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I DEEPLY and MIGHTILY APPROVE of this sorta thing.
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IMMA SPARKLE SHARK.
This is the future liberals want: one state providing to its citizens the options of either attending Brandi Carlile *or* watching people whack the hell out of a stump on the former Palmer’s stage on the patio of a queer soccer bar
The beauty of tonight = celebrating an old friend’s birthday; driving around this amazing and strong city; listening to Brandi on The Current.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Here's a Bandcamp playlist of songs by Minnesota artists inspired by the ongoing Federal occupation.
Let me know if I'm missing anyone and I'll add them to the playlist.
bandcamp.com/paulclarkson...
Our daily updated (and certainly not comprehensive) list of fundraisers and donation drives taking place around the Twin Cities. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
Living in Minnesota right now means getting your heart broken every day, multiple times a day. Some days it also means having your faith in humanity restored. Please keep watching Minnesota, if you live elsewhere. Things are still dire.
My friend who matched your donations to the Immigrant Law Center (you gave 4x the match!) IS BACK to match *$5,000* Bluesky gives to DHH’s food drive. (DHH is an anchor for south Minneapolis food relief.) Link here: www.dhhmn.com/operations. Reply or DM with receipts; black out identifying info.
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.
Hundreds of community members showed up to Target today to tell them to stop being a safe haven for ICE. We’ve seen so many community members taken from Target & the Quarry as they allow ICE to use their parking lot.
Watched Secret Mall Apartment this morning, rec’d by friend. So damn good. Great distraction & reminder of the impact of art + resistance + so many other things I can’t summon right now. More performance art please.
one thing being lost in discourse is that rapid response networks are just a tool. they aren’t the end all, be all here. the actual goal is to connect with neighbors! and now with the leaks, they’re not being handed out like they were
go talk to your neighbors to find a chat! or you can make one!
The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.
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.
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they will never break minneapolis’ spirit. this is why we will win
brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Deadline on this is extended until Wednesday -- and if you want to write about your experience in a short piece (50-200 words) for this call, but need help, I have a group of volunteer writing coaches and professional editors ready to help Minneapolis folks out with this.
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
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I am still conducting my Caucus 101 Trainings, the first of which is TOMORROW, January 12th, at 6PM. I'm amending the presentation to talk about what to do about ICE at Caucuses, too. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you've never caucused before and want to learn, please attend!
i’m at plymouth church for their sunday forum with edwin of the immigrant defense network speaking now. there are samosas in the lobby
edwin says we have about 3k ICE agents here and more coming. largest deployment of ICE agents in the country’s history
MS NOW(MSNBC) shows a slide "A decade of Tragedy":
