A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

A nice story on @kare11.bsky.social this morning on the #art project in #CommonsPark Downtown #Minneapolis with hearts from children saying what they like about the city #TheOccupation

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Here’s what I think we should do with the concentration camps. Ready? Let every detainee out. Give all of them citizenship and reparations with no strings attached. Dismantle the facilities brick by brick. Never open another one ever again.

Help save Mercado Central! www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

and y’all this is GOOD NEWS. even if you are not physically brave or not able to leave the house much, there are important things you can do.

Forming a PAC: Minnesotans Who Fucking Hate Amy Klobuchar

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As a new jerseyan who lives in minneapolis, yes i'm crying

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

#EvictionMoratorium NOW! #Minneapolis #StPaul #TheOccupation @governorwalz.mn.gov @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov @mayorfrey.bsky.social

Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez 💔

A good time to repost this about Ilhan Omar 💕

Thie would prevent me from ever being able to protest again, denying me my First Amendment rights. I thought the ADA was supposed to protect against this.

and if you want to donate, i found this directory that seems helpful: standwithminnesota.com

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

I’m proud to support @christin-with-mpls.bsky.social for Minneapolis School Board - At Large. She’s been organizing with parents and students on ways to keep them safe from the violence of ICE. We need bold leaders who are NOT afraid to take tangible actions for our students.

Joe Biden investigated my congresswoman bc she’s a lefty Somali immigrant but he let Donald trump do an insurrection and become president

Greg Ketter has spent nearly five decades selling comic books and science fiction novels at DreamHaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis. This week, his phone hasn’t stopped ringing.

Anybody else worried about what our mayor and governor promised the president yesterday? “More cooperation?”

File on very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very BADDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I will say, the agents I have seen escalate tensions and act with complete disregard to human life are BORTAC - border patrol's tactical unit - which is the one Bovino was particularly fond of. So if they are leaving, this is a positive thing. HOWEVER: ICE is still here.

THEY HAVE BODYCAMS WHY ARE THESE SENATORS CONVINCED THEY DON'T

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

well, this is good. The Truth Commission we establish in 2029 after passing the Renee Good and Alex Pretti Act will want to have many further words with him. But it's good he's leaving.

brass solidarity band performing “ain’t no stopping us now” at pimento in minneapolis, blocks from where alex pretti was murdered by border patrol agents. truly the best of this city ❤️❤️❤️

Activating the national guard "to assist local police" is categorically NOT the same as activating the national guard to protect protesters. Just saying.

derek chauvin was a minneapolis police department trainer too

"We can't take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone" Minnesota has always been and will always be a refuge. Pour into helping each other and in pouring love into our collective future. We encourage everyone to head to standwithminnesota.com to contribute as able.

Evening update! 💕 We have some new folks on the wishlists and are working on a way for Amazon avoidant folks to sponsor filament! 💕 If you need whistles, want to help, or want more info on printing: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Modern Times is a South Minneapolis staple, and a personal favorite haunt. For the duration of the occupation they're renaming themselves Post Modern Times and going to a donation-only model. Everyone but ICE can eat for free. Donations: Venmo: moderntimescafe givemn.org/story/centralimpactfund

This hit so fucking hard today.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Reminder: - Nothing being reported on ICE withdrawing - By govt’s own admission, 2,000 ICE invaders here, a still-astounding number - Unclear how many CPB agents will be removed - Tom Homan, the new Bovino, was the force behind ICE’s family separation policy, a bribe-taker, and a monster

you will be *shocked* to learn that the author of the piece is a raving transphobe herself. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic....

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The police and state brutality that we are seeing on the streets of Minneapolis and other places is not a new phenomenon--Democratic presidents also funded ICE and pushed for mass deportations. This is not a Republican or Democratic move — it is a settler-colonial move.

Gonna keep boosting this

memorial to alex pretti and renee good in loring park. “we hold these truths to be self evident” written in the snow on the lake

I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.

This is Minneapolis: A neighbor sold some silver jewelry she inherited from her grandparents to cover rent for a neighbor who hasn't been able to work during these 7 weeks of federal occupation and is at risk of eviction. We need an eviction moratorium NOW. And resources for food delivery.