People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

i think the auto body shop should find a different way to say “we’re almost finished with your car”

[Exit Bastard.]

more and more people are saying it every day

Hahaha People Mag comes out blasting

Just landed in Minneapolis. Anyone working on ICE watch or other mutual aid efforts, hit me up. Contacts are in my bio.

Logging in to blue sky

Kate Bush if she wrote the song in 2025

To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. —Percy Shelley

the rivers of my life: Little Blue Missouri Mississippi Salt San Diego

You may not know this but there are a significant amount of ICE agents who lost previous security jobs because they sat on someone

It’s gotta feel really good to be so hated that you have to wear a mask in public all of the time so your neighbors don’t know what your job is.

is this a kitchen table issue yet? or are we still doing the bull pawing at the ground motion over the price of eggs?

Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.

This is down the street from my son’s high school. It’s so disgusting that this is just happening in the open. You’re just going to pump gas, and it could be you or someone in the car next to you, and what kind of life is this??

GLOW-UP (1966), dir. Antonioni

The thrift store is a citizen archive

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

Cybertruck owners are a special breed

Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, directed by Atom Egoyan

No. My kids love Bowie. “Space Oddity” was one of the most requested bedtime songs for all four.

Renee Good is dead because the system was created to harass, assault and intimidate Renee Goods, and because the people who do it enjoy it. Trump II's meme reign seems determined to persuade the last people unconvinced of this.

The Kyle Farnsworth-Iowa mystery might have been just been solved 🕵️‍♂️

Gertrude Stein be like,

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

“Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons.”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent today

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

A quick glance around the gym at the kid’s basketball practice tells me the most popular basketball shoes among third graders are A’jas, Sabrinas, and Giannises.

this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad

This take down of Douthat is fantastic in substance and style. Great essay. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Back in 2015, when everyone was laughing at Floyd Mayweather for his illiteracy, I wrote an essay about how bad the illiteracy issue is, and the history of forcing illiteracy on Black people in this country. It wasn’t by chance or personal failure that he couldn’t read, it was by design.

Lovely little mushrooms in the backyard, sadly not chanterelle

I think Freudianism is an incredibly reductive way of reading human beings and I've been around enough English departments that I've seen it make people genuinely unable to talk sense. I read the current moment as one in which *adults* are choosing to *be so stupid* that Freudianism explains them

the Virgin Pregnant vs the Chad Hanging

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

For sale: physically correct male doll, unused

Sidenote: Helen DeWitt writing about the publication history of the new collaborative book is so funny because she thinks everyone is stupid and insufferable. helendewitt.substack.com/p/your-name-...

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Nine Delights 2026

reskeet for awareness