In case, like me, you need a little joy today, here’s a video of my girls Willow and Ember enjoying their new Christmas present. 🎄

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

Alright, Co-Star! Apparently, I am Inception!

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? I mean… gotta be a barrel of laughs and sarcasm!

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

Also, the film Goonight and Good Luck.

Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.” siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice

Racism and terrorism of immigrant communities, LGBTQIA community, anyone non-white or white male is the point. To obtain real ID, one provides proof of citizenship. Legal status exists w/o citizenship… in face of fascism, we should show up for each other. No one should be dehumanized or left behind.

Lars and the Real Girl. Sold out theater. Fascinating observation in what and how folks found things funny, particularly the awkward laughter…and genuine empathy.

When I flew back from Germany recently, despite going through customs, everyone on my flight back to US was asked at gate to line up for passport and boarding pass check before boarding even started, which included similar qs that customs asks. Never experienced that before. Thought odd then.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. -Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

95% of MN Somalis are US citizens. 58% were born in the US. The only reason to target this community with immigration agents is for the sake of racial profiling and harassment - which the US supreme court says is legal now. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings Cyndi Lauper Brittany Howard St. Paul and the Broken Bones The National

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

maybe death isn’t darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us — -from White Owl Flies into and Out of the Field by Mary Oliver

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Just got the hottest library card in town! I had misplaced my card and couldn’t remember the number… so perfect timing! @hclib.bsky.social

“This Republican alliance that conservative DFLers have been flirting with for the Minneapolis elections is short-sighted, and dangerous for the DFL” 💯

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

I traveled to GER from US recently. Seems EU has already been using this technology (in airports) as I experienced both in Europe and returning to US. I also observed its use for those with EU and certain other passports when entering and exiting. So it seems none of us can escape the panopticon.

@itsthebrandi.bsky.social Thought you might appreciate this. 😂

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

"Violence is when people cannot afford a house, violence is when a voter cannot afford medicine, violence is when mothers continue to lose sons and daughters to greed and guns," Rev. Valtoria Jackson told about 600 people at a "No Kings" protest in Montgomery. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

@taylordahlin.com May I send you a dm?

Facts. And it is so impactful and harmful.

This Is Fascism

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Both Patty Griffin and Jason Isbell come to mind as does Brittany Howard, Cyndi Lauper, and Amythyst Kiah.

Def caught my eye. I grew up there. It’s a pop of 5000 give or take. That’s a wild amount of money for a church in an impoverished community to amass.

Also of note. I do not see any of the mental health degrees that are also licensed listed here (i.e MSW/LICSW, MA LPC/LPCC, MA MFT/LMFT, PhD LP, PsyD, etc…)

Ranked choice voting means you actually get to vote for what you want. I’m ranking Davis 1st because I like him. I’m ranking Omar 2nd because I think he’s the most likely to win and I agree with his policies the most. I’m ranking Jazz 3rd bc not ranking all 3 is a vote for Frey! We deserve better!

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

Boiled Peanuts

Ok, it’s after Labor Day. Early voting is in 17 days. When do you think the Strib will start covering @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social as regular candidates in regular election stories?

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

I don’t know why this free service isn’t named, but the Behavioral Crisis Response (BCR) team is available to call for immediate help in moments like this. This is a city service SPECIFICALLY for people needing mental health support. It’s also for all ages to utilize (this is important right now).

The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.

We all know I’m not a fan of the mayor. But this is leadership.

Canopy Roots, which runs MPLS Behavioral Crisis Response teams, also is one of the orgs that is part of the Los Angeles Circles Program and is hiring for that team as well.