Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

YOOOOO I JUST LOOKED AT THE TV SCHEDULE FOR THE PARALYMPICS STARTING IN TWO WEEKS AND THEYRE ACTUALLY AIRING EVENTS ON NBC IN PRIMETIME A FEW TIMES INSTEAD OF JUST TREATING IT LIKE AN INSPIRING STORY FOR ABLE BODIED PEOPLE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE TO BE GREAT AT SPORTS WOKE 2 BABY

Holy shit. I highly recommend y'all go look at the QuiltCon tag, or just OP's posts.

minneapolis city council member jason chavez saw hennepin county sheriff’s office doing crowd control enabling ICE to kidnap latino neighbors. “if we don’t like when ICE pepper sprays or throws gas bombs, why should we support local law enforcement doing those same tactics?” @jchavezmpls.bsky.social

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺

there's a serious need for more books and other materials that introduce Marxism and socialism to children and young adults

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

This is what I mean when I say the Epstein story is teetering on the edge of Satanic Panic lunacy, despite being the most important accountability moment of our lifetime. This YouTube channel with >7 million subscribers is claiming Epstein was growing mind control plants.

it’s also really funny how he’s all “it’s not about me! if i had known it’d be about me i wouldn’t have agreed!” but his whole thing is about making stuff about him. he can claim to be upset but he loves it. he lives for the attention. he’s probably already printed it out and framed it.

“Anything that makes people uncomfortable” is a bit of a mischaracterization considering i could not get books by Focus on the Family banned even though they make me deeply uncomfortable.

foie gras is good and geese are asking for it

You’re not saying it right unless it sort of sounds like your mouth is full of marbles

“Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm.”

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

Council Member Michael Rainville making Northeast Minneapolis proud on ABC's Good Morning America.

Fellas is it gay to enjoy the company of your bros in the cool, dark of the multiplex while sharing a buttery popcorn and a crisp Diet Coke

Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

They're remaking you for a modern audience. Yeah, sorry man. They're giving you a hyper realistic art style with no reverence for how your original color grading or art design looked. Your boss fights have new shitty mechanics and they redid all of your iconic voice acting. Your studio got laid off

this is Foucault's homo oeconomicus that Wendy Brown writes about in Undoing the Demos. her point is that it depoliticizes us; we cease to be political people under such neoliberal regimes. we can only produce, consume, augment our own value as capital.

I SCREAMED

I become more and more convinced that the AI is just right wing class war and the lack of white collar worker organisation due having been flattered for years as geniuses and fed like farm geese has just led to a colossal lack of awareness of the class interests going on.

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

“I will scale the building myself to tear that shit down in three years," says a former J6 prosecutor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ashley has raised millions upon millions of dollars for Minnesota. Our actual mayor has done nothing but go on TV.

It’s been a while since I wrote about conspiracy theories but since Cenk Uygur took the Epstein drop and used it to justify becoming a 9/11 truther, I had to. The last two weeks saw the resurgence of Wayfair & Pizzagate— and those theories aren’t travelling as QAnon anymore, they’re everywhere.

I hadn't cried about how much I love Minneapolis in a few days, so this was a good one to read: "Minnesotans will continue to keep Minnesotans safe until we rid the state of the federal occupation, just like lake ice is weakened by springtime sunshine and subsumed by the water below."

“Waste” is a hell of a frame to invoke at a time when the federal government is using this exact language to manufacture crises (MN daycares / CA hospice) to justify its border police to enact organized terror campaigns

I frequently pass a sign that's been up since 2020 that says "how many weren't filmed"

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

Instead the public is going to have to expend thousands of hours of time pressuring the city council and the administration just to MAYBE get back to last year's actual budget which would not even keep up with inflation???? How the hell does that make any sense? IT. DOES. NOT.

Americans will do The Most to keep their asses clean, but will straight up refuse to consider a bidet

Paying for software that treats you like a machine seems like a weird kink to me, but I bet they'll love this in corporations

BIG NEWS! The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed the $7 million Small Business Resiliency Fund I brought forward with my colleagues. This will support activation and small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge”. 1/

My armchair analysis is that it’s more likely to be stress from our collapsing empire than directly from the infections themselves, but im very much NOT anything approaching an expert in any of these fields.

Want a shot of good news today? Starbucks workers are continuing to organize their stores, win union elections, and fight back against corporate greed. Congrats to partners joining us this month in Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, & Ohio! ✊ Our union is better with you in it.

This is mostly a very good list but I am once again asking well-meaning people to stop assuming that the U.S. territories/colonies want statehood. If you don't live there, it's not your decision.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

i can only afford $25. please match or go more if possible. i cannot believe our disabled community members get thrown out onto the street!

Therapy is kicking my ass this month 🥴

Your reminder that America’s apparent inability to hold people in power accountable for anything is a *choice*

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

Keep in mind what war means. Even if you hate the regime. Mass death. Mass regional destabilization. Counter attacks. Blowback. Everything. Without legal authority

the Trump foreign policy of violence at will against whoever for whatever with total impunity will continue until the administration experiences a consequence