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I was pulled into a work emergency getting folks set for a trial on the east coast this morning. Normal introductions include how are you, to which I say: The federal government killed someone in front of my donut shop a week ago, so I am righteously angry. #justminneapolisthings

An old gray cat sits on the couch next to a printed sign with a cat that says “Pretti Good ‘n Mad” and 3 buttons that say: For Good; For Pretti; and Fuck Fascists”

Visited local letterpress shop Bench Press today for yard signs and other locally printed merch. If you’re in the Twin Cities, 10/10 would recommend getting your fuck fascism and ICE merch there.

I can’t take credit for these pieces - they belonged to my mother in law, who was an amazing spitfire daughter of the Iron Range 💪

Two cats sit on a white fire place mantle. The black and white one looks out a window, surrounded by geeky items. The brown one sits by a raven lamp, and a painting of native Americans wearing animal blankets

#catsofminneapolis

Three cats play at the end of a couch - a small brown striped cat reaches up to wack a skinny white and black cat, with an older gray cat in the corner sniffing the white guy’s butt

#catsofminneapolis rock out to Tom Morello and Bruce Springsteen livestream from First Ave today

The Current | Great Music Lives Here The Current, from Minnesota Public Radio, Great Music Lives Here

Not me sitting on my couch listening to the Current’s Minneapolis mention set, crying into my coffee. Fuck this shit man.

Thanks so much!

Please also discuss Georgia Fort - local Twin Cities journalist who was also arrested this morning for the same

Also, random #justminneapolislegalthings, I’ve been reading Trump related case materials for years, and it’s surreal to see judges you have cases in front of on a regular basis making national news for those opinions now.

A young brown cat with a white bib chews on the straps of a gas mask

Things I said tonight: stop chewing on our gas masks Roan

#justminneapolisthings #catsofminneapolis

Ok, so I’m not getting in line for noted liberal squish Judge Schiltz’s hearing on Friday, but hot damn this order. If I ever got an order like this or the prior one from Judge Schiltz on one of the cases I work on, I’d quit the (paralegal) practice of law and go into exile in the northwoods.

God forbid we love our neighbor as ourselves

Have you heard yet about the Halloween Blizzard of ‘91? Now, I lived in Wisconsin at the time, but it feels like just yesterday when the children of Minnesota were…

Look, Minnesotans are insufferable whenever folks talk about our state. I beg the federal government to stop their ICE assault, because soon we will be so insufferable we’ll go nuclear.

Not that the right wing press cares about facts, but *points broadly towards Saint Thomas Law School* yes yes, that definitely is the work of a bleeding heart liberal.

I’m planning to be in line as soon as the courthouse opens Friday to get a seat in Judge Schiltz’ courtroom for the hearing on this order (provided they don’t let the plaintiff go 3 minutes before it’s supposed to start) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I see the right wing press is attacking noted liberal squish Judge Patrick Schiltz for donations to organizations that provide legal support to the indigent, including the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. That sound you hear is the collective eyeroll & sigh of everyone in the MN legal community.

Tonight’s cats of south Minneapolis - our new kitten Roan sleeping in tandem with his sassy auntie Kedi underneath a portrait of a cat eating Cheetos and a borg cube lamp. Get some sleep dear Minneapolis, tomorrow we continue the fight.

When I’m in my house in south Minneapolis, and not looking at my phone to see the signal chat updates, how do I know ICE is trying to kidnap my neighbors? A fucking shrill whistle.

You know the one - where ANTIFA gathers and we plot our well funded plan to overthrow ICE, and then afterwards we get to cuddle with the store cats. And also pick up some environmentally friendly not salt for our sidewalks.

My local hardware store in South Minneapolis is sold out of both 3m respirators and candles, because the people of Minneapolis are prepared for our government to gas us, and we are prepared to remember those they take from us. ICE can fuck right on out of here.

Our local revolutionary Ace Hardware (38th and Nicollet) is sold out of both 3m respirators and candles. Because we’re prepared to get gassed during the day, and light memorials for those they take from us at night.

I am watching a similar case play out on the streets of my neighborhood. Watch Tincher v. Noem. Affidavits filed today by witnesses to the murder of Alex Peretti.

Tincher v. Noem, 0:25-cv-04669 - CourtListener.com Docket for Tincher v. Noem, 0:25-cv-04669 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

So bsky, intro to me. I’m a paralegal whose hobby is litigation disaster tourism, and also court cases against the Trump administration. I was just in LA for a trial, and was able to watch a hearing in front of Judge Frimpong in the Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem matter. And now…

Spending the evening drunkenly arguing with boot lickers on the NFC North memewar subreddit, just as God intended us to do when we are angry

He is my mega chonk! My vet insists he‘s just robust, but not fat 🤷‍♀️

A fat orange cat sleeps in the background as a young brown cat and sassy calico star intently at a squirrel outside the window.

Haven‘t been doing our Deep Space Nine watch through since Renee Good’s murder. Pulled it back up today as a break from the horrors of living in Minneapolis right now, only to be reminded that oh yeah, we’re at the Dominion War here. FML. But at least my cats are cute.

We’re literate and we have excellent local hardware stores (shoutout to the Ace at Nicollet and 38th!)

Like Lake Street, it’s a place where Minnesotans of all flavors and backgrounds come together in a way we can embrace and love for the infinate diversity in infinate combinations. Fuck them right to the moon for trying to destroy what makes us Minnesota.

And when I say boost, I mean that when we’re covering the up to the minute on the ground breaking news in the Cities, our local media does it better. Look to them first.