Kate Fort

Hillsdale = obvious. UofM? I’m just enjoying that one. My best guess is it’s because of their former president

I’d add “the trees [in Michigan] are the right height”

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Under “neutrality” policies, universities are failing to take sides to *protect democracy* and they will ultimately regret it. There is no freedom in academia under fascism

Opinion | At the University of Minnesota, neutrality has become censorship "In theory, neutrality policies protect free debate by allowing the community to disagree on controversial matters. But in practice, these policies are easily weaponized to achieve the opposite — cens...

The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power.

Gift link.

So I watched it again and I felt like he varied from trying to not trying and THAT was indeed disconcerting

So smart, as always

Yes. Absolutely

He did!! He just didn’t sound the same to me. Maybe the Kermit of one’s childhood is the only Kermit

Ok. There’s a lot going on but Kermit hasn’t sounded like Kermit since 1990

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This is an incredible interview. I will be thinking about it and Tsurkov’s resilience for a long time

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Listen @peters.senate.gov you said your phones were full, so here’s a heads up on what I’ll be calling about next. Time to forecheck, bud
cc @slotkin.senate.gov

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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.

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Two bluesky posts, one from a bespectacled dad explaining his school ICE patrols are what he has to do, not what he wants to do. The second is a post stating school patrols aren’t Soros funded shadow figures but a bespectacled engineer who didn’t know the names of 5 parents two weeks ago

Shot/chaser

This is something that for some reason has been hitting me hard recently. To endorse state violence, use state violence, say we should capitulate to state violence is just cowardly. From the actual agents to those saying to just submit to state power—cowards all

Yuuuuup

or explicit pressure from the advisor

Scrooged holds up and also (obviously) shows a rich person as bad AND corrupting of the people
around him

This is perfect timing. Watched it last night with the teen who both loves movies and is very interested in politics. I was like, this is a classic you have to know

Some people have parasocial relationships and other people have been reading @kentremendous.bsky.social since Fire Joe Morgan and can’t stop laughing and crying at A Man on the Inside

omg YES

It’s a starlight tour, and it’s horrific

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

This is a really cool fundraising idea by @boltsmag.org and @russ41.bsky.social! I love creative ideas like this. (Also go follow Bolts. I already was or I would have joined in the effort here).

USPS lost my gorgeous halibut in the mail and I will still never shop Amazon again if this happens (it’s pretty rare as it is but STILL).