Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

My son survived starvation thanks to you,but now darkness is stealing his sight.Malnutrition left him fading;his eyes are failing.I’m begging you,don’t let him go blind.He deserves to see the world he fought to stay in.Please, help save his eyes! Verified @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/5f2429cda

still managing quick plein air paintings, when time allows it these busy days. they're grounding in a way I need.

With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

Can we support Lubna today so that Naser can get his MRI? chuffed.org/project/1552...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

after all, what better way to force people to use your bullshit wrong answer machines than making it extremely costly for anyone to do computation locally and thus establish said machines as the sole method of interface ?

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Dawn over Marl Pits (1) digital painting

Q: “What are you in here for? Murder? Robbery?" A: “Worse, possession of zines" “Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"

Can we please make sure we keep this in mind when everyone decides to make fun of people concerned about their safety in regard to civil disobedience.

I'd rather eat glass.

phone plein air

Friends, can you chip in to support our NE neighbor? He’s lost his family, and he’s staring down the barrel of an immigration hearing at Whipple next month gofund.me/39d8aaed4

We are launching an emergency fund-raising effort to raise money for solar panels and storage batteries for Cuba. Can you help by donating $100 here: HatueyProject.org/donate? Read our full email here: conta.cc/3O6phKP

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Y'all may have heard about the incident last week where ICE agents pretended to have car trouble to lure someone from his house so they could abduct him. Here is the GoFundMe for his family. www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

little cranes

I had this thumbnail drawing of my d&d character leftover from a project earlier last year and decided to paint it to get more practice in. 👍

in progress

phone plein air

13/2/26

love a day that makes me forget I have a phone. out and about most of the afternoon and grabbed baked goods after to bring home; my partner was thrilled and my cat sniffed the air expectantly as if they were for her.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

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my keys, etc.,

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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

quick figure studies

We’re still seeing ICE going in and out of the Whipple building. As long as they’re still here working to separate families, we need to make sure people are out patrolling & keeping watch. We don’t accept their behavior happening here or anywhere else which is why all of DHS needs to be dismantled

Peacocks Digital painting

“so i don’t get credit” is pathetic

Sahar needs $5000 for Odais surgery. Its urgent as every delay makes the results more tenuous. Please give as you can gofund.me/f44936a92

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

quick figure studies

They will literally destroy the world before anyone says no to the worst people in all of human history. Indefensible. Unforgivable. Any action is justified to prevent and reverse this.

somehow there's an update... and it's not a great look. it shouldn't be the case that the admin react when there's an outcry then just don't change whatever system they've got in place anyway.

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

"Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can." —Rasha Abdulhadi

I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

anyone else with debilitating pmdd seemingly lose the ability to draw or write (or practice any creative endeavor) 1-2 weeks out of the month corresponding with the worst of it?

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Duncan, the regretful | Five of Cups 💧 1/3 zine art for @dragonageannual.art #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #LynArt

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

venus in capricorn turns four years old this month, so I'm posting the full comic here to celebrate. 1/15

having a brain that’s doing bad 85% of the time should also come with an award like, congrats, you’re great at suffering<3