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Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

I would just like everyone to be able to pee, get resoundingly science-supported healthcare, & be treated as deserving of nondelayed equal rights—rather than just people who happen to match a tiny rigid range of how you can look & be. I would like trans kids to be allowed to live.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Ramadan Mubarak 2026: Hear greetings in different languages Here is how to convey wishes during the holy month of Ramadan in different languages around the world.

Here is how to convey wishes during the holy month of Ramadan in different languages around the world.

Owls in Towels Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.

i see we are doing owl content today so once again time to share owlsintowels.org

And it should go without saying that _no one_ deserves these conditions, whether or not they're a literal baby, and that the resemblance to my own beloved child is extra resonance, not the reason for caring.

Reminds me so much of my own sweet not-much-older kid 💔This will be my call to my reps today: Shut down Dilley and all detention centers, release all the detainees. It feels like such a completely inadequate action to take, but I know it's better than just sitting in despair and rage.

I hope you and your kids are getting nice words about the chalk art, too! (It never fails to make me really happy to see kid chalk art <3) (Also, is this neighbor not aware the chalk art is by nature ephemeral?....)

Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit.

Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time.

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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

So heartbreaking. I never got to meet her, but her work was transformative to how I think about my job and my life and I know that's just a small piece of who she was

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I took my kid to get hers on her first birthday last year!

James Baldwin James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and...

Seems to be working at least in some cases (e.g. www.google.com/books/editio...) I am getting a note about classic google books being turned off, so I wonder if that's interfering with functionality

Ponying up for this bc a war of attrition works by starving people out but also I'm still mad as hell there's no eviction moratorium @governorwalz.mn.gov.

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

With rent coming due on Sunday, and still no eviction moratorium in Minnesota (BOOO), today is a good day to donate to any of the rent funds or crowdfunding campaigns for rent support listed here:

www.standwithminnesota.com

It won't be over even if and when all the kidnapped people who survived are home, but it should be a bare fucking minimum for Democrats to demand their return and their restitution. Give the money earmarked for ICE to the families whose lives they've destroyed.

I am thrilled to learn that 15 of 17 Philadelphia Council Members are supporting this package of legislation to protect our neighbors from ICE’s worst tactics. Be sure to thank them, especially @ruephilacouncil.bsky.social and CM Kendra Brooks for taking the lead.

Flyer reading: ICE OUT! Demand your councilmember protect all of us! City Hall, 4th Floor, Thursday Jan 29 8:30 am

Philly, Council will be considering a fantastic package of ICE Out bills tomorrow. Today is a great day to call your councilmember, all the at-large councilmembers, and the mayor to urge their support. Tomorrow, pack council chambers to show your support!

Let’s fix this, yall.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Feeling enormous, overflowing love for everyone taking part in today’s general strike. Abolish ICE now, solidarity forever.

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If you see someone being taken, get their name. GET THEIR NAME. Call out, "what's your name?" or "como te llama?" and record or write it (or both, ideally both) and then call Monarca at 612-441-2881 with the person's name.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

This fundraiser for the family of a TWO-YEAR-OLD detained by ICE is being circulated by a Minneapolis city council member—it’s legit.

I believe that we are going to defeat these monsters, but I can’t even fathom the cruelty of what they’re getting away with. Let’s fight with everything we’ve got.