Drafted up this new template for unit plans that, I hope, will be more friendly to share out with students/families (Will try it out with a few units this summer then share out completed version!)

Available for preorder now from Amazon, Bookshop, and likely some of your favorite independent bookstores. @bookpeople.com in Austin is one of my faves! bookpeople.com/book/9781978...

TPT (Twin Cities PBS) is doing a member drive rn. On Monday we watched them get to 28 of the required 50 to unique donations (of any amount) to unlock a $4k match during a program on auroras & the dark sky movement. Rn they're at 35/50 during their current program ending in 2 minutes.

All done with work until next year!

They’re good books, too. Choose in-store pickup and use promo code SUMMER

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59

Listening to Who Can It Be Now by Men at Work and realizing that these lyrics came out in 1981, the first year of the millennial generation cohort and they have guided our whole pattern of interactions with the front door.

🍎 📖 I would rather sit through seven consecutive faculty meetings, that could have been emails, than grade your final papers.

This storm is what happens when too many Minnesotans agree that we need rain.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

emergency need: my friend susan raffo, beloved minneapolis healing justice practitioner needs money for a queer Black woman & child trying to get out of an abusive situation today they need $2000 today, she’s only been able to find $100 venmo: @ziibiing

We have turned classrooms into a hell for neurodivergence. The same hyper-plasticity that makes hostile environments damaging makes safe ones transformative. Build the right conditions and watch what happens. stimpunks.org/space/cavendish/

Whether your jam is Hawai'ian Gothic, Indian-inspired fantasy, or bi4bi Korean Romance, there's something for everyone to be found in this post!

Can you imagine if so many people with power would actually use the simple response of “No, I don’t think that’s a plausible explanation” when other people in power tried to rationalize white supremacy?

"We are at war, and thousands of people are dead. We are at war, and we are complaining about high gas prices and long lines at the airport. We are at war, and running late for our next appointment." organizingmythoughts.org/the-zombie-d...

Blizzard warning has been lifted for Hennepin and Ramsey counties. Now it is a winter storm warning. A lot of snow, but now maybe it will stay where it is?

fighting the institutional adoption of ai is slow and difficult. but as individuals, we can still largely opt out, at least from direct use. i sincerely believe that those who do so will find solidarity in creativity, imagination, and humanity. in intelligence.

Ope. Upgraded to a blizzard warning

As Dex did not use a question mark, we, dear readers, can surmise this is a statement of anger, despair, outrage, and rage rage. Not a question.

One of my students finished The Hunger Games for the first time in our classroom yesterday during choice reading. Her gasp and her stunned sitting reminded me of all the reasons I love powerful books and choice reading practices.

I went through and added up the total paid rents through our adopt-a-rent program, and it is 329 families for $463,217. All peer-to-peer, no fundraising. Just neighbors helping each other out. If you want to adopt a family, and can afford to give $500 or more, signal me at asiniiwiikwe.72

I went to the north shore last week and experienced the blizzard. Mute me if you hate nature. As Riley reminds us, outside is the good place. After filming the tambolo, below, I saw my first (Mn) wolf! (Not pictured, it crossed hwy 61 in front of me. But it stopped and looked at me. Magical)

Happy last day of the month! I have quite a few rent needs and not enough donors, so if you have a couple bucks to drop in the rent pool, you can venmo me @ziibiing If you can give $500 or more message me on signal at asiniiwiikwe.72

Happy last day of the month! Stand with Minnesota has a lot of rent needs and not enough donors. Can you help adopt a rent? Extra points if you have Zelle, because we have a lot of Zelle needs and are at our limits. If you can help: www.standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

I talked with @ziibiing.com about Stand With Minnesota, keeping neighbors housed during ICE escalation, and directing generosity where it’s actually needed.

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Minnesota is very, very strict about fundraising and gambling. Just give. Give what you can. Give for pride, not prizes.

"Monica sent this from where she's working in the sweet potatoes in Merced county. "I'm cleaning the fields to be planted. The conditions are cold and wet. Weeds here can be knee high. I work long hours and must drive in dense fog. I do this work to feed my family." #WeFeedYou

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

this is the video/account:

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

How do I say this the right way . . . I live near an airport. Air traffic noises are a typical occurrence. The increase in air traffic and continued presence of helicopters is so unsettling that my body cannot relax on my day off. It’s so bad, even when it is indirect.

I’d choose being Black in every lifetime 😂😂😂 I love us.

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

Another addition to the website to help us built *systems* and not just have me trying to do everything alone: If you'd like to adopt a rent that you can either *cover immediately* and fundraise for, or just pay outright, please fill out this form and we will contact you via Signal.

There’s something very freeing when you know you’re on your own. There’s really nothing stopping us from caring this deeply and boldly about our neighbors at all times, everywhere in the world, and if you’re not from Minnesota you should be doing what we are doing, and if you aren’t, start now.

Maybe this time, I will learn and understand curling.

the status quo is supported by people with resources believing that the only responsible way to help the “less fortunate” is to give to the appropriate organization that redistributes it to the worthy. our system was built to fail the people in the moment we are in—to protect systems of oppression.

As Commander Riker put it: “I can’t have my people fighting the Borg at the same time they're fighting their own fatigue”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

When I tell you that @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is keeping me sane because of her joy and her adhd cults and posts like this. I laughed so hard the dam inside me broke, and it needed to break. I needed to purge and the tears needed to fall. Bree, who barely knows me, is doing so much for me. Thanks

okay hi everyone real quick crowdfund: we're doing grocery box packing for families from our kids' school, and i would really really really really like to raise funds to stick a box of cake mix or pre-made cookies in each box this week. v3nmo is nhojelttil, please put a 🍰 or 🍪 with it

I’m writing about this and want to document it as best I can. But they also don’t want to be documented. Many aren’t doing it full-time, feel embarrassed they’re not doing more. But they’re heroes, too, I think.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Might need

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

please please please i cannot warn you enough if you dont want to see this video