Sam Kavanaugh

Picture from a neighborhood “buy nothing” group: two long thin knives each stabbed into a dense rubber ball. Caption on the picture says “Give: pair of ‘bongers,’ used for self massage.”

Bongers

Can there be a Masked Singer element to it, where some of the mascots are revealed to be, like, Amen Thompson or Kel Mitchell?

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It’s day 72 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

We received some DMs after yesterday’s post asking how to help with rent relief: check out the rent relief funds at StandWithMinnesota.com

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

If you insist on donating it to a political candidate for some reason, then I would suggest literally anyone who has shown themselves worthy of the moment instead of that cynical cvs receipt

On a moral level, if you have $200 budgeted and you are deciding between AK and helping your besieged neighbors then all of it should go to your besieged neighbors.

Imagine living in MN right now, having $100 free to donate, and deciding that Amy Klobuchar’s campaign is the best use of your funds.

Tide might be turning. Keep pushing. Keep calling, donating, protesting, all of it. Don’t stop, especially if Trump starts throwing them overboard. Don’t stop until they’re all gone

In the last months especially I’ve had pretty constant undercurrents of rage and grief in me. Sometimes when it feels too much I hop in my car and listen to music from artists like Billy Bragg, & it feels a little more conquerable.

Anyway, he just wrote a song about Minneapolis.
Thank you, Billy.

Donate to Support Phillips Families in Urgent Need, organized by Alexandria Gomez We are a small collective of friends and community organizers working direct… Alexandria Gomez needs your support for Support Phillips Families in Urgent Need

The Phillips neighborhoods are being targeted because it has the highest percent of residents who are not US Citizens. This fund will help feed, provide basic necessities and allow our immigrant neighbors to stay housed for 65+ families (and counting).

gofund.me/4eaa6ea75

this is SO REAL
you have no idea how stressed people are about keeping the roofs over their heads that are keeping them (relatively) safe.
please send cash to rent funds!
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong

www.standwithminnesota.com (click "rent relief funds" on this one)

(Or Amy or Chuck or...)

You go into Jacob's staff meeting after this most recent event that requires courage and action. Once again, it's just a whiteboard with "Decorum" underlined three times and a bunch of business bros shaking hands and congratulating each other on another effective brainstorm

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

I would read (and drink?) my way through it

Twin Cities local here -- Strib is literally owned by a billionaire. Strongly urge contributions to these outlets instead:

@sahanjournal.bsky.social
@minnesotareformer.com
@minnpost.bsky.social
@racketmn.com
@mprnews.org

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:

Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.

Please donate what you can.

www.2harvest.org

What type of tree are you interested in

Like it’s obvious for a bunch of reasons why that wouldn’t be true, but mostly because the drinking water doesn’t smell like piss

Someone once tried to convince me that an airport ground crew uses the same hose to remove the plane’s sewage as they do to fill up the drinking water.

Staff complaints, financial pressures roil Planned Parenthood in Minnesota Planned Parenthood faces external pressures from federal budget cuts and hostile state governments. But current and former employees at the organization’s Minnesota-based Midwest affiliate complain th...

Multiple staff members of Planned Parenthoods in Minnesota have expressed discontent with executive leaders and top managers. They characterized the work environment as disrespectful and chaotic.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Now that winter (and snow) is fully here, if you have a pride flag on your home you gotta clear your sidewalk. Like 20% of people will form political opinions based on nothing more than “this type of person was nice/willing to pull their weight once”.

Complete dissolution of border patrol and ICE, followed by criminal trials aimed at removing these monsters from society, followed by redistribution of agents’ personal assets as reparations to victims, followed by a denazification process to prevent the cancer from taking hold again.

This is like when that orca clan all wore dead salmon on their head. Teens and cetaceans: both capable of culture!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_...

Hell yeah

I’m out of the loop on the old name, who was Edmund?

There’s a proposal to build an enormous data center in a neighboring town, and I have never seen a level of unity like the opposition to it. Politically this is a very purple area but people on the left right and center are coming together in opposition.

www.pineknotnews.com/story/2025/1...

Next year for halloween: insecure Chad conspicuously drawing attention to all the candles he is lighting

Maybe BK was the true City Slicker all along?