Goin down to the ocean! Gonna get myself a MAN!

I first wanted to write this last Thursday when the latest discourse was swirling, but took the weekend, and re-drafted opening not with the governor and his critics, but on the great Billy Bragg.

It's finally happeniiiing share.google/KlagPIzkD4Rk...

Awww, this is beautiful!

"Would Canada dare to intervene under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, which requires states to prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity?...When does Canada speak up and stand up in the face of atrocity?"

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

This is probably the story that has stuck with me the most over the last few weeks, because it's so heartbreaking and horrifying and so clearly represents thousands of personal traumas happening away from the cameras

liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

“I am sort of a spy" - street photographer Vivian Maier, born 100 years ago today.

Thanks to the roughly 60 people who took part in Toronto's solidarity ride for Alex Pretti, as well as to the over 100 other cities around the world who also hosted rides. Here's a video I recorded as the ride passed by Queen's Park. #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VikingBiking #StopICE

NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit-cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Florido was there when federal immigration agents whisked him away.

Canadian anti-Mcarthyism cartoon

The streets of Toronto will never be the same again in Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)

As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

Winter Stations is back! Toronto’s annual exhibition of temporary outdoor art installations at Woodbine Beach launches Feb. 16. I got to be part of this year’s jury, and here’s some of the winning entries that you’ll be seeing!

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Free Them All!

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Sunday, January 25, 2026, 9:05 pm. Built for winter. ❄️ Built for Canada. 🇨🇦

Obit of Paul Ullatitaq Idlout who appeared on the $2 bill in the 1970s alongside his father and four other men preparing for a hunt on Baffin Island. He later became an Anglican priest and the first Inuk bishop of any Christian denomination in the world. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

They live amongst us. A business in Kitchener, Waterloo supporting the ICE killjngs in Minnesota. Boycott: Grinning Garden Organics

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

"again watching a Canadian company profit from Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Again, the Canadian government is refusing to say whether this is a red line for granting future contracts to the armoured vehicle manufacturer — even as Roshel ramps up its lobbying efforts." bsky.app/profile/thet...

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

bsky.app/profile/anja... nonviolence is a strategic choice, and it's also a highly risky one *for participants*

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

so don't get too comfortable. #art

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

"What would I do to save the world if I were omnipotent? But I am not, so the question is trivial. What would I do to save the world if I were a middle-aged middle-class woman? Write novels and worry.”

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

"It's all too easy to make facile comparisons to the Nazis and to the Holocaust, and I've been on guard for that sort of thing my whole life. But the comparisons are valid now." — @davidnir.com Check out the full episode: www.publicnotice.co/p/life-in-be...

Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

It really doesn't matter *what* the threat is; deep, relationship-based organizing is ALWAYS how you effectively push back against those who would attack your community. Community and workplace relationship-building is NEVER a waste, it is trust-rooted, and there are no shortcuts.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

It’s perverse beyond description: my own government trying as hard as it can not to protect my city, but to enraged, attack, and destroy it, I campaign of pure malevolent aggression, conducted by US government paramilitaries against its own citizenry.

The people who think cities are dangerous hellholes where life is cheap could not be more wrong. I hate that people are suffering because of this lie.

Things continue. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls