James Umbanhowar
@jumbanho.bsky.social
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Part time ecologist. I spend more time on Mastodon @
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Jon Collins
27 minutes ago
Dan is so right on this. And these national newsrooms are also the same ones allowing anonymous federal officials to announce their plans through them. Most journalists rarely use anonymous sources. But for some reason it's common practice in DC reporting, and I think the public is worse for it.
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Jason Chavez
about 1 hour ago
Andersen Middle School is home to a large immigrant and children of immigrant population. 53.8% of the population is Latino and the Midtown Phillips Neighborhood is home to a large immigrant community.
gofund.me/a84173725
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Donate to Support Andersen Middle School Families, organized by Erin Trapp
Andersen Middle School Parents and Caregivers are holding a special fundraiser spec⌠Erin Trapp needs your support for Support Andersen Middle School Families
https://gofund.me/a84173725
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)
about 1 hour ago
ICE is looking for 5,600 refugees in Minnesota â legal immigrants â whose Green Cards are still in process. And these arenât simple âre-interviews.â Itâs guns drawn, detentions, and flights to Houston:
www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...
#OperationPARRIS
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5,600 Green Card applicants in Minnesota targeted through Operation PARRIS
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it is âreexaminingâ the refugee status of Minnesotans who have entered the country legally but have not yet been granted their Green Cards.
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5600-green-card-applicants-in-minnesota-targeted-through-operation-parris/
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Ali Elabbady
about 1 hour ago
Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, hereâs a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for
@racketmn.com
:
racketmn.com/guide-intern...
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A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket
The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.
https://racketmn.com/guide-international-grocers-twin-cities
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Adam Serwer
about 2 hours ago
A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though
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John Moe
about 14 hours ago
I just stopped by here to use the term poop deck.
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Fibonacci Blue
about 17 hours ago
Some protesters were having fun using the crosswalk whenever ICE vehicles came out. Hennepin County Sheriff solved that by driving into the crosswalk and... backing into the protesters
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Wedge LIVE!â˘
about 17 hours ago
You'll want to watch the toilet sled's spectacular crash into the crowd.
youtu.be/WavjZtuHyiQ?...
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Always love a good bus cat
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Level 9 challenge: A single big business in the Twin Cities to do something to recognize the occupation.
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul
about 23 hours ago
The TUMS regional sales manager for the Midwest is gonna have a record quarter. Stress levels through the roof and The Whites aggressively switching their diet to immigrant cuisine.
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)
about 23 hours ago
âSherburne County sent her back to Fort Snelling, and Fort Snelling released her yesterday after we talked to her attorney, (a federal public defender). I said, â(Theyâve) been holding onto a U.S. citizen for over 48 hours. Whatâs the deal?â He said, 'Everyone I know has resigned.'â
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range
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blueberry fields in january
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Rick Thoman
about 24 hours ago
Another long term climate site in Alaska dies. đĄ
#akwx
#Climate
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Wedge LIVE!â˘
1 day ago
Authorities are advising folks to stay inside. A CHUD WATCH has been declared for the downtown area. Taylor Dahlin and I will be providing live coverage and raising money for a good cause until every last chud is accounted for. Check back with us here. We'll see you at 1 pm.
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David M. Perry
1 day ago
I have been waiting to read about the boston massacre and the murder of renee good.
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taylr
1 day ago
veterans protesting at the whipple get it. listen to this guy talk about taking military history and recognizing the trenchcoat
bsky.app/profile/thet...
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Huh, Homeland Security lying again, who would have thunk it?
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John Abernathy
1 day ago
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Doug Mack
1 day ago
I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.
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Bike porn
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Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test
1 day ago
Abolitionists called them Vigilance Committees.
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Wes Burdine
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Erin Maye Quade
1 day ago
Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
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floating in lotus position
1 day ago
Mischief has been distributing whistles for a while now. Pretty obvious DHS is targeting them for this like with Wrecktangle on Monday.
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Aaron Blackshear
1 day ago
No one knows exactly what to do, what will or will not work, or how anything is going to play out. Weâre figuring it out as we go while trying to still do our jobs and take care of our families. All we need is support, not advice
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Oh, ICE lied about shooting someone, I'm getting the vapors. Tell me it's not true. Fucking liars
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John Moe
1 day ago
Wouldnât Hungry Hungry Hippos technically be considered one of the Hunger Games?
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My son just saw a Waymo make an illegal left turn at this intersection from westbound Franklin onto southbound East River Road. Apparently they can't read traffic signs.
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I moved to Minnesota when I was six and cannot do a Minnesota accent.
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Bill Lindeke
2 days ago
Big ol' list of all the things.
mn-ice-witness.org
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MN ICE Witness - Sourced Database of ICE/CBP Incidents in Minnesota
Up-to-date sourced database of ICE and CBP civil rights incidents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge
https://mn-ice-witness.org
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Nate Pentz
2 days ago
ICE arrested him today when he went to check in with his lawyers.
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I'm going to have issue a correction: Fraud me once, clemency, fraud me twice, pardon.
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)
2 days ago
Sheâs a U.S. citizen and was on her way to pick up seizure medication. ICE has detained her anyway for the past 50 hours at the Sherburne County Jail.
www.twincities.com/2026/01/16/f...
#NasraAhmed
#StPaul
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Remember that ol' Bush Jr nugget: Fraud me once, clemency, fraud me twice, clemency.
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I see the Strib is trying to sow division among resistors.
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Mike Masnick
2 days ago
Finally wrote up a more detailed explanation of my idea for a 100 Justice Supreme Court
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Kendal Killian
2 days ago
The Minnesota State Board of Investment, which manages the state's pension investments, owns 1215 shares of Palantir valued at $166m. The SBI includes the Gov, Auditor, SOS, & AG. The Palantir app gives ICE a digital map populated with "deportation targets."
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Worse than zero response, collusion.
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Statistician thinking that MLS is allowing for more overdispersion to all using Generalized Additive Models more.
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Eliot Higgins
2 days ago
Which side?
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Don Moynihan
3 days ago
The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From
@penamerica.bsky.social
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Norm Charlatan
2 days ago
Local guy tremendously impressed that the Smitten Kitten is doing all of this amazing mutual aid work but also now skeptical about earlier claims that they donât have the capacity to run a gloryhole.
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Andy Craig
3 days ago
The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.
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David Brauer
2 days ago
I disagreed a lot with
@minnesotareformer.com
in the past year because I feel they havenât been tough enough against authoritarianism, but editor JP Coolican delivers a wallop to Blois Olsonâs smug complicity thatâs a must-read.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/w...
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Steve Randy Waldman
2 days ago
the nobel peace prize is basically meaningless if you havenât taken it by force.
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Minnesota Reformer
2 days ago
For every ICE arrest that draws a crowd with cameras and whistles, there are an untold number happening quietly when no one is watching.
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These are the arrests youâre not seeing ⢠Minnesota Reformer
A man shelters alone under the heaters of a south Minneapolis bus stop on a cold January morning, the hood of a grey sweatshirt pulled over his thick dark hair. He unzips his black outer coat and look...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/these-are-the-arrests-youre-not-seeing/
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Lizard
6 months ago
So, a case study in how weird things interact. In a discussion about the idiots who bought that Dune art book, thinking it gave them the copyright, someone posted this meme from Cobra Kai:
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