Jaime Starling

Military Veterans Protesting ICE See Crackdown Through Different Lens

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That this was in my part of town, which is not predominantly white, gave them the balls to lie like that.

I feel this more and more now.

DOGS IN ART | Kirkus Reviews In this Swiss import, translated from French, a human and an orange tabby conduct a tour of art featuring dogs throughout history.

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Olympic Spirits on ICE - The American Prospect Why would tourists come to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics when Trump is transforming the entire country into a xenophobic danger zone?

We’ll see the World Cup’s issues this year…
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Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Frontier, From an Immigrant in Minneapolis “For over a century, the frontier served as a powerful symbol of American universalism. It not only conveyed the idea that the country was moving forward but promised that the brutality involved in…

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My Iraq-War veteran cousin and Kenyan-born doctorate in agriculture science housemate went with me to see this and I think they're still kind of besties?

Creeping Bellflower Creeping bellflower is an aggressive weed and widespread across the United States, the good news is--you can eat it, and it tastes good.

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If your company uses UKG, check your previous days off and make sure the hours add up correctly. My 2025 is so messed up. I lost up to 3x the number of hours for one sick day.

Communiqué: Publishing Tastemakers and Debauched Opulence + I Who Have Never Known Men has sold half a million copies Header image from Mule Boy by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press, February 2026). Hot News This Week February 12, 2026 “Transit occupies...

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Patchwork Dolls Check out Patchwork Dolls - <p><b>In this debut story collection, Ysabelle Cheung weaves an eerie fabulism with tales that cross continents, technology, and time.</b></p><p>Set in Hong Kong and Americ...

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"Lu Lu" shares,"It takes a lot of skill to prune grapevines correctly. We carefully remove much of the previous year’s growth. Good pruning allows proper spacing for sun exposure and air circulation. You need to do this to grow the kind of grape that makes good wine" #WeFeedYou

Autoptic Festival Updates The Autoptic Festival will be postponed until 2027, but we are planning smaller events throughout 2026.

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Read This When Things Fall Apart,’ edited by Kelly Hayes Makkah Abdur Salaam of Black Garnet Books in St. Paul recommends “Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis,” edited by Kelly Hayes.

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I repost this image a lot and I feel it must be reposted a lot #neverforget

Housemate on her way home after being punched in the face at work by a patient at the hospital. Folks in the medical community need more protection.

Banda has been traded to the Twins and will be less than a mile from my house most of this year. My heart can’t handle it!

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness At the start of Bora Chung’s short story “The Head,” a strange creature emerges from the toilet bowl. Resembling “a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and gray clay,” it rises from the wate…

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The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness At the start of Bora Chung’s short story “The Head,” a strange creature emerges from the toilet bowl. Resembling “a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and gray clay,” it rises from the wate…

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NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people

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Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...

They pocketed and sold what they could get their hands on.
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Minnesota churches provide critical supports as immigrants hide at home • Minnesota Reformer It’s a natural extension of churches’ spiritual worldview — backed by scripture — that compels believers to help the vulnerable.

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And they sold his phone.

I think a helpful thing about this is that it demonstrates how clearly, confidently, and gracefully cops lie

People selling homemade Minnesota stuff right now don’t really say it outright, but you can tell they mean, ‘I don’t have money but I have beads/yarn/3dprinter/etc. to make stuff and send the proceeds to folks who are helping.’ Look for this stuff, buy if you like, but don’t bag on them, please.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Seng Soun Ratanavanh from The Paper Bridge, one of 19 books longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration; 11 had featured in my daily posts, plus the illustrators of 2 more. This, photographing paper sculpture, would’ve done if I’d seen it. @florisbooks.bsky.social

The Snow is Melting by  Kobayashi Issa Visit the post for more.

Look out for the Spring Poems on the Underground on London Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from 9th February The snow is melting by Kobayashi Issa tr. by Robert Hass Calligraphy by Yukki Yaura poemsontheunderground.org/the-snow-is-...

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