Vouching for Megan (easy to do because we’re married). She’s done a ton with this lovely family and if you could help it would be greatly appreciated. Also, fuck ICE.

Mega-vouching for @meganmk.bsky.social! We've been IRL friends for 15+ years and she’s been doing a lot to support this family for months. Let’s help this guy get resettled as he transitions to life apart from his family 💔

I'm raising money for a father who was detained for months and forced to "self deport" to his home country. The family sold all their belongings to come to the US so he has nothing there. If you can spare a few dollars to help him get a bed, a microwave, some necessities Venmo me at Megan-Kocher-7.

I haven’t thrown up, but I also find mammograms EXTREMELY painful. Surely there’s a better way.

I am begging one of the actual academics in this area to write a commentary for the Strib about the choice of research article they used to make a very broad and dismissive statement.

Thousands of immigrants were detained in Minnesota this winter. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who are now asking themselves whether they can safely stay, or even safely leave. (1) share.google/LU759CxFdYgG...

Look at this art from our talented child!

Unfazable Minneapolis

I could not help but cry as each of these passed. Minneapolis, I love you.

Liaison. After 15 years of having this word as part of my job, I finally get it right most times.

Very boring homeowner question—we need to get the yard mulched this year (it’s not doable by us alone) and the company we used in previous years didn’t answer my call last year. Any recommendations locally?

Oh no, I can’t do work and it’s gorgeous out!

Our kid is excited to get to use my knife. Help us find whittling resources.

Related to the immigration post—do any of our senators or representatives do anything to help families with relatives getting deported? There are some specific questions I’d like to ask if any of them are of actual assistance.

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FYI to people. I’ve offered to be Alexis’s overflow if demand is higher.

“It also means you help however you can, humbled by what you do not know, what you cannot say in another language, or how little control you have over another person’s future.” Feeling this so hard.

We're hiring a social sciences librarian who will have evidence synthesis responsibilities. ✨ Sharing here because that might intrigue some of you ✨! Also, some of you might like to live in Minnesota for reasons. 💙🏳️‍🌈 🛶🌳❄️🌲⛸️🌌... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/373...

Since this is doing numbers: This really lovely family has recently had the father forced to “self-deport” (flee the country to avoid worse government persecution). Things are rough for the remaining family and they could use your support.

My friend received the devastating news yesterday that her husband will have to “self deport”. Please help support her and her daughters if you can. This is heartbreaking.

I know need remains infinite for many families like this, but with the father now electing to leave for Ecuador rather than face deportation so he can possibly come back, the family remaining here needs additional support.

I'm spending this week teaching (virtually) for the Evidence Synthesis Institute - Canada and it feels so bad to be an American right now.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been gutted in Trump's proposed 2027 budget. It's not Groundhog Day. It's just happening again. Here's what you need to know and what you can do to take action right now. bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...

Boosting for the morning/Monday crowd. Please help this Minneapolis family if you can. The mother has been holding it together for her two daughters and it's been so hard.

Boosting for the morning/Monday crowd. Please help this Minneapolis family if you can. The mother has been holding it together for her two daughters and it's been so hard.

A wonderful family I know is asking for financial help: The husband/father has been in detention since January and they are hopeful he will be released this week, but need $ for legal fees and all the debt they have accrued in his absence. www.gofundme.com/f/bring-dad-...

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Working with this team is truly the best.

I had a little anesthesia yesterday (get your colonoscopy!), and my brain is not up to handling any April Fool's shenanigans. Please.

Interested in learning more about the Evidence Synthesis Institute? New 📄! ❤️ The Evidence Synthesis Institute: Building a High Impact Training Program and Supportive Community for an Emergent Area of Librarianship doi.org/10.18438/eblip30736

Hi all. Adopt a rent was alerted to 2 needs that are back rents for February & March and we do not have donors currently. One is A who was detained by ICE from December to February and thus lost his work permit & job. He owes just over $3000 for back rent including march. Can you chip in or share?

Question for parents (or anyone with some knowledge on it). I’ve successfully kept my kid off ChatGPT through educating them about various aspects of generative AI, but it seems like it becomes a bigger thing as they move towards high school. Especially for that age, how do you handle it?

Did not know how much I needed this holiday until I found out it existed. Petition to close the University of Minnesota. What could be more neutral than celebrating our state bird?

If you need ideas for where to shop instead of Target, I have an open offer to help anyone who asks. Ask in the replies and I’ll give you my best suggestions! Here are a few of my best recs, with an emphasis on how you can get curbside or delivery, if that’s part of the appeal of Target for you.

A research collaborator in Finland emailed today to say that her choir in a small town Finland has been singing Minnesota resistance songs. 🥹🫶🇫🇮🎶

Logged in to read this email first thing this morning and I'm so mad I almost flipped my desk. THERE IS NO NEUTRALITY! Let's just make the new UMN slogan "Gophers: We Stand for Nothing".

King Lear Winter’s Tale Midsummer Night’s Dream

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

Does any1 have a pile of effective & feasible evidence synthesis course assignments? Many librarians have exposure to suboptimal assignments (e.g., students expected to solo complete a systematic review in a few months while cutting many corners; by definition this is not a systematic review) 1/?

Personally vouching for this South MPLS request. Husband/father taken by ICE at his normal immigration appointment, he’s been the sole earner for the family here and his parents in Ecuador.

This sweet family has a little baby and a teenager. They went through so much to be here. Please give if you can.

This sweet family has a little baby and a teenager. They went through so much to be here. Please give if you can.

Thanks to a surge of support from a handful of local librarians (you know who you are!), we’re down to needing just $2000! Here’s a new graphic if you’d like to share on other platforms.

God, Brandi Carlile just makes me want to be gayer … somehow?

I've been friends with my best friend so long, our grandmas were high school best friends!

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Just remember that DHS is building concentration camps, and, if you built it, they will get filled.

Good morning. Abolish ICE. I’m going to highlight some fundraisers with low numbers in the thread.

My sister lives in Baldwin and ICE has been on the ground taking people for weeks, including dairy workers. As someone who grew up in rural northwestern Wisconsin, abducting and disappearing folks in less population-dense areas is TERRIFYING.

Justice Page is our neighborhood middle school and I've talked to kids that attend. They miss their classmates, they have frequent "code yellow" lock downs. Please help if you can.