abolition is the moderate position since the cops have not only defunded themselves, but the rest of us

Can you imagine voting for that bootlicker Angie Craig when we could have Peggy Flanagan as our next senator? deleted and reposed bc I said "governor" 🫣

This chicken coop was actually a little under-sized, but I used to haul a couple tables, 6 3’x8’ display racks and shelves, a 10x10 tent, and 350 books to the farmers market every week on this trailer. Once had it so loaded w 7’ pallets I went backwards down a hill, pedaling and spinning my wheels!

I hope the good people of New Jersey are announcing a FUCK THAT.

What should a Project 2029 be? Oh, I dunno, maybe Landback, health communism, abolish billionaires, hormones/gender-affirming care/sex change and abortion on demand, everything for everyone, free public transit, abolish borders, guillotines for fascists... Just spitballing here.

All eyes on New Jersey. Minnesota stands in solidarity. ABOLISH ICE EVERYWHERE

Happy 6th anniversary of Minneapolis rising up and burning down the HQ of a violent gang of thugs who absconded w money produced by your labor, using it to pay themselves to terrorize Black, indigenous, poor abd working folks. Another World is Possible (reskeeting the below for no particular reason)

"I can’t tell you exactly what will snap or break during our present spiral, or the order in which these impacts will occur, but I am thinking more urgently about posture: how we hold ourselves, how we move, what we reach for, and what we refuse to let go of." - Kelly Hayes

Even if you only make it a short way in to this essay by the brilliant Kelly Hayes, you will get something out of this. Just read it, PLEASE.

Technically, God is also vegan.

Tonight’s chicken bedtime line-up, notable as the first time the Barred Rock hasn’t gotten the spot closest to the window. I used to think they were bullying the brown one by sitting on her--turns out she burrows underneath the others. I guess she sleeps better if someone is sitting on her neck?

My chickens want a cuddle before bed, and although I think it’s weird, I like it too.

Quote post with a fictional muppet band that is not the puppet show Spinal Tap was booked to open for at an amusement park.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

Pretty sure they're not coming for Jacob and Cedric.

Anybody got a REALLY BIG grounded-to-2prong adaptor?

MPD 5th Precinct today: *Knock Knock* MPD: Who's there? Feds: ICE MPD: Sorry, we're not allowed to work with you. *Knock Knock* MPD: Who's there? Feds: Um... HSI MPD: Oh, hey IC... I mean HSI, c'mon in!!!

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Hey! Please tell your Minnesota legislators to pass the Compensatory Aid policy, ensuring that our kids' public schools get the need-based funding they count on: secure.ngpvan.com/IiJn6xu--Uyu...

It's wild to me that the City isn't required to even send residents a letter if they're going to permanently or semi-permanently change the direction of traffic on the street you live on, or turn your street from a one-way to a through-street, or visa-versa.

Kelly Reinhardt’s Shrek

Drivers in South Minneapolis: If I go fast enough, I can get my car in there.

I was doing yard work and someone down the block started blasting music.Bill Withers and Grover Washington "Just the Two of Us." Eh, not my fave. Braced myself for an afternoon of smooth-jazz RnB, but the next song was "Rise" by Public Image Ltd. Sorry, neighbor, didn't recognize your game.

Testing the waters for a 2028 run. I could see him being very popular among Dem Leadership.

Let’s get this done and get out to the parade Minneapolis- see you in the streets!!!

Top 8 yogurts, gut instincts only. Go! Brown Cow Stonybrook The one that comes in the ceramic pot Danon Yoplait Nancy’s White Mountain Greek Gods

I think these 24-hour Claritin pills are less like 1 continuous dose for 24 hours, and more like a 5-hr dose released every six hours. They’re amazing, but they absolutely don’t work for an hour four times a day.

Any techies know why I keep signing up for email notifications from my kid's MPS school, but when I CAN get them, they stop (even to spam) after 1 or 2... but my wife only had to subscribe once and never has a problem? Love always having no answer when asked about the big news from our kid's school.

WAR IS OVER! If you want it

A real dive bar doesn't advertise that it's a dive bar.

In addition to being an unpaid beta-tester for Google and Apple, I’m now also moonlighting as an unpaid bike and scooter parker for Uber.

I've never done "hanging out" before, but I was just reading an article that siad trying new things is good for brain health, so I'm giving it a go. And these parklots make it easy! I can see why people like this... You know, I might get some hang-out gear and try it again next summer.

I love how music streaming services are like, "here, we made a mix for you so you can discover new music!" and it's just all the songs you've been listening to, only in a different order. And then there's ANOTHER mix, and it's the same songs, but in a different order, and then there's ANOTHER mix,

Cashew on a Hot Tin Roof, Vegan Cajun Tofu-wich, and Papagayo. Old-school Iowa City New Pi Co-op heads know. You can't get sandwiches like that anymore, anywhere.

Oh, hello there.

Today is day 142 of the ICE occupation of MN. More than 70 children detained during metro surge - each story is full of trauma and heartbreak.

I look at bluesky a lot less since the Minneapolis / St. Paul feed stopped working.

A brief story: This morning a child went missing on the way to school in my neighborhood. Law enforcement and search and rescue were called, and also the networks we built for ICE Rapid Response. 1/2

“Near neighborhood traffic circles, crashes decreased by 50%.” This is a wild statistic, considering cars have crashed into the traffic circle by my house at least 4 times in the past 5 years. And one time a car crashed into a house on the corner next to the traffic circle.

Lunch at Post-Modern Times today was jumpin! Great food as always--AND a great vibe, with a wider range of neighbors there now that it's pay-what-you-want. Love that the extra $ I spend on my non-dairy migas and weird coffee drink goes towards getting farm-fresh food to everyone. ❤️Sout Minneapolis❤️

I friggin LOVE living/working in a neighborhood where the local brewery collaborates with the church across the street to make a beer that benefits an immigration justice fund. AND it's a delicious doppelbock! South Minneapolis continues to be the best. ❤️❤️❤️

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

Apparently the entire city enterprise has a humiliation kink. This is pathetic.

This video reflecting on the response to ICE features footage of a barricade like the ones Minneapolis Police dismantled, and then shows slow-mo footage of an MPD officer doing nothing helpful, while the narrator talks about how we all did what we could and played our individual parts.

"Space Oddity" by David Bowie is like 75 years old and I'm tired of hearing it every time they talk about space travel on the news. I feel like Kook Keith, Kimya Dawson, Megan thee Stallion, BTS, or Black Pink could write a really good space theme. Or how about this by Parry Gripp?

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

There's no "conspiracy" to downplay crowd size at protests. The protests just happen to be against the interests of the owners of the news outlets, which for decades have consistently provided gross undercounts of protest attendance, even after being repeatedly called on their errors.

This is what it was like every day in the 1990s. Any newspaper report of a protest, the numbers they gave were more accurate if you added a zero. I literally once heard a photographer say there were 500 people at a protest against the first gulf war, next day the caption on his pic said 50.