Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community

Rode in Babes in Bikeland yesterday, my first alleycat. Had a great time until the heat exhaustion kicked in! Cool ride, brutally hot day for it.

Highly recommend catching up on Count Binface in the UK. Absolutely spot on, haven't laughed that heartily in a while.

The Count Binface stuff happening in the U.K. is a real good bit. Hope everybody subjects themselves to British politics long enough to look it up. The British version of Trump really will be spending the summer fighting with a sentient trashcan.

Personally not a big fan of the Supreme Court of the United States.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

10 years ago, I would have laughed in your face if you'd have told me to use Duck, Duck, Go as my search engine, but it's clearly the best choice now.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

I love this fierce poem from @franwilde.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social : www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-me...

May Day in Minneapolis is the best.

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

Obligatory May Day post

Minnesota's wounds from the ICE occupation are still deep, this fallout is still affecting our neighbors. (Read the whole thread.)

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

I see what you did here!

When Trump dies and people celebrate that fact, show this to anyone who complains.

#OnThisDay Mar 11 1893: Wanda Gág is born in New Ulm, Minnesota. After graduating from the Minneapolis School of Art, she writes the classic "Millions of Cats" in 1928, the prototype for all modern children's literature. Today it remains the oldest American picture book still in print.

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

Someone create a photo gallery of midwesterners in pajamas and robes telling the paramilitary troops to eat shit

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Keep working, keep dancing, keep your neighbors' spirits up, oh and fuck ICE!

Good start. Now let's talk about state funding during the upcoming legislative session and an eviction moratorium.

Yes, I’m buying groceries for multiple families now.

our hennepin county delegate is the guy who measures the ice at lakes on his bike and posts it to reddit www.southwestvoices.news/stories/meet...

extremely funny to do this with a 14 seat restaurant that’s been open for 75 years

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Fascinating, DOE is working around regulation by editing Department Orders, apparently without opportunity for public comment.

Absolutely. I have never, ever, heard anyone say this in real life. It's a myth (a RACIST myth) that gets repeated by national news only. People call the neighborhood Cedar Riverside, full stop.

Judge Schlitz is not exactly a firebrand and in no way a liberal judge. This is remarkable.

In case you missed it, Congress passed funding for most federal science agencies, with most receiving shallow cuts, just slightly less than under Biden. This is a HUGE repudiation of the administration's war on publicly-funded science (and a repudiation of DOGE in particular).

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

ICE *and* emerald ash borers OUT

Can’t believe this even has to be said but peaceful protects are legal. These arrests are complete bullshit.

Help these ladies keep their neighborhood safe and warm up with a cup of tea! They could really use it today, while their neighborhood is blighted by white supremacists. The Venmo ID for Cedar Riverside Protection Alliance is CRwork26. Thanks @wedge.live for the great suggestion and Venmo info.

If you’re in the Twin Cities and want to do the most minimal thing to annoy ICE, drive the fucking speed limit. These goons get so angry when 20 is plenty.

Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more. *I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.

Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

ICE is making the police department’s job borderline impossible. They’re actively causing a lot of chaos AND they’re frightening people into a level of non-cooperation that is unsustainable. MPD has issues but has spent years trying pretty hard to rebuild some trust; feds are torching it for fun.

National treasure is right! Let's keep Goddard Spaceflight Center funded and functional. (Including their library!)

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...

I live in Ward 11, and was wondering why she challenged the DFL-endorsed candidate last election. Guess now we know why.