Rosemary Johnsen

Every time I read somebody talking about how !!moms!! are organizing right now—just a bunch of unsophisticated politically apathetic ladies!!—I want to scratch at my eyeball with a tiny fork.

from bari weiss to head of cbsnews HR:

what do you mean we can’t hire prof. lascivious d. studentabuser, he’s a smart guy with very valuable insights and i want him on the air to talk about grok this weekend

from cbs news head of HR to bari weiss:

bari — are you familiar with the term discovery?

To whom it may concern, Bad Bunny is a United States citizen whilst MAGA lunatic Nicki Minaj is not.

Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX.

we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.

delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

Truly patriotic progressives are literally defending themselves and their community against the federal agency you enabled and you're busy catering to the ruling class that is working our country back into a feudal state? Delete this and your Senate campaign, please.

Republicans should fear electoral wipeout (in the general, to Dems.)

Democrats should fear electoral wipeout (in the primary, to Dems that will fight harder.)

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The key thing to remember is this was a city-approved protest and the protesters didn’t deviate from the plan, but were still attacked by the feds. Absolutely criminal.

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

The fact that they all type emails like that does go a long way towards explaining why "AI that writes emails for you" seems like a trillion dollar idea to everyone in power right now tho.

On my way home I stopped at one protest and drove past another, neither of which I had been aware of. I live six miles from work.

They're on every street corner, every bridge. Keep cardboard and markers in your car.

And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities organizing to help their neighbors, confrontational but peaceful.

An undergrad course catalog is honestly a top-three literary genre, a singular expression of the variety of attention and possibility and wisdom that total strangers are dying to share with you

This trend is giving me life. College is cool, knowledge is great. The liberal arts is rad. Being well rounded is the GOAT.

Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.

Frog and Toad went outside.

“We can try to climb this mountain,” said Frog. “That should tell us if we are brave.”

Frog went leaping over rocks, and Toad came puffing up behind him.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Patrick T. Reardon reviews Chicago Homes, a survey of different residential building styles in the Windy City. By Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson, with nice illustrations by Wonder City Studios.

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This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage.

Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Whiskey Friday with Greg Bovino

having clear morals, standing up for one another, locking arms, driving them insane because they don't give a shit about anyone but their bank accounts, giving them FUCKING HELL

I haven't liked to talk about politics on this account. I wanted to have a fun spot for Vikings fans, like me.

Many have been scared of backlash, losing friends or followers... but I am saying clearly:

1 am NOT okay with reckless violence condoned by the Trump Aministration. I am NOT okay with people being murdered in own own communities.

1am NOT okay with people being taken from their homes and families being ripped apart. lam NOT okay with people being denied due process.

Pro Football Hall of Famer John Randle posted a statement about ICE as text overlays on various portraits of himself and I kind of love it

When I teach Vietnam, I explain that opposition to the war really grew in fits and starts. Some big rallies and visible protests, but also a steady stream of celebrities and ordinary folks breaking with their priors and taking a new stand.

This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.

User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

The fact that most of what is happening is “care work”—skills like low dollar fundraising/aid, carpool mom, and generally looking out for your neighbor makes it anathema to charisma- / individual-driven spokespeople. Care work is pretty revolutionary, but no one is in charge.

I remarked early into the afternoon to a woman standing behind a table covered in organized boxes of hand warmers and coffee and masks how impressively fast these things came together.

“We can do this so quickly because we built these networks in 2020, so now everyone just knows what to do.“