairy.

a wonder, how many people will say “look at everything you’re doing, amazing! can you also do this totally different thing, for free, which I am getting paid to do?”

Today by a key organization that coordinated Twin Cities' self defense. If you can't make it... defend612.com/event/commun...

kid did a walkout. we offered to write a note excusing her absence. she said she wants to do the time because she supports the cause. she took the rap. detention next week. so proud.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

i like being married so sometimes i can just put my finger up someone’s nose when they are asleep

i love you

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

my auntie asked me; why do you have so many girlfriends? so many girlfriends? you have so many and you never marry them.

the law school pam bondi went to is ranked 99th (tied) in the country not to be an elitist or anything

If there are mutual aid groups in your area, highly recommend finding out specific ways you can help. I shop every other week for a free fridge in my area, I love helping my neighbors in a tangible way. MA groups always need funds, so consider supporting them with recurring donations too.

thanks to all of you, we paid four more families rent today.

My daughter made a Valentine for the occasion.

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

"Block leader" or "block captain" is a vital concept. It's a person who coordinates comms, serves as a central hub for distributing and receiving aid, and relates to other levels of the aid organization. Imagine the mom who always organizes the bake sale. Only the bake sale is Andor.

Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time. I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.

my mom calls me. she's working on a beading project and forgot how to do the edge. so she asks google "how do I finish the edging on a beading project?" she got instructions on how to masturbate. it thought she said "how do I finish edging on a beating project?"

i've been trying to get a haircut for so long. i haven't gotten one in like 3 years, i have been trying for months. my old stylist has had to cancel like 4 times. tried to find a new one, too many hoops and I am too busy. never works finally booked one for this evening. a pipe burst in their salon.

guess who was paying people’s rent the fastest? 🏴

Every word of this is a lie. And any news organization that quotes this without saying as much is failing its audience.

left this up overnight and you guys DID send enough to pay two rents 😭 so instead of having to find six families to adopt rents today, I only need four 🥰

time to drunk dial ted cruz again

i got a freaking papercut on the back of my ankle from a paper bag. yow.

we got a request today for help from some international students that kind of fall through the gaps of any available assistance programs want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging venmo: @ziibiing paypal: @StandWithMinnesota

i am so full i am going to die

interrupting my usual feed of minnesota mutual aid to experience an evening of pure decadence: one course of dinner, four courses of dessert

we can’t keep living like this man

our little antifa super soldier did her first walkout today.

me, standing around the cybersecurity experts, pretending to be cool, readjusting my indoor sunglasses: “yess lets discuss the threat models and run up a risk assessment stat ill check with my friend booger, he knows the kp12 protocol ”

so the El Paso air space was shut down because department of war was doing high-energy laser strikes on party balloons don’t let the drunk run the department with a bottomless budget

you know who is a domestic terrorist? this motherfucking cedar pollen

waffles has learned to turn off video on my phone with his nose my productivity is going to skyrocket

Jennifer has already paid one rent! Enter for your chance to win an adorable pet portrait.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

if we could get a product like cryptpad, but, wild idea, actually works, it would be fantastic

It’s been another busy week dealing with the ICE occupation in Minneapolis, but I wanted to give you a Burrito update! We started this project just over 5 weeks ago, and since then we’ve provided over 1150 meals for people, and spent almost $12k at local, immigrant-owned restaurants!

me: sorry i need to cancel our 10AM, i got a little guy on me city worker: what? me: i. got. a. little. guy. on. me.

i can’t afford to buy a house because of these tens of thousands of dollars in luxury candles. help. my family is starving.

ICE has been active this morning staging in St Anthony so we still need people out patrolling our neighborhoods. I’m headed to the Capitol today ahead of session starting next week to work on the 70 bills we have around ICE.

i listened to a whole michael pollen interview about whether AI could achieve consciousness and it astounds me that a lot of people are quicker to assume AI has consciousness before they think plants or animals do

starting a new thread of artists who are raising mutual aid for minnesotans affected by the occupation — there are so many who are doing great things to help, and some that have posted mostly on instagram.