These are the kinds of Americans that actually make the country great.

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

Running Nazis out of town and then whimsical cardboard sleds at Powderhorn - you just have to love Minneapolis.

...it's January 16th

Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures. Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people. Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's secondary to how they're behaving but even if they were sweethearts the idea of federal agents operating in masks under any circumstances is preposterous. Insane that it's been allowed to go on this long

No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

Folks, I need your help. I want to run a Rapscallion AP set in the world of Pasha the Storm. But in order to get any kind of marketing budget from my publishers, I need preorders. If you want to see me run a table of bawdy pirates through a magical action-adventure fantasy, snag yourself a copy.

Important question - How gay is it?

exceptionally gay! it's gay from page one when the washed up pirate queen, Pasha the storm is kidnapped, looks up at the hot mean nonbinary politician half her age holding her leash and says "hello gorgeous, come here often" it's like THAT gay

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

@chronotope.aramzs.xyz I was poking around on goodreads and l wondered if you've read 13 Bullets by David Wellington?

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This is a longshot, but... any people in Austin or thereabouts who work for the library system? The short version is we have some books that people like, but which we printed wayyyyy too many of, and I would love to donate a LOT.

*does a little dance* I'm going to see Chess on Broadway! 17 year old me just died of jealousy

Honestly hilarious. "This is eggs" 😂

He gave a bunch of Nazi salutes and out came the super soakers (pic from Mpls subreddit)

[alt text added] Is it "depraved indifference" for: an ICE agent to threaten a visibly 9-months pregnant lawyer with a canister of pepper spray toward her face for politely asking the agent to leave the law office's private parking lot they were trespassing in and park in the govt lot instead?

Please share this. More importantly, please *do* some of these things. There isn't anybody but us, you understand. There won't be some better person coming along to lead you. It's *you*. You reading this. It has to be you.

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once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of businesses in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. The Observer identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

@swordsjew.bsky.social if you haven't read The Ministry of Time, I hope it's on your tbr list. You'll find a connection to arctic expeditions!

Probably the definitive drama for archivists - an epic of housing policy and local authority corruption - and also pleasingly based in archival research. When you see Labour Party leaflets and posters in the programme, they're modelled on examples from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social.

I will never stop telling people shot hour great the knee braces I got from Bibi are. Also, the cute little bonus sticker she sent with them adorns my ereader case

This crew of comrades offer some of the best training and they are generously offering another on Monday. It is a virtual session and they have asked this to be shared in particular with MN folks if you want to join. Open to others too.

An interesting thread to take a break from the horrors. Word nerds and theater kids, this is for you especially

We’re drawing strength from each other and the other side can only tear each other down. We will win.

It's about bodily autonomy and the kinds of rights to medical privacy and agency that Roe v Wade protected. I warned anyone who listened that overturning it would be as catastrophic for the trans community as it would for reproductive rights.

My non professional tip for adding Alt Text to an image is to pretend you want to show me something on your screen and you yell "Arnica, come see this!" And I reply "Babe, I'm frying you homemade donuts, can you just DESCRIBE it to me?" Whatever you would holler to me is the Alt text!

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

In custody she repeatedly asked to see a doctor. "It was not until I lost consciousness in my cell that I was finally taken to a hospital." She wasn't a protester She wasn't an agitator. She was just trying to get to the doctor & as a woman with disabilities & autism was confused by ICE's orders.

Extremely difficult to be Queen Shit.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

Fluffy Babies.

Finding out that the director of Heated Rivalry started out by directing Letterkenney didn't break me as much as finding out he also played Pastor Gary.

Snail helm is go

Sometimes we keep ourselves sane by singing "wiggle puppy butt" to the tune of Pink Pony Club. (Wiggle puppy butt It's a cute booty Made of orange fluff Watch Ser Davos As he shakes it all up He's gonna keep wagging his wiggle puppy butt) I never said it was good, just that I do it.

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

*happy screaming at the transmasc non-binary character on The Pitt played by a transmasc non-binary person* And holy shit I didn't know Dr Mohan's actress uses she/they?

This trauma is lifelong - tear gas exploded under their vehicle, the air bags deployed, doors locked them in as it filled with chemical weapons. They fought for their lives to get out & give CPR TO THE 6 MONTH OLD BABY WHILE CHOKING ON TEAR GAS THEMSELVES. Please help support their GFM

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

It is 2001 and I am watching Fellowship of the Ring, and realizing I have Sean Bean‘s exact haircut It is 2026 and I am watching Fellowship of the Ring, and realizing I have Viggo Mortensen’s exact haircut