I’m deeply concerned about yesterday’s East Side law‑enforcement action & stand with Mayor Melvin Carter in calling for a full review of bodycam footage. We need to reinforce for our community the best way to show up & hold law enforcement at all levels accountable. Our community deserves better.

Whatever relative goodwill the SPPD had banked up was absolutely torched today by their actions on the East Side. Truly shameful. @melvincarter.bsky.social @mayorher.bsky.social I genuinely hope you understand how enraged and disgusted the people of our city are right now.

Hey twin cities friends! There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca. It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings. A great resource. Please share widely! monarcamn.org

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

KSMU's They Might Be Giants annual music marathon has begun! Streaming at KMSU.org. Rarities, requests, interviews and a live performance probably around 5:20 central. Tune in now!

How about “We spent $15M and all we got was this lousy slogan”?

From a St Paul Dept of Safety and Inspections email: construction permit for a new $11m CBP building construction permit at 670 Bayfield Street next to the downtown StP airport. Note location right near the runways. "Great" place to deport from! @mollycoleman.bsky.social @melvincarter.bsky.social

Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.

Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

On Halloween, “state-sponsored terror” in Chicago and the north suburbs. A @chicagotribune.com team effort on the feds’ actions on what’s supposed to be a special day for families and children www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

I honestly was told way more people would find this costume scary… Stay safe and dry and have a great time to everyone heading out tonight! #TrickOrTreat

🦇 Happy Halloween! 🎃 #resist

"Fences have become a scourge for anyone trying to walk around downtowns or working-class Twin Cities neighborhoods over the last few years. Instead of solving challenging problems, our governments have turned to fences that cut off necessary urban connections..."

I was one of hundreds at a Monarca upstander training just now, brilliantly taught by @mauratwit.bsky.social and others. If you want to learn extremely practical ways to show up for your neighbors, find a training and go! monarcamn.org

Twin Cities folks: info for how to be a good neighbor including trainings you can sign up for and attend monarcamn.org

Crushing images nymag.com/intelligence...

The second email on Sept. 15, also sent by AIPAC, encourages donations to Angie Craig in MN, Haley Stevens in MI and Laura Fine in IL-09 Links to all three of these candidates lead to the same "Pro-Israel Network" donation page using Democracy Engine as the vendor

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

This is AI.

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...

The first ever EP from Sparks, MADDER! - a 4-track companion piece to MAD! - is OUT NOW❗️ Listen/buy: transgressive.lnk.to/madder Tracklisting: 1. Porcupine 2. Fantasize 3. Mess Up 4. They

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

I de-facebook-ified it: leaflet.pub/c44e9235-1f9...

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Our liberation is in solidarity. it’s one fight for Stable Housing Living wages Food security Access to healthcare and, a Life free from violence Everyone everywhere—liberation. For the people not against the regime. Everyone everywhere, no exceptions. For our people. We can all be free.

The firm backed by US & ISRAEL guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found. This is beginning to look like Muslim persecution. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich announced his plan to annex the majority of the West Bank — a move explicitly designed to destroy any possibility of a Palestinian state. I denounce this this far-right attempt to implode prospects for peace.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

I wrote about American concentration camps. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...

It is a fantasy that “naturally gifted” means beginning with fluency at a level that others find valuable. Naturally gifted athletes spend their childhood in athletic activities. Mozart’s dad Leopold was one of the preeminent pedagogues in Europe. Beethoven’s dad beat him to train him as Mozart

It is literally the fact that it takes hard work, time, and attention paired with a unique point of view cultivated through effort and time that makes art valuable. “Naturally gifted” means that someone has a natural propensity to be interested in and spend time and effort in a particular medium

Imagine if you called the fire department because you were trapped in a burning house — but when they got there, they just waited outside for an hour, until they were sure the fire was out and it was safe to go in. www.startribune.com/new-details-...