I was happy to join over a hundred people biked, took transit, walked or drove to help @ourstreetsmn.org deliver a petition to demand that MNDOT consider a true alternative to the nightmare that is I-94

Pull its plug my god

A core memory bench! He would have been 108 yesterday. I am eternally grateful that he was a load-bearing part of my childhood.

A million times over.

I would encourage trans folks especially, but LGBTQ+ folks more broadly, to understand: We are going to *lose* (maybe even a lot) as cases move up to SCOTUS. *and* Every delay & pause, even temporary, is a win. And we will ultimately win. Care for yourself. Care for community. Keep organizing.

I need the rest of these, but Love After The End is such a transcendent anthology I cannot more highly recommend it to queer & trans folks specifically but also everyone else. We also own Sovereign Erotics

This is the quote that’s standing out to me rn tbh. The extent to which personal data is collected today…..😬

Most Americans are uneducated about Latin America (by design) and I have some movie recommendations about Latin American authoritarian governments Argentina 1. Argentina, 1985 (2022) 2. The Official Story (1985) 3. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1985) 4. Night of the Pencils (1986)

I would like to hype a new book that just came out!! It is a collection of memories by Metis writer Marie Rose Delorme Smith (1861-1960), with context by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. AFAIK, this is the first time writing by a Metis woman who experienced buffalo hunts has been published as a book.

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

With our mayor getting reelected, and showing he thinks MPD working with ICE is just fine, I’m concerned for the safety and livelihood of many of our Latine small business owners and their families. Please consider visiting these locations around the metro! Based on recommendations from you!

Now is a great time to be asking people where those tithings & offering collections are going

Good job @seanlimmn.bsky.social & team, TBH

Highlighting one org doing good in our community every day until #GTMD2025. Today - Isuroon! With four metro food shelf locations, “Isuroon is only local food shelf that meets Halal dietary standards and cultural preferences of the Somali community.” www.givemn.org/organization...

worth noting that jason garcia's victory in district 4 was achieved with no yard signs and only a handful of rally signs around. this shows that lawn signs are not an indicator of how an election is going to go! same with ward 10, people thought aisha chughtai was in trouble and lydia would win

Shitload of cops came tearsassing through LynLake. One of them said it was a stolen vehicle and the driver was running people over and pointing guns. They're all clustered at 29th and Aldrich. Sounds like the driver's in custody? 😬

Fucking yikes

I will also note that these filters, as seems inevitable, wind up only filtering liberal leaning content. I have seen plenty of violent videos of ICE agents kidnapping people, despite pretty much every filter being on when I checked my settings. Apparently conservative violence doesn't count. 🙄

Remember that people do abuse these tags to keep you from seeing content they don't like. You may think you don't want to see threats but conservatives flag anything hostile toward their Great Leader as threats, for example. Keep that in mind as you pick your filters.

Very solid advice

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Lotta drama at the hardware store today: a sparrow has gotten inside and the resident cats are going absolutely NUTS about it

27. Minneapolis/St Paul International in Minnesota Good luck to y'all traveling via airplane in the next few weeks.

a chance to stock up on all your revolutionary literature! of course, they've got lots of great books about labor politics, and bc my grandfathers were miners, I'm eyeing a couple on the struggles of coal miners solidarity ✊

Serious question: Does anyone have even a guesstimate on much the government spent pursuing this ludicrously trumped up case?

Heads up re: SCOTUS ruling on passports

It's gross and hurtful to trans and gender expansive folks who *should* be able to align documents. That said, we have navigated this before, we can navigate this now. The courts and state department may get to define the rules of these documents, but they don't get to define dignity and worth.

A few quick notes on the passports stay since I am already getting questions (note this is not legal advice and more will be forthcoming): 1. This was not a final ruling. 2. Current passports should remain legal and valid. 3. New applications will require binary (og birth certificate) markers.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

64A expecting a special primary in mid-December and a special election before February. Remember this was Erin Murphy's seat before her run for Governor.

The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear.

Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.

Heads-up trans folks.

Here for the dry humor and pun sandwiches being served up on this thread. (and the outcome, obviously)

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

There will be an appeal and such but this and the Broadview case may make DHS to move on to another region. They probably won’t announce it but in a new place they can start again with all of their tactics

Me, in our @swaempls.bsky.social chat yesterday. If you know anyone, either in or outside of SW Mpls who wants to help with this work, please point them in our direction! linktr.ee/swaempls Notably, @marymoriarty.bsky.social and her team also cracked this code.

The SWAE folks are awesome and you should check em out 👍

this interview made me feel nice

To fascists truth is a threat to their power truth cannot coexist in the same world as fascism as truth and reality is a threat to the unreality state needed for fascism to further consolidate and expand its power and reach.

In looking at the list those districts in Greater Minnesota seemed to vote down increases the most often which is troubling as many are in great need.

"MnDOT is uninterested in seriously addressing climate change. This is climate defeatism; starting from the assumption that any action that fits the scale of looming climate destruction is too big to pursue." @mfrumholtz.bsky.social @lenasophia.bsky.social www.startribune.com/mndots-clima...

Every single one of us has held our noses and voted for candidates way more upsetting than Fateh or Carter. So I don't think the solution is "finding a candidate whom no one ever has an objection to."

Lot of white-centric-ness going around here today in particular

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

I’m immeasurably sad about the Frey victory because of how it is going to affect unhoused people. Frey’s homelessness policy is more draconian than almost any other big-city Democratic mayor. He’s going to view this victory as a mandate to further criminalize homelessness.

minneapolis didn’t have an incumbent that got indicted, minneapolis didn’t have publically funded elections and thus we got swamped in millionaire PAC money, the DFL machine threw a racist fit and un-endorsed fateh, and minneapolis has a completely different electoral system without a primary

Or meet or engage with him in good faith.

TakeAction is doing a ton of work right now, especially around public schools. Black Visions is going strong. Reclaim the Block sunsetted but gave all of their money to other organizations through a democratic process that centered Black youth.