Mass deportation has ONLY negative effects. There’s no upside. None.

Incredible article, looking forward to checking out this local art.

Iranian artists in Minnesota respond to war www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

My God. Earlier this year, walking through uptown and seeing many people just openly using hard drugs and having open fires. I can see why such behavior is a problem and why neighbors and business owners would want it addressed. The solution? Lies about what a library is allowed to be used for.

I was handcuffed/charged with jaywalking (didn’t) holding a large camera taking a photo of street outside this McDonald’s. While detained, MPD ignored multiple burglary calls. I had to take it all the way to trial where they tried to shake me down for a plea before dismissing 1 min before trial.

War means a windfall for fossil fuel companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

You have about 40 minutes to send your testimony, or sign up to testify at the hearing tomorrow. Here's info on how to do either of those: www.senate.mn/schedule/com...

I’ve been informed this is the plot of Dune

The Pope intercepting JD's prayers www.instagram.com/reel/DOoNnof...

Also i'm sorry but if you're a bar owner you should not be complaining about parking. If you own a bar you should be encouraging your customers to find alternatives to driving and drinking.

Not to be a bitch or anything but the Lowry was not that great? The owners have several other restaurants which are all “fine.” That’s there whole business model. It’s too bad they are closing I agree. We do need tolerable places to gather in the absence of something better.

You're not paranoid the really are watching you.

When Alex Pretti was shot, a lot of the initial reports referred to it happening in front of Glam Doll Donuts. That isn't not true, but assuming the memorial was created where he was actually killed, Peninsula would be the business where he died most directly in front of.

So now HCMC is being used as a stadium boondoggle? Dear lord. Who fucked this up so badly? Can we please get our head straight and fix this emergency without the profiteers? Ugh.

Will ignoring the problem help?

we have a problem with stalkers not being treated with the gravity this dangerous issue requires. sam sencer mura spoke of struggling to decide to run again after melissa hortman’s murder, this will drive away good public servants taylordahlin.com/f/emily-kosk... taylordahlin.com/f/jamison-wh...

Vance failed? JD Vance?

🌱 #SundayYellow Not a Wisley tulip but one of mine growing in my tiny garden! I will definitely buy more of these in the autumn. Off to Wisley’s Hilltop this morning.

I feel like I can usually pass as a normal person but every once in a while I am made aware that the normies can totally smell my weird out right away. I don't really know how-- it's something about my energy or the way I talk but perhaps also my clothes and hair I'm not sure.

Happy antifa Friday

Red Lake Nation College receives record $7M donation from Mackenzie Scott More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/red-lake-nation-college-receives-record-7m-donation-from-mackenzie-scott

Congrats to all the amazing journalists at @sahanjournal.bsky.social for this recognition. Well deserved! share.google/PVSoruwhFMvQ...

This was a good talk about this new book "Making Mill City" and the book itself looks quite nice.

Day 3 of biking. Sore but Soaring. Saving money and building up my calves.

NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...

📍 Iran | We are devastated by the news of the killing of our colleague Alireza Sohbatloo, a relief worker from the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), who died in an airstrike on 31 March while providing critical humanitarian support at a medical clinic in Zanjan.

3rd Espionage Act prosecution of a media source 1.25 years into this administration. This is troubling. I've written in the past about why such prosecutions are worrying, and am currently working on a piece that explains that the current administration's vindictiveness raises even greater concerns.

This is where things are at right now with arts criticism. Former Art and Architecture critic at WAPO Philip Kennicott is getting a change in job title, with his beat expanding to include "memes" and "viral photographs."

BikeMN is back at the Capitol today preventing well intentioned but misguided helmet mandates. We are 100% pro helmet usage. But legally mandated usage doesn't accomplish a safer biking environment in Minnesota. Read our latest ⤵️⤵️⤵️ www.bikemn.org/on-mandatory...

Challenger.

I got a jump start on this year's Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and have some recommendations — from scrappy, locally produced gems to soaring narratives from around the globe. Opens April 8! www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...

I guess biking season is starting earlier than usual for me what with the economy and war and everything.

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

God help us.

Great idea to cut transit funding right at the outbreak of a prolonged oil shortage. Minnesota lawmakers should do precisely the opposite of what Walz is proposing. streets.mn/2026/04/07/t...

Poetry and science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don't think the D party is going to feel anywhere near as invested in stopping aoc as they were in stopping sanders. 1

I used to dance in public all the time. Somewhere along the line, between some bad experiences and a shift in my self consciousness and other factors, I stopped dancing almost entirely.

Another person has died in ICE custody. Tuan Van Bui, 55, died on April 1. ICE waited until the holiday weekend to say anything. At least 15 people have died in ICE custody this year.

Lately I've been trying to write the thing I'm trying to say without writing all the things it is not as a way to distinguish from the other things. Just letting the thing live on its own.

Really sad to learn about the passing of Dave Bicking this morning. He was a longtime advocate for police accountability in Minneapolis. I hope someone writes a deep retrospective of his work and the systemic changes he championed over the decades. www.caringbridge.org/site/public/...

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple. The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.

Almost half of the people arrested by federal agents this winter in Minnesota have already been deported, according to new data released to the @deportationdata.org through a FOIA lawsuit. It's the clearest picture yet of federal activities in the state. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Fun fact: these have been repurposed and are called Art-o-mat, they dispense cigarette carton sized art. Clark Whittington installed the first Art-o-mat at an art show in 1997 that dispensed black & white photographs for $1.00 each. Now there are about 200 all over the world with over 400 artists

An illegal electric motorcycle injured a Hastings woman. Media keeps calling it an e-bike. That mistake has real consequences. Learn what we're doing about it ⤵️⤵️⤵️ www.bikemn.org/media-keeps-...