Hearing this from my local government friend as well. Should Mapping Prejudice make a challenge coin or would that be weird?

Leave a Future, 2026-2026?

From the Strib to the New York Times to Fox News, media orgs couldn't believe moms, of all people, were leading the resistance to Operation Metro Surge. They should not have been so surprised.

Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Our five word Webby acceptance speech. This is the ninth Webby I’ve won but the first as an independent creator since going solo nine months ago. It’s easily the most important. Thanks for voting!

Zohran Mamdani is a gifted communicator, but he's persuasive not just because he uses accessible language, but because he has clear values and policy goals, and he's willing to push for them even when it's hard or success is a long way off. Makes him convincing in a way you can't easily fake.

This morning, a resident was stopped and kidnapped by ICE near 28th and Oakland Ave South. Yesterday, a resident was kidnapped by ICE near Lake and Stevens Ave South. There is also increased activity at the Whipple building this morning compared to the last couple of weeks. 1/

Transgender adolescents who were unable to access gender-affirming hormone therapy were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could, according to new data from the Trevor Project. 87% of those currently on hormone therapy are very concerned about losing it

Locals: the Tretter Collection has a book from Hirschfeld’s library. It was on the bottom of the pile so was protected from extensively damage. *It still smells of smoke*

I definitely would have been a Donatist.

This is because administration officials didn't get to see the "the First Amendment is OK actually" pocket squares.

Gym quote of the day: "Dude, you look like a jacked Napoleon Dynamite." "I don't know who that is." (He really did, though.)

Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:

Just for the record, absolutely fucking YES you should let your view of the morality of a position dictate the constitutional question.

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

The report names multiple CBP agents involved in violent incidents over Midway Blitz's span. Among the federal agents the report names are Jesus Guillen, Matthew Sulek, Oscar Meza, Michael Turner, Andrew Torabpour, Joseph Brenna IV, Martin Davalos, Alexander Mills, Timothy Donahue, Edward Maxa.

OK Twin Cities folks: Which library is the best for chilling and reading? If you say the outer burbs I will fight you, I know they have nice stuff.

Many Minnesotans are rightly proud of our status as a sanctuary for lots of our neighbors, but I hope we all understand how easily that could all go away. We're all tired, but we should never take anything we have here for granted. The stakes are high for too many people.

this is amazing

I had a conversation with someone last weekend, asking if I could do a railroad photography presentation - I said something to the effect of, I wish I had bandwidth for that, I’m still working ICE Air advocacy pretty aggressively. “That’s still going on?” I could have pulled out all of my hair.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

@robertloerzel.bsky.social any idea what these fairs were? Would have been just post-Civil War

Latest Minnesotan to kick the federal government’s ass: @roblevine82.bsky.social. Got a climb-down on oppressive DHS ban on drones — in other words, citizens can again watchdog federal enforcement, as Levine did during the ICE siege: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

So underwhelming that we've had trouble keeping MN flags in stock! They sell faster than we can order them. 🙄 Rest assured tho, we just got in a huge reorder from @flagsforgood.com!

We've updated our habeas tracker again, and more than **40,000** new cases have been opened since Trump took office again. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

There is a good bit of the press that's going to pivot hard to talking about the WHCD because it's an opportunity to change the subject from the scandal that they wanted to party with not just Trump, but Vance, Johnson, Erika Kirk, Kash Patel, take your pick.

And the Minneapolis mayors who wanted to party with him

There is so much I love about the Onion these days, but it was kinda noticeable in the video of the office that was posted the other day that either everyone or almost everyone shown was a dude?

Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

Estimates show the 1918 flu epidemic killed about 45,000 US soldiers, about 38% of the total US military deaths in WWI. The flu and its secondary illnesses made up the majority of death by disease. Thousands (possibly as many as 36,000) died before making it from basic training to the battlefield.

"Of the children who were detained, nearly two dozen were held in custody for more than 20 days, in violation of a longstanding legal settlement. Teens who were detained alone were sent to Christian youth shelters in Michigan." sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Exclusive: new research from the National Women’s Defense League and shared first with The 19th, has tracked 30 allegations of workplace sexual misconduct against members of Congress made since 2006 — a number the report’s authors say is likely 3-4x higher in reality 19thnews.org/2026/04/sexu...

Investigating literal Nazis is bad now.

It should be noted that Bovino is actually describing mass ethnic cleansing, not mass deportations.

Great balls of fire!

Huge news for Zooniverse -- 3 million registered volunteers! Next milestone for 2026: 1 BILLION classifications... coming soon!

OBITUARY: Remembering Yusef Mgeni, 77, a mentor to generations of Black leaders across the Twin Cities. www.twincities.com/2026/04/20/y... When a resident facing eviction or another legal challenge called the St. Paul NAACP for help, the person who responded to their voicemail was often Mgeni, whose

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

This is now just Bad Theology Bingo. We have, aside from all else, now ‘Demonizing Pharisees’ and ‘Casual Antisemitism/supercessonism’ so check your cards everyone.

What a fucking weirdo!

ConservatIves used to call these kids sinners. And they’d punish them for being pregnant young. Surreal how they change once racist eugenics are what is valued.

OK we need to ask why no one is talking about the guy who rides his motorcycle down Marshall Avenue on every nice day absolutely blasting Prince's "Erotic City."

My next Catholic hot take that will get me canceled is that being super into Augustine is like loving The Doors after college.

Catholics are suddenly the cool Christians and I can't handle it.

Please more attention to this.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto