Hey we live in hell so how about buying some wound treatment for medics who have to be out on the street patching up their neighbors instead of *not* doing that and living the lives they lead before the goonsquad came to town.

Oh, I get it. It never mattered if the development of AI was successful or profitable or people liked it or used it at all – all that mattered was that we get to the point where nobody fully trusts anything they see, reality is always questionable, and plausible deniability rules. Proof evaporates.

Was this actually surprising or was I the only one who noticed that women in his books were sex objects

I have a lot of Isaac Asimov books I like, but I wasn't going to assume he was a good man

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

Do my air quality reports take tear gas into account? How much tear gas do you think is in Minneapolis yesterday and today?

Breathing has been such a struggle lately, and now my eyes hurt too. I'd like a reason why.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Defund billionaires.

Just in case you may need such things. I stopped wearing contacts last week just because, well, all of it.

Getting ready for an appointment in Minneapolis like:

Got masks? Got snazzy new glasses? Got their goggle accessory? Got whistles? Got water in case of accidental exposure to chemicals?

You know, if you live in Minneapolis and are not really okay right now, I get it. No one should feel normal.

This is like the 214th thing in the past year that would have been a bona fide Scandal in the late 1900s

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

FOURTH AMENDMENT WORKPLACE WE PROTECT ALL... WORKERS PATRONS COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Please be aware that this is a Fourth Amendment Establishment. We uphold the right of the people to be secure against Inst unreasonable searches and seizures. Please present a signed judicial warrant, ns or things this venue,

Local businesses now feel compelled to plead the 4th.

I am so excited for this

Bruce Springsteen really said “damn y’all missed the point of Born In The USA, lemme make it even more clear”

YAAAAAAY

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then the chairman of the <checks noter> Senate <Judiciary> Committee pleas ignorance of the law & constitution because of his agricultural past.

the reason I'm so heated right now is Ilhan Omar has been thrown to the wolves so many times by the Democratic establishment for saying the things the Dems are finally, YEARS LATER starting to say.

They've let Rep Omar take a lot of heat and have not used their voices enough to defend her

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.

Perfection. Also, neckwarmer sounds like a great idea 👀

I'm sorry for your loss—they are such good comforts. But I'm glad you still have a large boi to play cat bongos with!

I read something at some point about maybe cats having a nerve there that feels really good, so that's why so many cats like bongos! Mine doesn't, but I like seeing the bongos 😻

I have made a very important decision.

Vegan chocolate cake is much more delicious than flourless chocolate cake.

If you haven't seen r/catbongos, they're my favorite place on the internet right now

Anyway, we decided to cancel an extracurricular meeting, and I'm proud of the way my co-lead worded it: we live in the Minneapolis metro, and we can't bring our usual focus and energy to the meeting today. Let's continue to acknowledge the human in us.

It's been *weird* working for a giant corp that can't/won't make statements, and the employees are tiptoeing around what's going on, even though it's genuinely not safe to be out and about as usual.

Last week, a colleague in the UK told me that she was shocked that no one was talking about the situation — li'l ol' me was the first person to even allude to something going on around here, and all I had said was how distracted we all are by current events.