For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

everyone should see this. it's repression, occupation. (doesn't even make the home page of the paper of record ffs)

Happening now in Minneapolis in response to ICE abuse in hospitals. More on the abuse story from CBS news here: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

The Trump administration is putting as many bureaucratic snares in the legal pathways to residence, work, naturalization so that it can permanently block non-whites from citizenship pathways, or deny them retroactively.

SUPERCAMPIONS 🏆

The standard for receiving asylum in the US is "credible fear of persecution" but what happens when the country providing asylum is the one persecuting you now?

This is state terror - "Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening" DHS to target 5,600 green card applicants of Somali decent. A nightmare for 1000s of individuals & families. Who's next? Green card holders? Naturalized citizens? www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

Becca Good’s statement on the murder of her wife Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. “On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If you want trustworthy news out of MN, I can't recommend Sahan Journal enough - "a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota. Our diverse staff creates exceptional journalism..." Couldn't agree more.

My vote's for Kennedy Cancer since RFK Jr seems to suffer from Chappaquiddick's Sarcoma -- where you exhibit a virulent disregard for any life that is not your own.

It's not a familiar term, but it's what seems to apply: autarky. Naomi Klein calls it End Times Fascism. It's a fantasy of self-sufficiency, individual sovereignty, Ayn Randian will-into-being megalomania, all wrapped in a fools desire to cheat death. It's what Col. Kurtz tried to do in the jungle

Pattern and practice. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

TODAY: EMERGENCY RALLY IN RESPONSE TO ICE KILLING MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTER 6PM FOLEY SQUARE

So it's the First Opium War, but for oil. Protect US dominance in oil, open Venezuela to foreign dominance (again), and get compensation for your own invasion costs. Exact same agenda. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_O...

Only mobsters, war criminals and gangsters shoot the witnesses... take your pick on who's who btw ICE, CPB, and DHS. The FBI are there as consiglieres to perjure themselves later. All under the color of law. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

“The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent?” Pope Leo, midnight mass

my phone timer today is set to discreet intervals, from "better go check on them" all the way up to up to "oh shit, I've got stuff in the oven!" So far, so good - Russian Tea/Mexican Wedding Cookies

phony Bari-mania has bitten the dust

"The level of violence and killing [in Sudan] demonstrates for us that basic humanity is under attack." HRW’s Nicole Widdersheim testified last week at the hearing "Stopping the Bloodshed: U.S. Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Sudan." Learn more:

Great article. "David Ellison’s plan for Paramount, insofar as it is one, reveals two things. First, David Ellison wants the Netflix multiple on his company. Second, he doesn’t understand how anything works."

FIFA is spitting in fans' faces. I remain convinced that the only way to influence this is to go after the sponsors, who presumably prefer not. to spit in their customers' faces.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

I don't care if it rains or freezes as long as I've got my plastic jesus riding up there on the dashboard of my car. I can drive 100 miles and hour 'long as i got the almighty power sitting up there next to my pair of dead saint's eyes

"In 1992, a small group of Somali men living in South Dakota answered an ad about work... [a group then] acted as sahan, a Somali word that means something between a pioneer and a scout who confirms reports, and came to Minnesota to see if the rumors [of employment] were true."

“I deserve to be here like anyone else — I’m a U.S. citizen,” he said. “I can’t even step outside without being tackled — no question — because I’m Somali.” sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Love thy neighbor. religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...

Ogow xuquuqdaada Know your rights! Conoce sus derechos Join Legal Aid Attorneys Michelle Gonzalez and Ahmed Madey on Facebook (@ legalaid) or YouTube (Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid) Monday, Dec. 8. • Soomali - 12 p.m. • English - 12:30 p.m. • Español - 1 p.m.

Report by Abdinasir Ali for the BBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIYP...

I'm working with Somali American youth who came of political age after the murder of George Floyd. They are pissed, passionate, and determined to protect their community. you poked a proud bear, Mr. President.

The vast majority of Somali people in Minnesota are proud citizens just like this little tyke.

Just wondering for no particular reason, can a polycule be parasocial?

In 1978 Somalia told the Soviets to shove it. Reagan responded with $100M annually to support the dictatorship of Said Barre -- a dictatorship that eventually and spectacularly collapsed in 1990 leading to civil war and mass exodus to Kenya & Ethiopia, later the US through refugee resettlement...

Since 1990 Somalis have come to the US through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). That makes them both documented and legal. There are about 700 Somalis on TPS status, who are also documented and legal. They will harass an entire pop of over 100k to look for like 12 undocumented people?

Another way Musk is subsidized by US tax payers. The foundation warehouses Tesla stock to keep the price up. Musk takes a tax credit for his "donations" of stock he wants off the market. Fails to give 5% required by law. Keeps the tax break.

Sundance Ignite Fellowship Emerging filmmakers (ages 18 to 25) Submission Deadline: February 12, 2026 collab.sundance.org/catalog/2026...

"A year later, I sense that many people I know who live in the U.S. feel a little disappointed in themselves. Somehow, if we imagined living under full-blown fascism at the Federal level, we believed we would be different." open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Many people they are detaining for deportation are asylum seekers, people who fled violence, or fear violent repression in their home country The admin has fired nearly 4 dozen immigration judges who refused to dismiss asylum cases to give legal cover to DHS deportations The law they're breaking👇

"Today, hunger and starvation are used by the RSF and army as a strategic weapon of war...But these deadly tactics of obstruction, displacement, and starvation alone cannot account for the crisis levels of hunger people are currently facing." transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

You stunningly beautiful man! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪! #IREHUN

Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...

Sudan can seem like two well-armed egos battling it out while the Sudanese people starve, but this excellent article by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social gives essential context for - "A hunger crisis triggered by the current war but decades in the making" transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction

"Their government encouraged workers like them to find jobs in Saudi Arabia & send their savings back to Kenya... they faced abuse, exploitation and neglect...They had children outside of marriage. & now they are trapped." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w... By Vivian Nereim and @lattif.bsky.social

In personal news, I nailed it with Arepa de Huevo this morning. 🇨🇴🇻🇪😋

Hammurabi's Code's clearly demands a rye for rye for sandwich guy. Hambarrassing.

Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

This just sucks. RIP Teen Vogue, long live Lex McMenamin!

Kenyan clean sweep at the New York Marathon today

My new essay in the WSJ about the essential role that enslaved labor played in America's capitalist takeoff. Born in Blackness. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness