There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Rent assistance needed in Minneapolis - full thread below

Want to help trans people move from hostile states?

Stop construction of a "border wall" through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park: www.change.org/p/stop-the-c...

Please consider submitting a witness slip for this important legislation in Illinois. You can submit a slip even if you don't live in the state!!

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

It's national Random Acts of Kindness day! What kindness can you extend to yourself today that you maybe hadn't planned upon? It can be a tiny thing, or a big thing - entirely up to you! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Land Back is not just a possibility. It is happening. Much more than people realize.

de facto House Arrest. Yes, that's what it is.

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Will Jones, president UMN Twin Cities AAUP, said many people had hoped the event would provide a space to express the outrage they felt about Pretti’s death. “The university chose to ignore those pleas and to impose restrictions on the way community members could express their grief."

i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.

-Safe Haven -Twin Cities Vegan Chef Collective -Immigrant Law Center -Midway Food & Empowerment Projec -Immigrant Rapid Response Fund of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota -Pow Wow Grounds Mutual Aid Most of these can be found at www.standwithminnesota.com, a great place to find ways to help.

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

I drove home from 28th and Lyndale to about 50th and Lyndale at around 8pm. Nearly every intersection had people gathered, holding candles. Lake street was lined with people. It was beautiful and so sad. I’m so tired of being sad for my beautiful city.

I just want to point out that Alex Pretti became a registered nurse in early 2021 -- the height of death from Covid. And he chose the ICU, the sickest patients, in Veterans Affairs.

Trump’s fascist agents just killed another person in Minnesota. This must end now. Every member of Congress must demand that we ABOLISH ICE. Accept nothing less.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

From a friend in Minneapolis, just now:

This is what solidarity looks like.

Minneapolis you are an inspiration

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

On #MLKDay, the UFW remembers the legacy of a hero. #MLK's words are as powerful today as when he wrote them in 1958. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!" Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned." Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?

just keep thinking about my colleague's @racketmn.com piece that Fort Snelling, this building where ICE is HQ'd, is the site of a concentration camp, part of institutionalized genocide against the Dakota.

BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

The casual appropriation and indifference to Black suffering are vile. It's morally vacuous to demand people "say her name" when they are, in fact, saying her name. How quickly did we learn her name? How long will we remember it? And yet how quickly we forget Sandra Bland and the names of so many...

Nice to see someone doing bread and roses after so much time watching the worst people on earth doing their damnedest to pave over all the rose gardens

I mean.....how do you think "America" was born or what's been going on here since 1492? NATIVE AND BLACK folks have been sounding alarms for centuries, warning that what you allow to happen to us will come for you too and now here we are.

Watching more than 100 clergy and faith leaders demanding peace, and justice, demanding that ICE needs to leave our state. Knowing there's hundreds of Minnesotans out on patrol right now, protecting neighbors. It's bad here but there's also so much good, man.

Renee Nicole Good

ICE has shot and killed a community observer in Minneapolis. Sending all of my love to the people of Minneapolis and the folks defending their neighbors there. This is heinous, and I am so sorry. To everyone else: REMEMBER ICE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING. THIS IS DOCUMENTED.

Remember that precident tells us that every ICE statement around this will be a face-saving lie. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

We have to impeach him.

"That’s DPDR for you - except now we get to wonder if we’re interacting with reality or with the output of a power plant that’s draining freshwater lakes to line the pockets of filthy-rich billionaires." dpdrdiaries.livejournal.com/1214.html

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

I suggest you all follow this guy. He covers how to spot AI videos & photos and while some are more obviously fake, some of them like the fake B&W security footage are shockingly difficult to notice & you have to rely on body language & consider natural behavior www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...

The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN” Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’” 🙄

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

I'm grading final discussion posts for the Native history course I taught this term, and one of my students said she is going to start pressuring her representatives in Wisconsin to fulfill treaty obligations while they are writing their budgets. 🙌 This is what makes teaching hopeful!