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If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter.

Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.

just punched me right in the heart

every day my heart breaks in new and horrifying ways and every day the people of this city put it back together

If you love people, tell them that as well.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

I love us I love you we are going to win

this is not the first fight.

this will not be the last fight.

we do this in memory of those who came before us and fought too.

we do this for love of those who will come after us.

there is good in this world and it is worth fighting for.

Minnesota is the best of us.

They will put us through hell and we will keep on walking

this is the key problem with continuously executing random members of the populace: you can’t kill everybody, and the ones you don’t kill are more likely to start squaring with the possibility of it than fleeing in terror

We’re gonna make it after all

definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this

A summary of my local Bsky feed:

- Go look at the sunset!
- Water balloons defeat Nazis
- Ways to help your neighbors
- Fancy sledding in Powderhorn
- Fuck ICE
- I love Minnesota

Love, Joy, Solidarity, Community

That’s MY Minnesota. And I will share it with anyone who also loves their neighbor.

Horse sled

Powderhorn crowd around sledding

Chicken sled

Rubber ducky sled

Running Nazis out of town and then whimsical cardboard sleds at Powderhorn - you just have to love Minneapolis.

A robin bird standing in a bakery counter's box of croissants, its feathers are kind of croissant colored, and the listed price is just 0.69 Euro

what an affordable bird

if you aren't in Minnesota and you tell me how to feel about things or that I'm feeling things wrongly or without perfect nuance, I'll just block you, thanks!

visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"

This is just the beginning of something beyond us. What we do here in Minneapolis in this moment will shape the course of our resistance.

We, ourselves, may not get to see the other side of what’s to come. But I do know it ends with us winning.

We are giving life to a brighter future here tonite

my last note of the night, my pappy made my day today when he told me that he ordered whistles and distributed them to his neighbors and coworkers.

it is so, so not his style. they really don’t know how they are changing regular people. which is good, because we need all of them.

“ope, yer not gunna get that one past me”

I’m not sure if it gets more Minnesota than this. This woman is a goddamn hero.

This is what the average Minnesotan sounds like these days

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

picture of Jerma985 in a red baseball cap and t-shirt reaching towards the viewer for a handshake/hand holding. the caption says "let's SURVIVE 2026 together"

🦝🥂🎉

I keep thinking to myself a sincere, hopeful 'here's to getting weirder with it' for 2026

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Hello, hi. I am glad you like my content. However, I must insist that if you intend to watch the Harry Potter TV show, for whatever reason, you don't get to enjoy my content as well. Please unfollow.

If you value entertainment over the ruination of trans lives, you don't get to enjoy us.

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

You’re not a good person til you do good things and just being angry isn’t good

This essay starts in one place and becomes a very, very thoughtful essay on the heroic in the human condition.

I highly highly recommend it .