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Begging everyone with these kind of centrist senators to call their offices every single day. If you want to support Minnesota, set a daily alarm and call

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."

“Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me.”

Especially if you're not in Minnesota. Especially if you have Republican senators. Please help us.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

I used filets of fresh aloe vera flesh on my sockets for healing after wisdom tooth removal last year after finding a few studies showing it to be helpful (plus own past experiences of it helping with wound healing).

Glad you are safe, thank you for working to reach the 💕 of those harming us

Friends. This is the long haul. Regulate yourself. Breathe. Act if you must today, but know that the work will be here tomorrow. Pick your lane. Connect to your people.

Things to do remotely, today:

1. Make donations to mutual aid groups in Minnesota.
2. Flood the Capitol switchboard with phone calls.
3. Don't give unsolicited, online advice to Minnesotans.
4. Be careful what posts you share. Stick to MN sources, or trusted journalists.

Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that develop in some people after suffering a traumatic event.

In the Emily Holmes' original "tetris can help reduce PTSD" study, what was found was that tetris is an activity which busies the part of working memory called the visuospatial sketchpad: imagining the rotation of shapes.

www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...

Ways to help if you're local, ways to help if you aren't in MN.

Also still need support for our unhoused neighbors, especially in this cold. Links in quoted post.

www.standwithminnesota.com has links, including a way to send messages to Minnesota.

I know not the point, but in MN, it’s not legally jaywalking unless it’s between two controlled (signalized or stop signs for that direction of flow) intersections, and 27th is not controlled.

this is just my opinion and there's a good chance I'm wrong, but: it seems to me that one important thing people who aren't here can do is spread the word, calmly and relentlessly, to people in your life who aren't tuned into what's going on (or the reality of what's going on)

ALL MN PROTESTERS

Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.

Things that are better for accessibility than prioritizing using our parkways as detours for highway expansions:
Repeal the ban on transit on parkways.
Support transit access to/between parks
Plow walk/bike paths BEFORE parking lots
Restrooms, year round
Benches, frequent
Bi-directional bike paths

Also, from the MPRB homepage, if you see ICE in the parks, please email the date, time, and location of sightings at: immigrationMPRBlegal@minneapolisparks.org

In case you don't have the new commissioners' emails at hand, I've copied them here, just add @minneapolisparks.org to the end of each.
cabene
kcarvajalmoran
kdeshpande
dengelhart
mforney
afrederick
jgarcia
tolsen
crucker

Here's the link to today's meeting (you could also show up to testify, if that's more your thing).

I don't have the mental energy to rehash all of this again in this particular moment, but an email of SUPPORT for both agenda items would be superb.

agendasuite.org/iip/mprb/mee...

It's stupid that the anti-accessibility/pro-car folks are spending so much of their time on this while most of us are trying to materially protect our neighbors, but they are.

Email MPRB commissioners that parks that are for people + green and growing things, not cars + pavement, by 5:30 today.

Seriously, if you want to help the folks in Minnesota (& we could really use your help), please call your members of congress. Also spread the word to the less-online about what's going on.

And if you've got money, throw it at something here:
www.standwithminnesota.com

Not just about wealth, but really density/vibrancy (which wealth can destroy by reducing both). But affordability has not historically ensured either in Mpls, at least imo. I’d classify a lot of far south as eastern SW, based on vibes. Blue line helps for sure.

I’m differentiating between Southside/South Mpls and south Mpls. Vibes based over my lifetime, not scientific. Just more of a city feel vs suburb in terms of vibrancy and foot traffic, maybe historic bus frequency. There’s a far south where I’m less comfortable going due to more deserted.

There’s definitely a large swath of far south Mpls that doesn’t feel like South Mpls to me (feels like eastern SW Mpls), but not sure of where that shifts. I’m guessing 33rd-36th range? It’s kind of where density/vibrancy or foot traffic drops off?

Agree. I also don’t think far south mpls is South Mpls. Maybe Franklin to 36th max (33rd?)? Blaisdell (?) to Hiawatha?

Why is being short or small seen as an acceptable thing to mock about the goons terrorizing our neighbors?

It’s proximate to being female. It’s associated with not being white. It’s associated with being poor/oppressed.

Please don’t reinforce systems of harm while you claim solidarity!

You know who is shorter/smaller on average?

Women.
BIPOC folk.
People who grew up without food security.

Being short/small isn’t a choice and it isn’t bad. Being a fascist and/or a bigot is a bad choice.

Any one of my bike rides, man.

Maybe don’t use people’s physical characteristics as insults or ways to demean them?

Using “small” or “short” as an insult is bigotry based in and reinforcing misogyny and racism.

This is true, we fact checked