Jess

I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

It’s a beautiful day to cause good trouble

YouTube video by Vox The dark history of "gasoline baths" at the border

Have you heard of Carmelita Torres?

Called the "Latina Rosa Parks," 17-yr-old Torres led a protest against inhumane #Immigration policies at the El Paso border in 1917.

A story too familiar today, Torres was soon arrested & was disappeared. But not forgotten, watch below.

#WomensHistory
#Resist

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

“I coached football long enough to know that, when somebody draws up a playbook, they plan on using it.” @governorwalz.mn.gov

We told you.
We told you.
We told you.

Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

Yeah this is concerning

my TikTok algo no longer serves me news and is increasingly alt-right. This is frightening

Ummmm the censorship has started

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

It is -12 in Minneapolis and I am not ok

Feel free to share…it started in 2020.

Just a reminder if trump reinstates TikTok that HE IS THE ONLY REASON A BAN WAS SUGGESTED.

also ICE raids start on Tuesday

Saving TikTok wont make diaper Donnie more likeable no matter what he thinks

Just 10 more months until the next Wicked press tour

I can’t believe I stayed up for Beyoncé to announce the postponement of an announcement.

Girl, you could’ve postponed it on the 13th

American citizens joining Red Note is our modern day Boston Tea Party

in some ways, Substack is a grown up tumblr. Yk?

“You shouldn’t have a tv in your bedroom”

How else is my boyfriend supposed to watch German love is blind while I’m watching rom coms in the living room

this is why the Homecoming doc is on repress when I’m on the treadmill

Only in Minneapolis would people stand outside for hours in January to attend the inaugural Adult Book Fair

just made a donation 💙

I need everyone to pick a platform and stay there.

I can’t continue to switch through X, Threads and Bluesky daily to chat with my friends

6 seems to be a good number

I’m thinking I have too many 💀 this seems like a good number

So… how many bras do we all have?

Why is there a countdown in the Jonas brothers website

alex and izzie’s wedding vows WILL make me tear up without fail

I really was that girl in 2015