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

Yt ppl this only works if you sustain it nationwide + for more than one afternoon. You can stop all of this if you want to.

Je suis particulièrement émue de cette invitation de l'Alliance française de Minneapolis Saint-Paul dans le cadre du mois de la francophonie, pour parler de Petite-Ville, et exprimer ma solidarité aux gens cette belle ville malmenée. Ce sera ligne, ouvert à tous. Infos 👇🏽

Souvenir. Powerpoint réalisé par mon fils en 2018, lorsqu'il avait 8 ans, avec l'aide de son père, pour un truc du genre "le métier d'un de vos parents" à l'école. Je pense qu'on peut dire qu'il avait bien fait ses recherches et identifié le fil rouge qui traverse l'ensemble de mon oeuvre! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Y’a Marie-Eve Cotton qui dit quelque chose d’important sur Facebook concernant le discours de Carney et le jugement de certains progressistes. Et on peut quand même pas l’accuser d’être l’ennemi de la gauche. Mention spéciale à son dernier paragraphe. 👏👏

Another proud day for America.

This speech (english starts about 1:15) offers an understanding of the world that is deep, clear-eyed, principled rather than rhetorical & really makes you think — and could not stand in starker contrast to the disgraceful grotesque spectacle today at the White House www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...

Demain soir, à la Bibliothèque de Saint-Léonard, au 8420, boulevard Lacordaire!, à 18h! Venez donc!

Mood. (Les nouvelles sont mauvaises d'où qu'elles viennent...)

@chrisbergeron.bsky.social et moi avons parlé aujourd'hui, au micro de @karynelefebvre.bsky.social, sur @iciradiocanada.bsky.social, du grand livre de @neuvel.net, The Test / L'examen. Nous sommes d'accord, Chris et moi: ce livre majeur devrait être mis entre toutes les mains. Pour nous écouter:

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

C’est la première fois de son histoire de + de 100 ans que le Prix Nobel de la Paix est obligé de faire un communiqué contre une récipiendaire expliquant qu’un Nobel ne peut être ni révoqué , ni partagé, ni transféré à un tiers.

Frey: "I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."

It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.

Je suis étonné du nombre de gens qui pensent que quand on on refuse l’obéissance à un ordre policier, on mérite la peine de mort directe, complète, sans jugement...

We're at the "Don't go out in public if you have brown skin because you might be murdered or kidnapped" stage of white supremacist fascism.

"S’il existe encore des gens pour croire que la souveraineté de tous les pays des Amériques n’est pas menacée par Washington, je les prie de sortir du déni." Merci, @emilienicolas.bsky.social. «Notre hémisphère» www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

This irrefutable evidence didn't come from professional journalists, but from citizens who showed up & recorded what our government would prefer remain unseen. From Gaza to Minneapolis, this is why video documentation is treated as a threat: it makes their lies and cover-ups far harder to sustain.

in the book I happen to be reading, No Name In The Street, James Baldwin writes about “something exceedingly difficult to capture, which is that some people are liars, and some people are not.” Right now, that distinction could hardly be starker.

CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…

Please spread the word and join us. Vigil scheduled for 5:00 today at E. 34th Street and Portland Ave S. in Minneapolis for woman murdered by ICE agents.

If she wasn't already dead, they killed her by preventing medical assistance. All the ICE/CBP officers involved should be prosecuted.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Thousands of US protestors gathered at the site where Renee Good was murdered by Trump’s ICE regime troops, have a message for the rest of the United States: “Rise up, Take a Stand” #3E (🎥 @ScooterCasterNY )

Booklist, la revue littéraire de l'@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social , a demandé aux auteur·rices finalistes de la médaille Carnegie 2026 de faire quelques suggestions de lecture. Me limiter à 7 a été rude. J'ai choisi de faire découvrir à nos voisins états-uniens des plumes canadiennes et québécoises. 👇🏽

Booklist, the book review journal of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, has asked the authors shortlisted for the 2026 Carnegie Medal to make a few reading suggestions. It was hard to choose only 7. But I did. For our American neighbours, here's my list of Canadian and Quebecois voices to discover. 👇🏽

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

On only hours notice, hundreds of New Yorkers are gathering in Foley Square to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good

Mayor Mamdani: “The news coming out of Minneapolis is horrific. This is one part of what has been a year full of cruelty. We know when ICE agents attack immigrants, they attack every single one of us across this country. We are going to uphold our sanctuary city policies.”

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

"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...

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Booklist, the book review journal of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, has asked the authors shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal to make a few reading suggestions. It was a torture to choose only 6 or 7... 😳😱 I tried my best. Here they are. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

Booklist, la revue littéraire de l'@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, a demandé aux auteur·rices finalistes de la médaille Carnegie de faire quelques suggestions de lecture. Ne retenir que 6-7 titres a été un supplice! 😳😱 J'ai fait de mon mieux. Les voici. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽 We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚 (And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)

Merci, thank you, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social. 🤎💛🧡 (Je n'en reviens toujours pas.) (I still can't believe it.) americanlibrariesmagazine.org/magazine/iss...

Cette liste me ravit et me fait rougir! Vraiment un honneur d'y être!!! (J'ai commencé à lire mes collègues finalistes et... wah! Je vous les conseille plus que chaleureusement!) Merci, @quaisdupolar.com et @lefigaro.fr ! quaisdupolar.com/le-festival/...

Merci, Ken Whyte and SHuSH! 🙏 shush.substack.com/p/the-best-n...

2025, année de toutes les surprises, n'avait apparemment pas fini de me surprendre! (Les premières pages de Petite-Ville ont justement été écrites dans un carnet moleskine acheté à la boutique de souvenirs du Festival @quaisdupolar.com, en 2014, alors que je vivais à Lyon!!!)

One of the best books of the year, you can trust me, I'm a librarian.

BOMB’s Small Press Gift Guide is back! Support the small and independent presses we have featured online and in print this year. Our editors have picked the perfect reader for each book. And please, share this with your indie press community!

Quill & Quire. Books of the Year. Canada’s book community shares some of their favourite titles from 2025 quillandquire.com/omni/canadas...