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Dad's dad was a doctor, mom's dad was an engineer. By coincidence, both of them were too deaf to be sent overseas for WWII and spent the war working for the army in New Jersey.

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

The Minnesotan response to ICE has been amazing, but not surprising. Mancini's, though...I am officially surprised. 😅

By my math, my high school classmates and I got the message about not doing this before these college students were born, which...well that's depressing on multiple levels.

Thing is we don’t have any fucking public restrooms and refuse to offer people healthcare for any mental issues outside of jails or prison, so yeah you have every right to be upset about something like this happening, but you have to understand *why* it happens.

Naomi Kritzer, Martha Wells, Naomi Novik, P. Djèlí Clark, Claire Keegan...I have not set up a good system for myself for reading short stories as they are published, unless I am already following the author.

Seconding Red Balloon, Mischief, Wild Rumpus, etc. but also the Minnesota Children's Museum for visitors with kids (they put together play kits for children staying home because they didn't feel safe going to school).

Also, Hot Hands Pie & Biscuit.

10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days - Uncanny Magazine 1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are fo...

"10 Visions of the Future: Or, Self Care for the End of Days," Samantha Mills. About community and caring and protection and mutual aid in a world where there is no hope for a better future, but you're fighting anyway.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...

oh my gosh, y'all! we just jumped up to $1,036 over the lunch hour! you are blowing my mind! thank you so much for helping this need! ❣️

we are over 60% of the way to meeting this goal with $682 to go!

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If you want to donate to us, please donate to the heat fund instead right now, it is getting dangerously and critically low

Venmo electric-tumbleweed

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I was vaguely considering it this year, but have decided to avoid potentially exposing everyone there to the current plague in my house.

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"The collateral damage that's coming from their extreme anger toward people exercising their rights, like in the case of Alex - that's what really got me mad," Mr. Ness said of the federal agents in Minneapolis. The impacts of the immigration crackdown resonated even more deeply in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, known by locals as Little Mogadishu for its high concentration of residents of Somalian heritage. Few pedestrians were out early Sunday afternoon” url: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/minnesota-ice-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.zLU-.7kBm4Y1TtFpE&smid=nytcore-ios-share

exchange between Chris Steller & Jon Collins on Twitter, dated 11/21/2018 Chris Steller @chris_steller • 11/21/18 "For a while, Amazon ran buses to Shakopee from the Minneapolis neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside, known as Little Mogadishu, and the company has spaces at local warehouses dedicated to prayer and the ritual washing custom in Islam." Do people call it Little Mogadishu? Jon Collins @JonSCollins I read it pretty much every time a national reporter writes something about Cedar-Riverside. I've never heard the phrase "Let's go to Little Mogadishu" come out of a human mouth. 7:00 PM • 11/21/18

We go through this every few years: NO ONE HERE CALLS CEDAR RIVERSIDE LITTLE MOGADISHU

(today in the NYT / a twitter exchange from over seven years ago, though this has been going on for ages)

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

A pedestrian was killed there just this past weekend. :/

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!

A lot of Minnesota has been thinking about this.

A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated

AZ Desert

Shot from Gates Pass near Tucson.

#arizona #sunset #cactus #mountains #saguaronationalpark #photography #daily #dailypic

Light blue t-shirt with dark blue text reading SCHOOL CHOICE IS A SCAM.

There's a pro-school choice billboard on my ride home that's been pissing me off, but @raygunsite.com has a t-shirt for that. Hoping to get it in time to wear to the State Fair.

It is VIOLENCE. It is gleefully destructive. It is backpacks with inhalers, it is documents you need to apply for jobs, and most importantly it is the homes your most marginalized neighbors have pulled together from almost nothing. It is often the entirety of their possessions.

The only airport I've been in that's AS CLEAN (not even cleaner!) is Haneda (Tokyo International), which is, you know, in an entirely different country famed for cleanliness and customer service.

I could go on and on about how my ebike has allowed me to keep cycling while seven months pregnant. Heck, not having to wrestle my toddler into a car seat Every Damn Day alone makes it worth its weight in gold.

I read your first line, thought "oops" and gathered the kid to go to our block's gathering.

Came back, read the second line and okay, I think I missed something important today...

Does anyone Up in Here have a kid/care for a kid who was diagnosed with Lyme?

Painting of a skeleton lying on a bed with an angry black cat screaming beside it.

Where's my Breakfast? - Daniel Arthur
Oil on Panel

Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”