“Our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent.“ —Danez Smith

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

My sign today.

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

Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE yesterday, was a published poet Indeed, she won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize for a piece called "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" It's beautiful and you can read it here: poets.org/2020-on-lear... The poem's conclusion is haunting me now

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

once again, i urge everyone to stop reading the mealy-mouthed legacy media stories and just read the ones that are telling the truth and in the plainest terms possible.

A reminder that you are not obligated to watch videos of police brutality. There is no inherent virtue in witnessing violence. The point is that there is a public record, which again, you are not required to view in order to be a good citizen

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Abolish ICE is the conservative position abolishing DHS is moderate solution open borders is the liberal solution Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

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.

*2026

another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Bowdoin socialist takes control of country's economic capital. #MEpolitics

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

2025 recapped

Big parts of my dissertation were made possible by archivists and librarians who saw they had fully uncatalogued material about the Statue of Liberty and were able to share it with me while I sat in the reading room. It was magical and you simply cannot replace time spent in the archives!

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

the trump administration has killed FOUR people in ICE custody in like the last week, so grain of salt that safety and sanctity of life are reasons for ending the visa lottery

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

This announcement alone is going to kill people and we need to prepare for that

I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.

Remember, Mr. Rogers' original comment was intended for CHILDREN. Children need comfort, and their power is obviously very limited. We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.

This entire weekend

why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. + Lucille Clifton

Re-upping this today, citing the concluding paragraph we wrote as I just responded to a frustrating survey about integrating GenAI into humanities education at my institution.

Fund the arts because they are a source of joy and human happiness and thought. Not just because a scientist may get an idea off a line in a play. (Though that's great too.)

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Between the Equal Justice Initiative and other sponsors (but mostly the EJI) there has to be at least 100 historical markers at the site of racially motivated lynchings of Black Americans between 1865 and 1950. Alas, there’s 6,000 or so markers to go.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled." The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.

Abortion is supported by 3 out of 4 Mainers, but a popular network of clinics that provides it alongside primary care has been shut out of Medicaid by the Trump administration, which also targeted Planned Parenthood. n.pr/48jMkt4

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

excuse me I have been actively soliciting Edmund Fitzgerald memes for years

we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers

50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald sank