I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.

elon musk read "whitey on the moon" as an aspirational text

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

I’ve had two random people in my life enthuse in recent weeks that it’s so important how I’m a real human who writes real words, and it’s an unexpected upside of the trash AI discourse, that people say nice shit to me about writing and freelancing instead of abysmally awkward shit

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

The planet burns, but most educated people still eat beef. Millions are disabled weekly by Long COVID, but most people still don't mask up where indoors. Reminder: just because most people are doing something doesn't mean that behavior is aligned with either science or even their own stated morals.

dentist opened operatory door from outside, immediately closed it again, then returned & entered a minute later “sorry B, I realized my N95 wasn’t secured properly so I ran away from you” and that’s how I ended up with a second husband!

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Masking at a meeting

slightly tangential and not even bragging but it stands out to me how frequently women colleagues seek out my cishet spouse for support at work… because he’s just a really sweet adult dork who offers kindness without weirdness, and that’s far too rare

Just a nice habitat photo by @thebirdherder.bsky.social 🪶

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

significant snickers situation

America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”

so I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work

can’t not hear and see:

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

This. Also, incisive reporters need legal protection from powerful forces which can sue them out of existence, even if their reporting is accurate.

Journalism schools need to desperately hire more freelancers as lecturers to teach students how to make money, including gig comms work, while reporting on this side. I've had this thought for a while, but especially as a paper of record gets decimated.

found two wallets in the past month & both times a park ranger/cop acted like partner and I are extraterrestrials when we turn em in we’re still trying to live in a society & don’t need some dude’s debit card! or am I meant to go track these loose pockets guys down on my own??

maybe im too woke but I don’t think the jokes about the files are funny!

I’m working on a story for @thesicktimes.org about things people with Long Covid and other energy-limiting illnesses (as well as their caregivers) can do to protect themselves and their communities from ICE. I’d love to speak with any of the following: (1/3)

You cannot talk about the measles outbreak without talking about the widespread erosion of public health - from vaccines to COVID mitigations. ICE facilities have been wracked with TB, measles, and COVID outbreaks. Community spread stops with you. Wear a fit tested N95.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally

The destruction of public health and rising fascism forever hand in hand.

About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”

Since 2020, Moon Palace has never stopped requiring & providing masks either. Absolute GOAT bookstore and community hub 😷❤️

Metrodora, a Utah-based clinic that sought to cure “neuroimmune disorders” like #LongCOVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis, promised comprehensive treatment — but within two years, it abruptly closed, leaving former patients feeling betrayed. Read more from @brittashoot.com: bit.ly/46iIGOy

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

Today @thesicktimes.org: big story by @brittashoot.com examining the Metrodora Institute, a clinic for “neuroimmune disorders” like Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis that made big promises to patients... then abruptly closed. thesicktimes.org/2026/01/27/m...

the poor family of this young man are only asking for $4,750 to bring his body home. let’s blow it up 🩷

someone at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis is holding a painting of the hat 5 year old liam ramos was wearing when he was abducted by ICE in columbia heights. all too much

seriously

Totally normal for the local newspaper of record to publish information on the types of chemical munitions the government is deploying against the people.

They never worried about what a truly dire fuckup killing an Alex Pretti would be because it never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti could ever exist So now they have no idea what the fuck to do. Because they don’t even fully understand what’s just happened

It’s the same with their shock and confusion at a box of free handwarmers. They’re not capable of conceiving of the notion that people would spontaneously organize sufficient resources to help other people simply because they feel compelled to help So they can’t be ready for that impulse

It’s also extremely indicative of the likelihood that they didn’t worry about the optics of brutalizing and murdering people like this because it never occurred to them that people like this would be out in the street putting their bodies on the line to defend their neighbors

I know respectability politics are bullshit, I know perfect victim narratives are toxic and harmful, but it really is so striking to me that they’re not only murdering white people, THESE are the white people they’re murdering On film, in the midst of trying to help people

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

dumpster diving subreddit entered the chat

I just want to point out that Alex Pretti became a registered nurse in early 2021 -- the height of death from Covid. And he chose the ICU, the sickest patients, in Veterans Affairs.

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

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology