WE ALREADY HAVE OUR THIRD PARTY. WE ARE IT: “They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-roots leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee.

When we finally have Victory Over Ice Day, Minnesota will be like

Wait—“theater” as in make-believe crisis invented for cinematic effect or “theater” as in war against a US population???

I love how folks outside the state are showing up for Minnesota in so many ways. Thank you. Here’s one more: donate blood. MN supplies are super low right now because we are all a wee bit busy defending democracy. Our elders, our cancer patients, our trauma care centers could use your help.

I love Moon Palace so much. They are a crucial hub of the social justice community. Angela is a Minnesota treasure.

My naturalized, US-citizen husband just got called into work. His office is across the street from the USCIS building in downtown Minneapolis. He took his passport with him and I kissed him and told him I love him as if I might not see him this afternoon. This is Minnesota right now.

“I didn’t run for this job so I could have this job. I ran for this job so I could do this job.” —Gov. Tim Walz

Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.” siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice

2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?

Very happy to have a poem published by @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Thanks so much @hollyannepoet.bsky.social and @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social for accepting it and being wonderful editors to work with. atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/18/t...

How do we mobilize to stop this?

5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out! 5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Twin Cities: At least it isn’t snow.

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

holy fuck. Thank you, @assignedmedia.org, for bringing this up. Right on, blue state govs.

CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP!!

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Omg, dream job.

E.g. plant all the zinnia seeds and then thin them and trust, because seriously: they will use all that light and space and you’ll thank yourself for your small brutalities. 🌱

Shout out today to St. Paul institution George’s Shoes & Repair. I walked in with a broken biking shoe, hoping to avoid buying a new pair. I walked out 5 minutes later with a fixed shoe, no charge, ready to get back on the road. They are a local treasure and take mail order repair requests.

I think one challenge in living among so much uncertainty and tragedy is the way capitalism has taught us that our quiet, domestic moments don’t count for anything. (1/6)

Worse than that. Read this EO carefully, it says anyone they see as essentially out of their mind OR homeless. It’s repeated under every point they make. This here allows to take anyone they see as a “threat” and put into an institution.

My favorite punctuation claps back!

I carry this feeling with me all day these days, “whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world.” Powerful, brilliant, illuminating essay about an ICE job fair.

The top story in the Star Tribune on July 6, 1990, is priceless. And this quote from one of the parents: “They’re going to be grounded for so long that they’re going to forget what people look like.” 😂

'look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours .. you can see their resemblances to landscapes, mountains, rivers .. varicoloured stones, like the sound of bells, in whose peelings you can find every name and word you can imagine' [leonardo da vinci]

did this last week... let's do it again?! quick little spontaneous call for 60 submissions open to any and all genres & lengths (tho shorter is always more likely) last week this lasted 4, almost 5 hours. bet it goes faster this go-round?? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/33220...

Okay, this is delightful. Guess what this is. Guess. It’s a coffin for a fish. At some point between 600-300 BC, someone buried their pet fish. It didn’t get the super fancy treatment that cats and falcons got, but by god, it got a little wood coffin of its own.

A key moment in this @racketmn.com piece by @spencer-white.bsky.social is when a teen asks some friends to come to a meeting and a bunch do. So many stories of activism/advocacy start NOT with some eureka moment of perfect moral clarity, but with relationships + down-to-earth invitations like that.

When you discover a year-old potato in the back of the pantry cupboard:

With #AltText

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

I taught this beautiful Matthew Olzmann poem "You Want To Hold Everything In Place, But" in the workshops I did during acute summer 2020 protest + pandemic years as the first thing we read, I hoped as a kind of pressure valve release. I've been sending it around a lot again lately.

Musicians, head to the studio please. This needs to be mixed in to the beginning of at least 19 punk, rock, and rap songs by the end of the week.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

This poem by Kevin Young about the Midwest is the truest of things.

A 64-page totally generic summer insert published in newspapers across the country is substantially written by hallucinating AI, making shit up. Crap content will ultimately bring down the value of the newspapers it is printed in.

Failed the Minnesotan endurance test last night and turned the heat back on. Brrrrrrrr.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

It’s a huge delight to start the morning learning someone has read your poem.

Proud to be in community with such a leader!

Jim Moore

How rich is your menopause making someone else? In 2024, the global menopause market of pharmaceuticals and diet supplements alone was valued at almost 18 billion USD, and this number is projected to keep on rising.