meagan kane

Love how 3000-700 keeps being consistently rounded down to 2000.

The Only Piece Left — Baffling Magazine by Meagan Kane “Lot 507. [THE IMBRIUM COPY.]”

Was going to self-promo my own story from this issue (www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...), but yes, the whole issue is great!

You're good, that happened to me last year. They even still had my spouse's name spelled wrong on the fixed one, and when we called the mn revenue dept, they said it was all good.

Oh hey look it's me! Feels incredible to read someone's thoughts on this story. Fun and fully imagined! The highest possible stakes! The Asimov knockoff as counterpoint to Aimee Ogden's PKD! You heard it here, folks.

Yeah, I think that's it. I know on the website for the shutdown one page has a download that specifically says "Somali and Black student organizations in Minneapolis," which is what I think a lot of news stories about it are pulling from too. nationalshutdown.org/downloads

I think SPECIFICALLY the Somali Student Association? And then other student groups joined in.

The University of Minnesota Student Unions were, at the very least, among the first, afaik.

i keep seeing fundraisers for PPE. over and over. that’s a real sexy cause and there is no shortage of $$ going to it

please boost and donate to RENT FUNDS for people who have not been able to work and have their rent due within DAYS

please stop putting our mayor on television

going thru traditional rent assistance resources (not for me, i'm fine) and so many net such a small amount of money versus the amount of effort the applicant is expected to expend. man, you can really feel the end of the month rapidly careening into people's bank accounts.

Includes my prison break short story about Io, radiation, and (improbably) governesses— “What a Name Does Is Let You Leave.” INCREDIBLY strange time for this story to drop for me personally (I live in Minneapolis), but it’s one of my favorites.

Controversial Border Patrol chief and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, sources say | CNN Politics Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussion...

To be clear, the demand is not that Bovino and company simply leave Minnesota to terrorize people elsewhere. We want ICE destroyed, its collaborators prosecuted and removed from any position of societal power and interaction, and detainees released and given justice.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...

Reminder:
- Nothing being reported on ICE withdrawing
- By govt’s own admission, 2,000 ICE invaders here, a still-astounding number
- Unclear how many CPB agents will be removed
- Tom Homan, the new Bovino, was the force behind ICE’s family separation policy, a bribe-taker, and a monster

The Only Piece Left — Baffling Magazine by Meagan Kane “Lot 507. [THE IMBRIUM COPY.]”

I know Baffling's a given, but my flash -- "The Only Piece Left" -- was in the December issue www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Fiction can be instructive and inspirational, I suppose, but we should not be beholden to make the instructive inspirational, or the inspirational hopeful, or the fictional instructive. Sometimes you need a story where shit goes south, and then you need to go and make someone else soup.

I don’t think books or short stories can serve as an antidote to despair, only as a comfort measure for the temporary lessening of symptoms. I think action can. If you want hopepunk, in the spirit of punk itself, you must do it yourself.

LRT articulates something I was discussing w a close friend the other day—the trouble of only looking for optimistic fiction in this day & age—bc it seems when ppl say “optimistic fiction” they mean stories where nothing is terrible to start and mostly fine at the end, read as antidote to despair.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

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In particular, I’ve been pointing ppl towards givebutter.com/nhn2026, since they do a lot of work in south mpls; I know that’s where the Whittier neighborhood association was pointing ppl last night. (Sorry to butt in, I just know some ppl have found the list overwhelming!)

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

The main takeaway for me here is that they cannot imagine doing labor for others without remuneration. They cannot conceive of giving of themselves to their community. And that really says everything about their ideology.

Mueller Park today.

As we in Minneapolis struggle with this unlawful, invading force… I ask all of you consider the parallels to your local law enforcement and the Black community often describes their interactions.

Don't repeat the lie that any of this is happening during "targeted" immigration enforcement. Agents are roaming the city, looking for suspicious skin colors or the hint of an accent.

Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

again. let this all radicalize you against more than just ICE, because cops have been doing this to people forever. killing innocent people in cold blood and saying they feared for their lives and getting away with it. when ICE leave, we still have them

they call me the universal downer. call me any time you want a vibe harshed.

Like this moment is extraordinary, yes, but sometimes I think people don't remember how Walz called the national guard on mpls in 2021 AGAIN, after Winston Smith got murdered in broad daylight, and how that might affect a community's willingness to turn to each other before authorities.

And I keep thinking about how you don't get this moment without CeCe McDonald, Daunte Wright, George Floyd, or a dozen other Black people brutalized by the system or murdered by city and state officials and isn't that fucking sickening.