Kendall Gerdes

Yeah I’m ready to be done with them now.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

“Joy is an act of resistance.” Or, as Rebecca Solnit wrote in Hope in the Dark, “Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

This is a really wonderful read.

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

Push back can work! This is great news!

Photo of Tasia Tanner, Winter Vinecki, Kyra Doss and Kaila Kuhn, posing in their Team USA gear at the Winter Olympics

Fun fact: the U.S. Women’s Freestyle Skiing Aerials team, which is set to compete tomorrow morning around 2a MT, is comprised entirely of #UofU students and alumni. #GoUtes

📸 Tasia Tanner

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.

Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.

Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.

A screencap of Shazam identifying Chappell Roan’s song “Good Luck, Babe!”- background image of a “stop” hand emoji over a digital globe.

A farewell to Camp Rhetoric courtesy of airport radio! You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.

An art wall at the airport with a colorful drawing of a woman at a Mueller counter. Her speech bubble says, “I’ll take a chocolate covered onion, please.”

I too have an onion-themed picture from an airport today.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

I just hope Brandi Carlile and Bad Bunny have fun

A state on edge: What the last 31 days have looked like in Minnesota Here’s what it looked like since Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent.

This @startribune.com article provides an excellent account and timeline of the ICE invasion of Minneapolis. Don't forget the people of Minnesota as the federal occupation of our state continues.

www.startribune.com/a-state-on-e...

Really hoping the Sundance doc Cookie Queens gets picked up! It was charming and thought-provoking without being didactic.
festival.sundance.org/program/film...

New Hampshire ICE news: The Rockingham county measure to block ICE from using the Brentwood jail to house 150 detainees was successful & the contract has been tabled indefinitely

it's important to take "indefinitely" very literally. it would also be correct to say "for now, until the next unknown"

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

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In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

This is civic action.

Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.

130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.

But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

The people of Minneapolis are showing breathtaking courage. Facing down armed federal goons to protect their neighbors isn't just brave; it’s legendary.

Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) has announced a restructuring of its executive leadership team and the intention to sell multiple properties, as the university tries to address a shortfall of approximately $25 million. The changes are just two of several that are expected in the year ahead, as the university also contends with an upcoming tuition-fee freeze. In late January, MUN announced it will begin selling multiple properties in St. John’s that are “not closely aligned with its academic mission,” as well as its Harlow Campus in the United Kingdom. The announcement came just two weeks after the university announced executive restructuring, which saw it reduce the number of vice-presidents from seven to three.

PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions.

Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3.

Yes we can!

universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...

Hey funny story!

Remember how for like 20 years we said if you tell people to only study STEM that job market would tank & also no one would be able to think critically about rhetoric or ethics, know what happened at any point in history or value much but money?

Man, I love that one. Cracks me up.

Full Bad Bunny speech

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them