@galentine.bsky.social
40, trans, and kinda gay. Lifelong Minnesotan except for that one time I was born in Korea. I do a little this n a little that.
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
06.02.2026 05:10 — 👍 5249 🔁 1479 💬 134 📌 151
LawHelpMN is building out a clearinghouse of resources for people who are detained or at risk of detention by ICE. It'll be continually updated as new resources come online. Available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali
www.lawhelpmn.org/detained
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
06.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 4942 🔁 890 💬 66 📌 42
This would fix me.
youtu.be/3e6motL4QMc?...
and on shot day fuck yeah. rippin the estradiol to this rn
06.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some Girls Try Too Hard: an all trans girl cover compilation of Blink-182's Enema Of The State
all proceeds go to TransLifeline
AVAILABLE NOW, from @afewgoodrecords.bsky.social
afewgoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/some-g...
taco bell ass timeline
06.02.2026 02:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We became unified against ICE in a way I’ve never seen before. Actions are decentralized, every single person is mobilizing, ready to put themselves on the front lines for their neighbors. More people are shot. Another person, Alex Pretti, is killed. Time starts to lose its meaning. I’m dissociating most of the day every day. I keep my whistle on me, have a supply kit ready to go and a plan if things escalate. I still have to work, pay bills, do errands, attend appointments, do chores. Meanwhile, people are kidnapped, infants are choking on tear gas. ICE is beating minors and abandoning them with nothing on their person in places they’ve never been. I’m checking every license plate I see, jumping at every bang I hear, running to the door at every gut-wrenching feeling I get. Local and state cops — along with the National Guard — continue working with ICE. People deny it, but the knowledge hits in that no one will save us, no authority will liberate us. More and more realize this is real, and this is now the way things are Like many trans people in poverty, I’ve dealt with no shortage of oppression and violence in my life, but for the first time, it properly sinks in how myself and everyone I love, everyone I know, everyone I see and could have contact to, can die in an instant. Before I know it, I could be next. My loved ones can be next. My neighbors can be next. I have no way of knowing. No one does. It sinks for everyone here that the only way out is through, to keep organizing. Any of us can be next.
This is a powerful, grounded account of community resistance in the face of still-ongoing brutality. We'd encourage folks to read it for a reality check about what's going on in Minneapolis.
Article edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
twin cities drum collective protest against ICE on nicollet mall in downtown minneapolis. drummer in front of the mary tyler moore statue has a trans rights flag and the other drums say “PRINCE WOULD BE PISSED” and “ICE OUT”
02.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 469 🔁 120 💬 8 📌 14
Hut that looks like a space geode with a Lisa Frank teal and purple color palette. It is sitting on an icy lake.
Person in an old hockey helmet riding a bike on a frozen lake. The front wheel is a hockey skate. That's right.
Large wooden monarch butterflies with signs that day "migration is beautiful" "abolish ICE," and "chinga la migra"
Small box of a hut on the ice, covered in silver sequins and with a pink stage projecting from the front.
art shanties. so odd and so delightful and so minneapolis.
01.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 415 🔁 78 💬 3 📌 12I like to imagine that by sitting there and letting it wash over me I'm learning cool tips & tricks to break the cycle.
01.02.2026 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watch Samsara at dawn with some nice tea or something
youtu.be/HCkEILshUyU?...
And Pahlish, also MN based, have Melt Ice for sale and the proceeds go to the family of Renee Good.
25.01.2026 20:49 — 👍 204 🔁 123 💬 1 📌 1
If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
25.01.2026 20:42 — 👍 2848 🔁 2042 💬 26 📌 95
taken from: Lesbians by Pam Walton.
youtu.be/3vevGe-SwOo?...
Lesbians (1986)
29.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some counterprogramming, in a world gone mad:
Trans people have found one another on the internet since the 1980s. This fascinating reported story looks at early internet communities for trans people, how they've changed and evolved, and what doesn't change.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A beautiful and sad and honest piece by my friend Adrianne Wright:
26.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 332 🔁 86 💬 3 📌 3A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
26.01.2026 23:27 — 👍 3904 🔁 1746 💬 10 📌 8
The text in the image reads: Until this occupation is over, we are Post Modern Times > Post Modern Times is free for all with the exception of our occupiers! Donate: @moderntimescafe (Venmo) givemn.org/story/centralimpactfund or in person
moderntimescafempls Hello, My name is Dylan. I own Modern Times Cafe in South Minneapolis and have for 15 years. Modern Times is on the corner of 32nd and Chicago Ave; 6 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered, 3 blocks from where Renee Good was executed, and a mere neighborhood away from where Alex Pretti was murdered. After ICE Agents shot and killed Renee and then Alex, I was at the scene within hours. I witnessed hostile and aggressive armed goons sent by the Federal Government protecting each other from unarmed, outraged citizens. I bore witness to these atrocities and was tear-gassed, smoke bombed, and concussion grenaded alongside my neighbors. Minneapolis has been living through the abhorrent horror of the federally sanctioned abduction of our neighbors, public executions of people exercising their rights, and a targeted escalation of government violence. It's an atrocious and despicable occupation. We are entering yet another week of this occupation with a deep sense of dread and mourning. We absolutely cannot go on as we have. am sick of generating money for the soldiers in our streets and for a government that won't protect us - a government who is actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens.
Effective tomorrow we are done making money for the fascists that occupy our city. We refuse to generate taxes under the guise of a functioning for-profit capitalist business aligned with government strategy. Amidst many strategic pivots and determined leadership, Modern Times has been barely soluble since 2020. Therefore, for the remainder of the government occupation, we will function as a free and donation based restaurant, Post Modern Times. Everyone is welcome EXCEPT ICE. Hours will not change but our menu will be smaller. Staff agreed to be present on a volunteer basis, working from shared tips and community donations. Post Modern Times is a small stance amidst a gigantic fight that may shape the future of this country. I am inspired by the ways our community has grown together, our hearts breaking open, to give and receive care in all the ways we can. May we continue to see each other in the streets.
A photo of Modern Times cafe, on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, during warmer weather
Modern Times is a South Minneapolis staple, and a personal favorite haunt. For the duration of the occupation they're renaming themselves Post Modern Times and going to a donation-only model. Everyone but ICE can eat for free.
Donations:
Venmo: moderntimescafe
givemn.org/story/centralimpactfund
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
When American troops start handing out treats, historically, freedom is not the next thing they dole out
25.01.2026 23:25 — 👍 198 🔁 59 💬 8 📌 1The scene right now in Minneapolis at a vigil for Alex Peretti at the location where he was murdered. I wil be here all week reporting for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
26.01.2026 00:15 — 👍 615 🔁 180 💬 8 📌 3
"In the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, the joy of pregnancy is overshadowed by dread."
"Each year, newborns bear the silent inheritance of war: cancers, twisted limbs, missing organs."
"I just want to be like other kids."
#Iraq #USA #Healthcare #Military #Climate
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,
"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
