happy holidays!

Private property owners and leaseholders: You can post a notice saying you do not authorize certain immigration enforcement activities, such as staging for an operation. ➡️ Read more: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/city-federal-response/business-owners-common-questions

Ruby the mountain lion doing a big stretch

Let’s keep helping our neighbors! Whether you are informing people and businesses of their rights or shopping on Central Avenue or in Cedar Riverside, you are helping. Thanks for stepping up and making Minnesota proud.

Thought: One generation’s virtue is the next generation’s symptom

I assume it is pronounced “cutie” 🥰

I should start using this one as a reaction image

Our “second-look” teams have helped hundreds of people have a chance at a better life. I am extremely proud of their work.

MINNEAPOLIS TURKEY PARTY 🦃🦃🦃

I’ve been a bit absent lately with a very busy holiday schedule. With a full day off, Debbie has been lovingly attached all day. So nice to be home. #catsofbluesky

My son, who is nearly nine, is quite tall for his age. Here he is standing in front of a truck we saw downtown yesterday. It wasn’t even lifted—this is just how tall the front is.

After the Trump Administration is over, there has to be a reckoning to respond to the "massive & serious human rights violations" occurring now. We cannot "just move on." It is critical all of us call for some form of transitional justice in the wake of all this. www.ictj.org/what-transit...

If you'd like to get me a Christmas present, a donation to the Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social would be lovely. They get supplies to people in need in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. If you follow me on OnlyFans, show me your donation receipt and I'll send you a little treat.

Cities are liberatory because it’s hard to control people who have a lot of options.

Ice is brittle ice is weak Leave us alone, you f-ing creeps

We’ve Only Just Begun earns its medal when Karen’s voice cracks slightly on the opening “to live”. Life exists in the cracks. #AT40

Big ICE out of Minneapolis protest going down Lake Street. I dont care how or why someone is here. We are all children of God.

Okay, fellow survivors of child sexual abuse: It’s December 29, 2025, and you get to log off. You don’t have to look at this shit, now or ever. I love you, solidarity, take care of yourselves ❤️‍🩹

I agree with Senator Dibble: the actions of the U.S. House are cruel. The President and congressional Republicans are trying to bully and make life more dangerous for trans people. Join me in rejecting this attack.

Attacks on gender-affirming care are attacks on kids, families, and medical professionals. Senator Scott Dibble condemns federal efforts to criminalize lifesaving care and stands with transgender youth. Read Sen. Scott Dibble's full statement here: senatedfl.mn/senator-scot...

Today my husband @chugarden.bsky.social and I did identical Wordles independently, both in 4. On our 9th wedding anniversary!! Here are our first three words ASTER ROUND CRIMP

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article

March 1933: Dozens of historic places across Germany, including the Main Market Square in Nuremberg, Central Stadium in Stuttgart, and prestigious institutions such as the Martin Luther School, are renamed for Adolph Hitler. They all returned to their original names after the fall of the regime.

it’s not a security or crime crisis it’s a mental health and housing crisis

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go

favorite spice girl (wrong answers only)

Another of my favorites from the whole run

Ever wonder why the algorithm and our cultural overlords want you miserable? It’s because joy is resistance. Joy lets us know that there are things worth fighting for. That’s why they want to take it from you. Don’t let them. Fight to find joy, so you can fight for your values. #joy #advent #sermon

🎵 Frost in my whiskers 🎶

Saint Paul in snow

I used to teach Nabokov’s book as a horror story about a monster that goes unnoticed by adults because they don’t want to see it. Somehow that’s relevant to today’s image dump from the oversight account, and I still think it was the correct way to teach the book.

Q: Whether there ever was such a thing as Change of Sexes? A: We are not without several Affirmative Instances; I will only recite Two, which are (Athenian Mercury/Gazette, London, published in the 1690s and anthologized in the early 18th century) archive.org/details/bim_...

The stereotype content model continues to be analytically useful. It puts stereotypes of out groups in a 2x2 matrix: Are we emotionally cold toward the group, or warm? And are they competent or incompetent? The worst, most violent stereotypes are in the cold but competent quadrant. 🧵

About to watch a livestream of my child's first band concert because in-person events were canceled due to the very real threat of federal agents using the opportunity to take away students or their families

Send us your art submissions to make available to the public. Let’s cover our city in visuals of solidarity w/ our immigrant neighbors & make it clear that we protect one another. More info & graphic guidelines at defend612.com/callforart/ Art here from Just Seeds, Roger Peet & Carlos Barberena

With official proclamations St. Paul City Council said goodbye to 6 longtime public servants, including Melvin Carter, Russ Stark and Fire Chief Butch Inks. Also recognized were planners/project leads Ross Currier, Paul Dubruiel and Marie Franchett www.twincities.com/2025/12/17/s...

I’m queer because of this

“My texture is the best fur, chinchilla”

I hate when people have “ugly Christmas sweater” parties and I can’t participate because all my Christmas sweaters are beautiful 😔

People are freezing and there are unverified rumblings that ICE is hitting warming centers - whether or not it's true, just the rumors will keep people from seeking safety. Please help a trusted person we know reach folks who are freezing and scared.

In this ongoing occupation of Minneapolis, Defend the 612 is committed to uplifting and supporting city-wide coordination between autonomous neighborhood response groups that are rising up to resist the abductions, kidnapping and deportation of our neighbors. (1/4) Learn more at defend612.com

There’s a part of my town that has been completely overrun with wild horses and feral cats. It’s a really bad neighpurrhood. ...and send

Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)

Hey, fellow Minnesotans. This fucking sucks, and it's perfectly okay to be less than your best right now. Hug someone today if the opportunity presents itself. (Physically is most effective, but online hugs are a completely free currency too.) Have a day that sucks in community with others!

@amyklobuchar.com I am a trans man who worked tirelessly for the DFL in volunteer and in employed capacities, including getting the vote out for you in 2018 in one of the most conservative parts of the state. I am beyond frustrated that you would vote to make the federal govt ignore my humanity.

This is the war on Christmas - it could be a tweet from Herod’s ministry of war. This is the sort of blasphemy that ought to enrage Christians everywhere. Jesus’ birth story is of a family forced to leave their home due to an authoritarian ruler and political violence. The context is right there.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

A question for the older-than-me people: Has there been another time you can remember when there was such a persistent feeling among so many people of “holy shit things are bad”?