Pat Thompson

Definitely some evidence that Fletcher is working with ICE/DHS.

Given that MnDOT snowplows were there... it was probably MnDOT that closed the ramps.

I went to an anti-war protest in Minneapolis this afternoon. There were over a hundred people on the corner of Lake and Chicago. These clips were filmed by me.

If you think empathy is a bad thing, you’re almost certainly a bad person.

Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City — Streetsblog USA "How much does it actually cost to be car dependent?" This Dallas-based analyst set out to answer that question for cities across the U.S.

"...by tearing highways out of their innermost downtown cores or converting them to boulevards, cities can unlock billions of dollars of redevelopment potential, increase badly-needed property tax revenues, and reduce individual households' commute costs..."
It's time to PAUSE #RethinkingI94

That used to be Tower Grocery, right? Definitely ask Vince about this.

Several hundred people gathered on a vacant lot in front of a mural painted with a giant green woman's face, brown eyes looking down at them. They hold signs saying US hands off Iran, No new US war in the Middle East, Stand Up Fight Back, Down with Trump. Picture taken from across Lake Street, crosswalk in foreground.

Lake and Chicago, Minneapolis, about 5:30 pm today.

True, there was! And it didn't do enough business (at least at the rent they had to pay) to stay there.

Or it could be historical like St. Anthony Park where the residents overtly kept it a dry area until relatively recently.

Could it be... zoning?

Mosaic monarch butterfly with a red heart center LOVE & PROTECT - Stand With Minnesota Minnesota Immigrant NEIGHBORS Stand with Minnesota

Orange background: When A Home Is Not A Home My child is a home that keeps changing shape. When they were seven, watching the news, Seeing Brown children in cages, my child turned to me and asked if men in uniform would come take them away, take their grandma away, to somewhere they don't know and know no one, even though nothing wrong was done. I remember all the times my parents held me while they trembled with a fear they told me about but that I didn't comprehend - I was already lost to the music from the radio, books in the library, the bright boxes in the toy aisle in this America, where I was not born but was all I knew. My mom asked me what I wanted and I said I just want A safe place to raise my child and she laughed and said in Vietnamese: No place is safe. (When you become a parent everyone drives too fast Got too many guns Doesn't speak enough languages) When I am away from my child even if the distance is not as great as an ocean, or visa, or a horizon of iron bars, I feel a pain that I have no words for, • and words are all l have. I used to think my child changed shape because all life is trouble, but really, they change because they need to house what is inside them. I hope no one ever takes that from them, no matter what they do. This world is bigger than any one of us. Why do we keep making home smaller for one another? Born in a war, I am made of what I know and what I can't know but that weighs me down, all of it moving with me from place to place, across borders made of law, of nature, of fear, of race, of money. How many times in this life Will we stand who knows where Wondering who Will take us from home? Poetry Service Announcement - Bao Phi

Wide aerial view of people standing in a park, gathered in the shape of a Monarca butterfly. Some are holding orange cards and some black. Above that several people holding black cards, they say Love

Went to hang with the hippies of Powderhorn. Super cool human mosaic, holding cards to aerial shot .

The orange card has a beautiful poem from Bao Phi

Third pic is what it looked like from above

So cool how Trump says we'll be bombing Iran for an indeterminate amount of time, and people should stay in their houses because it's not safe, but somehow they're supposed to rise up and take over the government at the same time.

Not sure, the retired admiral they had on NPR just before 5 pm was pretty dang breathlessly enthusiastic.

It was “interesting” to hear the researcher on this interviewed on BBC News Hour. No mention of why until the interviewer finally suggested it may have been “coerced.” The word rape was never used.

5pm Lake and Chicago

Gentle reminder that social media is often the worst place to hang out when really bad things happen.

Minnesota folk, you have a whole lot of new local friends. I humbly suggest you go make plans with them to do something to make something better today, instead of doom scrolling for hours.

Every data center is a war machine

AP-bylined newspaper headline: Trump says he’ll give Iran more time

Sync’ed up well with the lying Friday press briefing, I see.

My friend paid for *registered* mail when sending to the IRS recently and the person at the PO never sent it! Nightmare. Couldn’t believe it but it just happened.

Persist = person

Oh my god I just want a fucking bus that goes north every 15 minutes from my house. Stop spending all my fucking money on missiles you fucking pedophiles. This fucking country.

I think @hcrichardson.bsky.social has similar numbers (with less overhead and immeasurably more principle).

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Did the Lorax pop out of the tree?

Pause the Rethinking I-94 Project We must pause the Rethinking I-94 project now. Minnesota is facing a federal occupation that is terrorizing our neighborhoods, especially our most vulnerable and marginalized communities. Everyday ...

Here is the easiest way to let @governorwalz.mn.gov and your elected and appointed officials and MnDOT engineers know that you want an immediate pause in the highway project. Send a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Pause the Rethinking I-94 Project. Takes 5 minutes, max. Write one here:

"Since Dec. 1, when Operation Metro Surge began, more than 1,000 wrongful detention cases have been filed in Minnesota, nearly three times the total number of such cases filed in the state between 2016 and 2024."

In 1974 we had a term for the withholding or unwarranted redaction of files demanded by Congress: “obstruction of justice.” ...

a universal constant among human heuristics seems to be that people always estimate the current Dumb Thing as being As Dumb As Things Can Possibly Get, or at least a gentle escalation away from it. meanwhile history has shown that things can nearly always get a lot dumber than they already are

Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

YouTube video by Jake the Lawyer First 10 Amendments - Explained by a Lawyer

I'm watching this video and just running the checklist of Constitutional Rights' Violations the feds have done in Minnesota.

youtu.be/nVos25faBwk