I love winter at my parents’ house

Inside you there are two wolves...

Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning

Reminder: The use of tear gas as a method of warfare is prohibited under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

Listen I love Lake Superior SO MUCH do you know how annoying the text you post next to photos of Lake Superior has to be for me to consider blocking you

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

I genuinely love finding resources and answers and connecting people to just the right piece of info. So of course, librarian! Being emotionally invested in accuracy and information literacy feels kind of like a curse in the current timeline 🙃

YUP

Someone knocked over the fist on the north side of George Floyd Square. It seems like maybe a car ran into this? B and I couldn’t move it alone and didn’t want to break it more. If you have a truck or a group of helpers, maybe you could help?

What ceasefire

(Gift article) I know this is a complicated and confusing issue but I’ve gotta be honest, literally every additional thing I learn makes it seem like the U Regents and President Cunningham are not only 200% the problem but also all around shitty people

Twice in the last few weeks patrons have sent in a list of references they want and it’s been AI generated and ✨mostly made up✨. The one yesterday had one (1) real reference that also was actually about the given topic that they’d asked ChatGPT about out of twelve total.

Tonight, the Department of Homeland Security announced that on Tuesday they detained 14 of our neighbors on immigration charges. What they initially reported as a targeted criminal enforcement action was in fact an identity-based raid on people who had done nothing but show up for work that day.

It’s Trans Day of Remembrance. Thinking of all those we’ve lost, and all those who are in danger right now. We deserve a world where trans folks live and thrive without a fight - but until then friends, please know we have your backs 💜💜💜

Been thinking about Lake Street raid & Bro-Tex — Lake St w/MPD on-site for “crowd control” & Bro-Tex w/no StP PD, & relative impact on protestors … but Strib notes Lake St — justified by Frey/Witt as a drug bust — has so far netted only an immigration conviction. www.startribune.com/federal-agen...

happy International Men's Day to trans men only, you guys worked your asses off to earn this and are playing the game on a level cis men cannot even imagine

Defend our local striking Sbux workers!

Hey, why didn’t @governorwalz.mn.gov say anything about Ice operating 5 miles from his house today?

Fucking cowards and assholes, which we knew. This ain’t new for ICE. They are and *always have been* scum. ICE needs to be abolished, and there need to be long term consequence for the behavior of every. Single. Agent.

Hello hello friends, I just got a call back from the HCL director regarding the message I left for him yesterday. Overall, pretty positive results? 1/?

This is super messed up. And also - library admin cave to public response consistently. So we as community members have to be as loud as the objectors.

This happening by and large because I am a trans person who demanded I be respected and I was met with mockery. Deciding to try and purge the trans person who is attempting to call you to account is a fucking wild choice, but hey, TERFs will be TERFs.

I have a harder and harder time justifying having lefty queer people in general engage with a party that is so hostile to them. I hope we can find a way to bring them in to not just Stonewall, but the party as a whole. It’s not too late, but we don’t have a lot of time left either. It’s now or never

“There’re about a thousand of us.”

We gotta fix this house friends 💜

I’m not a young person anymore (idk maybe I still count as one to the DFL 🥴) but in my experience, young people aren’t fans old people who are full of bullshit and double standards. There, that’s my branding advice @dfl.org

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

New full time job liking every MSP aurora photo. If I haven’t gotten to you yet apologize 😔

The sky said trans rights

I will NOT be sharing how often I listen to this song with my friends, thanks tho Apple

Dear god

I honestly want so much for Minneapolis but at the core what I want is for us to be able to make our own decisions without constantly getting drowned out by money and voices from people who don’t fucking LIVE HERE

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ go home 🕯️ 🕯️ jacob 🕯️ 🕯️ GO HOME 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Good luck to everyone who is campaigning on their belief that a better world is possible! Jeers to all candidates promising orderly management of the decline!

Thank goodness Election Day is in November so I can try to cover up my stress with Christmas music? I guess???

Someone I phone banked texted back and said PLEASE don’t ask people who they’re voting for, and I honestly think part of the reason we’re currently in a hellscape is because we don’t talk enough about who we vote for and why and also our salaries. It’s not rude to ask, and it’s not weird to share!

Please take a few minutes to read this whole thread!

nasri warsame, who is banned from the DFL after his role in the 2023 riot at the ward 10 convention, has endorsed jacob frey

Sometimes I think people forget that, in 2021 Rent Control got more votes than Jacob Frey did.

This is just… evil. I can’t imagine that this is what the equal treatment rule was written for. Has it ever been used this way?? Just. One more literally evil thing to add to the list

Good morning Minneapolis Bluesky! The weather is a very breezy 46 deg, the early voting line is approximately 15 minutes, and it is apparently National Deviled Egg Day 🎉 Its a great day to vote for a new mayor 💜💜💜 I ranked Davis, Fateh, Hampton. And also my girl Aisha obviously

“We need the mayor to counter Trump” say donors who do not want to counter Trump

We went to high tea 💅💅💅

Having non politics things to think about is good and makes my mental health better but then occasionally those things also make me mad and then I’m forced to admit that world is on fire but I’m *also* still mad at Susan for fucking sacrificing my character’s life for a level 1 fetch quest last week

Words can’t describe how much I love this 😌

Cities by definition have new people moving in if they’re healthy. You get a city where the only new residents are literal infants being born, your city is dying! People who think you have to be born here to count are extremely suspect and I question how far their nativism goes 👀

I wish we had a spending limit for local elections and a corresponding glossy mailer limit 😭

Listen do you know how much I want a candidate to dig in to how much money we spend on police misconduct settlements *every freaking year*

Someone put a sticker in our apartment lobby that said “no one cares about your fantasy team” and I’m so dumb I was like… the Avengers?? Before I remembered fantasy football is a thing 💀

Irene Fernando is an outstanding commissioner, and this statement is so thorough and fair. I wish our broken paper of record would report on the fact that Hennepin County commissioners are not only not endorsing Frey, but publicly calling him out. Like. They don’t want to do that. It’s a big deal.