Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

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FUCK ICE

People on the ground everyday are saying that just in these first 13 days of May there’s been more ICE activity than there was all of April. We don’t know what this means exactly, but this is why we need to make sure we’re still connected to our neighborhood networks and looking out for each other.

There’s been a notable increase in ICE activity the last few weeks. Today there were confirmed ICE vehicles in Columbia Heights that had been seen at the exact same spot a week earlier. There were also confirmed ICE vehicles in Marcy Holmes on Monday.

Pics from morning patrol by the park

On May 21st, the Minneapolis City Council takes the first step to establish a data center moratorium. The tech lobby is already working overtime to kill it by swaying votes. 1/ www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

Whew!

AwoooOOOOoooo

I’m not sure what this means just yet, but it’s still important to be cautious and careful. Our neighbors are still under attack, and we cannot ever forget what our community is being put through. They may be adapting tactics, but so are we. Jason Chavez 2/

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/

Serendipitously reached the halfway point of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (phew, that long conversation between Hans Castorp and Madame Chauchat really tested my rusty French) so I'm taking a short break to devour the NEW MURDERBOT BOOK!!!

Police Oversight meeting next Monday, at 6 pm. Open for public comment. Topics are domestic violence response, their failure of the duty to intervene during Metro Surge (while scoring 20 mill in overtime) and how they treat us.

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

Southside Battletrain May Day 2026 Part 2

Southside Battletrain May Day 2026 Part 1

May Day is the day that all of Minneapolis gets their first sun burn of the year. Together.

More T-Rex Battle Train for the timeline

Best pic of the parade honestly

Funniest part of the parade was afterwards when I was trying to walk the one block to our house to take a break between the parade and the ceremony and I literally couldn't get there because people kept yelling out my name to say hi #MayDay #Community

I just have a lot of feelings about the punks and the queers and the hippies and the anarchists alll coming together to make music and butterfly bikes and fire-breathing dinosaurs and use them all to say fuck fascism

I didn't cry through the ENTIRE May Day Parade so I guess score one for emotional regulation

Read @taylordahlin.com’s blog post for more info. This is our tax money. It should not be going to Edina. taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

Minneapolis! The city announced recipients of grants following metro surge. 50th and France is getting $30,000! East Isles is getting $35,000! Nothing for East Phillips or Powderhorn Park. If you are as frustrated as me, email [email protected] www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/ap...

Meanwhile, a champ rises again.

I'm no university administrator, but "drove a car into a group of students peacefully trying to talk to him, then falsely claimed the students had blocked him in and were pounding on the car when they hadn't and weren't" feels like part of the sort of sentence that also includes "fired with cause"

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

🚨 Today is the last day to leave a comment opposing Google's proposed data center on Lake Superior, which holds 10% of the world's fresh surface water: stopthehermantowndatacenter.org/2026/04/01/c... EVERYBODY who is opposed to this data center for AI is invited to leave a comment! Please share!

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Rich people are just empty shells

Blueberry Back Twinge

You love to see it

New Green Book for Minnesota just dropped.

If you’re near Richfield the food shelf is in great need. Do what you can.

I mean looking at the overlaps between trans identities and autism makes this not very stunning from my point of view, just another dispiriting but inevitable attack on people being allowed to understand themselves and live accordingly

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

Families here REALLY need the kindness of those in other communities to come through as much as we can in order to weather some of what we've been through here.

Might be the last person to realize this but the MSP feed is back up!

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

I went to have cocktails to celebrate the giant meat grinder but then someone turned on the giant meat grinder and it was really loud and scary. and you're laughing

Nah. It's not like he was in mortal danger, like an Iranian girl in school or a person driving through their own neighborhood when ICE is present.

Trump soared in the polls after a 2024 assassination attempt. Could another assassination attempt help Republicans in the 2026 midterms?

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Thoughts and prayers

As a lapsed Catholic... I am stunned

Please read this! The group I work with is also starting to run out of funds, but the need is still significant.

Match our $100? Team up with friends to match it? This parent of 2 in Mpls is in urgent need & needs to raise $3k Details private for safety reasons.