ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Codify Protecting Sensitive Locations from federal immigration agents.

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

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Recentering Reading | From the Editor (June 2025)

Another hero among us, quietly doing the work to save our country. Just donated. Godspeed to @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Live: Thousands attend march to protest ICE in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Hennepin County showing good leadership with this decision to lead with plant-based meals. vegconomist.com/gastronomy-f...

Grateful for the Democratic leaders who set up this hearing. Where is the msm coverage of these Americans providing first-hand accounts of illegal treatment by the government? @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social youtu.be/no1yA2aDwvA?...

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Fabulous, nostalgic thread for Thanksgiving, esp if you are prepping a relish tray.

Paying taxes this year is soul-crushing. I hate that my money is being spent to torture my neighbors and kill fishermen. Could this be a viable constraint? @joycewhitevance.bsky.social medium.com/@carmitage/e...

Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

After the sliver of hope with Tuesday night's election results, I'm looking for other good news. Here's some: minitex.umn.edu/news/2025-10...

If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.

WHERE IS STEVE K0RNACKI?? The world, tipping on its axis, awaits an explanation. @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com

All this seems perfectly reasonable. Let’s get it done. gregolear.substack.com/p/the-liz48-...

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

What just happened #mnvikings? after the missed 4th down, I turned away for a second.....

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

People with no shame, example #1256: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Lots of theories. But the fact is we need to teach our children better than we are. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co. So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings day St Louis Park MN” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/84...

100% endorse newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Excellent local reporting: bsky.app/profile/kim-... ( @stevegrove.bsky.social

what are we doing? how can this stand?

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."

A picture is worth a thousand words. As Donald Trump delivered a rambling, hyper-political speech, America's top military leaders sat in disciplined, stone-faced silence. Their professionalism stood in stark contrast to the partisan rally they were forced to attend. And their faces say it all.

Our courts will be/should be overrun with these lawsuits. I hope he prevails. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Was lucky enough to learn about Elizabeth Catlett recently at Chicago Ins of Art: www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

Please watch this shadow hearing. Until Democratic majority and common sense returns to Congress, we need more of this, and we need the media to cover it! Thank you to @jayapal.house.gov. @maddow.msnbc.com @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Dr. Houry calls on RFK Jr. to resign:   "After seeing his Senate Finance testimony and the number of misstatements, seeing what he has asked our scientists to do and to compromise our integrity, and the children that have died under his watch, I think he should resign."

My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US. They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe. This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.

"Less than a month into the district’s first school year with a new cellphone ban, JCPS has found that students are checking out library books at a record rate." www.wave3.com/2025/09/02/s...

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)

Root cause analysis of the rise of MAGA. @rweingarten.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you. Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it. We’re with you.

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

“I know tons of morally reprehensible people who read good books all the time.” —me lithub.com/books-arent-...

Here is a short Q&A thread on #COVID and #Flu vaccines for the upcoming respiratory virus season. I try to cover frequently asked questions. The good news is both vaccines will be available this fall though we need clarification on access to COVID vaccines for healthy folks <65. A 🧵