HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

No kids or nannies in this photo.

Primaries are for your hopes and dreams, and general elections are for beating the fucking fascists.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

One trusted group in Kansas, helping to cover costs of replacing licenses: lgbtqks.org/donate/?fbcl...

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Jackie Flavin's daughter Harper Moyski was killed in the shooting. "Why am I here today? Because I don't want this story to become yours. I don't want you to hear the cries that we've had to hear."

As we prepare for the #SOTU, we're reminded of what the first year of Trump's administration has meant for gun violence: a quiet dismantling of the policies and programs that protect us and an attempt to bury the deadly consequences of those actions by gutting federal research on this epidemic.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

I'm asking in all seriousness, who has a direct line to Bruce Springsteen to ask if he can donate $100,000?

Remember when people cared about learning loss?

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

Article www.ibtimes.co.uk/kyle-bassing...

Good morning. A Georgia state student was found lynched in Marietta Georgia in a park. It’s gaining traction online since local news isn’t covering it. Justice for Kyle Bessinga.

I told this to a Minneapolis friend & the reaction made me think it might help others: When I had PTSD-specific therapy (husband death stuff), the *first* thing she had me do was visualize a special container all my own & put my traumatic shit in it, close & lock it up, & put on a label saying 1/2

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

30 countries use mail voting

you're doing amazing everybody ❤️

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

Correction: National Guard troops withdrew from 3 cities with no public acknowledgment, other than a Trump social media post weeks earlier that announced the move. An earlier post, below, failed to note Trump’s post and has been deleted. Read more: wapo.st/4abuQAb

Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified the South Caucasus as belonging to Russia. The region, made up of territory in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, is not part of Russia. We deleted the previous post.

If you know U.S. history, then you know creating barriers that make it harder to vote is not a new tactic. Nor is it new that this effort would fall along racial lines. For decades Southern states used a poll tax and other measures to make it nearly impossible for Black people to vote.

Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A huge Australian study of tweens and teens finds best mental health among moderate social media users — not total abstainers reason.com/2026/02/09/a...

I used "smooth-brained" as a dig until a father of a boy with lissencephaly -- the medical term for the condition -- wrote me an incredibly patient note to explain what his son had to deal with. This phrase is a gratuitous insult to parents and children who are already suffering. Don't use it.

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

We have launched a new fundraiser to support The Washington Post's courageous international employees and local staff who were laid off, who are not eligible for Guild protections, and who face additional logistical challenges and security risks. Please give & share widely: gofund.me/e765aab9f

Of course. 🫠

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There are plenty of deep and amazing analyses to be made But god I love that this starts and ends as a love letter to himself and his people . That it’s not about “protest” in the way too many mean it now A deep desire to be seen “winning” over a beautiful reality of living

Who can forget that Super Bowl half-time show when Madonna just recited quarterly stock market gains.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

📺 I’ll always love this story/event. One of many examples of Black creators having a HUGE impact on pop culture. This episode took MILLIONS of viewers away from CBS during Super Bowl XXVI’s halftime to the point in which it forced the NFL to make big changes for Super Bowl halftime entertainment. 🏈

Lotta folk saying FAMU should fight back & resist or whatever but FAMU & other HBCUs above all else need to Remain Open. That is their job right now. To remain open. Harvard should fight. Yale should fight. Ivy League schools with war chests rivaling small countries should fight. They fell first.

We’re a few legislative sessions from these schools being targeted for closure imo

I was trained up to be an election observer by my local ACLU group a few years back, and have recommended others do the same.