Zoë Bird

There is no circumstance in which MPD should cooperate with ICE. In the eyes of many, Minneapolis has one of the strongest Separation Ordinances in the country. But yesterday, we saw its weaknesses: a close reading of our Separation Ordinance still allows collaboration with ICE.

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.

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By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth The recent targeting of Hamdan Ballal, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat to be eliminated.

Ballal helped make a work of art that has smashed through the sociopathy and contempt for Palestinian life that runs through ordinary political discourse. That is why Israel is didn’t rely on “discourse” to silence Ballal—it relied on violence.

Ooo, this is good. Letting the question percolate.

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Twin City-area friends, join me tomorrow at the MN State Board of Investment mtg to demand that Walz, Ellison, & the rest of the board finally listen to their constituents & DIVEST MN FROM APARTHEID ISRA🚫L. Fri., 3/21, 9 a.m., 60 Empire Drive, St. Paul, Rm 106. DM if you need a ride. ❤️🇵🇸

‘We are gutted’ — Hamline’s creative writing MFA is on the chopping block Hamline University’s creative writing MFA program faces potential closure after an unexpected announcement from interim leadership, citing declining enrollment; students and faculty are protesting the...

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X post from the account "Polling USA" (@USA_Polling ) with a blue checkmark, timestamped 1 day ago. The post reads: "You’re telling me the code talkers that helped to defeat the nazis got removed from military websites BY nazis?" The post includes a reply from the account "Axios" (@axios ), also timestamped 1 day ago, with a yellow badge. The reply reads: "Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order trib.al/90XSYLB."

Yes. That is in fact what just happened.

Buffalo Bone China — Dana Claxton

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Then smashed them all
in a ritual of grief and reclamation.

That is what we must do now.

(Zoë Bird, 3.19.25)

(Their Belgian counterparts nibbled chocolates
molded to suggest the severed hands
of Congolese laborers
who didn’t meet their rubber and ivory quotas.)

The artist filmed herself screaming
behind a table set with gilt-edged plates and cups

American Obscenity

In a snuff film that unreeled for a hundred years
white settlers piled buffalo skeletons
into great heaps on the prairie
thousands of ghoststacks
millions of skulls
crushed countless centuries of symbiosis
for bone [china]
for white ladies’ plantation tea parties.

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

I recently called this phenomenon ‘un-documenting’, but what is happening is well defined here by M. as denationalizing.

It is already happening, and you are not nearly outraged enough.

It’s time to realize that @amyklobuchar.com is a collaborator with fascists. She posted this on the very same day that she voted YES on Trump’s labor secretary. #kkklobuchar

Don’t Listen to Greasy Gavin Newsom. Listen to Trans Athletes. In a podcast with Charlie Kirk, the California governor put his electoral ambition ahead of trans people. But what do trans athletes themselves have to say?

California Governor Gavin Newsom took Trump's side on trans-sports bans. Too often, the conversation about trans participation in sports ignores what trans activists, sports journalists, and athletes think, so @edgeofsports.bsky.social asked them.

We Found Elon Musk’s DOGE Email Address and We’re Fighting to Reveal His Messages The Intercept is publishing Elon Musk’s government email address to aid those seeking information on DOGE in the public interest.

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techno chuds! hahahaha

The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn & Bluff by Danez Smith

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Jumping up & down to second NK Jemisin & am here to add
RF Kuang
Nnedi Okorafor
Amal El-Mohtar Annalee Newitz
Rebecca Roanhorse

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.