Every time I see a sign language interpreter physically inhabit the meaning of spoken words or music, I am reminded that expressing ideas and emotions in language can and should be a multi-sensory, full-body experience.

My biggest issue with language is that there are too many words for things, but almost none of them are the ones I need.

Anyone still waiting for a line to be crossed is already well on the wrong side of it.

Perhaps it’s time to reconsider America’s longstanding tradition of refusing to hold powerful people accountable for crimes and misdeeds in the interest of “healing the nation.” You know, assuming that there’s still a nation and all.

Caring like it’s cool — and it always been — is another everyday act of resistance.

One of my more low-key profound later-life realizations is that I’m not really a control freak—I just don’t like to be in situations where I’m treated like I don’t matter.

I have no interest in arguing or attempting to reason with people who have decided that the rights and lives of human beings they don’t like are an acceptable sacrifice for their own comfort and ideological satisfaction. There’s no common ground to be found there.

Do not mistake the path of least resistance for the high road. You will know you’re on the high road when it costs you something, because it always does.

If you ever want to experience death by emojis and exclamation marks, may I suggest starting your day with a massive Teams meeting?

I think I may have overdone it with the coffee today because my brain is making a noise like when you put your car in neutral and stand on the gas pedal.

From FB regarding Pizza Luce in Minnesota. I like it when I can do something to help people displaced by ICE and then after I do that thing I get to eat a pizza.

Obviously this is relevant because we've been told for many months that Dems should be careful about raising the salience of immigration, as it could deepen their problems with working class voters. As I've been arguing for some time now, working class voters don't like ICE!

The world is as big and wide-open and full of wonder as your mind. Always has been, always will be.

I’m no hero, but I see heroes around me every day, quietly doing whatever needs to be done to hold the world together in that moment. Kicking at the cracks in the looming darkness until the light comes streaming in. Protecting that flickering candle of hope, passing the flame along.

I know when people say to us “Be safe!” they mean it with love and care It’s just the thing is we were

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

As usual, moms are doing a huge amount of work behind the scenes. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

Having a fairly difficult time cosplaying normal today.

ilhan omar said last night it’s about retribution and intimidating us into submission, not about immigration. she talked about citizens hiding because what’s happening in the streets here is like the countries they fled and her family hid, then fled. but where can you go from the US now?

Any time now, giant laser loon. Any time.

In Minnesota? These numbers should prove helpful: Sen Klobuchar: DC: 202-224-3244; Mpls: 612-727-5220 Sen Smith: DC: 202-224-5641; Saint Paul: 651-221-1016 Rep Omar: DC: 202-225-4755; Mpls: 612-333-1272 Rep McCollum: DC: 202-225-6631; St. Paul: 651-224-9191 🧵

“Here in our home they killed and roamed In the winter of ’26 We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis”

I’m not much of a sentimentalist, but I do miss the days when people were denounced and experienced actual consequences for engaging in vicious, reprehensible speech and behavior. I swear this actually used to happen once in a while.

Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...

I guess when you have no idea what you’re doing or how anything works, competence and organization must look like a shadowy conspiracy.

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

Happy “Wait, I’m still friends with THAT asshole on Facebook?!?!” to all who celebrate.

The complete pointless futility of debating reality with anyone whose entire world view hinges on them being right about everything.

When grieving parents ask a nation of strangers to remember that their son was a good man. A man who died listening to the voice inside him that told him to help however he could and protect people who needed it.

America, your future is playing out in Minneapolis right now. Your government is waging war against anyone won’t bend the knee or turn on their neighbors. It will not stop here. If you love your freedom, use it to speak and act accordingly. We all stand together, or we all fall. Time to choose.

Coming to the State Fair Grandstand this summer: Sinister Minnesotans, with special guests Suspicious Hotdish

Restaurants and small businesses are the heart and soul of a neighborhood. They’re also the hardest hit by economic downturns and community crises. And many have become targets of ICE harassment simply for standing up for their neighbors.

important to note if you’re attending the march downtown and don’t want to or can’t go in target center if you’re carrying things that are banned by their policy! which is VERY extensive and includes backpacks, large bags, large signs, etc

“There is a love so strong here and no matter how much hate and division they want to sew, our love is so much stronger. It’s a love that transcends so many boundaries and breaks down barriers. I’m so proud to be a Real Minnesotan.” @wesburdine.bsky.social, preaching the true gospel right here.

I realize that subtlety, like irony, has long since gone gently into that good night. But comparing the ship of state to the Titanic is a bit on the nose, even for these dunderheads.

Much of America has embraced a definition of “peace” that’s essentially a constant state of comfortable obliviousness and uncurious indifference. If it’s not a problem for them, it’s not a problem.

The best thing about the past couple weeks has been the friends and a couple relatives from different parts of the country who’ve reached out to check in and ask how we’re doing. And while I didn’t really expect anything different, the silence from most of my family has been deafening.

When your message strategy involves contorting yourself into unspeakable shapes to avoid offending people who hold hateful beliefs, you have already lost whatever moral high ground you hoped to occupy, as well as any argument you hoped to make.

There are times to quote the words of great leaders. And there are times to show that we understand the meaning of those words by taking up the work they call us to do in whatever ways we’re able.

I’m overjoyed that in the midst of everything else going on in the world and right outside my door, temperatures are about to plummet to polar vortex levels, which never fails to kick my seasonal depressive tendencies into overdrive. Just spiffy. Absolutely cackling with glee.

There hasn’t been much to laugh about lately, but watching racist cosplay commandos in Temu tactical gear get their asses handed to them by the water balloon platoon is nonstop chuckle fodder.

If you’re looking for ways to support folks in Minnesota right now, this site created by @ziibiing.com is a fantastic place to start. www.standwithminnesota.com

if i could give one broad direction to people: stop being afraid of doing something. take some initiative. find a group near you. pick up the boxes that need hauling. bring food. take out the trash. see a need that is unmet? get some friends together and do the thing. organize your niche.

Hey national journalists who are following Jake around: get more interesting news than "what one Nazi thinks," come to the Art Sled rally!

It took me a very, very long time to understand and accept the futility of expecting unreasonable people to do reasonable things. At this point, I could do with fewer object lessons in it.

I think my biggest personal and professional growth moment so far this year is not bringing a Sharpie to protests to correct people’s signs. That first s in “fascist” is a tricky one.

One thing I’ve come to believe about Minneapolis is that it’s a place that encourages you not to give up, to keep going, to find a way. Maybe that’s as much about the people I’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with and get to know. But I got to know them here.

The transformational journey from being a country that issues statements of concern about state-sponsored violence and reprisals against citizens to being the subject of those statements made by other countries ain’t exactly a glow-up.

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

That I am just now reading about this person and the story of his quiet, brilliant courage is a reminder that the course of history has always been changed by people whose names we rarely learn.