Dude on the street in Bogota asked me what the hell happened to my country and uh like yeah ditto, bro.

I’m really leaning into saying porfa instead of por favor this trip. So far no one has confronted me about it. ¡Pilas!

Weathervane directionals https://collections.artsmia.org/art/107067/

The mayor of Minneapolis and his staff are defying a community survey by recommending a group to develop a site at George Floyd Square that did not receive the most support in that survey. 

The fact that Stephon Castle is a basketball star and not a chess champ feels like a missed opportunity

I’m having such a good time in Colombia that I quit my job via email sent from a cafe with books and cats.

They got new designs on their money since last I was in Colombia, so every cashier is looking at me like a time traveler.

We all would have done the same.

I am a big fan of gay guy art!

The City’s own survey results showed the community found that Rise & Remember's proposal was most closely aligned with their values and garnered the most strongly positive reactions overall. 1/

DOZENS OF BEAGLES

Seconded, with love from my 1980 Suzuki book 1 recital

Hey let’s save this for when they start prattling about Minnesota fraud.

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I never noticed that Westminster Abbey is throwing some metal hands. 🤘🤘

I printed out a bunch of verb charts to do but I'm not going to bring them on the plane. The feeling of doing verb conjugations on the way to Colombia makes me feel like TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, DARLING.

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

At the peak of the ICE surge, Minnesotans raised and distributed millions of dollars in quick, low-barrier rent aid. Now some organizers of rent relief funds say they’re seeing an increase in requests for help as the number of evictions ticks upward and the amount of individual donations drop.

There are some people on this Earth I can only wonder — why did the noise from his face reach my ears?

An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...

When I was back from Colombia last time I went to a bank in Uptown. When you hand them a stack of foreign currency they are like 🤷‍♂️ So I just kept it hoping someday I would get to go to Colombia again. I should not be rewarded for this level of laziness, AND YET buen viaje a mi motherfuckers!

When children are firing real guns at each other outside your kitchen window. And one of them has an AR style rifle. I want to get past the Minneapolis is a crime-cesspool/Minneapolis is paradise false dichotomy. If we can't be real about this we will never progress www.deardara.com/so/29PuKZNXB...

Oh my god all any of us remember about Social Studies in school is the three branches of government for checks and balances. Was the president sick that day?

Kenya’s quest to save the rare mountain bongos with less than 100 left in the wild.

Arts funding is getting so bad that the Guthrie has to do Little Women. They can't even afford full size women.

A curiosity about myself is I’m a People Pleaser *and* a Martyr. I will totally hang my own self on your cross and bring my own ladder.

Justin Jones speaks for me.

MSP, there are a bunch of job opportunities in this thread!

My father thinks the little ‘power of attorney’ form makes me his consiglieri but actually I’m like a pro bono attorney who’s got bigger fish to fry.

I can’t stop thinking about this list and how much getting a grant is about a whole other list of privileged things besides need/merit/restoration/justice

Google Maps knows the secret cab driver way to get from St. Louis Park to Uptown now and it feels like when your favorite restaurant opens a second location.

I have boarded so many flights to Minnianapolis.

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/

Yesterday I saw a guy on a fat tire bike with a golf bag slung across his back, and it just made me feel like we should live life to the fullest.

If you are able, spread/supplement the May Day joy by donating to the Powderhorn Rent Relief Fund, since we’ll be parading through a neighborhood that’s been heavily impacted and some neighbors are still not able to safely leave to enjoy with us.

I wrote my list of top ten Prince songs but I will never share it with you, I cannot take the scrutiny. ⭐️🐟&☕️

I didn’t go to the May Day Parade because I thought maybe I would just howl-weep if I did. But it was really nice to see the people all out and about in the sunshine.

here is the full detailed list of where the $1 million in city of minneapolis small biz recovery funds after operation metro surge were awarded, and what projects are being funded with them and coming this year. it's lots of events taylordahlin.com/f/minneapoli...

There are so many really excellent Black legislators, doing the best work in service of their constituents — all of their constituents. As always, racism deprives us of the best of us.

Finally, some great journalism, thank you @meghanwolff.bsky.social

Follow up confession - I have never studied the “vosotros” form in Spanish, I just go with what is the most lovely to say and often it is correct.

It must be so nice to care about sports.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Hearing loss does have its advantages. I just heard a new band that you’ll never have a chance to get into — “Ready For Crab Time” (Lizzie McAlpine)

@ecoveyou.bsky.social I made you a starter pack of people to follow but maybe you already got everyone in it.... go.bsky.app/Pm6hXpZ

My current Spanish class makes the "vosotros" forms optional because it's just for fun not for literature and they don't imagine we'll ever get to Spain. But if you skip vosotros you skip all the best dipthongs, so I can't stop won't stop and bless my teacher for tolerating me. No pararééééééééééis.

Feels like a good week to reemphasize this from @sifill.bsky.social. To her point, some suggested readings: bookshop.org/lists/books-...

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