Minnesotans making calls: please remember to advocate for release of ALL ICE detainees, including the children and also the Standing Rock members who are detained. No one deserves this! Not one person i the concentration camps should be there.

Made my calls. Because FUCK ICE FUCK BPS FUCK DHS. They are making me sicker and I am irate. I shouldn’t have to be so stressed that my body flames out. I should be relaxing and resting for gods’ sakes.

Major crash today. I will still call tonight. I won’t post much though.

Tonight’s Prince is Covers! Listen to the songs he wrote and others performed. Manic Monday, I Feel For You, You Got the Look, so many more. Many are available with him performing them as well as the other artists.

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

Just so my trans friends know: there are a lot of plates in the air, but I mentioned trans rights in my calls tonight. I haven’t forgotten you!

Tonight I called my state and fed electeds, and then I sat with my 20year old son while he did the hard work of calling the same people. Make no mistake: calling people is harder for Gen Z than for X and Millennials, and we dread it as it is! Support young voters in claiming their power.

Good night, world. I love you.

Ice luminaries on Lake Nokomis, which is on a flight path from MSP airport. #ICEout

professor and writer Anton Treuer gave us an Ojibwe version of “ICE OUT” ikogaan mikwam=ice, go away!

Tonight’s Prince is 1999. We have a tiny victory to celebrate. Today they offered us appeasement. We can celebrate before reminding them that we are not backing away from our neighbors.

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social Justice! Impeach and try Noem, Miller, Bondi, Patel, and their baby-kidnapping murderer cronies and subordinates. Release the detainees! ABOLISH ICE, it cannot be reformed. Defund DHS. We have kids older than the agency!

Who’s next? One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.

anyway just to reiterate, Bovino is a GS-15, which means there are probably a dozen SESs and politicals above him who need to answer for their failure to supervise him

Thanks to @nathancoulter.bsky.social for responding to the message I left last night after I logged off here. Please post what you related to me here!

ICE leaving MN is a tiny start, but I want justice! Defund ICE NOW and abolish it. Try every single one of them for their crimes. Impeach and try Noem, Bondi, Miller, and their corrupt cronies. I want them held accountable for every *bruise* on every human being AND every human soul.

Minnesota sees Maine. Help our Eastern cousins! No one should ever stand alone against bullies.

When you help make it so the only names people know are Pretti and Good, you reinforce the culture that says these things aren't "bad enough" until white people get involved. This has been going on for a whole year. Many non-white people have died in this same way trying to protect their neighbors.

TFW you wake up in the middle of the night and realize that the question you have been asking yourself for years is “ why doesn’t everyone have empathy?” and while you have it (you blow up relationships because you’re bad at reading people, not malicious) trying to understand that is your life goal.

Good night, world. I love you.

Off for the night with the Purple One’s dulcet tones purring in my ears. I have more calls to make before sleep. If I’m going to be bedbound, I’m at least calling.

Today they took another member of Standing Rock.

Tonight’s Prince is Lovesexy. Tonight I am ME/CFS brain fogged enough that I can’t tell if it’s appropriate. But gods, it’s soothing my heart. (I will recover, it’s not like the time I coredumped NK Jemison’s trilogy into my head over two days. Worth it!)

Timeline cleanse!

Alex Pretti is a hero. His martyrdom doesn’t erase my rage that the kidnapping of the brown babies and the revered elders and NDNs andthe caretakers wasn’t enough for some people. I guess some folks need people to look like they do to believe in their humanity. White people need to listen to BIPoC.

Buy some bookes from Dreamhaven yn Minneapolis: "DreamHaven specializes in new and used science fiction, fantasy, horror, film and media books, comics, and graphic novels." dreamhavenbooks.com

It is 5p on Sunday. Are you ready for next week? Check your schedules and stuff for next week. Do you have breakfast in the morning? Do you need to do laundry? 5 min of planning right now will save you money and stress. I promise.

Tonight’s Prince is one song: “Mountains” from Parade.

I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants. ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS. Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

It's gonna be automatic blocks for smug doomers today.

Good night, world. I love you.

Tonight’s Prince is Sign of the Times. It’s not an easy listen in some parts but it’s from his heart. Listen and, yes, if you’re Christian like him, pray. If you’re queer, remember he supported queerness. If you’re a sexy MF, promise your orgasms to the Gods in return for every agent getting ED.

Yeah, I am me/cfs crashed today.

Good night, world. I love you.

Please read. I’m off for the night or I won’t sleep at all.

Tonight’s Prince is MPLSound. Harder to find, but so good.

we do not need outside agitators, the polycules of powderhorn park have been activated since day 1

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.

Call for information: If anyone has video or photos of the observer at 28th and Blaisdell who was given a bloody nose by BORTAC and CBP agents, please DM me.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Thank you so much.

Good night, world. I love you.

Tonight’s Prince is The Gold Experience, and please listen to “We March.” Especially if you’re White. I mean take it in.

I’m heartbroken. They took a 5-year-old from his driveway in Columbia Heights. @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social @smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com DO SOMETHING! @nathancoulter.bsky.social @mhwiklund.bsky.social Start writing bills now to support businesses forced to close!

Good night, world. I love you.

Tonight’s Prince is an easy one: Purple Rain. As always, extended mixes and having fun with the music are sacraments. And if it suits you and a consenting partner or a few, well, Prince loved sex and doing things like feeding the poor and helping those he could. 💜☔️💜

The Wedge Co-Op just sent out an email announcing their closure, too.

For those who don’t know, EF is a very good record store and has some amazing history. I am unsurprised and gratified to see them join in. We love you too, EF!