Truly a perfect news alert

Love you Minneapolis (Saint Paul you’re cool too)

I still think this falls short of an Orange Ball forecast for #MNUFC but there’s hope!

Pledge by kick-off 2/28 to enter our prize drawing. Learn more at www.dgsunited.org/un... #MNUFC #UnitedCards4Good #DoGoodStuff

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Close!

J'accuse people.com/jack-hughes-...

It’s time, MNUFC

For years, we've chanted about unity and action. ¡VAMOS UNITED! In 2026, it hits different. ¡TENEMOS QUE GANAR! --- Get your membership here » mndc.sg/2026 (If you affiliated your season ticket with Dark Clouds, one of these is already reserved for you to pick up.)

Do you love soccer? Do you hate fascism? Have we got the sticker for you... All proceeds go to The Urban Village to support their work with the Myanmar Diaspora. GET EM » mndc.sg/fice

Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)

Am I doing imposter syndrome correctly?

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

Q: How are you able to think about @mndarkclouds.bsky.social merch at a time like this? A: mndc.sg/fice

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Él está aquí. The club has signed Colombian international attacking midfielder James Rodríguez to a guaranteed contract through June 2026, with a club option through December 2026. Details » https://utd.mn/4klMtQZ

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

Soul Asylum, 1992

I just realized that Greg Bovino and Tom Homan have exactly opposite haircuts

NEW: Reflections on a soccer Saturday, from a state under siege by the FIFA Peace Prize winner. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

A real Minnesotan spends their entire day’s ICE protest paycheck on pull tabs

Whose streets? Our streets. #IceOut

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Even with these temps, and the huge showing downtown for the protest, the neighborhood is crammed with patrolling whistle-wearers #IceOut

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

On Good Friday in 1963, the day Dr. King was arrested for protesting, a group of white clergymen wrote an open letter called "A Call to Unity." It said, essentially, "don't take the bait." Dr. King responded in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Here are ways you can take direct action » 🧵

I’m not part of any religion but if there was one that taught that all your favorite restaurants and coffee shops that shut down in your lifetime are open in the afterlife? Yeah, I might show up for church

We know you have loud voices. We know you have things to say. Gather and raise those voices together in grief, in defiance, and in celebration of what Renee Good was out protecting - that our immigrant neighbors make us who we are. One heart, one voice, one song. 🖤💙

It's heartbreaking that our community is once again forced to comfort each other after needless tragedy at the hands of overreaching authoritarians. We join our neighbors in their grief, their anger, and the unequivocal assertion that ICE does not belong here. Some things you can do »

buff.ly/s1EAgtm "You think you’re watching an ICE agent murder an innocent woman, but what you’re really watching is a federal agent being the victim of a domestic terrorist."

If he lasts as long over there as Wilfried Nancy, Eric Ramsay can still start the MLS season as the MNUFC manager

2026 sucks

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

OK but can I park here?

Putting seasonal depression on the back burner so I can focus on my wartime anxiety

Using a bus shelter heater to keep your pizza warm is the kind of NYE energy I like to see

NEW: The 2026 #FIFAWorldCup was priced beyond many fans' budgets. Comparing ticket prices dating back to 1994 shows the scale of next summer's mark-up, and where the steepest hikes were felt. With Andrew Witherspoon, for @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This one hurts on so many levels

it's really fucked up that the constant stream of stories about resurgent racism and toxic nationalism make me want to sit in my room and listen to morrissey

“I could almost count how many sales I made in the past three weeks, because the mall is empty." minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/16/k...

Damn it’s cold as hell in here today

I would like to dropkick this ball into the sun

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

No one has bid on the Ranjitsingh kit yet so I want to highlight how phenomenal this is:

NO BETTER TIME THAN THE END OF THE YEAR FOR AN END-OF-YEAR PARTY THAT PARTY IS TONIGHT (END-OF YEAR IS A TERM OF ART RELAX) The auction is live right now! » app.galabid.com/dc-2025