I love thrifting. First edition! Going to the dino-obsessed nephew.

My hometown is in the New York Times, and my mayor, an absolute ding dong, is rolling his eyes at his constituents (me!) who are alarmed that the armed, masked men are disappearing our neighbors, has terrified families and students, and closed businesses. An absolute embarrassment.

Our book, “The World According To Sharks”, is available for pre-order from loads of sources - www.penguin.co.uk/books/473994.... Just realised the acronym for it is TWATS. Too late to change it now. Just have to own it.

So for today's lunch letter for my youngest, I ran out of paper. But then I realized I had labels! So I made some impromptu nature-y #valentines using my (uh, slightly overwhelming) library of nature photos. Feel free to share/use 'em if you like 'em. #nature #moth #fungi #slimemolds

I'm stoked to announce that after 11 years, a new edition of my Minnesota Trivia book is coming out; it's Curious & Fascinating Facts: Minnesota, and I've wholly updated the book and added several additional sections, including "How to Speak Minnesotan" (OPE, LET ME SCOOCH RIGHT PAST YOU.)

The gar of "I'm not mad, just disappointed"

Artists, quote with something silly!

I've run or edited literary magazines for twenty-some years. I run Prose Poems (prosepoems.com) now. An editor should mostly be anonymous. (Editors are helpers.) But given what's happening in #Minnesota, where I live, I felt compelled to contribute, for the first time, via nonfiction

"Why handcuff him right away?": Witness questions ICE tactics Federal agents followed a car off the highway north of Anoka on Wednesday morning and briefly detained a Latino man and woman before letting them go, according to witnesses.

Today in St. Paul

This is glorious

Truly awful

Guess what team is absolutely stepping up during this occupation. Also i’m so grateful to have @natepentz.bsky.social as a friend. Be the kind of people who want to change the world with every second of your life.

Sir Ian McKellen bellows at Trumpies that They Shall Not Pass.

Really important article topic that is explained well.

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Philosophy of Science English, Creative Writing 19th Century Philosophy Epistemology grad seminar Grad poetry thesis classes I am nerd, people

well, I was not really focused on today's action, given everything. I'm glad it seems to have gone well.

This is hysterically wrong (way more Germans). But instead of this sideshow attempt at psychology by way of demography, the focus ought to be on Rufo's sinister idea of "over-empathizing." Minnesotans don't empathize too much. We do something that Rufo & co. simply can't do: Love they neighbor.

New on our blog: Here are a few ways to support the book community of Minnesota, whether through donations, buying books, or reading about their experiences. pen.org/book-communi...

Letter home from the Minneapolis "theater" (ICE deployment): A cold January. We are not greeted as liberators, as we were promised. Instead, we are called "hosers" and laughed at when we fail at basic winter driving and repeatedly fall onto ice. Worst of all: the jeers from soccer moms and grandmas.

One ICE agent per 136 residents. We are going to be seeing what is essentially a purge.

The first photographic field guide to present the moths of western North America as they are found in nature, making it easy to use for novices and experts alike. Moths of Western North America by Seabrooke Leckie is now available (24 March UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Absolutely awful. Not far from us at all.

Happening all over MSP metro area, including a few blocks from us.

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it

The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.

Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

Another execution on our streets

The video is gruesome: five or more agent beating a man on the ground before shooting him. No pushback. They incite, and escalate, and wreak havoc on our community without any justification. They are the “worst of the worst.”

Yes, this is what happened.

As Minnesotans, we know well that protecting our neighbors from #ice, which is dangerous, is important. We also know that salt lowers the freezing point of ice. Thus: Hooray for Salt, BOO ICE. I regret nothing.

I'm grateful to everyone organizing, observing, recording, protesting, and above all, protecting and helping their neighbors. Love your neighbor. #Minnesota forever.

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This is one of the most insane protests I've ever been to. Tens of thousands of Minnesotans in -20°F (-28°C) cold with absolutely manic energy. We are going to throw these goddamn bastards out of our cities.

NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Well, my dog's name is Ted! so I naturally had to slightly adjust this portrait. MORE TED!

So the last meterological data from #NASA's Curiosity Rover has the high at 43 F and the low at -47 F. Tomorrow in suburban #Minneapolis (per NOAA), a high of -9 F and a low of...-20 F. To be fair, Gale Crater is near the Martian equator, but still. #brr

Minnesota forever

My god.

Minneapolis, today. Note how three agents holding the civilian down. Why spray? www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Keep up the good work, Minneapolis. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.