To save their storied wooden canoes from wildfires, an Ely YMCA camp sunk them in a lake

Profoundly cursed Facebook ad

If anyone has ever wondered why Minneapolis politics seems especially toxic these days, they are—and the role of this group is a big contributing factor. This email is par for the course, it just got onto more people’s radar.

I am hiring a Project Manager. The position supports the MN Dept of Revenue and would work on a range of IT projects including custom development, SAAS, COTS, infrastructure and telcom projects. It is a hybrid with 50% in office in St Paul. Search for job 95234 here: careers.mn.gov

I’m not a big headache person, but I think this smoke is giving me headaches.

Take precautions to protect you and your family from wildfire smoke and poor air quality. More here: www.pca.state.mn.us/air-water-la...

Uh. It’s gotten worse up there. I have family up there, one of whom is elderly, so I am worrying myself. Thankfully my cousin got her an air purifier last year at least. But I think about anyone who may be forced to work outside in this…

The Range has it ****bad**** this morning. Maybe check on your people up there if you have them.

We still have a whole bunch of kid-sized KF94 masks if people in South MPLS need any to use or distribute. Probably around 50-60.

Sick & safe time is protected in Minnesota.

The vote on the MPD Drone Pilot program with Sydio is this morning at 9:30am meeting. Please call, especially CM Osman in Ward 6 and Whiting in 11 and ask them to vote No!

This documentary, getting released on Monday, is a big deal - the team behind it put in a tremendous amount of effort and reporting. Here in Minnesota, yesterday’s ICE Air plane had the highest number of detainees we’ve seen loaded onto a flight since February 4th.

The air is a hazardous 388 AQI here in beautiful smokehouse Minneapolis according to my AirNow app. It’s worse up north.

Since there’s wildfire smoke moving in:

If you want to trigger an endocrinologist (one that follows evidence, that is), send them this 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

All of this plus not having surveillance cameras everywhere, so I will add just generally roaming around both where we were and were not supposed to be. (And so many all ages shows at 1st Ave that I got comps for)

Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

It is *rough* on the north shore right now.

I’ve created a list in Libby called “Bluesky” because I got so many interesting recommendations on this. Thanks to all!!

I like it

If anyone local needs child-sized KF94 masks (see link) and/or can easily distribute masks to kids, my child has outgrown ours and we have a number of them (I don’t know the exact count, but at least 20–probably more). We’re in the Kingfield/Lyndale area, for reference.

These are super effective, & you can make them in triangle form to use fewer filters/save space if you need to. Do what you can with what you have.

It is so hot. I just got home and stood in a daze trying to absorb the a/c. Today is one of those days where you should drink electrolytes if you’ve been outside. Good lord it’s awful.

Last summer, Minneapolis was a daily trade off between extreme heat (wind from the south) and extreme smoke (wind from the north). But this lucky summer, we get both!

Wow. I have a running mental archive of offenses All of Minneapolis commits that I send to less informed/less progressive people I know. This is just another example of that group being lockstep with GOP racist talking points. Their support of any campaign should always be seen as a red flag.

Necessary context for Hmong people being deported to Laos, where many have never lived & many haven't been in 35-40+ years because of Americans bsky.app/profile/riot...

The pain that keeps radiating from each of these is immense. It doesn’t stop for the individuals or the families. One of the people we helped, who “self-deported” still had to spend like 2 weeks at Dilly and has PTSD, nightmares, dropped a bunch of weight. We are torturing people.

A public university professor's book has accurately analyzed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its nonsensical characterization by a White House that is always racially motivated.

The entirety of the Boundary Waters is being evacuated due to wildfires, led by eight fearless Wilderness Rangers paddling around to campsites.   1,000,000 acres. 2,000 campsites. 4 teams of rangers. 2 rangers per canoe.

The interactive map is pretty interesting. You can click on a dot and it takes you to the source report. (Also I completely forgot about brotex) phr.org/charting-the...

It’s a straight line from Republicans top priority being “we want immigrants to die rather than have them keep paying for their own health insurance” to ICE murdering brown people in the streets. Republican elected officials regular dehumanization of immigrants isn’t just rhetoric, it’s deadly.

Keep dreaming. Imagine ways it can be different. Don't give in to their normalization, desensitization, escalation, capitulation, criminalization, etc. Embrace your humanity. Exercise empathy. Build & be in community. & if you need to, rely on spite.

Reminder that DHS didn't exist until after 9/11, that the massive power consolidation was seen as very concerning at the time (despite the political power of the right in forcing it through) and ICE didn't exist until it did. DHS has shown itself to be even worse than critics feared.

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

My child just asked if we could get a physical copy of the city of Minneapolis municipal code book. I responded that they keep that online, and it's thousands of pages. Our house is a weird place, and I feel like it's important to clarify that none of us are lawyers.

I hate this so much. The statistically predicted mimicry will muddle your actual memory of a person over time. I have no video of my grandmother, but nothing would replace her trying to teach us to Charleston when she was in her mid-80s. No model would have her spark. Just a mimic of an old woman.

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

One of the cemetery deer (Cedar/Lake) is just hanging out with its head through the fence watching traffic. It’s odd.

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here

angie craig’s instagram story features a farmer flying the old minnesota state flag, 2 years after we adopted a new one the last thing we need in 2026 is a senator who wants to drag the DFL rightward and appeal to the regressive culture warriors who use the old flag as a symbol

What’s interesting to me re: Graham is that the hardship he faced (parents dying and raising his 13 yo sister) was possible in part because he was granted empathy by the service and because he would have received social security survivor benefits. The social safety net the GOP has sought to shred.

It is too hot to exist outside today.

I mean. We keep getting stories like this.

The Count Binface stuff has been eliciting howls of laughter from my child and I appreciate that the internet can still bring some joy.

monarca are launching their electoral engagement work ahead of the midterms with a lot of neighborhood-based democracy defense trainings coming up in minneapolis, including one in loring park on july 27 monarcamn.org/training

I feel there hasn't been enough attention to the explosive diarrhea that is being caused by a foodborne parasite that was tracked until exactly a year ago by the FDA, but then was cut as part of the "cost savings" of DOGE. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is actually a really sad story. Substance abuse disorder can cause even the best person to do things they wouldn’t have thought possible. It seems like he was stealing from individual people and using the money/cards to buy Kratom (not sure if it was just Kratom bc that’s a lot of money).