this really shouldn't be controversial

We are the Capitol today to say that ICE officers that are still in our community. Our immigrant community is still suffering while trying to repair from the large scale damage done. We need action from the City and the State to help our neighbors.

Thanks to everyone who showed up to the Capitol today with @unidosmn.bsky.social to push the state to take action to ensure we don’t leave anyone behind.

like this isn't 2012, there are no national queer rights orgs who are flush with cash. Everyone I speak with is dramatically cutting their budgets. And red state queer orgs are always fighting uphill on a shoestring budget. My challenge to you today is to google a red state queer org and donate.

If any journalists in the LGBTQ+ space are interested in talking state-based organizing work, I am always happy to connect and make connections. I have friends doing amazing work in places like Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, and more who are building power, care, and community.

Just up wondering about the Rainbow Health of it all & wondering whether Minnesotans will ever see justice served in that regard + the knock on effects still compounding for a lot of those people & their clients. IYKYK the reach on all that.

Fund LGBTQ+ organizing, everywhere.

Just to get out ahead of this: Trans people deserve safety, support, and legal recognition wherever they call home. The answer should not be “move”(though I know some have and will), but “how can we help?” Trans folks live everywhere, we are organizing everywhere. Let’s work to win: Everywhere.

Invalidating identity documentation for an entire class of people, and stripping them of their ability to freely travel is exterminationist policy nearly half the country is charting towards genocide. do not ignore our struggle.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

This is a radical escalation. Absolutely horrifying for trans people in KS.

After a delay of life being life, here's how elote bowls have shaken out: I made ~7 cups of rice & @phoenix-rights.bsky.social made 2lbs of beans! 😅 I caramelized 4 onions & cooked up 3 12oz bags of frozen sweet corn with chili powder, cayenne, & smoked paprika, s&p. The count was: (🧵1/5)

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Imagine!! what kind of world we could build if all of us were free to look around us, figure out which work needs doing in our communities that speaks to us, and get busy doing it.

I guess more than anything I hate that work is tied to capitalism and so many do not have the opportunity to work to better their community as I do. If people could just be paid to survive or exist without the need to generate capital, I truly believe we would all be in a better place

The thing about work, specifically the work that I get to do (I recognize the immense privilege I have), is I love doing things that need to be done. Not from a capitalism perspective, of this makes money. But in the sense that if this doesn’t happen people will suffer. I love doing my work

Embracing physical media is a rejection of hyper modern digitalization. In short owning physical media is anti authoritarian and anti hyper modernity. Buy the dvds Buy the books Own media Build your own libraries Destroy corporate ownership of media Retain ownership and control of knowledge

Another kind person covered that last rent outright! Let’s keep this going and get another Minneapolis immigrant family’s rent paid tonight! This family has a total rent need of $1380. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🥹

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

we are going to win.

every single time it gets laid bare for you, every single time you have a choice, to retreat into copaganda and cop hagiography (that you know to be false,) every single time you have a choice to move on from here when it is finally enough already.

Rapid response should include cops & encampment evictions imo

Minnesotans *still* need your support, even as national attention moves on. Keeping our communities housed is essential to long term stability, and mutual aid efforts are by far the most nimble and effective tools meeting the moment. Thanks to Ashley for this work, and to all those helping.

Wow, a mayor can just do that? IMAGINE

It’s me! Betsy at the Saints! saints.milbstore.com/collections/...

My unemployment runs out soon and I still haven't found a job; if you're in Minneapolis/St. Paul and would be interested in someone who has over a decade of customer service experience and also has time in community organizing please contact me. I'll literally take a job in a gas station, etc.

If it is true that the majority of surging ICE agents left Minneapolis (I believe it is) but it is also true that there are hundreds more still here than there were before the surge (which it definitely is), the context that we and other places are entering is shaped by both of those truths.

@jessyh.bsky.social got us a dream set of Souper Cubes that's been leveling up our food prep game & empowering me. Tonight, @phoenix-rights.bsky.social batch-cooked a LOT of black beans for me using the buy nothing off-brand instant pot. Tomorrow, I experiment with ways to freeze our elote bowls!

Important to remember that Under fascism atrocity hides within normalcy.

we should stop saying "self-deporting" and start saying "fleeing government-sponsored ethnic cleansing," imo. we don't need to let the fascists set the linguistic terms here.

compare this to the response time of MPD which has been reported to be upwards of 2 hours neighbors keep each other safe more effectively without the police’s involvement

‼️We can still stop this.

no government builds concentration camps without the intent to fill them. we are in the intermediate stages of an atrocity, crimes against humanity undersells what this country is building up to … and we can still stop it.

a beautiful reminder that sharing art with your neighbors heals your soul

i’m so proud to be a gay minnesotan

wow sobbing

Minnesota gets to be even gayer. As a treat.

This is so fucking sick my god

OKAY SISTA STRINGS

For your consideration: ovaries are also balls.

I’ll be so real this is my first time listening to Brandi and wow what a kick ass introduction to her and her music

Fascism is part of our history and our present, it permeates our culture and their is a sizable American population who are fascists and have always been fascists and we need to face that hard reality if we ever want to end this in material ways.

Reminder. If the president can ignore the Supreme Court and impose his will without repercussions rule of law is dead and the constitution is no longer in any way in effect.

When I got the photos of federal officials in June when they first came to Minneapolis wearing the others name patches that was national news now the state patrol wear masks and the others patches.

You don't need an account to watch this video of Minnesota Rep. Aisha Gomez speak on the House floor about the things that the federal government has done to people—including children—here in Minnesota, as well as in other states whether in the streets or in detention centers.

There should be a private note function for so you can remember why you mute or block someone

Modern fascism is not European fascism of the kind people are referencing in their heads and that is quite dangerous as the modern American variant of fascism is decidedly different in a number of ways including its omnicidal goals and its offer of nothing but entropy and incoherence at scale.

I try not to be this person too much, but watching the House committee deadlock on multiple good bills today I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when I hear folks dismiss elections. A few hundred votes in 2-3 districts may be what decided whether Minnesotans get state rent and eviction relief.

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